Roberto Simanowski

Roberto Simanowski (born 1963) is a German scholar of literature and media studies and editor of dichtung-digital, a journal for contributions on digital aesthetics, which he founded in 1999.

Simanowski studied German literature and history at the University of Jena where he finished his PhD on mass-culture around 1800 with a grant by the German Studienstiftung in 1996. He worked 1997 and 1998 in the research center Nationality of International Literatures at the University of Göttingen, conducted his research project Cyberspace and Literature with a stipend from the German Humboldt-Foundation at Harvard University 1998 until 2000, was visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle 2001 until 2002, and served as guest professor at the department of media studies at the University of Jena in 2002/2003. 2003 through 2010 Simanowski was professor of German literature and culture as well as digital aesthetics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island and from 2010 through 2013 he was professor of media studies at the University of Basel University of Basel in Switzerland. Since 2014 he is professor for Digital Media Studies and Digital Humanities at English Department and School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

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