Roberto Simanowski

Dr. Roberto Simanowski studied literature and history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He did his doctorate on ‘Mass Culture around the turn of 1800’ and qualified as a professor on the aesthetics of digital media. His areas of research are postmodernism, multiculturalism, aesthetics and digital media culture. After research positions at Harvard University and the University of Washington, Simanowski has held professorships for cultural and media studies at Brown University in Providence, USA, the University of Basel and the City University of Hong Kong since 2003. Since 2018, he has lived in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro as a freelance author and journalist and writes for ZEIT, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Deutschlandfunk, among others. Roberto Simanowski founded and is the editor of the journal for art and culture of digital media dichtung-digital (1999-2014). He is the author of over 60 articles in specialist journals and anthologies and has edited six anthologies. He won the Tractatus Prize in 2020.