Viehhauser, Gabriel

“Digitalization and datafication are leading to a fundamental transformation of our society, but this is not merely a technical issue and should not be treated as such. These developments are opening up new possibilities, especially for digitally informed humanities and cultural studies, which I explore in my research on digital editing, but also critically examine them in order to contribute new perspectives and models to a pluralistic view and conceptualization of this change and to promote an enlightened, mature approach to such digitization and datafication processes, which—whether we like it or not—do not stop at cultural studies objects.”

• Digital edition and text analysis
• Intertextuality, text variance, and text reuse
• Digital medieval studies
• Intermedial editing

• 2001 Completed degree in German Philology / Philosophy, Education, and Psychology (teaching qualification for secondary schools) and obtained master's degree from the University of Vienna
• 2002 Maternity leave replacement as research assistant on the project “Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: A Critical Edition in Electronic Form” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, University of Basel)
• 2003-2007 Research assistant on the SNF project “Wolfram von Eschenbach ‘Parzival’” (Universities of Basel and Bern)
• 2007 Completed dissertation on "The ‘Parzival’ tradition at the end of the manuscript era. Manuscripts from the Lauber Workshop and the Strasbourg Print," received doctorate from the University of Bern
• 2007-2012 Assistant at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Bern
• 2012-2015 Three-year SNF scholarship for advanced researchers at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich
• 2015-2016 Acting W3 professor of digital humanities at the University of Stuttgart
• 2016-2024 W3 professor of digital humanities at the University of Stuttgart
• Since 2017 Member of the advisory board of the Mediävistenverband (Association of Medievalists)
• 2017-2021 Executive director of the Institute for Literary Studies at the University of Stuttgart
• 2021-2024 Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Stuttgart
• Since April 2024 Professor of Digital Editing at the University of Vienna