Gabriel Viehhauser, Professorship for Digital Editing

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"Digitisation and datafication are leading to a fundamental change in our society, but this is not just a technical matter and should not be treated as such. Especially for digitally informed humanities and cultural studies, these developments open up new possibilities that I would like to explore in my research on digital editing, but also critically examine in order to contribute new perspectives and models to a pluralistic view and conceptualisation of this change and to promote an enlightened, responsible approach to such digitisation and datafication processes, which - whether one likes it or not - do not stop at cultural studies objects." (Gabriel Viehhauser) 

Research areas:

* Digital edition and text analysis
* Intertextuality, text variance and text reuse
* Digital medieval studies
* Intermedia editing

Curriculum Vitae:

2001 Degree in German Philology / Philosophy, Education and Psychology (Teaching Qualification for Secondary Schools) and Master's degree at the University of Vienna
2002 temporary replacement as research assistant on the project "Wolfram von Eschenbach 'Parzival'. Eine überlieferungskritische Ausgabe in elektronischer Form" of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF, University of Basel)
2003-2007 research assistant on the SNF project "Wolfram von Eschenbach 'Parzival'. Eine überlieferungskritische Ausgabe in elektronischer Form" (Universities of Basel and Bern)
2007 Completion of dissertation on the topic "Die 'Parzival'-Überlieferung am Ausgang des Manuskriptzeitalters. Handschriften der Lauberwerkstatt und der Straßburger Druck", doctorate at the University of Bern
2007-2012 Assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Bern
2012-2015 three-year SNSF fellowship for advanced researchers at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich
2015-2016 Substitute for a W3 professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Stuttgart
2016-2024 W3 Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Stuttgart
from 2017 Member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Medievalists
2017-2021 Managing 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