Bio

Hi, my name is Gernot Howanitz. As a literary scholar and trained software engineer I love working on the intersection of literature, culture, media, and technology.

I studied Slavic Literatures and Applied Computer Science in Salzburg, Moscow and Prague. My PhD thesis at the University of Passau focused on (auto-)biographical strategies of Russian writers on the internet and was published in 2020as an Open Access monograph: Weaving Lives: (Auto-)Biographical Practices of Russian Authors on the Internet (in German, Bielefeld: Transcript). My research interests include Russian, Polish and Czech literature from 1850 onward, reception theory, (auto-)biography, literature and politics, Slavic new media, digital humanities, and AI applications in the humanities.

I am an assistant professor in Slavic Literature and Culture Theory