Simon Ganahl

Simon Ganahl is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Creative Media Technologies (ICMT), Department of Media and Digital Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. He directs the research agenda InSituEx and founded the digital research lab Campus Medius with its project Mapping Austrofascism. Ganahl co-founded and serves as editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Genealogy+Critique in the Open Library of Humanities.

Education includes PhDs in Communication Science and German Philology from Universities of Vienna, Hamburg and Zurich, completed with distinction. Research stays include the New School (New York) and UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities.

Research Focus: Integrates digital humanities with cultural/media studies through:

• Digital mapping methodologies
• Media archaeology and genealogy
• Actor-network theory applications
• Austrofascism historical analysis
• Foucaultian critical frameworks

Publication Trends: Recent works demonstrate strong focus on digital methodologies in humanities, particularly spatial analysis of historical phenomena, critical media theory, and interdisciplinary approaches bridging literary studies with digital visualization techniques. Earlier publications established foundations in Austrian modernism studies.

Awards & Recognition:

• DOC and APART Fellowship - Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Schrödinger Fellowship - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Projects & Leadership: Directs InSituEx research agenda; founded Campus Medius digital lab; leads Mapping Austrofascism project; co-founded open-access journal Genealogy+Critique; lectures internationally at universities in Vienna, Zurich, Liechtenstein, and Innsbruck.