Juliane Werner

… works at the Thomas Bernhard Research Centre within the Literary&Textual Studies research unit. With a focus on the international resonance of Austrian literature from the 18th to the 21st century, she is particularly interested in the impact of Thomas Bernhard’s work on writers worldwide, having founded the GlobalBernhard project and serving as the President of the International Thomas Bernhard Society.

Juliane is the author of two monographs, Thomas Bernhard und Jean-Paul Sartre (2016) and Existentialismus in Österreich (funded by FWF, 2021), co-editor of the volumes Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism (2020) and Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction (2022), and co-editor of Brill’s Comparative Literature Series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.

As a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, Juliane teaches courses on a wide range of topics in literary and cultural studies. She received the Univie Teaching Award in 2021. Prior to joining the ACDH-CH, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago (Spring 2023) and a Guest Professor at the Université de Franche-Comté (Fall 2023).

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