Juliane Werner - Biography#

Juliane Werner is based at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna. She has held a fellowship at the University of Chicago and, in 2023, a guest professorship at the Université de Franche-Comté in France. Her work centers on Franco-Austrian cultural relations, the literary history of psychiatric institutions, representations of intensive animal agriculture in fiction, intermediality, and narratives of transgression.

With a particular focus on Austrian literature in international contexts from the 18th to the 21st century, she leads two digital projects devoted to the global reception of Thomas Bernhard: »GlobalBernhard« (since 2022), on Bernhard’s impact on writers worldwide, and the translation database »Thomas Bernhard in Translation« (since 2025). Since 2024, she serves as President of the International Thomas Bernhard Society.

Werner is the author of two monographs on French existentialism - »Thomas Bernhard und Jean-Paul Sartre« (2016) and »Existentialismus in Österreich: Kultureller Transfer und literarische Resonanz« (2021) - and co-editor of »Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism« (2020) and »Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction« (2022). She also serves as co-editor of Brill’s series International Research in General and Comparative Literature. She is currently preparing the Suhrkamp biography of Thomas Bernhard to mark his centenary.