… works at the Thomas Bernhard Research Centre within the Literary & Print Culture Studies research unit. With a focus on Austrian literature in international contexts from the 18th to the 21st century, she is interested in Thomas Bernhard’s global resonance and literary afterlife, which she explores as head of the website project GlobalBernhard and through the translation database thomas bernhard in translation. Since 2024, she serves as the President of the International Thomas Bernhard Society. In 2026 she was elected to the Academia Europaea.

Juliane is the author of two monographs, Thomas Bernhard und Jean-Paul Sartre (2016) and Existentialismus in Österreich. Kultureller Transfer und literarische Resonanz  (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, including the literary history of psychiatric knowledge and institutions, representations of intensive animal agriculture in fiction, and the aesthetics of transgression. She received the Univie Teaching Award in 2021. Prior to joining the ACDH, 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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