Elena Messner
Podcast on artificial intelligence, feminism and art | Curation, Moderation
Podcast on artificial intelligence, feminism and art | Curation, Moderation
Elena Messner was born in Klagenfurt/Celovec in 1983 and grew up bilingually as a Carinthian Slovene there as well as in Ljubljana and Salzburg. She studied comparative literature and cultural studies in Vienna and Aix-en-Provence. During her doctoral studies, she researched and worked for several years in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb. From 2013 to 2018 she taught German at the universities in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Since 2014 she has been teaching at the University of Klagenfurt. She regularly realizes scientific, cultural or artistic projects, has worked as an editor, translator, literary critic, cultural scientist and editor, and writes novels, essays, reviews and theater texts. Since 2023 she has been researching as a Senior Scientist (FWF) at the Institute of Slavic Studies in Vienna.
Recent awards:
2021-22 – Post-Doc Fellow at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
2021 – Carinthian Prize for Literature
2022 – Working scholarship for literature from the City of Vienna
2022-2023 – Post Doc Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
2022-2023 – Long-term scholarship for literature from the Federal Ministry (BMKOES)
2022 – Theodor Körner Prize for Literature
2023 – Book award from the Federal Ministry (Arts and Culture) for particularly successful new publications
2024 – Nomination for the shortlist of the Wortmeldungen Literature Prize.
