Christina Janousek
Bewildering Stories biography
Born in Vienna, Austria, Christina Janousek has a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and is currently working on her master’s thesis at the University of Vienna. In her thesis, she analyses visual and photographic discourses and metaphors in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading.
She has gained work experience at different cultural institutions, e. g. publishing houses, literature societies and a small magazine. This gave her the opportunity not only to work together with journalists and write short ads, but also to look behind the scenes of the literary business. In 2023, she will complete a newspaper internship.
Christina is an admirer of the literary fairy tale (Hoffmann, Tieck, Odoevsky, Hawthorne, Wilde, Ewers), science fantasy, the Decadent Movement (Mirbeau) and Absurdism (Kafka, Nabokov, Charms).
Her previously published work “Der Spitzel in Viktor Pelevins Roman ‘T.’” can be found on the homepage of the Documentation Center for Central and Eastern European Literature. She is fluent in German and English and has a basic knowledge of Russian, Italian and Latin.
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