MSCA PF Fellow: Daniel Brandlechner

Daniel Brandlechner is a literary scholar specializing in Comparative Literature and German Studies. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Vienna in 2024, after studying at the universities of Vienna, Bologna, and Palermo. He has taught literature courses at the universities of Vienna and Uppsala.

He has published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Between and Sprachkunst. His first monograph, Seismographies of the Early Twenty-First Century, was published by De Gruyter in 2026.

His research is situated at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Energy Humanities, and Environmental Humanities, with a focus on literary disaster studies, transnational cultural transfers, and digital cultures.

In 2026, he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out the project EUROIL at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DiSLL) of the University of Padua, under the supervision of Daniele Vecchiato. Focusing on the “oil curse” in the Golden Twenties, especially in the German-speaking world, the project examines how literature and modern culture engaged with petroleum and its social, political, and environmental consequences. In doing so, EUROIL underscores the importance of literary and media analysis for understanding fossil modernity, energy transition, and environmental change.