Laura Untner is a (digital) literary scholar and literary mediator. She studied Comparative Literature and German Philology at the University of Vienna and recently conducted research at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Austrian Academy of Sciences), where she focused primarily on Karl Kraus (esp. his legal papers) and Arthur Schnitzler (esp. his correspondence with authors). For many years, she co-led the literary series Gläserne Texte in Vienna. Since February 2023, she is a board member of Unabhängige Lesereihen (Independent Reading Series).

Current research includes an EXC 2020 doctoral research project: Paradigms of Digital Reception Studies: Productive Literary Reception Phenomena as Linked Data Using the Example of the German-Language Literary Reception of Sappho (2024-)

(Supervisors: Frank Fischer, Freie Universität Berlin and Paula Wojcik, University of Vienna)