Thomas Eder is a literary scholar, teaching in the German Department at the University of Vienna. He is also at the editorial board of the magazine wespennest (wespennest.at) and is responsible for the scientific and literary program in the kunsthaus muerz (kunsthausmuerz.at). He has published widely on the neo-avant-garde and on cognitive poetics / epistemological aesthetics, including: "Oswald Wiener’s Theory of Thought" (co-edited with T. Raab und M. Schwarz, De Gruyter 2023) and "Die Sprachkunst Gerhard Rühms" (co-edited with P. Pechmann, ed. text+kritik 2023).