Roberto Simanowski (born 1963) is a German scholar of literature and media studies and founder of dichtung-digital.
He worked at the University of Göttingen in the research center Nationality of International Literatures in 1997 and 1998, conducted his research project Cyberspace and Literature with a stipend from the German Humboldt-Foundation at Harvard University 1998 until 2000, was visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle 2001 until 2002, and served as guest professor at the department of media studies at the University of Jena in 2002/2003.
In 1999 he founded the online-journal dichtung-digital.org, a Journal of art and culture in digital media, that he edited until 2014 when it contained about 450 contributions by over 100 scholars and artists from 20 countries.
Simanowski works as author and media consultant in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro and is currently Distinguished Fellow of Global Literary Studies am Excellence-Cluster "Temporal Communities" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Das Dilemma der künstlichen Intelligenz (Wien: Passagen Verlag 2020) received the Tractatus Award for best philosophical essay in German in 2020.