Simona Noreik, M. A. is a literary scholar specialising in the 19th century. Her interests include media philosophy, cultural studies and edition philology as well as digital humanities. Most recently, she was part of the bilateral DFG/NCN project Women Writers from the Varnhagen Collection - Letters, Works, Relations at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She is currently working on the BMBF project DiamOnd@HsH to establish a university-owned open access publishing house at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.