Ulrike Tanzer, born in 1967 in Steyr (Upper Austria), is a German scholar who has been a Professor of Austrian Literature at the Institute of German Studies in Innsbruck and the director of the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck since 2014. From 2017 to 2023, Tanzer was also Vice Rector for Research. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Salzburg and a visiting professor in Klagenfurt and Leiden (Netherlands). Her research focuses include 19th and 20th century literature, contemporary literature, concepts of happiness in literature (the topic of her habilitation), editing techniques, literature didactics, and reading research. She has led third-party funded projects and is a member of literary and academic societies (including Vice President of the International Nestroy Society). She has published extensively, primarily on Austrian literature, including the correspondence between Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Marie von Gomperz 1892-1916 (2001), the correspondence between Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Josephine von Knorr 1851-1908 (2016, co-edited with I. Fußl, L. M. Zangerl and G. Radecke), and a four-volume reader edition of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (2014 ff., co-edited with E. Polt-Heinzl and D. Strigl).