Research Interests

• Native American and First Nations Literatures and Cultures
• Pocahontas/Matoaka
• American Studies
• Canadian Studies
• Colonial Virginia and New England
• The Literature and Philosophy of New England Transcendentalism
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Modernist Poetry

Teaching

• Introductory Seminars (literature)
• Introductory Courses to the Study of Literature in English
• Introductory Courses to Cultural and Regional Studies: U.S.A.
• Advanced Integrated Language Skills 2 (writing)

Selected Publications

• "'Visible Obscurity': A Reappraisal of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance", Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XXIX.3 (September 1996): 183-205.
• "America's Dearest Daughter: Misrepresentations of Pocahontas from Smith to Disney", Multiculturalism and the American Self, ed. William Boelhower and Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg: Winter, 2000). 19-49.
• "A New New England Identity – 'Transcendentalism'", Nordamerikastudien. Historische und literaturwissenschaftliche Forschungen aus österreichischen Universitäten zu den Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada. Wiener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, Bd. 24 (Wien: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 2000). 231-49.
• The EmBodyment of American Culture. Edited by Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer and Heinz Tschachler. American Studies in Austria, vol. 1. Wien: LIT-Verlag, 2003.
•  (Anti-)Americanisms. Edited by Michael Draxlbauer, Astrid M. Fellner and Thomas Fröschl. American Studies in Austria, vol.2. Wien: LIT-Verlag, 2004.

 CV

• 1977 Assistant at the Dept. of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna
• 1981 Mag. phil. (English and German)
• 1987 Dr. phil. (Ph.D. thesis on Wallace Stevens)
• 1996 Senior Lecturer (Assistenzprofessor)
• Various research scholarships (J.F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin; British Museum; University of California at Berkeley; Library of Congress, Washington DC)
• Alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar