DOC-Stipendiatin der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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Judith Kohlenberger studied English and American Studies, specializing in American Cultural Studies, at the University of Vienna. She currently holds a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for the completion of her PhD thesis, which explores the concept of "cool" in recent representations of natural sciences within US-American popular culture.
Project description at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: http://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/judithkohlenberger

Fellowships and Awards

• DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2012-2014)
• Academic Excellence Award by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (2010)
• Fulbright Prize for the best diploma thesis in American Studies in Austria (2010)

Research Interests

• "Coolness" as a cultural strategy
• Science/Fiction/Popular Culture
• Romanticism and Postmodernism
• Cultural and literary theory
• Gender Studies

 
Selected Publications and Presentations

• "This Space Called Science: Border Negotiations and the Revision of Cultural Maps in Contemporary US-American Popular Culture." Time, Place, and Space: Constructing American Identities. Ed. Michael Fuchs and Maria-Theresia Holub. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. (forthcoming summer 2012)
• "Tupi Or Not Tupi: Diversity, Conformity, and the Cultural Work of Cannibalism in How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman." Screening Cultural Diversity. Ed. Renée Dickason and Rüdiger Ahrens. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012. (forthcoming spring 2012)
• "Welcome To Babylon: The Queer Sublime of Queer As Folk." Queerness in Film and Television. Ed. Meghna Mudaliar. London: McFarland, 2012. (forthcoming)
• "Why Twilight Sucks and Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampire Narratives and the Sentimental Tradition." Screening Twilight: Critical Cinematic Approaches. Ed. Sarah Harman and Wickham Clayton. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. (forthcoming)
• "Rolling Faster Than A White Wall: Revising Romantic Aesthetics in Cruel Intentions." BLIK- Journal for Audiovisual Culture 3.3 (Winter 2010): 10-20.

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• "C.ool S.exy I.ntelligent: Science, Coolness and Ambiguous Evidence in CSI." 38th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS): Is It 'Cause It’s Cool: Affective Encounters with American Culture. Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, November 2011.
• "It All Started With A Big Bang: Constructions of 'Science' in the Age of Cool." Space, Place and Time: The Construction of Identity in American Literature and Popular Culture. 1st Grad Conference Hosted by the Department of American Studies. University of Graz, December 2010.
• "Why Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition." Letting The Vampire In: An International Conference for Young Academics. Ruhr University Bochum, December 2010.
• "Hot'N'Cold: The Affective Value of Post-9/11 America." 4th Annual AYA Grad Student Workshop: American Studies in Europe Post 9/11: Is It All Different Now? University of Vienna, October 2010.
• "Hedwig and the Angry Inch: An Introduction." Must-See Musicals, presented by the students’ representative body at the University of Vienna, June 2010.
• "Contemporary Byronic Heroes, Postmodern Sublimity And The Reason Why 'That Was Cool!'" 36th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS): Contact Spaces of American Culture: Localizing Global Phenomena.  University of Graz, October 2009.
• "Q." With Leopold Lippert. 3rd Annual AYA Grad Student Workshop: Iconic Figures of the 20th Century and Beyond. University of Graz, October 2009.