Research Interests

• Irish Studies (Oscar Wilde)
• Victorian Studies
• British Decadence and Fin de Siècle
• Cultural Transfer and Reception Studies
• 19th- and 20th-Century Drama and Theatre of the British Isles

Publications 

• Sandra Mayer. “’A Conspiracy of Silence’? The Reception of Wilde’s Literary Work in Early Twentieth Century Britain.” The Wildean 29 (July 2006): 61-69.
• ____. “’A Complex Multiform Creature’: Ambiguity and Limitation Foreshadowed in the Early Critical Reception of Oscar Wilde.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31.2 (2006):137-155.
• ____. “The First Production of Salome in Vienna”. The Oscholars IV.4-9 (April-September 2007)
  http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Thirty-five/Mad/Mad_Scarlet_Music.htm
• _____ und Barbara Pfeifer. “The Reception of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw in the Light of Early Twentieth-Century Austrian Censorship”. Platform 2.2 (2007): 59-75.
  ____. “Pleasing and Teasing the Audience. Oscar Wilde: An All-Time Favourite of Viennese Stages.” International Conference on Drama, Theatre, and Cultural Transfer, University of Vienna, 11-13 May 2008. (poster presentation)
• ____. “When Critics Disagree, the Artist Survives: Oscar Wilde, An All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stage in the Twentieth Century.” The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. Ed. Stefano Evangelista. London: Continuum, 2010. 203-216.

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/Vol.2No.2/Wilde%20and%20Shaw.pdf

Conference Papers

• “When Critics Disagree the Artist Survives. Oscar Wilde: An All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stage in the Twentieth Century.” Conference “The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe,” 8-9 March 2008, Trinity College, Oxford, UK.
• “’They actually succeed in spelling his name right’: The Viennese Fin-de-Siècle Image of Oscar Wilde.” Conference “Century’s End: Re-Evaluating Literature, Art and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1880-1914),” 12-13 September 2008, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• "A 'First-Rate Theatrical Fashion Item': Trading Wilde in the Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Literary Marketplace." IASIL Conference "Irish Literatures - World Perspectives," 27-31 July 2009, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
• "Two Irishmen Abroad: Constructions of National Identity and Its Impact on the Theatrical Reception of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw in Vienna" (joint presentation with Barbara Pfeifer). EFACIS Conference "Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges," 3-6 September 2009, University of Vienna.
• "London Dandy Meets Viennese Bonvivant: The Cultural 'Other' in Oscar Wilde's Society Comedies on Viennese Stages." IASIL Conference "Irish Literatures and Culture: Old and New Knowledges," 26-30 July 2010, NUI Maynooth, Ireland.

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Sandra Mayer studied English and History at the universities of Sussex, UK, and Graz, Austria, where she submitted her MA thesis on the impact of scandal on the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in early-twentieth-century England. She is currently a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of English, University of Vienna, in the areas of English Literature and Irish Studies and has just completed her PhD thesis on the reception of Wilde’s plays on twentieth-century Viennese stages as part of the Austrian Research Council project Weltbühne Wien (World Stage Vienna).