Research Interests

• teaching literature at university and school
• New English and postcolonial literatures
• contemporary British literature and culture
• children's and young adult literature
• cognitive approaches to literature
• Tales of time travel

Teaching

• children's and young adult literature
• contemporary British and postcolonial literature
• cultural studies
• teaching methodology (literature, culture, reading)

Selected Publications

• With Julia Hüttner, Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher and Barbara Schiftner, eds. Theory and Practice in Teacher Education. Bridging the Gap. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2012.
• Cognitive Principles, Critical Practice: Reading Literature at University. Göttingen: Vienna University Press, 2009.
• Cultures in the Contact Zone: Ethnic Semiosis in Black British Literature. Trier: WVT, 2002.
• With Mark Stein, ed. Cheeky Fictions. Laughter and the Postcolonial. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
• With Gunther Kaltenböck and Dieter Kastovsky, eds. Anglistentag 2001 Vienna. Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2002.
•  "Reading the Aesthetics as Politics in Postcolonial Literature". Anglistentag 2006 Halle. Proceedings. Ed. Sabine Volk-Birke. Trier: WVT, 2007.
• "Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia. Performing Identity in Postcolonial London" A Short History of the Postcolonial Book in 12½ Chapters. Ed. Tobias Döring. Trier: WVT, 2007. 139-154.
• "Cool Britannia: Versions of Contemporary Britishness". Cultural Studies in the EFL Classroom. Eds. Laurenz Volkmann and Werner Delanoy. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. 37-47.

CV

• Mag. Phil., Dr. Phil., Habilitation from the University of Vienna, Austria (1996/2001/2008)
• associate professor since July 2011
• full-time lecturer at the department of English and American Studies of the University of Vienna since 1997
• recipient of an Erwin-Schrödinger international scholarship by the FWF (Austrian research fund) for 2 years, spent in Frankfurt and London (2005/2006)
• recipient of the Figdor-prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for literary studies (2005)
• Guest chair for English language teaching at the University of Münster (2008/2009)

Further information:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Susanne.Reichl/