Research Interests

• Restoration and eighteenth century drama
• modern drama
• Victorian novel
• cognitive poetics
• imperial mentalities

Teaching

• Restoration period and 18th century
• 19th century novel
• modern drama and fiction
• ethnicity and gender
• politics and the novel

For current information and materials go to
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/margarete.rubik

Selected Publications

• Early Women Dramatists. Women Playwrights in England 1550 - 1800. London: Macmillan 1998
• Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights. Vol. 1: Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood. Eds. Margarete Rubik and Eva Müller- Zettelmann. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.
• Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn. With an "Introduction: Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra." Eds Margarete Rubik, Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego und Bernard Dhuicq. Bilingua Editions, Paris: 2002
• Theory Into Poetry. New Approaches to the Lyric. Ed. Eva Müller- Zettelmann and Margarete Rubik. Amsterdam: Rudopi, 2005.
• A Breath of Fresh Eyre. Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of "Jane Eyre". Eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Amsterdam: Rudopi 2007.
• "Provocative and Unforgettable: Peter Carey’s short fiction – a cognitive approach." The Cognitive Turn. Papers in Cognitive Literary Studies. Ed. Michael Toolan and Hean Jacques Weber. EJES 9, No. 2 (2005): 169 – 184.
• "Navigating through Fantasy Worlds: Cognition and the Intricacies of Reader Response in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair." Cognition and Literary Interpretation. Ed. H. Veivo et al. Helsinki: University Press, 2005, 183-200.
• Stories of Empire. Narrative Strategies for the Legitimation of an Imperial World Order. Trier: WVT, 2009.
• Rive Gauche. Paris as a site of avant-garde art and cultural exchange in the 1920s. Eds. Elke Mettinger-Schartmann, Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.

For more details go to:

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/margarete.rubik/documents/publikationen2009.rtf

CV

• 2002-2004, 2007-2008: Deputy Head of the Department
• 1999-2002, and 2004-2006: Head of the English Department of the University of Vienna
• Since 1998 Chair for English Literature at the English Department of the University of Vienna
• 1996 Guest Professor at the University of Brno (Czechia)
• 1993 Guest Professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary)
• 1975-1998 Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Vienna