Research Interests

●      Cultural Studies, Visual Culture and Popular Culture

●      Literary Classics

●      Cultural Transfer between Great Britain and Austria

●      Media Pedagogy

Conferences

Pursuing the Trivial

conference, Vienna 1-2 June 2012, co-organisers: Roman Horak and Barbara Maly

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Fashionable Queens

conference, Vienna, 3-4 December 2010, co-organiser: Eva Flicker

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About Raymond Williams

symposium, Vienna, 19-20 May, 2006, co-organiser: Roman Horak

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Recent Publications

2010

About Raymond Williams. Ed. Monika Seidl, Roman Horak and Lawrence Grossberg. London and New York: Routledge.

"Raymond Williams - towards cultural materialism: an introduction." together with Roman Horak. About Raymond Williams. Ed. Monika Seidl, Roman Horak and Lawrence Grossberg. London and New York: Routledge, 1-18.

"Original Renewal. Retroactive Performativity and the Adaptation of Classics." Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt. Proceedings. Ed. Jörg Helbig and Rene Schallegger. WVT: Trier, 153-167.

"Sublime Scenery and Spectacular Settings. Traditions of Romanticist Visualities in Computer Games." Exploring the Edges of Gaming. Proceedings of the Vienna Games Conference 2008-2009: Future and Reality of Gaming. Ed. Konstantin Mitgutsch, Christoph Klimmt and Herbert Rosenstingl. Braumüller: Wien, 169-183.

2009

"Von richtigen Maennern und richtigen Frauen. Geschlecht, Raum und Koerper in Computerspielen." Popkultur trifft Schule. Bausteine fuer eine neue Medienerziehung. Ed. Jan-Arne Sohne und Ruediger Utikal. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Verlag, 45-63.

"British Fashion and Romanticism Today: Where the Present Dreams the Past Future." Romanticism Today. Selected Papers from the Tübingen Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Ed. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: WVT, 213-226.

2008

"Bildmedien + Medienbildung = Bildmedienbildung. Konzept einer Weiterbildungsreihe Medienbildung." Medienbildung in Österreich. Historische und aktuelle Entwicklungen, theoretische Positionen und Medienpraxis. Ed. Edith Blaschitz und Martin Seibt. Wien: LIT, 261-271.

2007

"Framing Colin: The Adaptation of Classics and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and after Mr. Darcy." Intermediality: New Perspectives on Literature and the Media. Ed. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, und Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 37-49.

"Order from Intermediality. An Outline of a Model of Knowledge Production and Knowledge Reception." (mit Klaus Puhl) Didactics of Microlearning. Concepts, Discourses, and Examples. Ed. Theo Hug, Münster: Waxmann, 69-80.

"'Merely a Place in Which to Eat and Sleep'? Bringing the War Home in Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's Second World War Films." Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Vol. 14/1 (2007), 21-28.

Visual literacy: Bilder verstehen. Ed. Monika Seidl. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 87 (Mai 2007)

2006

"Flow, Overflow and The Sopranos." Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg. Ed. Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe und Anja Mueller. Trier: WVT. 313-324.

"Medialising Mr Darcy. Colin Firth as Extra Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1995)." Medialised Britain. Ed. Juergen Kamm. Passau: Stutz. 81-97.

So schön war es im Roten Wien. Britische Schriftsteller über das Wien der frühen Dreißigerjahre und die Februarereignisse 1934. Wien: Braumüller, 2006.

"Cutting Edge: About Silhouettes, Racial Stereotypes in Transition, and the Art of Kara Walker." Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change. Ed. Hanna Wallinger. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2006. 139-158.

CV

• 2012 Summer Term: Guest Lecturer, Cultural Analysis, University of Zürich

• 2010-2012 Deputy University Head of Studies (Vizestudienpräses), University of Vienna

• 2006-2010 Director of Studies: English, University of Vienna

• 2008-2009 Mentor, Mentoring Programme, University of Vienna

• 2004-      ao. Univ.-Prof., Cultural Studies, English Department, University of Vienna

• 2004-2007 President of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE)

• 2004-2008 Guest Professor, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture and Media Education, Donau-Universität Krems

• 2001-2002 Guest Lecturer, British Cultural Studies, University of Klagenfurt

• 2000 Guest Lecturer, German, Austrian Studies, Duke University, Duke University Vienna Study Programm (also 1996 and 1992)

• 1995-2004 Lecturer, EFL, English Department, University of Vienna

• 1995-1996 Guest Lecturer for the Bundesministerium für Unterricht und kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Further Education Programme, German Studies

•  1990-1995 Language Teacher on a contract basis, EFL, English Department, University of Vienna

• 1989-1990 Research Grant, University of Cambridge, UK

• 1987-1989 Exchange lecturer, German language and literature, German Department, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

• 1986-1987 Secondary School Teacher, English and German, ORG der Schulbrüder, Vienna

• 1983-1986 free-lance Language Teacher, German as a Foreign Language, IKI, British Council, Vienna

•  1981-1982 Secondary School Teacher, English and German, Fachschule der Dominikanerinnen, Vienna

• 1975-1981 free-lance tour guide, Vienna