Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Dieter Fuchs
Dieter Fuchs
T: +43-1-4277-42453
Summer term 2024
120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies - Mikhail Bakhtin
123043 PS PS Literary Studies - Anglo-American Modernism
123044 PS PS Literary Studies - Early Modern Drama, Poetry, and Fiction
Summer term 2023
123043 PS PS Literary Studies - The Rise of the Novel
124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media - Austrians in Hollywood




Fuchs, D. (Accepted/In press). "The German Stage". In Séan o'Casey in Context Cambridge University Press.


Fagan, P., & Fuchs, D. (Eds.) (2022). Flann O'Brien: Acting Out. Cork University Press.

Fuchs, D. (2022). “The Return of the Father and the Dispossessed Son in The Playboy of the Western World and The Third Policeman”. In P. Fagan, & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Flann O'Brien: Acting Out (pp. 63-76). Cork University Press.



Fuchs, D., & Klepuszewski , W. (Eds.) (2021). Booze as a Muse: Literary and Cultural Studies of Drink: Austrian Studies in English. Peter Lang. Austrian Studies in English Vol. 106

Fuchs, D., & Klepuszewski , W. (2021). "Introduction". In D. Fuchs, & W. Klepuszewski (Eds.), Booze as a Muse: Literary and Cultural Studies of Drink (pp. 7-10). Peter Lang. Austrian Studies in English Vol. 106

Fuchs, D. (2021). “James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, and the Viennese Boozer Known as ‘Lieber Augustin’“. In D. Fuchs, & W. Klepuszewski (Eds.), Booze as a Muse: Literary and Cultural Studies of Drink (pp. 49-57). Peter Lang. Austrian Studies in English Vol. 106

Fuchs, D. (2021). Austria and the Irish Paddy: Séan O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock Staged in 1930 and 1934 Vienna. In P. Fagan, T. Radak, & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Irish Studies in Europe: Stage Irish - PERFORMANCE, IDENTITY, CULTURAL CIRCULATION (pp. 89-105). WVT.

Fagan, P., Fuchs, D., & Radak, T. (2021). "Introduction". In P. Fagan, T. Radak, & D. Fuchs (Eds.), Irish Studies in Europe: Stage Irish - PERFORMANCE, IDENTITY, CULTURAL CIRCULATION (pp. 1-21). WVT. Irish Studies in Europe Vol. 10

Fuchs, D. (2021). Menippeisches Schreiben als Oszillation zwischen Struktur und Anti-Struktur Ulysses und Finnegans Wake. In R. Simon (Ed.), Prosa: Theorie, Exegese, Geschichte (pp. 375-395). De Gruyter. Theorie der Prosa


Fuchs, D. (2021). “Vorreformatorische Bildkultur und Reformatorische Wortkultur in Shakespeares Hamlet.”. In K. Merten, & C-M. Ort (Eds.), Konfessionspolitik und Medien in Europa 1500–1700 Konflikte, Konkurrenzen, Theorien (pp. 215-231). De Gruyter.


Fuchs, D. (2020). "From Ancient Troy to St. Lucia – James Joyce’s Ulysses and Derek Walcott’s Omeros". In W. Zach, & I. Maver (Eds.), Transcending Boundaries: Migrations, Dislocations, and Literary Transformations (pp. 105-114). Stauffenburg.

Dieter Fuchs
Department of English and American Studies
Postal address:
Austria
Email: dieter.fuchs@univie.ac.at

Education and Employment:

Assoz.-Prof. / Associate Professor, since 05/2022 

Ass.-Prof. (Tenure Track) in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 02/2017 - 04/2022

Visiting Professor (Izredni Profesor, with Habilitacija), University of Ljubljana (Block Seminar): Summer Semester 2017, Winter Semester 2017, Summer Semester 2018, Winter Semester 2018, Winter Semester 2020, Winter Semester 2021

Senior Lecturer (Tenure Track) in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 02/2016-01/2017

Full-Time Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna (Chair Werner Huber), 02/2014-01/2016

External Lecturer: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Winter Semester 2014/15

Erasmus Teacher: Universitat de València 12/2014

Professor Extraordinarius (profesor nadzwyczajny): Institute of English, German and Communication Studies, Technical University of Koszalin, 08/2012-09/2014

Visiting Professor: Institute of English, German and Communication Studies, Technical University of Koszalin, 02/2011-07/2012

Full-Time Lecturer: Department of English and American StudiesUniversity of Vienna (Chair Ewald Mengel), 10/2003-01/2011

PhD English Literature (major), Comparative Literary Studies & German Literature: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 02/2002 (Dr. des.) / 02/2005 (Dr. phil.) Supervisors: Hans Walter Gabler, Werner von Koppenfels 

M.A. (Magister Artium): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 06/1997 
Exchange Student: University of Reading, 10/1993- 04/1994 



Positions:


Member Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlungsfragen, since 2019


Director of the Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School, since 2017



Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Vienna founded by Werner Huber, since 2016 (third party funding EUR 60.000)



IASIL Co-Bibliographer for Austria and Germany, 2014 - 2016



Peer-reviewer for James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies in Italy, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Acta Neophilologica, Irish University Review, Brill/Rodopi, Koszalin University Press



External Examiner at the Department of Culture and Literature, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso 2013



Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 04/2008 - 11/2021



Member of the Eranos Conference Group (Amici di Eranos), since 06/2007



Member of the 2007-10 FWF Research Group 'Weltbühne Wien': The Reception of Anglophone Plays on Viennese Stages of the 20th Century



Fellowships and Honours:

FWF project application: High Modernist Rewritings of the Epic Descent into the World of the Dead: the ‘Great War’, the Mythical Method, and the Menippean Tradition 01/2022

OEAD bilateral project grant: Cultural mediation in producing and teaching British and American plays in Austria and Slovenia 2019-2022

Short list place 1 for W1-Professor of Early Modern Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2008

Shortlisted for the Figdor-Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Literary Studies 2008
Stipend awarded by the Franz-Marie-Christinen-Foundation, 1998-2001 

Junior Fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria (Promotionsstipendium des Freistaat Bayern zur Förderung des Wissenschaftlichen und Künstlerischen Nachwuchses), 1997-2000


Professional Memberships:


Austrian Association for University Teachers of English (AAUTE)


Deutscher Anglistenverband (German Association for University Teachers of English)


Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society)


European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)


The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)


The International Flann O'Brien Society (IFOBS)


The International James Joyce Foundation


The James Joyce Italian Foundation



Research Interests:

 
James Joyce and Hiberno-Anglo-American High Modernism

Irish Studies (Tudor Conquest - Contemporary)

Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies

Literary and Cultural Theory / Cultural Studies





“The Animalised Irish and the Early Modern Discourse of the Wetnurse”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

23 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Seasonal Work in McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane: The Continuation of History and Foreign Rule with Other Means

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

24 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reflections on the ‘Cultural Turn’ in Translation Studies

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

27 Sep 202328 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Scholarly Vices and the Campus Novel

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

23 Aug 202325 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“The Martyr’s Crown” – Queering the Biblical Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary via Dante’s Mock-Marian Paolo & Francesca Story

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

27 Jun 202330 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Finnegan Wake - An Undiscovered Austro-Hungarian Subtext: Alma Mahler and Anna Livia Plurabelle"

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

5 May 20236 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"An Undiscovered Austro-Hungarian Subtext: Alma Mahler and Anna Livia Plurabelle"

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

3 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ulysses - A Borderland Narrative

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

8 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Present Haunted by Undead Monsters of the Past: the Daedalus-Myth, the Collective Unconscious, and the Gothic Subtext of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

22 Sep 202224 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


James Joyce's Ulysses - A Novel? A Menippean Satire?

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

12 Jun 202218 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ulysses – a Borderland Narrative?

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

19 Jul 202123 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Menippeisches Schreiben als Oszillation zwischen Struktur und Anti-Struktur Ulysses und Finnegans Wake

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

5 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The History of the University of Vienna from an Irish Studies Point of View

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

19 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Epic Geography: Trieste, the Great War and the Trojan War in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

30 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Return of the Father and the Dispossessed Son in The Playboy of the Western World and The Third Policeman”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

30 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"'Is it about a bicycle?' O'Nolan's Poetics of the Moebius Strip."

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

16 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"The (Non)Human in the Irish Menippean Tradition"

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

5 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"WASP Misrepresentations of the Irish as the Savage Non-Human Other"

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

4 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Why Read Joyce in the 21st Century?”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

29 Aug 20182 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“From Ancient Troy to St. Lucia, or Cultural Transfer in Derek Walcott’s Omeros”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

16 Jul 201820 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cultural Misrepresentations of Ireland: Some Reflections on the Prehistory of Stage Irishness”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

2 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Viennese ‘Lieber Augustin’-Song as an Austro-Hungarian Counterpart of Finnegans Wake

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

11 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Wort und Bild: Hamlet und die Jungfräuliche Empfängnis”,

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

27 Sep 201729 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Return of the Father and the Dispossessed Son in The Playboy of the Western World and The Third Policeman”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

17 Jul 201721 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“ Irish Cannibalism and British Imperial Power Politics”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

10 Jul 201714 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Survey Introduction to Bakhtin”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

10 Jul 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Ulysses and Menippean Satire”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

1 Feb 20173 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ulysses and Menippean Satire”, Joyce’ Fiction and the new Rise of the Novel

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

1 Feb 20173 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Irish and Scottish Literature in Austria

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

3 Dec 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Still Forgotten and Unacknowledged: Modernism and the Menippean Tradition

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

30 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


'The World is Not Enough': Time and Space in the James Bond Movies

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

13 Sep 201615 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


James Joyce and the Viennese Boozer known as ‘Lieber Augustin’

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

1 Jul 20162 Jul 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Unknown Aspects of the Daedalus Myth: Re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

13 Jun 201618 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


“A Tale of Two Cities: Séan O’Casey’s Revolutionary Drama Performed in Dublin and Vienna”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

2 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


'In the mountains, there you feel free': The Bavarian Subtext of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

16 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Introduction"

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

10 Mar 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Shakespeares Hamlet und Dantes Divina Commedia: Paolo & Francesca da Rimini

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

12 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The Viennese ‘Lieber Augustin’-Song as an Austrian Counterpart of Finnegans Wake

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

30 Sep 2015 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Joyce’s ‘Mythical Method’: Undiscovered Intertextual Allusions in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

6 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


“ 'Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy' – James Joyce’s Ulysses, the Iliad and the Great War”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

17 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



On the Reception of Irish Drama in Vienna: O'Casey

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


“Wilfried Steiner's Der Weg nach Xanadu - an Austrian Campus Novel?”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Love's Labour's Lost - a Humanist Satire on the Early Modern World of Academia

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

31 Oct 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Wilde, Wagner and the Aestheticist Debate of Representation: 'What's in a name?': The Importance of Being Earnest, or Lohengrin

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

4 Sep 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


'Portals of Discovery'. : Unknown SOurces for the Rewriting of the Odysseus-Archetype in James Joyce's Ulysses.

Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)

29 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Cultural Representations of Spain, Italy and the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern England

Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Orientalist Discourse and the Representation of Italian Papism in Early Modern England

Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)

15 May 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Roland Emmerich's Independence Day: Presidential Mythology, Cultural (Mis-)Representation and the Prehistory of 9/11

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

19 Jul 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest: The Eastern and Central European Part of the Bloom-Odyssey

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

11 Jun 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest": The Eastern and Central European Part of the Bloom-Odyssey

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

11 Jun 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Small Latin and less Greek? A Hellenistic Source for the 'Magic Fountain' in Shakespeare's Sonnets 153/154

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

1 Sep 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Socratic Archetypes of Metropolitan Discourse in James Joyce's Ulysses

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

8 Aug 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog': Joyce, Lucian and Menippus

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

25 Jul 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


“Hamlet und die 'Poetik des Übergangs' – Showing und Telling in der frühneuzeitlichen Rachetragödie”

Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)

21 Apr 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O2-21

T: +43-1-4277-42453

dieter.fuchs@univie.ac.at