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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau

T: +43-1-4277-42414

alexandra.ganser@univie.ac.at

https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/ganser/

Consultation hours: Office hour (ST24): Thu 11-12 (in person or online via Skype / live: alexandra.ganser)

Summer term 2024

123250 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) American/North American & Cultural Studies - American Prison Narratives

124010 VO Introduction to Cultural Theories - Focus: USA

Winter term 2023

123030 VO Literature Survey 2 - North American Literatures: Critical Perspectives

123250 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) American/North American & Cultural Studies - Witches in American Literature and Culture

123421 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American / North American Lit. Studies - Indigenous Futurisms in North America: Art, Activism, Poetry

128461 SE MA-Seminar (Literature/Cultural Studies - Abschlußmodul 6) - Developing Your Final Thesis

Summer term 2023

123030 VO Literature Survey 2 - North American Literary History: A Survey

123220 SE Literary Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA American/North American Lit./Studies - Afrofuturism in American Literature

123421 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American / North American Lit. Studies - Gendered Perspectives on American Astroculture in the First and Second Space Ages

128461 SE MA-Seminar (Literature/Cultural Studies - Abschlußmodul 6) - Developing Your Final Thesis

Gföllner, B., & Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2024). Astropelagic Afrofuturism: Outer Space Im/mobilities in Canisia Lubrin’s ‘Voodoo Hypothesis’. Manuscript submitted for publication. In D. Atanasova, R. Bund, D. Buschmann, R. Diniega, J. Donat, B. Gföllner, & N. Kopf (Eds.), Entangled Future Im/Mobilities Transcript Verlag.

Ganser, A., Schörgenhuber, E. M., Oberzaucher, H., & Lippert, L. (2023). Introduction: American Im/mobilities. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture Springer. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS)

Ganser, A. (2023). Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (pp. 211-234). Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 3

Ganser, A., & Lavery, C. (Eds.) (2023). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 3

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Temmen, J., & Rettenbacher, C. (2023). A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 273-301. https://doi.org/10.5070/T814161197

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (Eds.) (2023). Archipelagic Spaces and Im/mobilities.

Ganser, A., & Lavery, C. (2023). Introduction. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 3

Ganser, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (2023). Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023(1), 75-92. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3450q1f3

Ganser, A., & Rath, G. (2023). Introduction: Liberty and Death: Pirates and Zombies in Atlantic Modernity. Atlantic Studies, 20(3), 365-380. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14788810.2022.2161725?needAccess=true

Ganser-Blumenau, A., & Lavery, C. (2023). Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone LIterature and Culture (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8

Rath, G., & Ganser-Blumenau, A. (Eds.) (2023). Pirates and Zombies. Taylor & Francis. Atlantic Studies Vol. 20 No. 3 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/20/3

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Lechner, E., Maly-Bowie, B., & Schörgenhuber, E. M. (Eds.) (2022). Caring for Cultural Studies: A Tribute to Monika Seidl. V&R unipress.

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (Interviewee). (2021). Abenteuer Adria: Inseln, Schätze und Piraten: Erbe Österreich. Television show, TV & More.

Ganser, A. (2021). “O’er us, rovers free”:  Performing Gender and National Identity in Jacksonian Pirate Melodrama. In R. Poole, & L. Lippert (Eds.), The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices (pp. 179-209). Transcript Verlag.

Ganser, A. (Interviewee), & Schäfer, S. (Editorial Journalist). (2021). The Trans-Atlanticist Ladyfiction Podcast: Octavia Butler's Parables. Web publication

Ganser, A. (2020). (Im)Mobilität und Medialität im Hollywood-Weltraumfilm: Interstellar und The Martian. In A. Ganser, & A. Pelz (Eds.), Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies (pp. 147-168). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press.

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2020). Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865. Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 1 https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030436223

Dannecker, P., Englert, B., Ganser-Blumenau, A., Hasenöhrl, S., Kabelik, R., Maly-Bowie, B., Metschl, V., Pelz, A., Rüther, K., & Sauer, B. (2020). Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Mobilitätsstudien konzeptualisieren. In A. Ganser, & A. Pelz (Eds.), Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften/Mobile Cultures and Societies (pp. 9-56). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press.

Pelz, A., & Ganser, A. (Eds.) (2020). Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften – Mobile Cultures and Societies. V&R unipress, Vienna University Press.

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2019). Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA), 67(2), 201-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2019-0018

Alexandra Ganser is professor for American Literature and Culture and Executive Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies (ZKS) at the University of Vienna. She studied in Vienna, Trieste, Oklahoma, and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where she received her PhD (published as Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000, Rodopi, 2009). She was Christoph-Daniel-Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and is a Fulbright Alumna. Her research interests include mobility studies (as Key Researcher of the interdisciplinary platform Mobile Cultures and Societies), popular culture, gender studies, oceanic American studies, and ecocriticism. Her current book project, sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), examines transatlantic representations of piracy before the Civil War and is titled Crisis and Discourses of (Il)Legitimacy in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865 (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan).

Faszination Piraterie

Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau (Invited speaker)

20 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public