Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Heinz

T: +43-1-4277-42461

sarah.heinz@univie.ac.at

http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/heinz/

Consultation hours: In the summer term 2025, regular office hours take place on:
Mondays, 10:30-11:30 am.

First office hours on March 10, 2025, final office hours on June 30, 2025.
No office hours on April 14 and 21, and on June 9, 2025.

We meet onsite in my office. If an online consultation is what you need, we will meet on Zoom in the same timeslot.

Please register for an office hour slot via the Termino link on my website: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/heinz/

Winter term 2025

123222 SE Literary Seminar (BA) - The Lockdown Novel in English

128222 SE Literary Seminar (MA) - The Lockdown Novel in English

128302 KU Toolkit for Research and Writing (MA Literature)

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)

128461 SE MA-Seminar (Literature/Cultural Studies - Abschlußmodul 6)

420008 SE The Politics of Humanities Research

Summer term 2025

124080 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Acting Out: Teaching Theatre and Drama in the EFL Classroom

124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Representing Tourists and Tourism in the Media

128110 VO Popular and Media Cultures VO / Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Re-Assessing Home in Contemporary Cultural Production

128302 KU Toolkit for Research and Writing (MA Literature)

Winter term 2024

120022 OV Orientierungsveranstaltung Anglistik BA - Orientation & Welcome Session

120023 OV Orientierungsveranstaltung Anglistik BEd - Orientation & Welcome Session

123220 SE Literary Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - The English Crime Play

123251 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) British/Irish/New English & Cultural Studies - Tourists and Tourism in Cultural Productions

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)

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

Fiala, M., & Heinz, S. (2025). Book Review: Evangeline Aguas: Queer Interruptions: Temporality in Femslash Fandom. Fandom | Cultures | Research, 2(1), 75. https://journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/article/view/8890/8515

Heinz, S. (Accepted/In press). Irish Traveller Communities in Britain in Channel 4's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 32(1).

Heinz, S. (2025). 'Stay at Home': British Lockdown Novels and the Politics of Home and Homeland in COVID-19 Brexit Britain. In K. Tyler, S. Banducci, & C. Degnen (Eds.), Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times: Fractured Lives in Britain (pp. 29-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003454137-3

Heinz, S. (2025). 'That passing glimpse': Home as Precarious Idyll and the Frictions of Late Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Subjectivity in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Stories. In F. Frei Gerlach, & S. Schneider (Eds.), Idylle als Denkraum im 19. Jahrhundert: Literaturen, Künste, Medien (pp. 373-390). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111241425-015

Heinz, S., & Aubel, K. (Eds.) (2025). The Politics of Home. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power. Vol. 14

Heinz, S. (2024). Mobilizing the Cozy Homestead: Sedentarist Notions of Home and Irish Traveller Belonging in Paul Rotha's No Resting Place (1951). In R. Mladenova (Ed.), Counterstrategies to the Antigypsy Gaze (pp. 235-249). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1039

Heinz, S., & Schmitt, M. (2024). Home on the Estate: (Un)Mapping British Homelands in Attack the Block. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 31(1), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.33675/JSBC/2024/1/9

Heinz, S. (2024). Mobilizing the Story of Home: Lockdown and Quarantine in COVID-19 Fiction from East Africa. Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 35(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/1/10

Heinz, S. (2022). Revision as Relation: Adapting Parable in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen. Adaptation, 15(1), 113-126. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa039

Heinz, S., & Potter, K. (2022). Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein, eds. Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill Rodopi, 2021. 262 pp. Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 33(3), 150-151.

Heinz, S. (2022). Whose House is this?: Everyday Bordering and the Intersection of Home and Nation in British Property-Themed Television Shows. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 29(1), 19-34.

Heinz, S. (2021). 'Oh, the Humanities': Learning from Humanities Research after Covid-19. Web publication, Irish Humanities Alliance. https://www.irishhumanities.com/blog/oh-the-humanities-learning-from-humanities-research-after-covid-19/

Heinz, S. (2021). Breathe. ROAM: Representations of Home creative journal, 1. https://www.rhome.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/roam/spring-summer-2021/roam-1/sarah-heinz

Heinz, S. (2021). Lockdown: The Re-Assessment of Home in British Covid-19 Fiction. Hard Times Magazine, 105, 72-80. https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/article/view/110

Heinz, S. (2021). Making yourself at home: Performances of whiteness in cultural production about home and homemaking practices. In S. Hunter, & C. van der Westhuizen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies (1 ed., pp. 258-268). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355769-21

Heinz, S. (2021). Neil Archer, Cinema and Brexit: The Politics of Popular English Film. MEDIENwissenschaft Rezensionen/Reviews, 38(3-4), 310-311. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17879

Heinz, S. (2021). "Stay on Country": The Indigenous Australian Challenge to White Property, Terra Nullius, and Native Title in Tara June Winch's The Yield. Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, 21, 77-96.

Heinz, S., & Engelmayer, J. (2021). Tragödie der Ambivalenzen: Ein Gespräch mit Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Sarah Heinz. In J. Engelmayer (Ed.), Othello: von William Shakespeare (pp. 10-14). Kulturabteilung des Landes Niederösterreich.

Heinz, S. (2020). Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Humanities, 9(4), Article 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9040115

Heinz, S. (2020). Beyond Sedentarism and Nomadology: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the Ambivalent Desire for Home. Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 5(1), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2020-0030

CV

Since July 2017: Full Professor for English and Anglophone Literatures at the English Department, University of Vienna, Austria

Apr. 209-May 2020: Parental Leave

Aug. 2018: Returning Visting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Apr. 2016-June 2017: Parental Leave

Apr. 2015-March 2016: Guest Professor at the English Department, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Jan.-Apr. 2015: Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

May 2014: Oral Habilitation Presentation, granting of the venia legendi "Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft" [English Literary and Cultural Studies]

2013: Submission of Habilitation at the School of Humanities, University of Mannheim, Germany

Title of Habilitation Treatise: "The Relative Skin: Whiteness in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film"

2009-2014: Juniorprofessor for British Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of Humanities, University of Mannheim

2008-2009: Juniorprofessor for English Literature/Cultural and Media Studies at the School of Humanities, University of Passau, Germany

2006-2008: Instructor at the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies (Chair of English Literature and Culture, Anglistik II, Prof. Dr. Meinhard Winkgens) at the University of Mannheim

2003-2006: PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude)

Title of Doctoral Thesis: "Die Einheit in der Differenz: Metapher, Romance und Identität in A.S. Byatts Romanen" [Unity in Difference: Metaphor, Romance and Identity in A.S. Byatt's Novels]

1997-2003: Master of Arts in English, Linguistics, and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim

Born 1978 in Groß-Gerau, Germany

Teaching and Supervision

Among others, I have held lectures, facilitated seminars, and organised workshops in the following areas:

• Contemporary British drama and narrative literature
• The contemporary Anglophone novel
• Theories of intersectionality and race, specifically whiteness
• Theoretical and narrative conceptualisations of transcultural encounters
• Filmic, dramatic, and narrative representations of race, gender, class, and nation from Shakespeare to today
• Cultural discourses of identity, normality, and normalisation

For a full list of my courses, course evaluations, and my teaching dossier, see my personal homepage: http://sarah-heinz.de/

I welcome supervision proposals in all these areas. If you are interested in doing a thesis project with me, please come to my office hours and bring any material that you might find helpful to outline your idea and research plan.

Research Interests

• Postcolonial Theory, specifically Critical Whiteness Studies, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory
• Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, specifically the Contemporary Novel
• Transnational Discourses of Home and Homeland in Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature and Cultural Production
• British Drama and the Novel since 1800
• Contemporary Irish Literature, Film, and Culture in the Context of Postcolonial Studies and Globalisation
• Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Adaptation
• Theories of Identity and Subjectivity