Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mieszkowski, MA

T: +43-1-4277-42412

sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at

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

Summer term 2024

123220 SE Literary Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - The Comedies of Aphra Behn

123251 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) British/Irish/New English & Cultural Studies - (Literary) Activism: The Refugee Tales Project

124200 SE PhD Seminar Literary & Culture and Media Studies - Queer/Feminist Theories and Politics of In_Visibility

124269 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Scandal! Dis_Empowering Visibilities of the Scandalous

Winter term 2023

123041 PS PS Literary Studies - Shakespeare's _The Tempest_, its adaptations & spin-offs

123210 VO Literatures in English - Victorian Culture and neo-Victorian literature

123422 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - Caribbean Londoners (with excursion)

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)

Summer term 2023

120013 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Literature / Cultural Studies

124081 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Icons of Oppression

Holzleithner, E., Mieszkowski, S., & Sauer, B. (Eds.) (2023). Gender: ambivalent in_visibilities. Taylor & Francis. Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 32 No. 8 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/32/8?nav=tocList

Holzleithner, E., Mieszkowski, S., & Sauer, B. (2023). Gender: ambivalent in_visibilities - an editorial. Journal of Gender Studies , 32(8), 812-818. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2271264

Mieszkowski, S. (Author), & Nieberle, S. (Author). (2023). Politik in der Populärkultur: Zur genderrelevanten Verhandlung von Un/Sichtbarkeit. Web publication, Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW. https://www.gender-blog.de/beitrag/politik-populaerkultur/

Mieszkowski, S., & Nieberle, S. (Eds.) (2023). Politik in der Populärkultur. (2 ed.) Barbara Budrich. Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft Vol. 15 No. 2 https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1868-7245-2023-2.pdf

Mieszkowski, S., & Nieberle, S. (2023). Politik in der Populärkultur: Zur genderrelevanten Verhandlung von Un/Sichtbarkeit. Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 15(2), 7-10. https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1868-7245-2023-2.pdf

Mieszkowski, S. (2023). Transparent and the optics of gender(ed) identity. Journal of Gender Studies , 32(8), 910-921. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2213648

Mayer, S., Potter, K., & Mieszkowski, S. (2023). Introduction: Life Writing through Refugee Tales. European Journal of Life Writing, 12, 1-22. https://ejlw.eu/article/view/41228/38126

Mieszkowski, S. (2023). In_Visibilizing Stress: Refugee Tales as a Counter-Apparatus. European Journal of Life Writing, 12, 77-99. https://ejlw.eu/article/view/41231/38129

Mayer, S., Potter, K., & Mieszkowski, S. (Eds.) (2023). Refugee Tales. University of Groningen Press. European Journal of Life Writing Vol. 12 https://ejlw.eu/issue/view/5106

Mieszkowski, S. (2022). Compassionate Projection: Zadie Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia". Journal of the Short Story in English, 75(Autumn 2020), 115-133. https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/3274

Mieszkowski, S., Espinoza Garrido, L., Spengler, B., & Wewior, J. (Eds.) (2022). Documentary Filmmaking and the Representation of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim. Parallax, 27(3), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2022.2071197

Mieszkowski, S., Spengler, B., Espinoza Garrido, L., & Wewior, J. (2022). Migrant Lives in a State of Exception (II): Sovereignty, Mobility and Agency in a Globalised World. Parallax, 27(3), 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2022.2071202

Mieszkowski, S., Espinoza Garrido, L., & Spengler, B. (Eds.) (2022). Migrant States of Exception (II). Taylor and Francis. Parallax Vol. 27 No. 3 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/27/3?nav=tocList

Mieszkowski, S., Spengler, B., Espinoza Garrido, L., & Wewior, J. (2022). Introduction: Migrant Lives in a State of Exception. Parallax, 27(2), 115-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2021.1995949

Mieszkowski, S., Spengler, B., & Wewior, J. (Eds.) (2022). Migrant States of Exception (1). Taylor and Francis. Parallax Vol. 27 No. 2 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/27/2?nav=tocList

Mieszkowski, S., & Zettelmann, E. (Eds.) (2022). DQR Studies in Literature. Brill. DQR Studies in Literature

Mieszkowski, S. (2021). Hearing Eyes. Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 11(1+2), 3-10.

Mieszkowski, S., Burz-Labrande, M., & Freidl, H. (Eds.) (2021). More Than Meets the Ear: Sound & Short Fiction. Intellect Books. Short Fiction in Theory & Practice Vol. 11 No. 1+2

Mieszkowski, S. (2021). Adventure as Anecdote: The ('Talling') Tales of Two Maries. In T. Döring, & M. Kübler (Eds.), The Pleasures of Peril: Rereading Anglophone Adventure Fiction (pp. 319-348). Narr Francke Attempto. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature Vol. 37

Mieszkowski, S. (2021). The Cosmopolitan Wife: (Self-)erasure and (Self-)empowerment of Isabel Burton and her Neo-Victorian Representations. Comparative Critical Studies, 18(supplement), 108-130.

Humans are semiotic creatures. Exploring literary – sometimes historically or culturally foreign, sometimes challenging – texts, genres, traditions, innovations as well as their social and ideological contexts helps us ‘read’ and understand the world. I specialise in British literature and its interaction with cultural theories, non-literary discourses, as well as cultural, political and popular debates and audio-visual media.

Research interests

• 19th and 20th century literature in English
• 17th century Drama
• Relation of Victorian and neo-Victorian narratives
• Short Fiction
• Gender studies
• Queer theory
• Sound studies
• Serial narration & theories of seriality

Teaching and Supervision

• British literature (narrative, dramatic, lyrical) from 16th-21st century
• Literary and cultural theory
• Cultural analysis
• Film &TV

CV

since 2022 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
since 2021 — Member of Research Platform SOLE (The Stress of Life): https://sole.univie.ac.at/
since 2020 — Book series Editor Dutch Quarterly Review (BrillRodopi; together with Eva Zettelmann)
since 2020 — Book series Editor Literatur- Theater - Medien (Lit-Verlag; together with Ralph Poole)
since 2020 — Deputy Head of Research Platform GAIN (Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities): https://gain.univie.ac.at/
2020-22 — Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Spokesperson for Professorial Curia, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
since 2017 — Full Professor for "British Literature" at the University of Vienna
2016/17 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Vienna
2015/16 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Bayreuth
2014/15 — Guest Professor for English Literature of the long Nineteenth Century, University of Zurich
2013 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2012 — Guest Professor for English Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin
2012 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2011/12 — Docent at Amsterdam University College
2011 — Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004/05 — Postdoc at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004 — Postdoc at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
2003 — Doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1997 — Magistra Artium at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1993/94 — Year abroad at Unversity of St. Andrews
1991-97 — Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich