Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Susanne Reichl, Privatdoz.
Susanne Reichl

News: #YouthMediaLife 2024: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digital Practices - 25. - 28.03.2024 Call for Papers out now:
https://youthmedialife.univie.ac.at/yml2024/

Since autumn 2021: 2nd period of the interdisciplinary research platform
Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations
https://youthmedialife.univie.ac.at/

Co-editor of Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE journal): https://clelejournal.org/

Deputy chair of Austrian Association for the Study of Children's and Young Adult literature (ÖGKJLF): https://oegkjlf.univie.ac.at/

Consultation hours: Please use this termino link to register for a slot in my office hours (online or on site):
https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/en/p/ce537d69ab4235afa677ffb811a99d7d-192771

Steop exams can only be talked about with the tutors of the STEOP lectures. Please get in touch with them if you need to discuss the result of your STEOP.

Unfortunately, I can't take on any more MA thesis supervision at the moment.

Foto (c) Barbara Mair

Summer term 2024
120000 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Focus: Literature / Researching literature in the EFL Classroom
123210 VO Literatures in English - Literature for young readers from the 19th to the 21st century
123221 SE Literary Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - Words, images, full design: Analysing picturebooks
Winter term 2023
120000 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Focus: Literature
120013 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Literature / Cultural Studies
124081 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Young Adult Literature
Summer term 2023
120000 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Focus: Literature
123210 VO Literatures in English - Children's Literature: 19-21 Century
123251 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) British/Irish/New English & Cultural Studies - Post-digital practices: Literature and Social Media
126230 VK MEd 01A/B: VK Specific Issues in Language Learning and Teaching - Contemporary literature in the EFL classroom


Reichl, S. (2022). Caring for the Monster: Connecting Cultural Studies and Children's Literature. In A. Ganser, E. Lechner, B. Maly-Bowie, & E. M. Schörgenhuber (Eds.), Caring for Cultural Studies (pp. 187-200). V&R unipress.

Reichl, S. (2022). "Die Liebe ist ein Sprung." Postfeministische Beziehungswirren in Zeitreise-Romcoms. In J. Helbig, & A. Rauscher (Eds.), Zeitreisen in Zelluloid: Das Motiv der Zeitreise im Film. (pp. 141-158). WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Reichl, S., Schuster, C., & Mayrhofer, M. (2021). "I'm so confused!" Social reading practices and their semiotic affordances on Goodreads. In M. G. Sindoni, & I. Moschini (Eds.), Mediation and Multimodal Meaning Making in Digital Environments (1. ed., pp. 103-117). Routledge. Routledge Studies in Multimodality

Reichl, S. (2021). No Time Like the Present: Tracing 19th-century Ideologies in 21st-century Time Travel Adventures. In T. Döring, & M. K. (Eds.), The Pleasures of Peril: Rereading Anglophone Adventure Fiction (pp. 89-115). Narr Verlag. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature

Reichl, S. (2021). Foreword. In L. M. Lojo-Rodríguez, J. Sacido-Romero, & N. Pereira-Ares (Eds.), Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction (pp. vii-x). Brill.


Reichl, S. (2021). Why there is no such thing as a "Superreader:" On the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of literary reading. In W. Hallet, & P. Hanenberg (Eds.), Culture, Cognition and the Arts.: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrating, Understanding, and Reading (pp. 65-78). Peter Lang.

Reichl, S. (2019). Children's literature and the Construction of Contemporary Multicultures. In M. Stein, & S. Nasta (Eds.), Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (pp. 557-568). Cambridge University Press.


Reichl, S. (2019). Zeit im Bild: Zeitreisen in und auf Bilderbüchern. In H. Lexe, & K. Wexberg (Eds.), Time Warp und Taschenuhr: Zeit in der Kinder und Jugendliteratur : Skriptum des Fernkurses Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (pp. 50-60). STUBE - Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.




Reichl, S. (2017). Only Time Will Tell: The Poetics and Politics of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and Jeannette Winterson's The Stone Gods. In A. Müller-Wood, & W. Eckel (Eds.), Die Macht des Erzählens: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven Gardez!.

Mayrhofer, M., & Reichl, S. (2017). Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing: An Exercise in Looking. In C. Lütge, & M. Stein (Eds.), Crossovers: Postcolonial Studies and Transcultural Learning (pp. 11-36). LitVerlag. Fremdsprachendidaktik in globaler Perspektive Vol. 6

Reichl, S. (2017). Turning Brian Selznick's Pages: A Multimodal Celebration of the Visual and the Textual. In A. M. Ramos, M. T. Cortez, & S. Mourão (Eds.), Children's Literature: Fractures and Disruptions (pp. 262-275). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Reichl, S. (2016). Reading Race in British Young Adult Fiction: Malorie Blackman and Benjamin Zephaniah. In W. Kriegleder, H. Lexe, S. Loidl, & E. Seibert (Eds.), Jugendliteratur im Kontext von Jugendkultur (Vol. 1, pp. 210-224). Praesens Verlag. Wiener Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Vol. 1


Research interests

contemporary British literature and culture
children's and young adult literature
cognitive approaches to literature
tales of time travel
Black and Asian British literature
teaching literature at university and school

Teaching

contemporary British literature
children's and young adult literature
teaching methodology (literature, culture, reading)

CV

May 2018PI of the interdisciplinary research platform "Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations"
Oct. 2017full professor at the Department for English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Jul. 2011Associate professor at the Department for English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2008/2009Guest chair for English language teaching at the University of Münster
2008Habilitation at University of Vienna, Austria
2005/2006recipient of an Erwin-Schrödinger international scholarship by the FWF (Austrian research fund) for 2 years, spent in Frankfurt and London
2005recipient of the Figdor-prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for literary studies
2001Dr.phil. at University of Vienna, Austria
1997full-time lecturer at the Department for English and American Studies, University of Vienna
1996Mag.phil. at University of Vienna, Austria

#bookish: Literary Discourses, Reading Practices and Book Cultures on Social Media

Susanne Reichl (Speaker) & Amadea Brenner (Speaker)

3 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


English for Social Change: What Literature Can and Can't Do

Ariane Manutscheri (Speaker), Susanne Reichl (Speaker) & Georg Wendt (Speaker)

19 Jul 2023

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Meeting the Bard: Shakespeare's biomyth, time travel and the EFL classroom

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

26 Aug 202127 Aug 2021

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Metaphern und andere Lesepuren: Metakognition und Literaturdidaktik

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

7 Dec 2019

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"How puzzling all these changes are!" Alice in analogen und digitalen Wunderländern

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

29 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reading across the media: Principles and transformations

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

25 Nov 2019

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"I totally didn't see it coming": Exploring young readers' metacognitive skills via Goodreads

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

20 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From darkest Peru to contemporary politics: transformations of a canonical bear

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

11 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'London is the place for me:' Paddington and the timelessness of finding a home.

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

23 Nov 201824 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


#YouthMediaLife: The interdisciplinary research platform Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

24 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tessering through multimodal worlds – Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

11 Oct 2018

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Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsplattform "Mediatised Lifeworlds - Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations"

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

3 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Zeit im Bild: Zeitreisen in und auf Bilderbüchern

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

4 May 20186 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Turning, not scrolling: The materiality of the page turn

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

10 May 2017

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The Perfect Adventure?: Time Travel, Genres and Affordances

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Apr 2016

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Reading Alternatives: Ethical and Cognitive Challenges of Time Travel Stories for Young Adults

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

Mar 2016

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Mari/time Fantasies: History and the Sea in Time Travel Fiction for Young Readers

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Feb 2016

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KulturexpertInnen im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Was SchülerInnen mitbringen. Was LehrerInnenbildung leisten kann

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

20 Nov 2015

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Imag(in)ing the Impossible: Illustrating Time Travel for Young Readers

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

10 Aug 2015

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Ideology in EFL Teacher Education

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

16 May 2015

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Turning Brian Selznick's Pages: A Multimodal Celebration of the Visual

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

28 Mar 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Judging a Book by its Cover: Black British Literature in the Marketplace

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jun 2014

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Interview for radio station Ö1: "Wort der Woche: Union Jack"

Susanne Reichl (Contributor)

Mar 2014

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Learning How to Look with Shaun Tan’s Picture Books

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jul 2012

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Doing Identity, Doing Culture. Transkulturelles Lernen mit Jugendbüchern im Englischunterricht

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

8 Oct 2011

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Articulating Cultural Meanings: The Example of the Golliwog

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

May 2011

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Keeping Things In or Out? The Ambiguous Iconography of Walls in the Work of Shaun Tan

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

29 Apr 2011

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Black British Literature for Children and Young Adults

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Mar 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Literature in the Language Classroom with a Focus on Picture Books and Graphic Novels

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Feb 2011

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Picture Books and Graphic Novels for the Young and Slightly Older Learners

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Dec 2010

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Fresh Fictions for Young Readers: New English Literatures for Children and Teenagers

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

6 Jul 2010

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Structures, Contents, Contexts: Framing EFL Teacher Education in Germany and Austria

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

14 Jun 2010

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Invisible Ink and Star Signs: The Role of "Meaning" in the Literature Classroom at University

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

11 Jun 2010

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Lost Things and Other Arrivals: Individual and Community in Shaun Tan's Picture Books

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

13 May 2010

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Doing Identity: Transcultural Learning through Children's and Young Adult Literature

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

25 Feb 2010

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Postcolonial Children's Literature

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Dec 2009

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Reading Skin Colour: Transcultural Learning with Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Oct 2009

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Die Einheit des Faches Anglistik

Susanne Reichl (Contributor)

Sep 2009

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'One shade for every person on the planet': Developing Concepts of Racial Identity in the Work of Malorie Blackman

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Aug 2009

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Races, Faces, Colours: Translocating "Race" in Black British Literature for Young Readers

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

May 2009

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'This London Breed': Teaching Postcolonial London (and much more)

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

May 2009

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'Oh, the thinks you can think': Children's and Young Adult Literature in the EFL Classroom

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Feb 2009

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Black British Writing for Children and Young Adults

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jan 2009

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Radical Stories for Young British Readers?

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jan 2009

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Only Time Will Tell: The Experience of Reading Non-linear Narratives

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jul 2008

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Introduction of and Interview with Jackie Kay

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Apr 2008

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Out of this World: Learning from Aliens and other Others

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Mar 2008

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Literaturlesen an der Universität: Themenbezogener Sprachunterricht oder wissenschaftliche Vorbildung?

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Nov 2007

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Mind the Gap: Teaching Multiethnic London

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jan 2007

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"Take Down the Union Jack": Imag(in)ing Britain and Britishness

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jan 2007

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'This London Breed': Teaching Multiethnic Literature (and much more)

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

3 Nov 2006

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Teaching Black British Film and TV

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Oct 2006

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'Slipping and sliding to a new adjustment': The Cognition of Past and Future Worlds in Tales of Time Travel

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Sep 2006

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Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Jun 2006

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"But this fat black woman ain't no Jemima": History, Mythology and Identity in the Poetry of Grace Nichols

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Dec 2005

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If Englishness Doesn't Define Me, Redefine Englishness: An Introduction to Black British Literature

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Nov 2005

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No Laughing Matter: Taking Humour in Postcolonial Literatures Seriously

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Nov 2005

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Real Readers Reading Real Books?: Überlegungen zu spezifischen Lesekontexten

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Oct 2005

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'Something can always be gained': Translation, Transcultural Learning, and the New English Literatures

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

May 2005

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Chicken Tikka Masala, Bombay Dreams und andere Beispiele indisch-britischer Transkulturalität

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Mar 2005

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Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Mar 2005

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'But what is the point? - I don't get it!': Towards a Cognitive Rationale for Teaching Foreign Language Literature

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Aug 2004

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Transculturality in the Classroom

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

May 2004

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'But what does it mean?' – Intended Meanings, Hidden Truths, Correct Interpretations

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Apr 2004

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Roots and Routes: Von der Postkolonialen Theorie zur eklektischen Praxis (und zurück)

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Dec 2003

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Das Eigene und das Fremde verstehen lernen: Interkulturelle Texte im Englischunterricht

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Oct 2003

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(De-) Constructing Future Teachers of English: Teaching Literature as Part of Teacher Education

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Oct 2003

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Radical Marginality or Disciplinary Normalization?: The New Literatures in English in German Academia

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

May 2002

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The Function of Humour in Postcolonial Discourse

Susanne Reichl (Keynote speaker)

May 2002

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"English(wo)men Born and Bred, Almost" - Über das Selbstverständnis und die Semiotik der britischen Bindestrich-Identitäten

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Nov 2001

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Postcolonial Studies in the German-speaking Countries

Susanne Reichl (Invited speaker)

Oct 2001

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'Like A Beacon Against the Cold': Food and the Construction of Ethnic Identities in British Novels of Immigration

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

May 2000

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Immigrants' Novels - Novels of Immigration?

Susanne Reichl (Speaker)

Nov 1998

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Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3E-O2-19

T: +43-1-4277-42462

susanne.reichl@univie.ac.at