Research Interests

• American South
• American Romanticism and Modernism
• Transatlantic Relations
• Cultural Studies

Teaching

• Introduction to Cultural and Regional Studies
• Introductory Seminars on American literature and culture

Publications

• "Thomas Wolfe's The Good Child's River: The Remembrance of an Ethnic Past."“Remembering the Individual/Regional/National Past. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Tübingen: Stauffenburg 1998).
• "The Literary Construction of Cultural Otherness in Thomas Wolfe's The Good Child's River." Multiculturalism and the American Self. Eds. William Boelhower und Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg: Winter 2000).
• "Thomas Wolfe." Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Eds. Bernd Engler und Kurt Müller (Stuttgart: Metzler 2000).
• "Thomas Wolfe at Chapel Hill - 'a charming, an unforgettable place.'"”Sites of Memory and Collective Identities. Eds. Axel Borsdorf,  Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Michael Draxlbauer (Innsbruck: InnGeo 2002).
• Rez. Deborah A. Borland and John L. Idol, Jr., eds., Selected Essays from the Thomas Wolfe Newsletter/Review: A Memorial to Dr. John S. Phillipson, Editor, 1977-1996. The Thomas Wolfe Society. Rocky Mount, NC: Walker-Ross Printing, 1999.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 48, 2 (2003).

CV

• Tutor
• Mag.phil./Dr.phil. University of Vienna
• External Lecturer
• Research assistant for FWF projects
• University lecturer