Research Interests

• Literature and Culture of the American South
• Imagology and Travel Literature
• Transatlantic Cultural Exchanges
• Ethnic Voices in North America
• Canadian Fiction
• Literary Historiography

 Teaching

• American Literature from Colonial Times until the Present
• Canadian Literature before Confederation and in the Twentieth Century
• Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Transculturality in North America
• Imagology and Travel Literature
• Ecological Issues in North American Texts
• Satire in Anglophone Literatures
• Cultural Studies (focus on North American cultures)

The supervision of diploma and doctoral theses is offered in all these fields. A significant number is currently in progress.

A research project on Canadian literature and culture entitled "Canadian Literature: Transatlantic, Transcontinental, Transcultural" and funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund is currently being conducted. For more information, please see http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research-projects/canadian-literature/.

Selected Publications

Books

• Imagology Revisited, Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010, 571pp.
• Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American Travelogues and Fiction. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011, 394pp.
• Social and Cultural Interaction and Literary Landscapes in the Canadian West. Ed. together with F. Peter Kirsch, Wien: WUV-Verlag, 2010. 319pp.
• Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge. Ed. together with Christian Feest, Paderborn: Schöningh, 2009. 259 pp.
• Images of Germany in American Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press 2007.
• Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe – Europe in the American South. Ed. together with Richard Gray, Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007.
• Canadian Interculturality and the Transatlantic Heritage. Ed. together with F.-P. Kirsch, Vienna: WUV-Verlag 2005.
• Transatlantische Differenzen/Transatlantic Differences. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Vienna – Cologne: Böhlau 2004.
• The Many Souths: Class in Southern Culture. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2003.
• Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Multikulturalismus: Der Schutz sprachlich-kultureller Vielfalt in Kanada und Europa / The Protection of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Canada and in Europe: Chances and Obstacles of Multiculturalism, ed. together with F.-P. Kirsch, Wien - Budapest 2004.
• Das Deutschlandbild in der amerikanischen Literatur, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1998.

 Recent Essays

• "Transplanted to Foreign Lands: Immigrant Women in Western Canada", in Narratives of Crisis - Crisis of Narrative, ed. Martin Kuester,  Francoise Le Jeune, Anca-Raluca Radu, Charlotte Sturgess.  Augsburg : Wißner-Verlag 2012, 42-56.
• "Zur Topographie eines Kulturraumes: Die Literatur des amerikanischen Südens zwischen Beharrung und Wandel", in Literatur im Kontext: ein gegenseitiges Entbergen. ed. Herbert Van Uffelen, Wynfrid Kriegleder, Alois Woldan, Ewald Mengel, Wien: Präsens Verlag, 2010, 45-66.
• "Transatlantic Memories, Ethnic Encounters and Transculturation in Canadian Literature", in From Interculturalism to Transculturalism: Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts. Festschrift für Rüdiger Ahrens, ed. Heinz Antor, et al. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, 215-229.
• "Dixie Unlimited? American Identity and the Self-Perception of Southerners", in Americanisms: Exception, Exclusion, Exchange, (= American Studies – A Monograph Series 173), ed. Michael Steppat, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009, 187-203.
• "Southern Alumni of German Universities. Fashioning a Tradition of Excellence", in The German Presence in the U.S.A. Ed. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2008, pp. 539-560.
• "The Literary Construction of Canada, the ‘Other America’, and Its Transatlantic Ties", in Theory and Practice in English Studies, vol. 4. Ed. Jan Chovanec, Brno: Masaryk University 2005, pp. 7-23.
• "Der Roman und die Überwindung der Romanze", in Kanadische Literaturgeschichte. Ed. Konrad Groß et al., Stuttgart: Verlag Metzler 2005, pp. 129-150.
• "Eden in Jeopardy: Sites of Insight in Fiction from the Canadian West", in Regionalism in the Age of Globalism: Forms of Regionalism. Ed. L. Hönnighausen et al., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press/Max Kade Institute 2005, pp. 209-224.
• "A Separate Identity Asserted: Agrarian Affinities With European Culture", in What is American? New Identities in U.S. Culture. Ed. Klaus Rieser und Walter Hölbling, Wien: LIT-Verlag 2004, pp. 191-210.

CV

• 2010 elected member of the Academia Europaea
• since 2008 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2006 Fellow at the University of South Carolina, Princeton University and
• University of Texas at Austin
• 2001 Dist. Fulbright Scholar UNC Chapel Hill and University of Ottawa
• since 2000 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1997-1999: Head of the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna
• 1996 Visiting Scholar UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University, consecutively Visiting Professor University of Minnesota and University of Maryland at College Park
• 1991/92: Senior Fulbright Scholar Stanford University
• since 1974 Professor of American Studies, University of Vienna
• 1967 Dr. phil. University of Graz

For more details see
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/waldemar.zacharasiewicz/index.htm