Research Projects
In the past years, several new research project groups have been set up at the department, most of them funded or co-funded by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF), but also by other Austrian and EU institutions. Research projects give gifted Ph.D. and post doctoral scholars the opportunity to write their theses while being in research employment, and allow the professorial staff of the department to pursue a new avenue of scholarship.
Current Research Projects
ReaLiTea
Research Literacy of Language Teachers (ReaLiTea)
ERASMUS + (2024 - 2027)
Principal researcher: Univ.-Prof. Carolyn Blume, TU Dortmund (Germany)
Austrian partner: Univ.-Prof. Julia Hüttner and Julia Pittenauer, MEd
Project info in German here
Post-COVID-19 Care
Medical Humanities and Health Economies at the Frontlines
Interuniversity Cluster
UW PI: Univ.-Prof. Monika Pietrzak-Franger
MUW PI: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Susanne Mayer
MUW Co-PI: Dr. scient. med. Agata Łaszewska
JOYCENSTEIN
James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the modernist coterie.
PR: DDr. Georgina Nugent, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
VOICE CLARIAH
Update of infrastructure and integration of VOICE into CLARIAH-AT
OEAW l Principal researcher: Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl
UW l Project partner: Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer
OEAW l Project partner: Mag. Daniel Schopper
Mobile Cultures and Societies
Research Platform: Mobile Cultures and Societies: Interdisciplinary Studies on Transnational Formations
Universität Wien | Principal researcher: Univ.-Prof. Alexandra Ganser
Mediatised Lifeworlds
Research Platform: Mediatised Lifeworlds: Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations
Universität Wien | Principal researcher: Univ.-Prof. Susanne Reichl
Living Forever
Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918
Principal Investigator: James Aaron Green
Former Research Projects
Art and Action
Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
FWF | Principal Researcher: Dr. Sandra Mayer
Portrait of the Woman Artist
Gender and Genre in Biofiction
FWF | Principal Researcher: Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak
Communicating in discipline-specific English
on CLIL-students’ language skills at an Austrian Higher Secondary School for Tourism and Business Studies (HBLA)
Principal researcher: Prof. Dr. Julia Hüttner (University of Southampton)
Austrian Partner: Prof. Dr. Ute Smit (University of Vienna)
Language and Content Integration
towards a conceptual framework
Funded by the Academy of Finland, located at University of Jyväskylä
International Partners: Prof. Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Prof. Ute Smit, Angela Stachelberger
ELLViA
English in the linguistic landscape of Vienna, Austria
FWF | Principal Researcher: Dr. Barbara Soukup
American Narratives of Piracy
Negotiating Crisis and (Il)Legitimacy: Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865
FWF | Principal researcher: Prof. Alexandra Ganser
ECCE
Evolution of Consonant Clusters in English
FWF | Principal researcher: Prof. Nikolaus Ritt
CLIL@HTL
On the implementation of the new CLIL requirements for Austrian ‘HTLs‘. Question development for quality assessment and case studies on classroom practices
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Principal researcher: Prof. Dr. Ute Smit
Looking Eastward
US-Identity, Western Values, and Russian Vulnerable Bodies
FWF | Principal Researcher: Dr. Maria Katharina Wiedlack
Cognitive Critical and Cultural Theory
Omani Literature and the Study of Intercultural Communication
FWF | Principal Researcher: Dr. Christa Knellwolf-King
DYLAN
Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity
EU | Principal Researcher: Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer
World Stage Vienna
Weltbühne Wien
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Ewald Mengel
The Contemporary South African Novel
Trauma, Memory, and Narrative
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Ewald Mengel
Shane Leslie: Sublime Failure
A critical biography of Shane Leslie (1885-1971)
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Otto Rauchbauer
Transatlantic Exchanges
Between the American South and Europe
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
VOICE
Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer
CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Principal Researcher: Prof. Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Canadian Literature
Transatlantic, Transcontinental, Transcultural
FWF | Principal Researcher: Prof. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
TACOMO
Transatlantic Cowgirl Mobilities
Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow | Principal Researcher: Dr. Stefanie Schäfer