Department of English and American Studies
Postal address:
Austria
Email: dieter.fuchs@univie.ac.at
Education and Employment:
Assoz.-Prof. / Associate Professor, since 05/2022
Ass.-Prof. (Tenure Track) in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 02/2017 - 04/2022
Visiting Professor (Izredni Profesor, with Habilitacija), University of Ljubljana (Block Seminar): Summer Semester 2017, Winter Semester 2017, Summer Semester 2018, Winter Semester 2018, Winter Semester 2020, Winter Semester 2021
Senior Lecturer (Tenure Track) in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 02/2016-01/2017
Full-Time Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna (Chair Werner Huber), 02/2014-01/2016
External Lecturer: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Winter Semester 2014/15
Erasmus Teacher: Universitat de València 12/2014
Professor Extraordinarius (profesor nadzwyczajny): Institute of English, German and Communication Studies, Technical University of Koszalin, 08/2012-09/2014
Visiting Professor: Institute of English, German and Communication Studies, Technical University of Koszalin, 02/2011-07/2012
Full-Time Lecturer: Department of English and American StudiesUniversity of Vienna (Chair Ewald Mengel), 10/2003-01/2011
PhD English Literature (major), Comparative Literary Studies & German Literature: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 02/2002 (Dr. des.) / 02/2005 (Dr. phil.) Supervisors: Hans Walter Gabler, Werner von Koppenfels
M.A. (Magister Artium): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 06/1997
Exchange Student: University of Reading, 10/1993- 04/1994
Positions:
Member Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlungsfragen, since 2019
Director of the Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School, since 2017
Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Vienna founded by Werner Huber, since 2016 (third party funding EUR 60.000)
IASIL Co-Bibliographer for Austria and Germany, 2014 - 2016
Peer-reviewer for James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies in Italy, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Acta Neophilologica, Irish University Review, Brill/Rodopi, Koszalin University Press
External Examiner at the Department of Culture and Literature, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso 2013
Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 04/2008 - 11/2021
Member of the Eranos Conference Group (Amici di Eranos), since 06/2007
Member of the 2007-10 FWF Research Group 'Weltbühne Wien': The Reception of Anglophone Plays on Viennese Stages of the 20th Century
Fellowships and Honours:
FWF project application: High Modernist Rewritings of the Epic Descent into the World of the Dead: the ‘Great War’, the Mythical Method, and the Menippean Tradition 01/2022
OEAD bilateral project grant: Cultural mediation in producing and teaching British and American plays in Austria and Slovenia 2019-2022
Short list place 1 for W1-Professor of Early Modern Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2008
Shortlisted for the Figdor-Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Literary Studies 2008
Stipend awarded by the Franz-Marie-Christinen-Foundation, 1998-2001
Junior Fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria (Promotionsstipendium des Freistaat Bayern zur Förderung des Wissenschaftlichen und Künstlerischen Nachwuchses), 1997-2000
Professional Memberships:
Austrian Association for University Teachers of English (AAUTE)
Deutscher Anglistenverband (German Association for University Teachers of English)
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society)
European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)
The International Flann O'Brien Society (IFOBS)
The International James Joyce Foundation
The James Joyce Italian Foundation
Research Interests:
James Joyce and Hiberno-Anglo-American High Modernism
Irish Studies (Tudor Conquest - Contemporary)
Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies
Literary and Cultural Theory / Cultural Studies
“‘translatio imperii’ or (westbound) imperial power transfer”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“The Animalised Irish and the Early Modern Discourse of the Wetnurse”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Seasonal Work in McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane: The Continuation of History and Foreign Rule with Other Means
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Reflections on the ‘Cultural Turn’ in Translation Studies
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Scholarly Vices and the Campus Novel
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“The Martyr’s Crown” – Queering the Biblical Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary via Dante’s Mock-Marian Paolo & Francesca Story
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Finnegan Wake - An Undiscovered Austro-Hungarian Subtext: Alma Mahler and Anna Livia Plurabelle"
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"An Undiscovered Austro-Hungarian Subtext: Alma Mahler and Anna Livia Plurabelle"
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Ulysses - A Borderland Narrative
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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The Present Haunted by Undead Monsters of the Past: the Daedalus-Myth, the Collective Unconscious, and the Gothic Subtext of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
James Joyce's Ulysses - A Novel? A Menippean Satire?
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Ulysses – a Borderland Narrative?
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Menippeisches Schreiben als Oszillation zwischen Struktur und Anti-Struktur Ulysses und Finnegans Wake
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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The History of the University of Vienna from an Irish Studies Point of View
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Epic Geography: Trieste, the Great War and the Trojan War in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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The Return of the Father and the Dispossessed Son in The Playboy of the Western World and The Third Policeman”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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"'Is it about a bicycle?' O'Nolan's Poetics of the Moebius Strip."
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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"The (Non)Human in the Irish Menippean Tradition"
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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"WASP Misrepresentations of the Irish as the Savage Non-Human Other"
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Why Read Joyce in the 21st Century?”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“From Ancient Troy to St. Lucia, or Cultural Transfer in Derek Walcott’s Omeros”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Cultural Misrepresentations of Ireland: Some Reflections on the Prehistory of Stage Irishness”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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The Viennese ‘Lieber Augustin’-Song as an Austro-Hungarian Counterpart of Finnegans Wake
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Wort und Bild: Hamlet und die Jungfräuliche Empfängnis”,
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Return of the Father and the Dispossessed Son in The Playboy of the Western World and The Third Policeman”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“ Irish Cannibalism and British Imperial Power Politics”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Survey Introduction to Bakhtin”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Ulysses and Menippean Satire”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Ulysses and Menippean Satire”, Joyce’ Fiction and the new Rise of the Novel
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“‘Mighty Aphrodite’: Representing Pleasure in Ancient Greece and Rome - Sympotic Discourse or the Philosophy of Eros”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Irish and Scottish Literature in Austria
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Still Forgotten and Unacknowledged: Modernism and the Menippean Tradition
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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'The World is Not Enough': Time and Space in the James Bond Movies
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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James Joyce and the Viennese Boozer known as ‘Lieber Augustin’
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Unknown Aspects of the Daedalus Myth: Re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“A Tale of Two Cities: Séan O’Casey’s Revolutionary Drama Performed in Dublin and Vienna”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
'In the mountains, there you feel free': The Bavarian Subtext of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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"Introduction"
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Shakespeares Hamlet und Dantes Divina Commedia: Paolo & Francesca da Rimini
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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The Viennese ‘Lieber Augustin’-Song as an Austrian Counterpart of Finnegans Wake
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Joyce’s ‘Mythical Method’: Undiscovered Intertextual Allusions in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“ 'Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy' – James Joyce’s Ulysses, the Iliad and the Great War”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Felix Beran’s “Des Weibes Klage” / “Lament for the Yeomen”: James Joyce as a Translator and Rewriter of a Viennese Anti-War Poem”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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On the Reception of Irish Drama in Vienna: O'Casey
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Wilfried Steiner's Der Weg nach Xanadu - an Austrian Campus Novel?”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Love's Labour's Lost - a Humanist Satire on the Early Modern World of Academia
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“ 'Lolo Lolo liebermann […] Lala Lala, Leapermann' (FW 250, 19-21): the Viennese ‘Lieber Augustin’-Song as an Austro-Hungarian Counterpart of Finnegans Wake”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Wilde, Wagner and the Aestheticist Debate of Representation: 'What's in a name?': The Importance of Being Earnest, or Lohengrin
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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'Portals of Discovery'. : Unknown SOurces for the Rewriting of the Odysseus-Archetype in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)
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'Poor Penelope. Penelope Rich.' : Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella as a Source for the Re-writing of the Odysseus-Archetype in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Cultural Representations of Spain, Italy and the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern England
Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)
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Orientalist Discourse and the Representation of Italian Papism in Early Modern England
Dieter Fuchs (Invited speaker)
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Roland Emmerich's Independence Day: Presidential Mythology, Cultural (Mis-)Representation and the Prehistory of 9/11
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest: The Eastern and Central European Part of the Bloom-Odyssey
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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"Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest": The Eastern and Central European Part of the Bloom-Odyssey
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Small Latin and less Greek? A Hellenistic Source for the 'Magic Fountain' in Shakespeare's Sonnets 153/154
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Socratic Archetypes of Metropolitan Discourse in James Joyce's Ulysses
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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'A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog': Joyce, Lucian and Menippus
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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“Hamlet und die 'Poetik des Übergangs' – Showing und Telling in der frühneuzeitlichen Rachetragödie”
Dieter Fuchs (Speaker)
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Department of English and American Studies
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