News: Elisabeth Lechner is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, currently working on a habilitation project on culinary life writing in British literature, i.e. the role of food in women's auto/biographical writing. She completed her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2020. Situated at the intersections of literary, cultural and media studies as well as affect & body studies, her research on ‘disgusting’ female bodies, body positivity and digital feminist activisms was published academically and as the German non-fiction book Riot Don't Diet! Aufstand der widerspenstigen Körper (2021, 3rd edition).
Apart from engaging in various forms of science-public communication and conducting workshops on media literacy, body shaming and lookism over the last few years, more recent publications include “#Feminist – Naming Controversies and Celebrating Points of Connection and Joy in Current Feminisms” (together with Greta Olson) and co-editing the collective volume Caring for Cultural Studies (2022).She is active on social media as @femsista.Consultation hours: Office hour: by appointment.
Körperbild und Selbstwert im Kontext von Lookismus, Body Shaming und Body Positivity
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Von #TradWives zu #MeToo Aktivist*innen, vom #ThatGirl zur #FatActivist – Digitale Weiblichkeitsbilder im Widerstreit
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Störkörper
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Philosphieren im Kunsthaus Bregenz
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Körper, Affekt, Medien - Widerständige Körperpolitiken im Zeitalter des Plattformkapitalismus
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From #RepresentationMatters to System Change: #BodyJustice Beyond Visibility and Self-Love
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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#RiotDontDiet - Selbstwert im Kontext von Sichtbarkeit und widerständiger Scham
Elisabeth Lechner (Keynote speaker)
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#RiotDontDiet - Digitale Körperpolitiken zwischen algorithmischem Optimierungszwang und kollektivem Widerstand
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Selbstliebe ist nicht genug!
Elisabeth Lechner (Invited speaker)
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Gegen-Schönheit. Gespräch mit Moshtari Hilal, moderiert von Cécile Schortmann
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#RiotDontDiet - Widerständige Gesundheitsförderung gegen Schönheitsdruck und Body Shaming
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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#RiotDontDiet - Warum Essen, Gewicht und Aussehen politisch sind
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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From #beautybeyondsize to #effyourbeautystandards - Body Positivity and 4th Wave Feminism
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Expertinnen-Statement und Podiumsdiskussion zu Schönheitsidealen und Body Shaming
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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#selflovebringsbeauty - On the Potentials and Pitfalls of Popfeminist Bodypositive Activism and Its 'Disgusting' Female Bodies between Visibility and Vulnerability
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Beyond Disgust - The Popfeminist Politics of Body Positivity
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Was ist eigentlich Body Positivity? Von 'ekligen' weiblichen* Körpern, Aktivismus und dem Geschäft mit Authentizität
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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#effyourbeautystandards - Fashion and the Popfeminist Politics of Body Positivity
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Too much information!? Zum transgressiv-feministischen Potenzial des ‘ekligen’ weiblichen Körpers in der zeitgenössischen Popkultur
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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“Gross! On the New Visibility of ‘Disgusting’ Female Bodies in American Popular Culture”
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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“Against the Silencing Politics of TMI or: Creating Spaces for ‘Disgusting’ Female Bodies in Popular Culture”
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Lecture “Discussing the Complexities of ‘Disgusting’ Sex in Lena Dunham’s Girls”
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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“Speaking Up Against the Silencing Politics of TMI or: ‘Disgusting’ Female Bodies Talk Back”
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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“On the Problematic Resignification of ‘White Trash’”
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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Beitrag zur Podiumsdiskussion über Lookismus
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“Too Much information?! The Language(s) of bodily resistance in the Works of Lena Dunham and Charlotte Roche”
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Präsentation meiner MA-Arbeit "Pop, Porno und Postfeminismus - Femininität und Maskulinität in den Musikvideos russischsprachiger Girlbands des 21. Jahrhunderts
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Workshop zu Pop, Porno und Postfeminismus - Femininität und Maskulinität in zeitgenössischen Musikvideos
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Präsentation über die russische Popband Fabrika
Elisabeth Lechner (Speaker)
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