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Kristin Aubel, B.A. MA
Kristin Aubel
T: +43-1-4277-42486
Summer term 2026
127013 KO Critical Readings in Literature - Anglophone Literary Myth-Making: Imagination, Symbols, Politics
Winter term 2025
124261 KO Critical Media Analysis - Comics Adaptations of Myths
Summer term 2025
123043 PS PS Literary Studies - Fantasy Short Fiction from the 19th Century to Today
Aubel, K. (2026). Vignold, Peter. Superhelden im Film: Zur post-patriarchalen Utopie des Marvel Cinematic Universe. transcript, 2023. Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 14(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.16995/zff.26182
Aubel, K. (2025). Home as Deterritorialized Fantasy in Helen Oyeyemi’s 2010s Works. In K. Aubel, S. Edwards, & C. Lenz (Eds.), Spaces and Places in the Fantastic: Exploring Fantastic Geographies (pp. 96-113). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Aubel, K., Edwards, S., & Lenz, C. (Eds.) (2025). Spaces and Places in the Fantastic: Exploring Fantastic Geographies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Aubel, K. (2025). Deities of Death in Contemporary Popular Fantasy Media. In K. Aubel, M. Fleischhack, M. Gymnich, C. Kullmann, & A. D. Walder (Eds.), Dem Tode zum Trotz: Unsterblichkeit und Wiedergeburt in der Phantastik / Defying Death: Immortality and Rebirth in the Fantastic: Symposium 2023 in Magdeburg: Inklings-Jahrbuch 41 (pp. 127-141). Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3464
Aubel, K., Fleischhack, M., Gymnich, M., Kullmann, C., & Walder, A. D. (Eds.) (2025). Dem Tode zum Trotz: Unsterblichkeit und Wiedergeburt in der Phantastik / Defying Death: Immortality and Rebirth in the Fantastic: Symposium 2023 in Magdeburg: Inklings-Jahrbuch 41. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik / Inklings Vol. 41 http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3452
Heinz, S., & Aubel, K. (2025). Introduction: The Politics of Home. In S. Heinz, & K. Aubel (Eds.), The Politics of Home (Vol. 14, pp. 1-14). Universität Leipzig. https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A97891/attachment/ATT-0/
Aubel, K. (2025). Review: Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2. Inklings-Newsletter, 14(1), 9-10. https://inklings-gesellschaft.de/2025/07/ausgabe-14-1-2025/
Aubel, K. (2025). Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch, 2011–Present) – Urban(ised) Fairies. In L. Piatti-Farnell, & S. Bacon (Eds.), Fairies: A Companion (pp. 153-160). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19901
Heinz, S., & Aubel, K. (Eds.) (2025). The Politics of Home. Universität Leipzig. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power. Vol. 14 https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-14-2025/
Aubel, K., & Vogt, J. C. (2024, Jul 7). Werkstattbericht: Literaturwissenschaftlerin Kristin Aubel und Übersetzerin Judith C. Vogt im Gespräch über die „Raybearer“-Dilogie von Jordan Ifueko. Piper. https://www.piper.de/downloadnow?no_cache=1&tx_auwdownloadmanager_downloadgroup%5Baction%5D=download&tx_auwdownloadmanager_downloadgroup%5Bcontroller%5D=Download&tx_auwdownloadmanager_downloadgroup%5Bi%5D=1189&cHash=5c46f0302c84e8dabe752e98860f60f6
Aubel, K. (2023). Christliche Narrative in Superheldencomics: Nightcrawler als praktizierender Christ, Antichrist und Erlöser. In N. Gaspers, T. Caeners, & M. Keidel (Eds.), Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur (pp. 43-65). Transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6090-6/religioese-helden/?number=978-3-8394-6090-0
Aubel, K. (2022). V, the Superhero? Transatlantic Crossings of a British Writer and an American Genre. In M. Fleischhack, P. Schmitz, & C. Vogt-William (Eds.), Inklings-Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 39 : Transatlantic Metamorphoses (pp. 47-62). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19941
Aubel, K. (2021). Old Versus New Gods in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London: Building London Bridges. Paper presented at Bridges and Barriers: Student Perspectives of Progress and Preservation , Paderborn, Germany. https://bridges2020.wordpress.com/2021/01/17/aubel/
Aubel, K. (2017). ’Wenn ich nur eine Puppe wäre, hätte ich niemals so gefühlt.’ Vivi und die Schwarzmagier in Final Fantasy IX. DoliMette, 5(1), 71-76. https://doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-18311

Employment

2023-present
University assistant (prae doc), Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2022
Subject Librarian, TU Dortmund University Library
2020-2021
Research Assistant, Chair of Anglophone Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies, JLU Giessen
2020
Lectureship, Chair of British Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University
2017-2019
Student Assistant, Chair of British Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University

Education & qualifications

2017-2019
Master’s Degree, Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University
2012-2017
Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University

Mythic Principles of Order: Suggestions on How to Make Sense of Global Complexity

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

8 Feb 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Transcultural Transformations of Myth in Contemporary Fantastic Literature

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

23 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Spirits of Places and Identities – Intersectional Ecocriticism in Rivers of London and Raybearer

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

17 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Pythons and Pelicans: Animal Creator Deities in Freshwater and Raybearer

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

30 Aug 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Home in Speculative Fiction

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

20 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The (De)Colonial (Afro)Pantheology of Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer/Redemptor

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

24 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Imagining Transcultural Societies through Myths

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

11 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Die Transformation der mythischen Erklärungsmacht in zeitgenössischer Fantasy

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

14 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Helen Oyeyemi’s Existing and Resisting Ghosts

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

7 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Demon and Redeemer: Childhood Innocence and Agency in Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer/Redemptor Duology

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

5 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Future(s) of Speculative Fiction Genre(s)

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

19 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Fragile Place of Hawkeye in the MCU

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

25 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

(A)Human Disruptions in Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

17 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Deities of Death in Fantasy Media: Evil Villains or Forces of Nature?

Aubel, K. (Speaker)

1 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of English and American Studies

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1090 Wien
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T: +43-1-4277-42486

kristin.aubel@univie.ac.at