Kristin Aubel, B.A. MA
Kristin Aubel
T: +43-1-4277-42486
Summer term 2025
123043 PS PS Literary Studies - Fantasy Short Fiction from the 19th Century to Today
Winter term 2024
124260 KO Critical Media Analysis - Retelling Greek Myth in Comics and Games
Summer term 2024
123041 PS PS Literary Studies - Reworking Myth in Contemporary English Literature
Aubel, K., Aubel, K. (Ed.), Fleischhack, M. (Ed.), Gymnich, M. (Ed.), Kullmann, C. (Ed.), & Walder, A. D. (Ed.) (2025). Deities of Death in Contemporary Popular Fantasy Media. In 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. (Eds.) (2025). The Politics of Home. Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power. Vol. 14


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/


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

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

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

24 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Imagining Transcultural Societies through Myths

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

11 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Transformation der mythischen Erklärungsmacht in zeitgenössischer Fantasy

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

14 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Helen Oyeyemi’s Existing and Resisting Ghosts

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

7 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

5 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

19 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Fragile Place of Hawkeye in the MCU

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

25 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

17 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Kristin Aubel (Speaker)

1 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O2-23

T: +43-1-4277-42486

kristin.aubel@univie.ac.at