Consultation hours: Wednesday 2.00–3.00 pm
Consultations hours online until further notice. Please send me an email.Research interests
British literature
Early modern literature and culture
Cultural & literary animal studies
Narratology
PhD thesis (in progress)
The Duchess among Worlds, among Men, and among the Beasts: Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and her Interventions into Early Modern Literary, Political, and Philosophical Discourses
Curriculum vitae
Since 2018: University Assistant (praedoc) and doctoral candidate
2017: MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Vienna
2014: BA in English and American Studies, University of Graz
Other projects
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy (1662), staged on 17 January 2020 by the Student Acting Shakespeare Society Vienna (SASS), director Tamara Paier, in collaboration with Professor James Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield, UK) and Harald Freidl.
Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/pqC-2qtFfaY
Creatoress, Duchess, Empress – A Narratological Mess: Problems of Discourse and Implied Worldview in Cavendish’s Description of the Blazing World
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
‘... the contrary is so evident, as it is without all dispute’ – Margaret Cavendish’s Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy and her Description of the Blazing World as a rejection of Cartesian animal ethics
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Possible Worlds of Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World as a Feminist, Anti-Colonialist, and Anti-Speciesist Utopia?
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Atonement Atwain - Transmedial Translations of Novelistic Discourse and Metafictional Devices: Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement (2001) and Joe Wright’s film Atonement (2007)
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Continuity of Material and Immaterial Trash in Tom McCarthy's Remainder
Harald Freidl (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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