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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau

T: +43-1-4277-42414

alexandra.ganser@univie.ac.at

https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/ganser/

News: recent appointments:
President, Austrian Association for American Studies
Fulbright Board Member
Editorial Board Member, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents

Consultation hours: Office hours WT 25/26:
Tue 2:30-3:30 pm (start: Oct. 7)
and by appointment
ATTN: Due to a guest lecture abroad, I will not be available on Nov. 11!

Summer term 2026

123222 SE Literary Seminar (BA) - American Protest Writing from 1776 to the 21st Century

124642 VO BEd 04.2: Cultural Theories and Popular Culture - American Mythologies: Cultural Studies Perspectives

128222 SE Literary Seminar (MA) - American Protest Writing from 1776 to the 21st Century

Winter term 2025

120000 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar - Focus: Literature - INDIGENOUS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL NARRATIVES FROM THE 19TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY

120013 SE MEd 05: SE Thesis Seminar - Literature / Cultural Studies

123030 VO Literature Survey 2

Summer term 2025

124200 SE PhD Seminar Literary & Culture and Media Studies - The Blue Humanities: Thinking with/through Water

124642 VO BEd 04.2: Cultural Theories and Popular Culture - The Myths that Made America

Ganser-Blumenau, A., & Beha, S. E. (2026). Genossin Kosmos: Über Astrofuturismus. Television show https://www.medienwerk.nrw/articles/podcast-behind-the-screens-behind-the-scenes-genossin-kosmos-ueber-astrofuturismus/

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Cazajous-Augé, C. (Ed.), & Temmen, J. (Ed.) (2025). Sentimental Journeys: Female Astronauts and Gendered (Im)mobilities on the ‘Final Frontier’ in Twenty-First-Century Hollywood. Caliban French Journal of English Studies, 74. https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/14666

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2024). Astrofuturismus: Utopien der Mobilität. In J. Gärtner, M. Kumlehn, & S. Wodianka (Eds.), Zukunftsnarrative: Zur Deutungsmacht kultureller Erzählmuster (1 ed., Vol. 295 , pp. 45 - 60). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839470824-004

Ganser, A., & Rath, G. (2023). Liberty and death: Pirates and zombies in Atlantic modernity. Atlantic Studies, 20(3), 365-380. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2161725

Ganser, A. (2023). Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (pp. 211-234). Palgrave Macmillan.

Ganser, A., & Lavery, C. (Eds.) (2023). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 3

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2023). "Rogue History" PBS Digital Studios North Carolina. Television show

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (Eds.) (2023). Archipelagic Spaces and Im/mobilities.

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Temmen, J., & Rettenbacher, C. (2023). A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 273-301. https://doi.org/10.5070/T814161197

Ganser, A., & Lavery, C. (2023). Introduction. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Palgrave Macmillan.

Ganser, A., Gföllner, B., Pisarz-Ramirez, G., & Wöll, S. (2023). Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 14(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160878

Ganser-Blumenau, A., & Lavery, C. (2023). Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities. In A. Ganser, & C. Lavery (Eds.), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone LIterature and Culture (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8

Rath, G., & Ganser-Blumenau, A. (Eds.) (2023). Pirates and Zombies. Taylor & Francis. Atlantic Studies Vol. 20 No. 3 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/20/3

Ganser-Blumenau, A., Lechner, E., Maly-Bowie, B., & Schörgenhuber, E. M. (Eds.) (2022). Caring for Cultural Studies: A Tribute to Monika Seidl. V&R unipress.

Ganser, A., Lippert, L., Schörgenhuber, E. M., & Oberzaucher, H. (2021). American Studies as Im/Mobility Studies Introduction. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 3(1), 1-7. https://jaaas.eu/jaaas/article/view/171

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2021). Abenteuer Adria: Inseln, Schätze und Piraten: Erbe Österreich. Television show, TV & More.

Ganser, A. (2021). “O’er us, rovers free”:  Performing Gender and National Identity in Jacksonian Pirate Melodrama. In R. Poole, & L. Lippert (Eds.), The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices (pp. 179-209). Transcript Verlag.

Ganser, A., & Schäfer, S. (2021). The Trans-Atlanticist Ladyfiction Podcast: Octavia Butler's Parables. Web publication

Ganser, A. (2020). (Im)Mobilität und Medialität im Hollywood-Weltraumfilm: Interstellar und The Martian. In A. Ganser, & A. Pelz (Eds.), Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies (pp. 147-168). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press.

Ganser-Blumenau, A. (2020). Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865. Palgrave Macmillan. Maritime Literature and Culture Vol. 1 https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030436223

Alexandra Ganser is professor for American Literature and Culture and Executive Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies (ZKS) at the University of Vienna. She studied in Vienna, Trieste, Oklahoma, and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where she received her PhD (published as Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000, Rodopi, 2009). She was Christoph-Daniel-Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and is a Fulbright Alumna. Her research interests include mobility studies (as Key Researcher of the interdisciplinary platform Mobile Cultures and Societies), popular culture, gender studies, oceanic American studies, and ecocriticism. Her current book project, sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), examines transatlantic representations of piracy before the Civil War and is titled Crisis and Discourses of (Il)Legitimacy in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865 (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan).