Mag. Dr. Leopold Lippert

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leopold.lippert@univie.ac.at

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Winter term 2019

123425 SE 'Fast Track' Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / American / North American Lit. / Studies - American Humor

124267 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Popular Culture as Perfomance

128110 VO Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Performance Cultures in Early America

Summer term 2019

123425 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies - The Early American Novel

128110 VO Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Performance Cultures in Early America

Winter term 2018

120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies - American Popular Culture in the 19th Century

123042 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature - American Modernisms

Lippert, L 2018, Fantasies of the Wild West in the Austrian 1990s: Harald Sicheritz' Wanted. in BM Bauridl, I Gessner & UJ Hebel (eds), German-American Encounters in Bavaria and Beyond, 1945-2015. Peter Lang, Berlin, pp. 267-286.

Lippert, L 2018, Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg.

Lippert, L 2017, 'Performance Labor, Im/Mobility, and Exhaustion in Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times', Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 140-155.

Lippert, L 2017, The Virtuosic Labor of Femininity in Mad Men. in AM Fellner, M Fernández-Morales & M Martausová (eds), Marlboro Men and California Gurls: Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, pp. 73-88.

Lippert, L 2017, 'Theatrical Aesthetics and Transnational Representation in Robert Hunter's Androboros', XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, vol. 74.

Lippert, L 2016, Virtual Theatricality, Transatlantic Representation, and Mercy Otis Warren's Revolutionary Plays. in BM Bauridl & P Wiegmink (eds), Approaching Transnational America in Performance. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 57-74.

Lippert, L 2014, Emotional Capitalism, Transnationalism, and the Survival of a Salesman. in AM Fellner, S Hamscha, K Heissenberger & JJ Moos (eds), Is It 'Cause It's Cool?: Affective Encounters with American Culture. LIT Verlag, Wien, pp. 255-272.

Lippert, L 2013, Performing America Abroad:No Name City and the Haunted Spaces of Transnational America. in M Fuchs & M-T Holub (eds), Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 19-37.

Lippert, L 2013, Queering Cowboys, Queering Futurity: The Re/Construction of American Cowboy Masculinity. in K Rieser, M Fuchs & M Phillips (eds), ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity. Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 133-148.

Lippert, L 2012, Playing Indian in Austria: Waterloo and the Transnational Performance of America. in P Eckhard, K Rieser & S Schultermandl (eds), Contact Spaces of American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena. LIT Verlag, Wien, pp. 245-265.

Lippert, L 2012, Transnational Imagined Communities? Retelling the Stonewall Myth in Vienna. in SM Herrmann, CA Hofmann, K Kanzler & F Usbeck (eds), Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres: The Cultural Work of Contemporary American(ized) Narratives. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig, pp. 115-130.

Lippert, L 2012, Writing Transnational Queer Histories, or Stonewall in Wien. in S Mesquita, MK Wiedlack & K Lasthofer (eds), Import-Export-Transport: Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Activism in Motion. Zaglossus, Wien, pp. 247-260.

Lippert, L 2010, '"How Do You Think We Get to Pottery Barn?": Mainstream Gay Drama, Homonormativity, and the Culture of Neoliberalism', South Atlantic Review, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 41-59.

Lippert, L 2010, '"Life in the Memory of One Who No Longer Lives": The Laramie Project and the Politics of Performance', ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 86-95.

Lippert, L 2010, Negotiating Postmodernity and Queer Utopianism in Shortbus. in Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. LIT Verlag, pp. 195-206.

Post-doc, American Studies

Research Interests

- Transnationalism and Cultural Exchange
- Theater and Performance Cultures
- Early American Literature
- Affect and Public Feeling
- Cultures of Difference
- Queer and Sexuality Studies

Current projects

I am currently co-organizing the 28th Annual CDE Conference "Theatre of Crisis: Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition" in Graz (June 20-23), together with my colleagues Nassim Balestrini and Maria Löschnigg (Graz). See: https://bit.ly/2Wk83xx

My current book project, “Revolutionary Laughter: Humor and the Public Sphere in Late-Eighteenth-Century America,” examines the relationship of literary humor and the political public sphere in revolutionary America. The project seeks to complicate prevalent Habermasian assumptions about the rationality and accessibility of public discourse in early America, and examines how humor was used to advance and legitimize structural exclusions from the political public sphere. The project also assesses the role humor played in the development of national and/or transatlantic literary aesthetics in late-eighteenth-century America.

Together with Ralph J. Poole, I am also currently co-editing a volume on "Gender and Comedy in the Age of the American Revolution."

Academic Functions

- Treasurer and Board Member, Austrian Association for American Studies (2018-19)
- DFG Network “Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies” (2015-18)

Education and previous appointments

Dr. phil. (University of Vienna, 2015): “Performing America Abroad: The Politics of Transnationalism in the Age of Neoliberal Difference”
- awarded “Fulbright Prize in American Studies” (2016)
- honored as runner-up for the “Obama Dissertation Prize” (2017)

Mag. phil. (University of Vienna, 2009): “Utopian Contemporaries: Queer Temporality and America”

2015 - 2018, Research fellow, FWF project “Gender and Comedy in the Age of the American Revolution,” University of Salzburg
2011 - 2015, University assistant prae-doc, American Studies, University of Graz
2010 - 2011, University assistant prae-doc, English and American Studies, University of Vienna