Mag. Dr. Sandra Mayer

http://www.sandramayer.org

Winter term 2021

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

Summer term 2021

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

Winter term 2020

128110 VO Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

Mayer, S. (2021). Chronicler and Eulogist of the 'Gang': Stephen Spender Writing the Berlin Myth. In S. Evangelista, & G. Stedman (Eds.), Happy in Berlin? English Writers in the City: The 1920s and Beyond: Happy in Berlin? Englische Autor*innen der 1920er und 30er Jahre (pp. 171-191). Wallstein.

Mayer, S. (2020). W. H. Auden in Austria: "Publicly Private" and Globally Local. In K. Kennedy, & H. Lee (Eds.), Lives of Houses (pp. 232-245). Princeton University Press.

Mayer, S. (2019). Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde. In W. R. Louis (Ed.), Serendipitous Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (pp. 89-101). I.B. Tauris.

Mayer, S., & Lajta-Novak, J. (2019). Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections. Life Writing, 16(2), 149-155. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14484528.2019.1539208

Mayer, S., & Lajta-Novak, J. (Eds.) (2019). Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Mayer, S. (2019). Making Mischief: David Hare and the Celebrity Playwright's Political Persona. Persona Studies, 5(2), 38-52. https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/914

Mayer, S., & Lajta-Novak, J. (2019). Special Issue Life Writing and Celebrity. (2 ed.) Taylor & Francis. Life Writing Vol. 16 No. 2 https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rlwr20/16/2?nav=tocList

Mayer, S., & Luckhurst, M. (Eds.) (2019). Theatre and Persona: Celebrity and Transgression. (2 ed.) Persona Studies Vol. 5 No. 2 https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/issue/view/130/showToc

Mayer, S., & Luckhurst, M. (2019). Theatre and Persona: Celebrity and Transgression. Persona Studies, 5(2), 1-8. https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/911

Mayer, S. (2018). Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience. Rodopi/Brill. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Vol. 198

Neilly, J., & Mayer, S. (2018). The Author in the Popular Imagination: Views from the Nineteenth Century. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 52(3), 273–278. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy022

Mayer, S. (2018). Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform. In J. Alexander, & K. Bronk (Eds.), (Extra)Ordinary? The Concept of authenticity in Celebrity and Fan Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 54-74). Brill Rodopi. At the interface : probing the boundaries

Neilly, J., & Mayer, S. (2018). Special Issue The Author in the Popular Imagination: Views from the Nineteenth Century. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. 54 No. 3

Mayer, S. (2018). The Prime Minister as Celebrity Novelist: Benjamin Disraeli's 'Double Consciousness'. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(3), 354-368. https://academic.oup.com/fmls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fmls/cqy017/5036363?guestAccessKey=bf1b3d87-7d73-4871-8cbd-28c5eb56849b

Mayer, S. (2017). Die uralte Lust am Promi-Wahn. Kurier.

Mayer, S. (Editorial Journalist). (2017). Star-Autor & Staatsmann: Celebrity Benjamin Disraeli. Web publication

Mayer, S. (2017). Art and Action: Authorship, Politics and Celebrity. Celebrity Studies, 8(1), 152-156.

Mayer, S. (2017). Literary Cosmopolitanism and Agents of Mediation: Oscar Wilde and Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Artistic Networks. In B. Coste, C. Delyfer, & C. Reynier (Eds.), Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, Revisions, Speculations (pp. 67-79). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Mayer, S. (2017). Special Issue Art and Action: Authorship, Politics and Celebrity. (1 ed.) Taylor & Francis. Celebrity Studies

Mayer, S. (Editorial Journalist). (2016). Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue. Web publication

Sandra Mayer

Department of English and American Studies

Postal address:

Austria

Curriculum vitae

Sandra Mayer is a Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow in English Literature. She studied English and History at the universities of Graz, Sussex, and Vienna, where she received her doctorate in English Literature for a thesis on the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works on twentieth-century Viennese stages. Her book, Oscar Wilde in Vienna, was published by Brill Rodopi in 2018. In 2014, she was awarded an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford’s English Faculty and Wolfson College, where she worked on a project exploring the intersections of literature, politics, and Victorian celebrity culture in the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli. This research forms part of her current FWF-funded project Art and Action, which investigates the complex interrelations of literary celebrity and politics in and through autobiographical life-writing genres. She also holds a postdoctoral research affiliation with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, and the English Faculty, University of Oxford. Her co-edited special issue on "Life Writing and Celebrity" for Life Writing has been published as an edited volume by Routledge.

Her conference on "Art and Action: Literary Authorship, Politics, and Celebrity Culture", originally to be hosted by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities in March 2020 but cancelled due to Covid-19, was rescheduled as a series of Zoom webinars. More information and recordings available here.

From August 20201, she will be PI of the FWF-funded 3-year project "A Digital Edition of W. H. Auden's Letters to Stella Musulin" (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage).

Research Interests

literary celebrity and authorship
life-writing
cultural transfer and reception studies
literary networks and cosmopolitanism
literature and culture of the Victorian Age and the Fin de Siècle
Neo-Victorianism

Organisation of Conferences etc.

Lecture series "Celebrity & Memory: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Perspectives" (with Sylvia Mieszkowski & Monika Pietrzak-Franger), English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2020/21.
Workshop "Writing Activism" (with Katherine Collins), The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 26 February 2019
Discussion panel "Literary Celebrity and Political Persona" (Kirsty Gunn, P David Marshall, Rachel Potter), Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 14 May 2018
Day symposium "Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies" (co-organised with Philip Ross Bullock), Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 17 March 2018
Half-day colloquium "Life-Writing and Female Celebrity", Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 4 November 2017
Day symposium "Celebiography: Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue", Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, 19 November 2016
Day symposium "Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics", The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 5 March 2016
Lecture series "Cultures of Celebrity", English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2015/16
Day symposium "The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli", The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 24 March 2015