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Mag. Dr. Sandra Mayer
http://www.sandramayer.org
Mayer, S 2018, Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 198, Rodopi/Brill.
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. Brill Rudopi, pp. 54-74.
Mayer, S & Neilly, J 2018, Special Issue The Author in the Popular Imagination: Views from the Nineteenth Century. Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 52, vol. 52, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
Mayer, S & Neilly, J 2018, 'The Author in the Popular Imagination: Views from the Nineteenth Century' Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 52.
Mayer, S 2018, 'The Prime Minister as Celebrity Novelist: Benjamin Disraeli's 'Double Consciousness'' Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 354-368.
Mayer, S 2017, 'Die uralte Lust am Promi-Wahn' Kurier.
Mayer, S, Star-Autor & Staatsmann: Celebrity Benjamin Disraeli, 2017, Web publication.
Mayer, S 2017, 'Art and Action: Authorship, Politics and Celebrity' Celebrity Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 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. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 67-79.
Mayer, S 2017, Special Issue Art and Action: Authorship, Politics and Celebrity. Celebrity Studies, vol. 8, 1 edn, Taylor & Francis.
Mayer, S, Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue, 2016, Web publication.
Mayer, S, Disraeli's 'Spectre of Unsatisfied Desire': Literary Celebrity in/and Political Office, 2016, Web publication.
Fuchs, D & Mayer, S 2016, 'IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2015' Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, vol. 46.2, pp. 1-62.
Mayer, S 2016, 'Portraits of the Artist as Politician, the Politician as Artist: Commemorating the Disraeli Phenomenon' Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 281-300.
Mayer, S, Rubbing Shoulders with Disraeli at Hughenden, 2016, Web publication.
Mayer, S 2016, The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). in G Franssen & R Honings (eds), Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 111-132.
Mayer, S, Pegasus and Carthorse: The Many Shades of Disraeli's Celebrity, 2015, Web publication, University of Oxford Podcasts.
Fuchs, D, Mayer, S & Huber, W 2015, 'SIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2014' Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, vol. 45.2, pp. 1-66.
Mayer, S 2015, 'Stadt der träumenden Türme' FWF-info-Magazin, vol. 90, no. 1.
Mayer, S & Lajta-Novak, J 2014, 'Disparate Images: Literary Heroism and the 'Work vs. Life' Topos in Contemporary Biofictions about Victorian Authors' Neo-Victorian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 25-51.
Huber, W, Mayer, S & Fuchs, D 2014, 'German and Austrian Contributions to Irish Studies: IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2013' Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 1-71. DOI: 10.3366/iur.2014.0140
Huber, W & Mayer, S 2013, 'German and Austrian Contributions to Irish Studies, IASIL Bibliography 2012' Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 1-65. DOI: 10.3366/iur.2013.0089
Mayer, S 2013, Visions of Salome, Visions of Wilde: Critical Readings of Oscar Wilde's Salome in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna. in C Rowden (ed.), Performing Salome, Revealing Stories. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 49-69.
Huber, W & Mayer, S 2012, 'German and Austrian Contributions to Irish Studies, IASIL Bibliography 2011' Irish University Review: a journal of Irish studies, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 366-433.
Huber, W, Lajta-Novak, J & Mayer, S 2012, Introduction. in W Huber, J Lajta-Novak & S Mayer (eds), Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges. Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 4, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, pp. 11-17.
Lajta-Novak, J, Mayer, S & Rubik, M 2012, Introduction. in L-N Julia, S Mayer & M Rubik (eds), Ireland in Drama, Film, and Popular Culture. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 9-14.
Mayer, S, Lajta-Novak, J & Rubik, M (eds) 2012, Ireland in Drama, Film, and Popular Culture: Festschrift for Werner Huber. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Mayer, S, Lajta-Novak, J & Huber, W (eds) 2012, Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges. Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 4, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier.
Mayer, S 2012, '(Re)Politicised and (Over)Sexualised: Wild(e) Treatments on Twenty-First-Century Viennese Stages' Focus: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies, pp. 49-62.
Lajta-Novak, J & Mayer, S 2012, "You have to have a grá to do it": An Interview with Irish Storytellers Clare Murphy, Niall de Búrca, and Joe Brennan. in S Mayer, J Novak & M Rubik (eds), Ireland in Drama, Film, and Popular Culture. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, pp. 183-192.
Mayer, S Oscar Wilde as an All-Time Favourite of Viennese Stages: Pleasing and Teasing Audiences throughout the Twentieth Century.
Mayer, S 2011, 'Review of Science: Dramatic. Science Plays in America and Great Britain, 1990-2007, by Eva-Sabine Zehelein' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA), vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 409-410.
Mayer, S 2010, The Critic as Agent: Literarische Vermittlungs- und Kanonisierungsprozesse am Beispiel von Oscar Wildes Komödien auf den Wiener Bühnen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. in Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna Vol. 2: Die Rezeption anglophoner Dramen auf Wiener Bühnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, pp. 77-101.
Mayer, S 2010, When Critics Disagree, the Artist Survives: Oscar Wilde, an All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stages in the Twentieth Century. in S Evangelista (ed.), The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. Continuum International Publishing Group, pp. 203-216.
Mayer, S 2009, 'When Critics Disagree: Sensationalism and Myth-Making in the Reception of Oscar Wilde in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna' The Wildean, vol. 35, pp. 62-73.
Mayer, S 2008, 'Pleasing and Teasing the Audience. Oscar Wilde: An All-Time Favourite of Viennese Stages' Weltbühne Wien: International Conference on Drama, Theatre and Cultural Transfer, Wien, Austria, 11/05/08 - 13/05/08, .
Mayer, S & Pfeifer, B, The Reception of Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw in the Light of Early Twentieth-Century Austrian Censorship, 2007, Web publication.
Mayer, S 2006, ''A Complex Multiform Creature': Ambiguity and Limitation Foreshadowed in the Early Critical Reception of Oscar Wilde' Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 137-155.

Sandra Mayer

  • Department of English and American Studies
Postal address:
Austria

Email: sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at

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. 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 Visiting Scholarship at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where she co-ordinates the Centre’s “Life-Writing and Celebrity” research strand.

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.

  • 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

Roundtable: Patterns of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Celebrity

Mayer, S. (Speaker), Charlotte Boyce (Speaker), Danielle Dove (Speaker), Patricia Pulham (Speaker)
30 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“She was not ambitious, though she enjoyed success”: Harriet Martineau and the Enabling and Disabling Potential of Celebrity Authorship

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
30 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Roundtable: Life-Writing: Theory and Practice

Mayer, S. (Speaker), Elisabeth Bronfen (Speaker), Hermione Lee (Speaker), Svenja Goltermann (Speaker), Gesine Krüger (Speaker)
30 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Panel Discussion: Literary Celebrity and Political Persona

Mayer, S. (Contributor), P David Marshall (Speaker), Kirsty Gunn (Speaker), Rachel Potter (Speaker)
14 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Roundtable: Transnational Lives and Cosmopolitan Biographies

Mayer, S. (Contributor), Stefano Evangelista (Speaker), Claudia Olk (Speaker), Jürgen Schlaeger (Speaker), Laura Marcus (Speaker)
17 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"'My Secret Life': Victorian Erotic Memoir as Life-Writing Genre"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
28 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Roundtable Celebrity and Life-Writing: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Mayer, S. (Contributor), Hermione Lee (Speaker), Philip Bullock (Speaker), Ruth Scobie (Speaker), Lindsay Shapero (Speaker)
16 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Seminar Celebrity and Life-Writing: Exploring Intersections

Mayer, S. (Speaker), Lajta-Novak, J. (Speaker)
22 Aug 2016 → 26 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"'The Most Brilliant of Paradoxes': Benjamin Disraeli, Oscar Wilde and Cross-Field Performances of Celebrity"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
28 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Autobiographisierungsstrategien im Nachlass Benjamin Disraelis

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
6 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"Approaching Celebrity across Periods and Disciplines"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
15 Oct 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Roundtable "Historical Re-evaluations of Celebrity in the 18th and 19th Centuries"

Mayer, S. (Contributor), Ruth Scobie (Contributor), Tom Mole (Speaker), Simon Morgan (Speaker), Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Speaker), Jessica Goodman (Speaker)
19 Sep 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"A Romantic Legacy: Benjamin Disraeli and Early-Victorian Celebrity Culture"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
28 Aug 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"'Continental Reputation Equalling Posthumous Fame'? Disraeli's Literary and Political Celebrity in an International Context"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
2 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"The Prime Minister as Celebrity Novelist: 'Lothairmania' and Disraeli's 'Double Consciousness'"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
23 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"'A Strange Mingling': Disraeli as literary Celebrity and Celebrity Politician"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
21 Jan 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

"Following the Primrose Path: Intersections of Literary and Political Fame in Commemorations of Benjamin Disraeli"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
14 Nov 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"'What is He?' Victorian Images of Benjamin Disraeli as Literary Celebrity and Celebrity Politician"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
11 Jul 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"Literary Biography and Celebrity: Re-Evaluating Victorian Authors from the Perspective of Celebrity Studies"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
8 May 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"The (Not So) Secret Fall of Oscar Wilde: Literary Celebrity and its Afterlives in Contemporary Biofiction and Popular Culture"

Mayer, S. (Speaker)
11 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien

sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at