Research interests
• 19th and 20th century literature in English
• 17th century Drama
• Relation of Victorian and neo-Victorian narratives
• Short Fiction
• Gender studies
• Queer theory
• Sound studies
• Serial narration & theories of seriality
Teaching and Supervision
• British literature (narrative, dramatic, lyrical) from 16th-21st century
• Literary and cultural theory
• Cultural analysis
• Film &TV
CV
since 2022 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
since 2021 — Member of Research Platform SOLE (The Stress of Life): https://sole.univie.ac.at/
since 2020 — Book series Editor Dutch Quarterly Review (BrillRodopi; together with Eva Zettelmann)
since 2020 — Book series Editor Literatur- Theater - Medien (Lit-Verlag; together with Ralph Poole)
since 2020 — Deputy Head of Research Platform GAIN (Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities): https://gain.univie.ac.at/
2020-22 — Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Spokesperson for Professorial Curia, University of Vienna
2018-20 — Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
since 2017 — Full Professor for "British Literature" at the University of Vienna
2016/17 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Vienna
2015/16 — Guest Professor for English Literature, University of Bayreuth
2014/15 — Guest Professor for English Literature of the long Nineteenth Century, University of Zurich
2013 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2012 — Guest Professor for English Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin
2012 — Associate Professor at Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University of Paris
2011/12 — Docent at Amsterdam University College
2011 — Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004/05 — Postdoc at Goethe University Frankfurt
2004 — Postdoc at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
2003 — Doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1997 — Magistra Artium at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1993/94 — Year abroad at Unversity of St. Andrews
1991-97 — Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Reclaiming the Commons: Refugee Tales and the embracing of ambivalence
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Introduction and Hosting - GAIN Gender and Agency Lecture by Joanna Rostek: "Making Women Economists Visible: A Transdisciplinary Approach"
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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'He left you intact for a Biblical purpose': Fertility, oppression and the (black) female body in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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'Albatross!' - Adapting the 'Ancient Mariner'
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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Narrativizing Stress - Refugee Tales as a counter-apparatus
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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Interview with David Herd and Anna Pincus
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Contributor) & Sandra Mayer (Contributor)
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Introduction: Patience Agbabi
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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Opening Remarks
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker), Sandra Mayer (Speaker) & Ricarda Nater-Mewes (Speaker)
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Performing the Appreciation of Universities
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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The Art of Weaving: Bernardine Evaristo's Girl Woman Other as Narrative Anti-tokenism
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Keynote speaker)
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Reading Violence - Genderbasierte Gewalt in Recht und Literatur
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker) & Elisabeth Holzleithner (Speaker)
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Peer-Reviewing
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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Tags, wings & uniforms: Ambivalent In_Visibilisations in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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"Transparent" and the Optics of Identity
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
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Richard Francis Burton & his Neo-Victorian Afterlives
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Tags, Wings & Uniforms: Ambivalent In_Visibilisations in Hulu’s The Handmaid's Tale
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Bild & Gegenbild in Out of Africa: Autobiographische Selbstinszenierung einer Autorin vs. filmische Konstruktion eines Frauenlebens
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker) & Barbara Rita Krebs (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Narrating the Suspended Self En Route: Refugee Tales & Traces
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Compassionate Projection: Vulnerability, Resilience and Transitional Identity in Zadie Smith's "The Embassy of Cambodia"
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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"Something's Gotta Give": Struggling for Space in Zadie Smith's "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets"
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Presentation of talk by Rachel F. Seidman, "Speaking of Feminism"
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Selected presenter)
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Dystopie - Repräsentation - Widerstand: Der "Report der Magd" als Zerr(?)-Spiegel US-amerikanischer Geschlechterpolitik
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Something's Gotta Give": Struggling for Space in Zadie Smith's "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets"
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Atwood's Dystopia meets Alt-Right Politics: The (North) American Echo Chamber of The Handmaid's Tale
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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The Cosmopolitan Wife: Isabel Burton's Ghostwriting of The Life as Creative Self-Othering
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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"What's this cheery singing all about?": Reading the Musical Episode in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Cultural Crossovers: Transmedial Adaptation and Activist Appropriation of The Handmaid's Tale
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
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Acts of Resistance: Female Counter-Conduct in Transnational Dystopian Narratives
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
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Making/s of the Self: Governmentality, Resistance and Subjectification in Dystopian Narratives
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
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Governmentality and Acts of Counter-Conduct in Kate Atkinson's "The War on Women" (2009)
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Un-gendering Voice and Re-gendering Affect in AL Kennedy's Short Fiction
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Angry Women, Crying Men - Representations of Gendered Affect in A.L. Kennedy's Short Fiction
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
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Family Likeness & Bad Blood: Truth Discourses in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and Sarah Waters's Fingersmith
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Emotion as the Organising Principle in ALK's All the Rage (2014)
Sylvia Mieszkowski (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
Deputy Head
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Room: 3G-O2-28
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