Senior Researcher and Vice-PI
"Poetry Off the Page"; Mo-Tue
(FWF/ERC Project; PI Ass. Prof. Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak)
Professor of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies
University of Education Upper Austria, Linz
Academic Positions
Since 2023 | University of Upper Austria, Professor of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies |
---|---|
2021- | University of Vienna, Senior Researcher and Vice-PI |
2016-2021 | Ruhr-University Bochum, Interim Commissionary Chair of American Studies |
2014-2016 | Ruhr-University Bochum, Senior Lecturer, American Studies |
2008-2014 | TU Dortmund, Assistant Professor, American Studies |
2009-2010 | Radboud University, Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies |
2005-2006 | Oglethorpe University, Visiting Lecturer, Foreign Language Department |
2002-2005 | University of Dortmund, Assistant Professor of American Studies |
Academic Qualifications
2017 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi in American Literary and Cultural Studies (TU Dortmund) |
---|---|
2008 | PhD in American Studies (TU Dortmund; summa cum laude) |
1995-2001 | Mag. phil., British and American Literature and Culture; Geography and Economic Studies (KFU Graz; with distinction; teacher track) |
Current Research Projects
•NALANS Special Issue: Melville, Media, and Narratives (March 2023)
•Ahab in Love. The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture (book manuscript; in preparation for publication)
Research Interestes
Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Transnational und Transcultural American Studies
Melville Studies
Moby-Dick; Or the Whale
U.S. American Popular Culture
Adaptation Studies
U.S. American and British Poetry
incl. Poetry Films, Performance Poetry, Poetry Slams, E-Poetry
Digtial Archives
Digital Databases: American Periodical Research
Cultural Studies
Identity Politics
Poetry Slams in an International Context: Kat Francois and Eliza England as Case Studies (UK)
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Globalizing Screenwriting: Ulrich Steindorff's "Das Seebiest" as Economic and Ethical Treatment(s)
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
U.S. Contemporary Poetry: 20th Century 'Legacies' and the Future of Poetry Studies
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Cultural Agency and Vocal Vitality: Taking Lyric Poetry into (and out of) the Mediatized 2020s Classroom.”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Denouncing and Censoring Ahab: Herman Melville’s Creative Resistance to U.S. Hegemonic Whaling Culture“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Transcoding Moby‐Dick: Historicizing Herman Melville’s Global Popularity”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Kosal Khiev: Reframing Vulnerability in the Context of American Studies”. With Kosal Khiev and Dr. Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt.
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Text as Ride: Digital Textualities”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Bess Meredyth’s screenplay version of Moby-Dick: ‘Modernisms’ and ‘Male-Monstrosities’ in The Sea Beast”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Hass auf den Weißen Wal; Oder, der (un)populäre Roman Moby-Dick"
Martina Pfeiler (Selected presenter)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Out of the Cave: Transcoding and Literature“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Periodical Research and Digital Databases"
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“‘The Time has Come for a Melville Revival’: Edwin Emery Slosson’s Journalistic Contributions to the Melville Revival”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"100 Jahre Ferlinghetti und die Beat-Generation“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Beat & Bild: eine Rück- und Vorblende zum poetischen und filmischen Treiben der Beat-Generation“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
“From ‘Passion Haunted Reverie’ to ‘Frantic Spittle of Emigrants’: Michael Strange’s Creative Reception of Walt Whitman in the 1920s”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Red Chador & 1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim Intermedia Interplay and Challenging Islamophobia in Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Art”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Ulrich Steindorff’s Dämon des Meeres (1931) as Transcultural Creative Reception; Or, a Warner Bros. Émigré Adaptation of Moby-Dick is Coming ‘Home’ to Berlin”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"UNITE US: Media Convergence and/as Cultural and Literary Expressions in Poetryfilms and Digital Literature“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Intermediality Reconsidered: Aesthetic Pluralism and Cultural Strategies in Poetry Films“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Warner Bros.’s Popular Versions of Moby-Dick in the 1920s and1930s”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Beat Vision: Stimme, Ton und Voice-Over im Poetry-Film als subversive Medien“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Videopoetry: A Hybrid Genre in the Making“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Ahab in Love: From Emma Embury’s ‘Love and Whaling’ (1843) to Michael Curtiz’s Dämon des Meeres (1931)“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Ahab in Love: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"`A bugle wails the long recall’: Warren M. Swenson and Luigi Nono’s Artistic (Re-) Interpretations of Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Lyrik und Postmoderne"
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Ahab beware of Ahab. The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Film“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Appropriating the White Whale: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s Kumulipo at the White House: Cultural Memory in Slam Poetry”
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Melville Studies in a Global Context as Exemplified by the Teaching of Moby-Dick in the University Classroom“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Sonic Revolutionaries: Selfreflexivity, Intermediality and Cultural Specificity in Saul Williams’ Poetry“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Zwischen Bildern und Büchern: Alex Katz & American Poetry“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"A Whale of a Book: Moby-Dick und Populärkultur“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Manhatta: New York the Magnificent. Intermedial Blending Phenomena in 20th and 21st-Centuries Poetry Films“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Experimentelle Poesiefilme. Von den Anfängen in den 1920er Jahren bis zu Mash-Ups im 21. Jahrhundert“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Remediating The Making of Americans: a 21st-Century U.S.-American Poetry Film in the Context of 20th and 21 st-Centuries U.S. Poetries and New Media“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"3 Poesiefilme aus 85 Jahren“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker: Illuminated Poems as a Site of Visual, Literary and Cultural Contestation“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s ‘Kumulipo’ at the White House: Performing Cultural Memory in Slam Poetry“
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
"Poetry and New Media: from U.S.-American Performance Poetry to Cin(E-)Poetry to E-Poetry on the Internet"
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Poetry Slams"
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Sounds of Poetry. Contemporary American Performance Poets"
Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien