Mag. Dr. Martina Pfeiler
Martina Pfeiler

Consultation hours: appointments via e-mail

Winter term 2024
124181 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Freedom Writers: Teachers, Teaching, and other Classroom Experiences in U.S.-American Popular Culture and Literature

Pfeiler, M. (2024). Popularisierung von Lyrik: Punk-Lyrik, Pop-Ästhetik und Live-Streaming von Poetry Slams im Vereinigten Königreich. In Popularisierung von Lyrik: Punk-Lyrik, Pop-Ästhetik und Live-Streaming von Poetry Slams im Vereinigten Königreich (Vol. 4, pp. 215-234). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561356-011



Pfeiler, M. (2022). Teaching Melville Through the Lens of Popular Culture. In W. Kelley, & C. Ohge (Eds.), A New Companion to Herman Melville (pp. 541-549). Wiley-Blackwell.

Çıraklı, M. Z., Pfeiler, M., Caner, M., & Yıldız, N. (Eds.) (2021). NALANS Vol. 9 No. 18. (18 ed.) Nalans : Narrative and language studies https://www.nalans.com/index.php/nalans/issue/view/18?fbclid=IwAR3XaD-kU029iF5osYxpOsCwNwb_QOL0ih247NChoSFNBb4qAv19bt28HbQ








Pfeiler, M. (2016). Sonic revolutionaries: Selfreflexivity, intermediality and cultural specificity in Saul Williams’ Poetry. In W. Görtschacher, & D. Malcolm (Eds.), Sound is/as sense: Essays in Modern British and Irish Poetry (Vol. 6, pp. 151-167). University of Gdansk Press.








Prof. Dr. Martina Pfeiler
Senior Postdoc, AAAS Vice-President
Department of English and American Studies
Email: martina.pfeiler@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-9808253

Academic Positions

2024-Senior Postdoc, American Studies, University of Vienna (Elternteilzeitvertretung Prof. Dr. Alexandra Ganser; part-time)
2023Professor of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Upper Austria; part-time)
2021-2024 Senior Researcher and Vice-PI Poetry Off the Page (ERC/FWF) University of Vienna
2016-2021Interim Commissionary Chair of American Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2014-2016Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2008-2014Assistant Professor, American Studies, TU Dortmund, Germany
2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, Radboud University, NL
2005-2006Visiting Lecturer, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, USA
2002-2005 Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Dortmund, Germany

Academic Qualifications

2017 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in American Literary and Cultural Studies (TU Dortmund)
2008PhD in American Studies (TU Dortmund; summa cum laude)
1995-2001Mag. phil., British and American Literature and Culture; Geography and Economic Studies (KFU Graz; with distinction; teacher track)

Current Research Projects

•FWF/ERC Team Book: British Literary History and the Spoken Word (1965-2020)
•Ahab in Love. The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture (book manuscript; in preparation for publication)
* The Anti-Slam
*Teaching Literary Classics Today

Research Interestes

U.S.-American Literature, Media, and Culture

Teaching Literary Classics
Media Literacy, Intermediality, Transmediality
Digital Archives

U.S. American Poetry and British Poetry
Spoken Word Poetry, Poetryfilms, E-Poetry, Installation Art

Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Transnational und Transcultural American Studies

Melville Studies
Moby-Dick; Or the Whale

U.S. American Popular Culture
Adaptation Studies

Cultural Studies
Identity Politics
Social Movements and Activism

Roundtable Discussion: After the Election

Martina Pfeiler (Selected presenter)

6 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"But here is an artist": Teaching Moby-Dick and Audiovisual Media in the American Studies Classroom

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

16 Oct 202419 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Post(Covid) Intermissions (Post-)Covid Intermissions: Live-Streaming Poetry in the New Digital ‘Public’ Sphere”.

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

13 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Poetry Slams in an International Context: Kat Francois and Ezra England as Case Studies (UK)

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Globalizing Screenwriting: Ulrich Steindorff's "Das Seebiest" as Economic and Ethical Treatment(s)

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

24 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


U.S. Contemporary Poetry: 20th Century 'Legacies' and the Future of Poetry Studies

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Cultural Agency and Vocal Vitality: Taking Lyric Poetry into (and out of) the Mediatized 2020s Classroom.”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Denouncing and Censoring Ahab: Herman Melville’s Creative Resistance to U.S. Hegemonic Whaling Culture“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Transcoding Moby‐Dick: Historicizing Herman Melville’s Global Popularity”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Kosal Khiev: Reframing Vulnerability in the Context of American Studies”. With Kosal Khiev and Dr. Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt.

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Text as Ride: Digital Textualities”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Bess Meredyth’s screenplay version of Moby-Dick: ‘Modernisms’ and ‘Male-Monstrosities’ in The Sea Beast”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Hass auf den Weißen Wal; Oder, der (un)populäre Roman Moby-Dick"

Martina Pfeiler (Selected presenter)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"Out of the Cave: Transcoding and Literature“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Periodical Research and Digital Databases"

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“‘The Time has Come for a Melville Revival’: Edwin Emery Slosson’s Journalistic Contributions to the Melville Revival”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"100 Jahre Ferlinghetti und die Beat-Generation“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"Beat & Bild: eine Rück- und Vorblende zum poetischen und filmischen Treiben der Beat-Generation“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public





"UNITE US: Media Convergence and/as Cultural and Literary Expressions in Poetryfilms and Digital Literature“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Intermediality Reconsidered: Aesthetic Pluralism and Cultural Strategies in Poetry Films“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Warner Bros.’s Popular Versions of Moby-Dick in the 1920s and1930s”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Beat Vision: Stimme, Ton und Voice-Over im Poetry-Film als subversive Medien“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

21 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"Videopoetry: A Hybrid Genre in the Making“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Ahab in Love: From Emma Embury’s ‘Love and Whaling’ (1843) to Michael Curtiz’s Dämon des Meeres (1931)“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Ahab in Love: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



"Lyrik und Postmoderne"

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Ahab beware of Ahab. The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Film“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

10 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Appropriating the White Whale: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio’s Kumulipo at the White House: Cultural Memory in Slam Poetry”

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Melville Studies in a Global Context as Exemplified by the Teaching of Moby-Dick in the University Classroom“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Sonic Revolutionaries: Selfreflexivity, Intermediality and Cultural Specificity in Saul Williams’ Poetry“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Zwischen Bildern und Büchern: Alex Katz & American Poetry“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"A Whale of a Book: Moby-Dick und Populärkultur“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Manhatta: New York the Magnificent. Intermedial Blending Phenomena in 20th and 21st-Centuries Poetry Films“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Experimentelle Poesiefilme. Von den Anfängen in den 1920er Jahren bis zu Mash-Ups im 21. Jahrhundert“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



"3 Poesiefilme aus 85 Jahren“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker: Illuminated Poems as a Site of Visual, Literary and Cultural Contestation“

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



"Poetry and New Media: from U.S.-American Performance Poetry to Cin(E-)Poetry to E-Poetry on the Internet"

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Poetry Slams"

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


"Sounds of Poetry. Contemporary American Performance Poets"

Martina Pfeiler (Speaker)

2001

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-42463

martina.pfeiler@univie.ac.at