Mag. Dr. Martina Pfeiler

T: +43-1-4277-42463

martina.pfeiler@univie.ac.at

Consultation hours: Office Hr: Thursdays 10:30-11:30 (by appointment)

Summer term 2026

124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Poetry Films

Winter term 2025

124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Freedom, Individualism, Equality: Researching 19th Century American Literature

Summer term 2025

124081 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Call Me Back, Ishmael: Teaching U.S.-American Literary Classics Today

Pfeiler, M., Dingledine, D., Meikle, K., Simonetti, P., Cirakli , M., & Kaya, S. (Eds.) (2024). International Collaboration: Melville, Media and Narratives (Special Issue). (25 ed.) Nalans : Narrative and language studies https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2024.53

Pfeiler, M. (2024). Popularisierung von Lyrik: Punk-Lyrik, Pop-Ästhetik und Live-Streaming von Poetry Slams im Vereinigten Königreich. In M. Matter, H. Wehmeier, & C. C. Wolff (Eds.), Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung (Vol. 4, pp. 215-234). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561356-011

Pfeiler, M. (2023). Ahab in Love: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture .

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

Lajta-Novak, J., Krebs, M., Palzer, C., Pfeiler, M., & Timms, E. K. (2021). Poetry Off the Page: Literary History and the Spoken Word, 1965-2020. Film, Universität Wien.

Pfeiler, M. (2020). Challenging Islamophobia through Intermediality: Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Art. EJAS-European Journal of American Studies, 15(3). https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16298

Pfeiler, M. (2020). “Warner Bros.’s Moby-Dick Adaptation Dämon des Meeres (1931) as Part of a Transcultural and Textual Network. Literature Film Quarterly, 48(2). https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/48_2/moby_dick_adaptation_damon_des_meeres_as_part_of_a_transcultural_textual_network.html

Pfeiler, M. (2018). The great floodgates of the wonderworld: A memoir by Justin Hocking, and: Season on the line: An epic love letter to the American theater by Shawn Pfautsch. Leviathan: a journal of Melville studies ; the official journal of the Melville Society, 20(1), 61-66. https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2018.0006

Pfeiler, M. (2018). O. Scheiding, R. Dietrich, C. Spahr (Hg.): A history of American poetry: contexts, developments, readings. Anglistik: international journal of English studies, 30(3), 76-77.

Pfeiler, M. (2016, May 21). Beat Vision: Stimme, Ton und Voice-Over im Poetry-Film als subversive Medien: Vortrag im Rahmen des 18. Backup Kurzfilmfestivals der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

Pfeiler, M. (2016). "Beat Vision. Stimme, Ton und Voice-Over im Poetryfilm als subversive Medien.". Poetryfilm, 2, 16-19.

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.

Pfeiler, M. (2015). B.M. Bauridl, Between, betwixt, or beyond? Negotiating ‘trans’formations from the liminal space of contemporary black performance poetry. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. Anglistik: international journal of English studies, 26(1), 176-178.

Pfeiler, M. (2015). Poetry Films: Cultural Resistance and Creative Reinvention. Poetryfilm, 23.

Pfeiler, M. (2014). The Page versus the Stage: Contemporary American Performance Poets. Sibila. Revista de poesia e crítica literári. http://sibila.com.br/poetry-essays/the-page-versus-the-stage-1-contemporary-american-performance-poets/2676

Pfeiler, M., & Hedayati Aliabadi, M. (Eds.) (2014). Pott Meets poetry: Die erste illustrierte Slam-Anthologie des Ruhrgebiets. Lektora.

Pfeiler, M. (2014). "Melvilleans and Whitmanians in Washington, DC.". Leviathan: a journal of Melville studies ; the official journal of the Melville Society, 16(1), 157-159.

Pfeiler, M. (2013). Hunting Moby Dick in a global context as exemplified by the teaching of Moby-Dick in the university classroom. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Leviathan: a journal of Melville studies ; the official journal of the Melville Society, 15(3), 81-89.

Pfeiler, M. (2013). Teaching and learning from slam poetry. In K. Freitag, & B. Reed (Eds.), Modern American poetry: points of access (pp. 190-210). Winter Verlag. https://web-s-ebscohost-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzIwNDA3MjdfX0FO0?sid=43ee5ad7-1b4f-4884-8713-11facf9de32f@redis&vid=0&format=EB&rid=1#

Prof. Dr. Martina Pfeiler (PH Oberösterreich)
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)
Since Oct 2023	Professor 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
2016-2021	Interim Commissionary Chair of American Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2014-2016	Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
2008-2014	Assistant Professor, American Studies, TU Dortmund, Germany
2009-2010	Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, Radboud University, NL
2005-2006	Visiting 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)
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

•Senior Associate: FWF/ERC Project Poetry Off the Page 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)
*Teaching Literary Classics Today

Research Interests

U.S.-American Literature, Media, and Culture from the 19th to the 21st centuries

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: 2024 Presidential Election

Pfeiler, M. (Selected presenter)

6 Nov 2024

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