Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Summer term 2025
124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media - (Sexual) Health: Media, Inequalities and Justice
124265 KO Critical Media Analysis - Gender, Sex and Age: Representation and Stigmatization across Media
Winter term 2024
124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media - (Sexual) Health: Media, Inequalities and Justice
124265 KO Critical Media Analysis - Reading the Body: Representation and Stigmatization across Media
124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Sexuality: Representation and Stigmatization across Media
Summer term 2024
124070 VO Culture, Society and the Media - Visual Cultures and Health
124220 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar - Victorian Material Cultures
124265 KO Critical Media Analysis - Health and Illness: Representation and Stigmatization across Media


Pietrzak-Franger, M., & Elsner, A. (Eds.) (2024). Literature and Medicine. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge critical concepts series


Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2023). Adaption und/als Kulturwissenschaft. In R. Emig, & L. Krämer (Eds.), Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Adaption De Gruyter.



Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2023). White Fluff/Black Pigment: Health Commodity Culture and Victorian Imperial Geographies of Dependence. In S. Dinter, & S. Schäfer-Althaus (Eds.), Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture (pp. 235-257). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1_11


Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Accepted/In press). Medical/Health Humanities and Neo-Victorianism. In M.-L. Kohlke, & C. Gutleben (Eds.), Handbook on Neo-Victorianism Brill.


Pietrzak-Franger, M., Liedke, H. L., & Radak, T. (Eds.) (2023). Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance. Cambridge University Press. Theatre Research International Vol. 48 No. 1





Askew, L., Burzynska, A., Edelman, J., Puschke, C., Voigts, E., Pietrzak-Franger, M., & Liedke, H. L. (2022). Viral Theatre Podcast: Episode 4. Multimedia output https://redcircle.com/shows/viral-theatre-podcast/episodes/8af47796-d8aa-4e52-83a2-30ed2f58035a




CV

from 10/2024Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
from 2024Deputy Head of Section "Knowledge, Literature and Media", Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural Studies (PhilKult), University of Vienna
from 2024Member of the Steering Commitee, Forschungsverband "Gesundheit in der Gesellschaft", University of Vienna
from 2023Elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English
from 10/2022Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies
09/2022DAAD Visiting Scholar, New York University, NY, USA
from 06/2022Re-elected Trustee of the Association of Adaptation Studies
from 06/2022Elected Member of the Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
10-12/2021Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London
from 10/2021Co-Head of Research Cluster "Post-COVID-19 Care: Medical Humanities and Health Economics at the Frontlines" (University of Vienna/Medical University of Vienna)
from 03/2020Elected Alternate Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
from 03/2020Member of Studies Conference, University of Vienna
from 10/2019Professor for English Cultural and Literary Studies, Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
09/2019Elected Trustee to the Board of the Association of Adaptation Studies
from 2019Member of the Editorial Board, Journal "Adaptation" (Oxford University Press), United Kingdom
from 2019Member of the Board of Referees, "Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies"
04/2011-09/2019Book Review Editor, Journal "Adaptation" (Oxford University Press), United Kingdom
10/2014-10/2019Stand-In / Deputy Professorship for British Studies, University of Hamburg, Institute of English and American Studies
04/2018-03/2019Acting Director of the Institute of English and American Studies (IAA), University of Hamburg
03/2018Visiting Scholar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
09-10/2017DAAD Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Haus, New York University, USA
08/2016Visiting Academic, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
11/2015BritCult Award (Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen) for habilitation treatise "Spectres of Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility"
04/2013-10/2014Assistant Professor, TU Braunschweig, Faculty of Humanities and Education, English Seminar
08/2011-07/2012Volkswagen Visiting Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Department of Anthropology
07/2007-09/2014Habilitation at the University of Siegen, Faculty of Philosophy, English Seminar
04/2003-11/2006Doctoral thesis at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, "International Performance and Media Studies Programme", Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz
10/1997-06/2002Master studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and at the Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France

Long Covid Participatory Research: Showing the Invisible

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

25 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Traditions, Tensions, Transformations: Medical Humanities in Austria from the History of Medicine to Participatory Research

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

8 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Transmediality, Medicine, and Global Cultures of Circulation in the Nineteenth Century

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

17 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Postdigital Health Practices: New Directions in Medical Humanities

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

20 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Long-Post-COVID und Medien: Stigma und Diskriminierung?

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

23 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ad-APPting Illness: Postdigital Health Practices, Knowledge Construction and New Turns in Medical Humanities

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Keynote speaker)

17 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Environment & Health: Disease, Materiality, and the Empire

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

10 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Transmedia Practices in the Nineteenth Century

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

23 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pandemic Theater and Community Building

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

16 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Roundtable discussion: Publishing in Victorian Studies

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

1 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Introduction: Covid-19 and Resilience

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

30 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Introduction

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Thomas Leitch (Speaker)

22 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Visiodemics: Covid-19 and Visual Storytelling

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 20228 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gilbert Frankau, The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

17 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


(In)Visible Syphilis: Knowledge, Degeneration, and the Fin-de-Siecle

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

7 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Bilder einer Pandemie. Und was sie mit uns machen.

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


#CoronaAlltag. Wie Bilder den Umgang mit Krisen prägen

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

14 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Fifty Shades of an Epidemic: Practices of (Visual) Communication from Syphilis to COVID-19

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

19 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


(In)Visible Pandemics: COVID-19 and Visual Storytelling

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

15 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Facing the Pandemic: Acts of Seeing and Iconographies of Illness

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

11 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Adapting the Victorians

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

26 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Medical Humanities: Knowledge, Power and Discrimination

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

6 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Medicine & Culture: Knowledge, Power and Discrimination

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

5 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices: An Introduction

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Christina Meyer (Speaker)

30 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cultural Studies in/as Medical Humanities

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

24 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

5 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Healing Objects: Kunst, Kultur und Medical Humanities

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

22 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Scaling the Novel

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

15 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dangerous Surfaces: Skin, Objects and Cities as Sites of Contagion

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

12 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Hygeia: Imagining a Healthy City

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

15 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Illness and Visibility in Victorian Culture

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

16 Jan 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Recognizing Syphilis: Medical Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

6 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Degeneration and New Women Writers

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

30 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Nineteenth-century Fiction and Medicine

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

8 Dec 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Framing the Past in Mr. Turner (2014)

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

27 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mash-Ups: An Introduction

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Lucia Krämer (Speaker)

22 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Syphilis for Public Consumption

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

31 Aug 20162 Sept 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Photography and Medical Atlases of the 19th Century

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

10 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Facing Pathology: Syphilis Iconography at the Fin de Siècle

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

3 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gender, Krankheit und Gesellschaft im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

12 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Case of Hysteria (2011) and the Medical Humour of Neo-Victorianism

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Eckart Voigts (Speaker)

19 Nov 201521 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'Framing': Adaptions- und Intermedialitätsprozesse in Graphic Novels

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

6 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mapping the Pox-Ridden City: Modernity and the Geopolitics of Differentiation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

25 Jun 201526 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Hospitals and Asylums

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

4 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Transmedia Storytelling: Introduction

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

25 Feb 201526 Feb 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gender, Medicine and Media Discrimination

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Victorian Palimpsests: Media Production and Dissemination of Knowledge about Syphilis

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

13 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Medicine, Visual Culture and Gender Politics

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

22 Aug 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Subcultural Neo-Victoriana and Convergence Culture: Steampunk, Fashion and Participatory Culture

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

25 Jul 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins (1893)

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Weeping for Angelina Jolie's Breasts: Medicine, Gender Discrimination, and Popular Culture

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

25 Jun 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'Fictions of Affliction': Victorian Novels, Illness Narratives, and Body Politics

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

17 May 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: Cinematic Oblivion to Female Authorship

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

28 Sept 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Watching Them Die: Cancer Narratives, TV Formats and Prosumer Ethics on US-American TV

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

15 Mar 201217 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Conceptions of Childhood in Renaissance Midwife Manuals: Between Naturalistic and Religious Interpretations

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Marcel Hartwig (Speaker)

11 Feb 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Healthy Visibility: Medicine and Knowledge Production across Media

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

7 Feb 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'The Chamber of Horrors': Victorian Media and Syphilis

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

27 Jan 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'Codes of Discretion': Silence, Empathy and Ethics in Doctor-Patient Communication

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

18 Sept 201121 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


New Woman Writing and Dominant Constructions of Syphilitic Males

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

7 Apr 201110 Apr 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Appropriating the (In)Visible: From Hell as a Neo-Victorian Metadaptation

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

20 Jan 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ghost in the Mirror: Adapting (the Other) Victorians

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

30 Sept 20101 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


(In)Forming Doctors, Reforming Medicine: Victorian Medicine, Architecture and Knowledge Dissemination

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

2 Sept 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Disease, Gender Identity and Representation

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

22 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


On Robins, Tyler, Milos and Andrews: Cinematic Adaptations of Masculinities

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

10 Jun 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ghost in the Mirror: Reimagining Syphilis in Angela Carter's Black Venus and John Wood's Endurance and Suffering

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

8 Apr 201010 Apr 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Körpergrenzen: Maskulinitätskonstrukte in der britischen Kunst

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

4 Feb 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Resuscitation Procedures on American Television

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

12 Jan 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'Enchanting Darwin' - Charles Darwin in Contemporary Media

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

27 Nov 200928 Nov 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mapping Polish Identities on the British Stage

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

4 Jun 20097 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Rainbow Manuals: An Evolution in Media Portrayals of Homosexuals in Poland?

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

19 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Syphilitic Men: Male Hegemony, Syphilis and Degeneracy in Late Victorian Fiction

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

29 Mar 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Facing Syphilis: Illness Narratives in the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Grand and Emma Frances Brooke

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

16 Nov 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


"Are you fucking my wife? - Or is it the other way round?": Constructions of Femininity in Mankiewicz's and Branagh's Sleuth

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

24 Sept 200826 Sept 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Caught on a Silver Plate: Photography and the Representation of Emotions

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

1 Sept 20083 Sept 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Strange Case of Dr. Joseph and Mr. Jack: Adapting 19th-Century 'Deviant' Masculinities

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

21 Aug 200824 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sleuth: Adapting British Masculinities

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

26 Jul 200828 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


An Alarming Ambiguity of Trafficked Bodies

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

25 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Medialising Darwin

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker) & Eckart Voigts (Speaker)

4 Mar 20085 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mediatized Hamlet: Contemporary Adaptations of Shakespeare's Hamlet

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

13 Jan 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Elephant Man - The Guardian of the Victorian Social Order

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

22 Sept 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Auto-Destruction in Self-Construction: Female Self-Mutilation in American Popular Culture

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

24 May 200726 May 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What Headscarves (Un)veil: The Annexation of the Bodies of German Minority Women

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

31 Aug 20063 Sept 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How Subversive are Victorian Male Nudes?: Fixed Body Boundaries and their Blurring

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

20 Apr 200621 Apr 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Multi-Mediatised Inter-Physicality

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

30 Jul 20054 Aug 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Influence of Feminism on the Conceptualisation and Stylisation of the Male Body in the Visual Arts

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

2 Jul 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Parfait Mélange. Gender in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

25 Jul 20047 Aug 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Sensitive Man: Representations of the New Man in the British Cinema

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

25 Jan 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


'The Bugger King': Mark Ravenhill's Mother Clap's Molly House

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

25 Jul 20033 Aug 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Unclothing the Male: The Body in Polish Art of the 1990s

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

6 Apr 200312 Apr 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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