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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
T: +43-1-4277-42481
M: +43-664-8176470
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/pietrzak-franger/
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
128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)
420005 SE Knowledge and Media: Current Trends in Literary and Cultural Studies
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
128302 KU Toolkit for Research and Writing (MA Literature)
Winter term 2023
124221 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar - Theorizing Victorian Material Culture
124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Cultural Studies in Practice
128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts (MA)
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2024). Long Covid and ME/CFS: When the Doctor Does Not Believe You. Rudolphina : Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Wien. https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/long-covid-and-me-cfs-when-the-doctor-doesnt-believe-you
Pietrzak-Franger, M., & Elsner, A. (Eds.) (2024). Literature and Medicine. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge critical concepts series
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Accepted/In press). Long Covid as a Collective Experience. Re:visit. Humanities & Medicine in Dialogue.
Pietrzak-Franger, M., & Elsner, A. (2023). Medical Humanities in Transition: Editorial. Medical Humanities, 49(4), 501-502. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012853
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2023). Adaption und/als Kulturwissenschaft. In R. Emig, & L. Krämer (Eds.), Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Adaption De Gruyter. Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2023). Long Covid: Digital Health Technologies, Patient Activism, and Illness Narratives. Hard Times Magazine, (107), 105-120.
Pietrzak-Franger, M., Liedke, H. L., & Radak, T. (2023). Editorial: Presence and Precarity in (Post-)Pandemic Theatre and Performance. Theatre Research International, 48(1), 2-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883322000360
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. Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture Vol. 11 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1_11#DOI
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2023). Caridad Svich, Toward a Future Theatre. Conversations During the Pandemic: London: Bloomsbury. 245 pp. $26.95 (paperback), $90.00 (hardback), $24.25 (PDF ebook), $24.25 (Epub & Mobi ebook). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 11(1), 262-265. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2023-0018
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Accepted/In press). Covid Knowledge, Transmedia Narratives, and the Poetics of Unreliability in Postdigital Environments. In J. Alber, & D. de Muijnck (Eds.), Pandemic Storytelling Brill. Narratives and Mental Health
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. (2023). Postdigital Health Practices: New Directions in Medical Humanities. Medical Humanities, 49(4), 503-510. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012611
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
Pietrzak-Franger, M., & Elsner, A. (Eds.) (2023). Transitions & Transformations: Medical Humanities in Times of COVID-19. (4 ed.) Medical Humanities Vol. 49 No. 4 https://mh.bmj.com/content/49/4
Pietrzak-Franger, M., Lange, A. T. H., & Söregi, R. (2022). Narrating the Pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(5), 1286–1306. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221077291
Löffler-Stastka, H., & Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2022). COVID-19 survivors: Multi-disciplinary efforts in psychiatry and medical humanities for long-term realignment. World Journal of Psychiatry, 12(7), 995-998. https://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v12.i7.995
Pietrzak-Franger, M. (2022). Transmediality: A Model in Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 1(1), 21-26. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/article/67974/
Askew, L. (Contributor), Burzynska, A. (Contributor), Edelman, J. (Contributor), Puschke, C. (Contributor), Voigts, E. (Contributor), Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Producer), & Liedke, H. L. (Producer). (2022). Viral Theatre Podcast: Episode 4. Multimedia output https://redcircle.com/shows/viral-theatre-podcast/episodes/8af47796-d8aa-4e52-83a2-30ed2f58035a
Macnaughton, J. (Author), Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Producer), & Liedke, H. L. (Producer). (2022). Viral Theatre Podcast: Episode 3. Multimedia output https://redcircle.com/shows/viral-theatre-podcast/episodes/6adc5e42-0efc-4ec7-b9fd-d144c49511c5
Bay-Cheng, S. (Author), Pietrzak-Franger, M. (Producer), & Liedke, H. L. (Producer). (2022). Viral Theatre Podcast: Episode 2. Multimedia output https://redcircle.com/shows/viral-theatre-podcast/episodes/b8b8fd12-261c-4565-9cf9-8b9e0573c8ed

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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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 presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

17 Jun 2023

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

Postdigital Health Practices: New Directions in Medical Humanities

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

20 Apr 2023

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

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

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

23 Nov 2022

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

Environment & Health: Disease, Materiality, and the Empire

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

10 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Transmedia Practices in the Nineteenth Century

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

23 Sep 2022

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

Pandemic Theater and Community Building

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

16 Sep 2022

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

Roundtable discussion: Publishing in Victorian Studies

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

1 Jul 2022

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

Introduction: Covid-19 and Resilience

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

30 Jun 2022

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

Introduction

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

22 Jun 2022

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

Visiodemics: Covid-19 and Visual Storytelling

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 2022 → 8 Jun 2022

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

Gilbert Frankau, The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

17 Mar 2022

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

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

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

7 Oct 2021

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

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

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 2021

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

#CoronaAlltag. Wie Bilder den Umgang mit Krisen prägen

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

14 Jun 2021

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

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

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

15 Apr 2021

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

Facing the Pandemic: Acts of Seeing and Iconographies of Illness

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

11 Jan 2021

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

Adapting the Victorians

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

26 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Medical Humanities: Knowledge, Power and Discrimination

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

6 Mar 2020

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

Medicine & Culture: Knowledge, Power and Discrimination

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

5 Mar 2020

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

Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices: An Introduction

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

30 Jan 2020

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

Cultural Studies in/as Medical Humanities

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Speaker)

24 Jan 2020

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

Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health

Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger (Invited speaker)

5 Oct 2019

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

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T: +43-1-4277-42481
M: +43-664-8176470

monika.pietrzak-franger@univie.ac.at