Dr. Tatiana Konrad, MA

T: +43-1-4277-42456

tatiana.konrad@univie.ac.at

News: Principal Investigator (Projektleiterin): Stand-Alone Project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” Urgent Funding SARS-CoV-2, FWF Austrian Science Fund (since 02/2022)

Project Website: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/

Foto (c) Barbara Mair

Consultation hours: by appointment

Summer term 2023

124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Black Popular Culture and Social Justice

124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - NBC’ Hannibal: The Aesthetics of Cult TV

Winter term 2022

120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies - Airborne Pandemics: (Visual) Culture and Ecology of Disease

124268 AR Cultural/Media Studies 1/2 (AR) - Anthology Series and 'American Horror Story': Contemporary Culture, History, and Politics on TV

128303 VO Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts / Theory (MA)

Summer term 2022

124220 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar - Imagining the Future through Science Fiction

128110 VO Popular and Media Cultures VO / Cultural Studies - MA M01 - (Lecture Series) Air: Perspectives from the Environmental and Medical Humanities

Konrad, T. (2023). “Ecohorror, Terrorism, and Inadequate Representation of Global Warming in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening.’”. In R. L. Young (Ed.), Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling (pp. 137-150). Lexington Books.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Introduction – The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil.”. In T. Konrad (Ed.), Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste (pp. 1-24). Edinburgh University Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). “LGBTQ Graphic Novels for/about Teenagers: Adolescence and Queerness in Honor Girl & Adrian and the Tree of Secrets.”. In K. Karshner (Ed.), Voices from the Wreckage: Young Adult Voices in the #MeeToo Movement (pp. 167-182). Vernon Press.

Konrad, T. (Ed.) (2023). Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste. Edinburgh University Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). Sweet Prosperity and Bitter Bondage: Caribbean Empowerment and Race in Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (2012). In N. Gernalzick, & J. Imorde (Eds.), The Mediality of Sugar (pp. 125-143). Brill.

Konrad, T. (2023). The Hate U Give: Police Brutality, Political Fantasies, and Black Popular Culture. In L. M. Bonnette-Bailey , & J. I. Gayles (Eds.), Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture (pp. 48-64). Routledge.

Konrad, T. (2023). “The Sound of Environmental Crisis: Silence as/and Eco-Horror in A Quiet Place.”. In C. Travis, D. P. Dixon, L. Bergmann, R. Legg, & A. Crampsie (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities (pp. 268-276). Routledge.

Konrad, T. (2022). “Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later.”. In L. A. Sourdot, & E. Janak (Eds.), Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher (pp. 59-73). Lexington Books.

Konrad, T. (2022). “Bruno Latour, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, trans. Julie Rose.”. Journal of Ecohumanism, 1(2), 155-157. https://doi.org/10.33182/joe.v1i2.2212

Konrad, T. (2022). “Dayna Bowen Matthew, Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America.”. EJAS-European Journal of American Studies, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.18904

Konrad, T. (2022). “‘Enslavement of the Masses’: Literary Imaginings of Antebellum American South and English Industrial North, 1852-1861.”. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 29(2), 59-82.

Konrad, T. (2022). “From Disability to ‘Adaptivity’: Bethany Hamilton in Sean McNamara’s Soul Surfer (2011).”. In G. Molnár, & R. Bullingham (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender Politics in Sport and Physical Activity (pp. 203-211). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Konrad, T. (2022). “Reclaiming Female Power in Postcolonial Africa: The Tomboy in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.”. In E. J. Dymond, J. Harrison, & H. Wells (Eds.), Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Representation, and Identity (pp. 73-89). Lexington Books.

Konrad, T. (2022). “Reporting, Reflecting, Participating: Media Intervention in the Balkan War in Welcome to Sarajevo, No Man’s Land, and The Hunting Party.”. Journal of Military Ethics, 21(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2022.2064951

Konrad, T. (2022). “The Legacy of American Slavery: Contesting Blackness and Re-envisioning Nationhood in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 4(2), 49-79.

Konrad, T. (2022). “The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War.”. In R. Dickason, D. Letort, M. Prum, & S. A. H. Bélanger (Eds.), War and Remembrance: Recollecting and Representing War (pp. 277-294). McGill-Queens University Press.

Konrad, T. (2022). “The Sexual Grammar of the Cold War: The James Bond Film Posters.”. The International Journal of James Bond Studies, 5(1), 1-13.

Konrad, T. (2022). “‘You’re black, you’re poor, you’re ugly, you’re a woman. You’re nothin’ at all!’: (In)Visibility in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985).”. In J. Williams (Ed.), Critical Insights: The Color Purple (pp. 191-206). Salem Press.

Konrad, T. (Ed.) (2021). Acoustic and Visual Ecology of Damaged Planet: Special Issue of "Art + Media: Journal of Art and Media Studies". Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia.

Konrad, T. (2021). “Child Soldiers in Transatlantic Graphic Narratives of War.”. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12(5), 719-736.

Research Interests

Environmental Humanities; Health Humanities; American Studies; Anglophone Postcolonial Studies; War and Genocide Studies

Full List of Publications, Conference Presentations, and Invited Talks: https://univie.academia.edu/TatianaProrokovaKonrad

Project

Principal Investigator (Projektleiterin): Stand-Alone Project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” Urgent Funding SARS-CoV-2, FWF Austrian Science Fund (since 02/2022)

Project Website: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/

Visiting Fellowships

- Visiting Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (15/03/2022-09/04/2022)

- Visiting Researcher, Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA (15/09/2019-25/09/2019)

- Visiting Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, USA (01/07/2018-31/07/2018)

- Visiting Scholar, Department of English and Center for the Study of War and Memory, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA (01/09/2016-30/11/2016)

University Education

- Doctoral Degree (Dr. phil.) in American Studies, University of Marburg, Germany (10/2014-10/2017)
Dissertation Title: “Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature, 1990-.”

- European Joint Master’s Degree in English and American Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany (10/2012-09/2014)
MA Thesis Title: “The Cinema of Intervention: American Exceptionalism and Global War from The Thin Red Line to Zero Dark Thirty.”

- Exchange Semester, University of Graz, Austria, (09/2013-01/2014)

- Teaching Degree (English and German), Ryazan State University, Russia (09/2007-06/2012)

- Translation Degree (English and Russian), Ryazan State University, Russia (10/2009-06/2012)

Positions Held

- Development of a Postdoc Project in English and American Studies, University of Marburg, Germany (11/2017-08/2018). Financed through the Equal Opportunity Scholarship for Outstanding Female Junior Scholars (MArburg University Research Academy)
Title of the Project: “Climate Change, (Anti-)Globalization, and Eco-Culture from the Industrial Revolution to the Present.”

- Academic Assistant in English (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Modern Language Center, University of Marburg, Germany (05/2017-08/2018)

- Lecturer, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Private University of Education, Linz Diocese, Austria (03/2021-06/2021); Department of English and American Studies (04/2015-03/2019) and Modern Language Center (10/2016-08/2018), University of Marburg, Germany; Department of American Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany (04/2017-03/2018); Department of Media Studies, University of Bochum, Germany (04/2016-09/2016)

- Mentor for International Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs, International Office, University of Marburg, Germany (07/2015-12/2015)

Teaching (outside the University of Vienna)

- Seminars: Anglophone Cultures for the Classroom (twice in SS 2021); Gender and Disability in Literature and Film (WS 2018/19); Slave Narratives: 1789-1987 ( SS 2018); Being Mother: Images from Literature (WS 2017/18); American Dark Romanticism: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (WS 2017/18); American Wars in Film and Literature: 1990 to Present (SS 2017); Gay & Lesbian Graphic Novel Today (SS 2017); “Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction”: Novels of Ann Bannon (WS 2016/17); “It’s Mercy, Compassion, and Forgiveness I Lack. Not Rationality”: Deconstructing Female Masculinity in Film (SS 2016)

- Tutorials: New Media (SS 2016); New York (in) Fiction (WS 2015/16); Pop! Goes Culture (SS 2015)

- English Language Courses: Academic Communication, C1-C2 (SS 2018); Learning English with Film, Music, and Literature, B2-C1 (SS 2018); English for Administration Trainees, B1(WS 2017/18); Academic Communication, C1-C2 (SS 2017); Speak Out, B2-C1 (SS 2017); Speaking and Writing, B1-B2 (SS 2017); General English, B1-B2, Intensive Course (WS 2016/17); Communicating in English: Speak Out, B2-C1 (WS 2016/17)

- English Language Workshops: Grammar Workshop “Tense III – Future Tense,” B1-B2 (SS 2018); Grammar Workshop “Tense II – Past Tense,” B1-B2 (WS 2017/18); Grammar Workshop “Tense I – Present Tense,” B1-B2 (SS 2017)

Editorial Experience

- Book Series Editor at Michigan State University Press (since 07/2022)
Series: "Environment, Health, and Well-being"

- Academic Editor at Pod Academy, UK (03/2015-12/2017)
Channels: Arts and Culture, Humanities and Social Sciences

External Reviewer

10 international academic publishers and journals, including Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and West Virginia University Press (Energy and Society Series)

Project Funding, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

33 in total. Among them are Stand-Alone Project (FWF Austrian Science Fund); Equal Opportunity Scholarship for Outstanding Female Junior Scholars; Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship; Young Scholar Excellence Award for the paper “‘Where Is the Mother’: Pregnancy, Birth, and Transgender Parenthood”; and several DAAD grants.