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 MairConsultation hours: by appointment
Research Interests
Full List of Publications, Conference Presentations, and Invited Talks: https://univie.academia.edu/TatianaProrokovaKonrad
Project
Project Website: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/
Visiting Fellowships
- 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
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
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)
- 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
Series: "Environment, Health, and Well-being"
Channels: Arts and Culture, Humanities and Social Sciences
External Reviewer
Project Funding, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
“Materiality, Visibility, and Perception: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air.”
Savannah Schaufler (Speaker), Chantelle Mitchell (Speaker) & Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Unnatural Bodies: Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Aerial Environments in Film: The Virus, Pollution, and Breathing.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in GoldenEye (1995).”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Health, Food, and Structural Racism.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Planet’s Health: Airborne Zoonosis and Environment in Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Literature of Intervention: U.S. Participation in the Second World War.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The End of the World: Images from the Bible in Climate Change Fiction.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Food, Black Authenticity, and Structural Racism from the Times of Slavery to the Present.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Weathering the Smoke: British Industrial Fiction as Climate Change Fiction.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Sound of Environmental Crisis: Silence as/and (Eco)Horror in A Quiet Place.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Co-Existence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Debunking Rape Myths: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and #MeToo in Unbelievable.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The ‘Slow Violence’ of Climate Change Denialism in Don’t Look Up.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Perpetrators, Victims, and ‘Implicated Subjects’ in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Religion, Climate Crisis, and the Ambiguity of Biblical Allusions in Cli-Fi.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“LGBTQ Graphic Novels for/about Teenagers: Adolescent Homosexuality in Honor Girl & Adrian and the Tree of Secrets.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Violence in the Age of Environmental Crisis: Climate Change Denialism, the War on Science, Eco-Anxiety, and Don’t Look Up.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Global South, Ruined Environments, and ‘Slow Violence’ in James Bond Films.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Segregation, Environmental Racism, and Polarization in the USA in the Era of Climate Change.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“(Porno)Graphic Lesbian Love in Blue Is the Warmest Color and La vie d’Adѐle.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Body at War: Reimagining the Irish Troubles through the Post-9/11 Aesthetics of Torture in Steve McQueen’s Hunger.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Veganism, Ecoethics, and Climate Change in Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAddam’ Trilogy.’”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Graphic Storytelling: Visualizing Health, Progress, and Race.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Petroculture, Plastic, and Environmental Crisis.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Climate Crisis and the Environmental Humanities.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Romance as a Panacea and a New Generation of Intellectual Zombies in Warm Bodies and iZombie.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Mental Dualism, Sin, and Alcoholism in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ (1843).”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Of ‘Pagan Devil-Children’ and Monstrous Plants: Vegetal World, Human Enslavement, and Precarious Existence in ‘Children of the Corn.’”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Female Power, Identity, and the Postcolonial African Novel.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Dread of Aging: A Feminist Reading of The Countess.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Toward Gender Equality in Postcolonial Africa: Women, Freedom, and Tomboyism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Human Duality, Moral Transformation, and the Vietnam War in Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Women’s Rights, Abortion, and Reproductive Politics in the Twenty-First-Century Horror Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Legacy of American Slavery: Perpetrators and ‘Implicated Subjects’ in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Of Sexism and Ableism: Wonder Woman’s (Ab)Use of (Dis)Ability.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Intergenerational Struggle and Racial Progress in The Help and The Butler.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Black Men in White Sports: Film and Racial Politics in 1930s-40s’ America.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Shaming the West: The Other Side of the Rwandan Genocide in Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Unmasking the Bite: Pleasure, Sexuality, and Vulnerability in the Vampire Series.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Toxicity, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change in Pionér and Okkupert.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“‘Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation’: Paul Schrader’s Eco-Theology in First Reformed.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Environmental Ethics, Mobility, and Carbonization as a Choice.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Recovering from Addiction in Sobriety: Narrating Disability/Mental Illness through the Medium of Comic Art.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Laughing at the Body: The Imitation of Masculinity in Peplum Parody Films.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Cinematic Reimagining of the Cold War in the 2010s.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Child Soldiers in Transatlantic Graphic Narratives of War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change as a Holocaust.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Colonization, Resource Extraction, and War in Blood Diamond.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Mobility, Car Culture, and the Environment in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Climate Change, the Environment, and the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘Enslavement of the Masses’: Literary Imaginings of Antebellum American South and English Industrial North, 1852-1861.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘Where’s the Mother?’: Pregnancy, Birth, and Transgender Parenthood.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon’s ‘Beebo Brinker Chronicles.’”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in 99 Days.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Pre-Apocalyptic Horror of Climate Change: Colonization and Oil Drilling in The Last Winter.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘Facing the Sunshine’: The Role of Nature in A Room with a View.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Ecohorror, Terrorism, and Inadequate Representation of Global Warming in The Happening.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Beauty and the Beast.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Docu-Fictions of War: Documenting History Through Fiction.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“History and/in Fiction: U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan as a Humanitarian Project in Jesse Goolsby’s I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Of Immigration, Cosmopolitanism, and Diversity: Lost Identity and Challenge of Integration for Women in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Racism, Nazism, Sexism: Entering the University Campus of Higher Learning.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘We Were Bred to Protect’: The Iraq War in Matt Gallagher’s Kaboom.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“From Fiction to (Semi-)History: U.S. Contemporary Interventions in Film and Literature.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Reconsidering the Status of Fictional Films and Literature on War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Wild Wild … East: American Cowboys and Afghan Terrorists in Aaron Gwyn’s Wynne’s War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Film and the History of U.S. Intervention in the Balkan War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Detecting U.S. Humanitarian Intervention in David O. Russell’s Three Kings.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Power, Government, and the Choice to Intervene: Reading Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Sugar and Slavery in Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Holocaust in Film: Witnessing the Extermination through the Eyes of Children.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘I Don’t Belong Here Anymore’: Homeland as an Uncomfortable Space for War Veterans in Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Afghanistan Wars in Film: from Communism to Terrorism. The Changing Menace towards the United States.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“WWII in the Pacific: Cinematic Aesthetics and Ethics of American War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Women, Power, and Insanity in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Reporting, Reflecting, Participating: Media Intervention in the Balkan War on Film.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘It’s a War Zone Now, Here’: Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Female Oppression, Patriarchy, and America in the 1950s.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘We’ll Write DEMOCRACY with Bullets, Man!’: Mission and Heroism in Tom Paine’s The Pearl of Kuwait.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“American Exceptionalism and the Policy of Interventionism: From the Early European Settlements to the Twenty-First Century.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Gender Ambiguity in Vietnam War Films.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Technology and the War in the Twenty-First Century: Humans or Machines?”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“US-American Intervention in Europe: Morality, Justice, and Freedom in WWII Cinema.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Deconstructing the Policy of U.S. Interventionism.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Documenting Vietnam: Verisimilitude, Political Propaganda, and Manipulation in Peter Davis’s Hearts and Minds.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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