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 2024

124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Climate Change in the Classroom

128110 VO Popular and Media Cultures VO / Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Materiality of Air: Representation, Crisis, Health (Lecture Series)

Winter term 2023

124080 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Environmental Crisis in Literature

124182 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Cultures of (Air) Pollution

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

Konrad, T. (2024). “Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in GoldenEye (1995).”. In C. Hines, T. McSweeney, & S. Joy (Eds.), James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise (pp. 202-211). Columbia University Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Air Pollution, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Climate Change: Environmental Racism and Polarization in the United States in the Era of Crisis.”. In W. Zacharasiewicz, C. Birkle, & M. Prisching (Eds.), Polarization in North America: European Perspectives (pp. 247-255). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Colonization, Resource Extraction, and War in Blood Diamond.”. In D. G. D. Amaral, & A. C. Obute (Eds.), Mediascapes of Ruined Geographies in the Global South (pp. 149-166). Palgrave Macmillan.

Konrad, T. (2023). “David Silkenat, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South.”. EJAS-European Journal of American Studies, 1-2.

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. (Ed.) (2023). Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility. University of Exeter Press.

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., Mitchell, C., & Schaufler, S. (2023). “Introduction: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air.”. In T. Konrad (Ed.), Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility (pp. 1-34). University of Exeter Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). “James Bond, Environmental Injustice and ‘Slow Violence’ in the Craig Era.”. In L. Funnell, & C. Lindner (Eds.), Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era (pp. 11-27). Bloomsbury.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr., ed., For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice.”. Journal of Popular Culture, 56(1), 213-214.

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 #MeToo Movement (pp. 167-182). Vernon Press.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.’”. In C. Riegel, & K. M. Robinson (Eds.), Health Humanities in Application (pp. 287-318). Palgrave Macmillan.

Konrad, T. (2023). “Of Sexism and Ableism: Wonder Woman’s (Ab)Use of Disability.”. In A. E. George (Ed.), Disability and the Superhero: Essays on Ableism and Representation in Comic Media (pp. 95-107). McFarland.

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

Konrad, T. (2023). “Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Coexistence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm.”. In D. Farr, & M. D. Holm (Eds.), Grimm Realities: Essays on Identity and Justice in the Television Series (pp. 155-168). McFarland.

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 Body at War: Reimagining the Irish Troubles through the Post-9/11 Aesthetics of Torture in Steve McQueen’s Hunger.”. In G. Wrightson (Ed.), Terrorism through the Ages (pp. 265-279). 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. (2023). “Violence in the Age of Environmental Crisis: Climate Change Denialism, the War on Science, Eco-Anxiety, and Don’t Look Up.”. In B. C. Messina (Ed.), Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe: How Global Insecurities Threaten the Future of Humanity (pp. 75-90). De Gruyter.

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 English / Secondary Education, University of Education Upper Austria, 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

11 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, The MIT Press, and West Virginia University Press (Energy and Society Series)

Project Funding, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

41 in total. Among them are Environment and Climate Research Award 2024; 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.