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)

Konrad, T. (2025). “Debunking Rape Myths: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and #MeToo in Unbelievable.”. In R. Beliveau, & L. Funnell (Eds.), #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture (pp. 53-64). McFarland.

Konrad, T. (2025). “The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”. In A. J. Shaw, & V. L. Kennedy (Eds.), Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century: Meanings, Measures, and Representations (pp. 157-171). University of Toronto Press.

Konrad, T. (2025). “The Plane: Materiality, Air, and Environmental-Health ‘Heterotopia.’”. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2451511

Konrad, T. (2024). Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present. University of Nevada Press.

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., & Schaufler, S. (Eds.) (2024). Cultures of Airborne Diseases: Special Issue of "Open Cultural Studies". De Gruyter. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93185

Konrad, T. (Ed.) (2024). Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism. Temple University Press.

Konrad, T. (2024). Introduction – Unnatural Bodies: Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment. In T. Konrad (Ed.), Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism (pp. 1-33). Temple University Press.

Konrad, T. (2024). “Planetary Health: Sickness, the Environment and Air in Film.”. Journal of Environmental Media, 5(2), 245-261.

Konrad, T. (2024). “Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, ed., The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities.”. Amerikastudien, 69(2), 195-197.

Konrad, T. (2024). “Seeing Environmental Crisis: Reproduction, Disability, and Climate Change in Bird Box.”. In R. Laist, & B. A. Dixon (Eds.), Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis (pp. 249-259). Fourth Horseman Press.

Konrad, T. (2024). “Sharon Patricia Holland, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life.”. EJAS-European Journal of American Studies, 1-2. https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/23244

Konrad, T. (2024). “Teaching Hemingway through Fiction Film: Midnight in Paris and Hemingway & Gellhorn.”. In C. Cobb, & M. K. Dudley (Eds.), Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding (pp. 165-172). The Kent State University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/14/edited_volume/chapter/4001910

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.

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 University of Exeter Press (since 03/2025)
Series: "Environment, Senses and Emotions"

- 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

14 international academic publishers and journals, including Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, West Virginia University Press, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Project Funding, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

46 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.