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Mag. Dr. Ranthild Salzer
Summer term 2026
124183 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Introducing Comics Studies: How a ‘simple’ medium addresses complex issues.
Winter term 2025
124183 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - From Buffy Summers to Katniss Everdeen - Third Wave Feminisms and Female Action Heroes in the classroom
124642 VO BEd 04.2: Cultural Theories and Popular Culture - In love with 'good' villains? The (pop)cultural function of villainous characters in film, comics & TV series
Summer term 2025
124261 KO Critical Media Analysis - Cherchez La Femme? How Gender Fantasies shape female Action Hero Constructions in Film, TV, Games and Comic Books
Salzer, R. (2025). Crafting Marvelous Men: Captain America, Enacting Masculinity, and the Marvel Method. In M. Rauchenbacher, K. Serles, & N. Lobnig (Eds.), Comics Studies x Gender Studies: Schnittmengen von Forschung, Lehre und Praxis – Intersections of Research, Teaching, and Practice. (pp. 101-112). De Gruyter.
Salzer, R. (2023). Superhelden als Social-Gospel-Männer. In N. Gaspers, T. Caeners, & M. Keidel (Eds.), Religiöse Helden : Glaube, Religion, Mortalität in der superheroischen Popkultur (pp. 233-249). Transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/b4/65/f9/oa9783839460900.pdf
Salzer, R., & Tschiedl, R. (2018). Heldendämmerung mit Superman: Ein amerikanischer "Übermensch" wird 80. Radio show
Salzer, R. (2016). Anti-Colonial Discourse in Joe Sacco’s Palestine: Making Space for the Losers of History. In M. Piiponen, & M. Salmela (Eds.), Topographies of Popular Culture (pp. 35-59). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Salzer, R. (2015). „Tracing Masculinities in Joe Sacco's Palestine (2001)“. In R. Klütsch, S. A. Nitzsche, & S. Schlensag (Eds.), Breaking the Panel: Comics as a Medium (Vol. MasteRResearch Band 6, pp. 114-125). LIT Verlag.

Childhood and Adolescence in/and Comics – Annual Meeting of the German Society for Comics Studies

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

8 Oct 2025 → 10 Oct 2025

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

Troubling comfortable origins: How the practice of retroactive continuity fractures simple readings of Marvel Comics’ Captain America

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

4 Oct 2025

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

The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

5 Sept 2025 → 7 Sept 2025

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

Was ist Männlichkeit?

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

18 Apr 2017

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

Fantasies of Masculinity

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

23 Feb 2017

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

Constructing spaces in Sacco’s Palestine

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

25 Oct 2013 → 26 Oct 2013

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

Through Other Eyes: Reading Masculinities in Joe Sacco's Palestine

Salzer, R. (Speaker)

10 May 2013 → 12 May 2013

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

Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 3F-O1-07

ranthild.salzer@univie.ac.at