O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Margarete Rubik

Professor Emerita

Contact: margarete.rubik@univie.ac.at
Office hours by appointment only (room number 3D O2 01; 2nd floor, turn right at the stairs, end of corridor).

Research Interests

  • Restoration and eighteenth-century literature
  • Modern drama
  • Victorian novel
  • Cognitive Poetics

CV

  • Chair for English and American Literature at the University of Vienna (1999-2015)
  • Head of the English Department at the University of Vienna (2010-12, 2004-6, 1999-2002)
  • Deputy Head of the English Department at the University of Vienna (2014-15, 2007-9)
  • Vice President of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (2001-8)
  • Head of the Gender Committee of the Humanities Faculty (1999-2006)
  • President of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English 1999-2000, Vice President of AAUTE 2000-2004)
  • Guest professorship at the University of Brno (1996)
  • Guest professorship at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1993)
  • Habilitation (1991): The Novels of Mrs Oliphant. A Subversive View of Traditional Themes
  • Graduation “sub auspiciis Praesidentis” at the University of Vienna (1976): “The Dramatic Work of Joe Orton. An Analysis of a Cultural Phenomenon of the Sixties and Its Relation to the Tradition of English Literature.”
  • Assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Vienna (1973-76)
  • MA in American Studies at the University of Southern California (1972)
  • Studies of English and History at the University of Vienna (Magisterium) 1968-72

Awards, supervisions and lectures

  • Supervision of more than 200 diploma theses and dissertantions; supervision of  several post-doctoral qualifications (Habilitation); reviewer in numerous committees for Habilitationen (post-doctoral qualifications) and search committees for new professors; member of various committees at the Univ. of Vienna and other Universities, member of diverse Advisory Boards
  • Participation in the first mentoring programme at the University of Vienna and teaching prize for it.
  • 2015: Teaching award for the best supervision of theses at the University of Vienna
  • Lectures and papers in Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Oman, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications click HERE.

The Novels of Mrs. Oliphant. A Subversive View of Traditional Themes. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

Early Women Dramatists. Women Playwrights in England 1550 - 1800. London: Macmillan, 1998.

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights. Vol. 1: Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood. Eds. Margarete Rubik and Eva Müller-Zettelmann. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001.

Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn. With an “Introduction: Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra.” Eds. Margarete Rubik, Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego und Bernard Dhuicq. Paris: Bilingua Editions, 2002.

(Dis)Continuities: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 9. Trier: WTV, 2002.

Theory Into Poetry. New Approaches to the Lyric. Ed. Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Margarete Rubik. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of "Jane Eyre". Eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.

Aphra Behn In/And Our Time. Proceedings of the Aphra Behn Europe Symposium Naples, 7 - 9 July 2005. Ed. Margarete Rubik. Paris: Les Editions d’En Face, 2008.

Stories of Empire. Narrative Strategies for the Legitimation of an Imperial World Order. Eds. Christa Knellwolf and Margarete Rubik, Trier: wvt, 2009.

Staging Interculturality. Eds. Werner Huber, Margarete Rubik and Julia Novak. Contemporary Drama in English, vol. 17. Trier: WVT, 2010.

Rive Gauche. Paris as a Site of Avant-Garde Art and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s. Eds. Elke Mettinger, Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.

Aphra Behn and her Female Successors. Ed. Margarete Rubik. Berlin/Wien/Zürich: LIT-Verlag, 2011.

Aphra Behn. Ed. Margarete Rubik. Women’s Writing (Special Issue) 19:2 (May 2012).

Ireland in Drama, Film and Popular Culture. Eds. Sandra Mayer, Julia Novak and Margarete Rubik. Trier: wvt, 2012.

The Younger Brother, ed. Margarete Rubik, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn. Plays 1682-1696, ed Rachel Adcock, Kate Aughterson, Claire Bowditch, Elaine Hobby, Alan James Hogarth, Anita Pacheco and Margarete Rubik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 705-875.