emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Education and Teaching Record

1967    Dr. phil., University of Graz
1973    Habilitation for Englische Philologie, University of Graz
1973    Universitätsdozent, University of Graz
1974-   Full Professor of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
1971/72              Visiting Member, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute and Worcester College, Oxford
March-July 1979  Visiting Fellow, University of Virginia and Yale University
Feb.-Aug. 1985    Visiting Scholar, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oct. 1991-Feb. 1992    Senior Fulbright Scholar, Stanford University
June 1994            ERASMUS Visiting Professor, University of Mainz
March-August 1996      Visiting Scholar, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
Visiting Professor, University of Maryland at College Park
April 1998, Sep. 2000, Feb. 2001    SOCRATES Visiting Professorship in Gent, Bergen, Odense
March-June 2001    Distinguished Fulbright Scholar UNC
June 2001    Visiting Scholar University of Ottawa
April 2004    SOCRATES Visiting Professorship in Padova
Summer Term 06    Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Southern Studies / University of South Carolina
Cowles Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center / University of Texas.
         

Awards and Prizes Record

• 2018 Honorary doctorate/Ehrendoktorat awarded by the Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest (ELTE)
• Feb. 2014 - Nov. 2015    Research Project (Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich and Botstiber Foundation) "Narratives of Encounters and Transatlantic Networks."
• June 2009 - Feb. 2014    Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Kanadische Literatur: Transatlantisch, Transkontinental, Transkulturell."
• Feb. 2006 - June 2009    Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Transatlantic Exchanges: Between the American South and Europe."
• Sept. 2002 - May 2006    Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Transatlantic Identities and Retrospection in Canadian Literature"
• Aug. 1999 - 2002            Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Southern Cultures and the Ideas of Europe"
• 2001         Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award
• 1994, 1988, 1981           John F. Kennedy Institute of Free Univ. of Berlin, research grant
• Oct. 1993 - 1995            Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) "Images of Central Europe"
• 1991         Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award + Fulbright Grant
• 1987         Oesterreichische Nationalbank Jubiläumsfonds- Projekt Grant Nr. 3108 (1.1.1988 - 30.6.1990)
• 1987         Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award
• 1984/85    ACLS and Fulbright Grants
• 1983         Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award
• 1978         American Council of Learned Societies Grant
• 1972         Theodor Körner Stiftungsfonds Award
• 1971/72    Austrian Ministry of Science and Research Award
• 1970         Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Short Term Grant
• 1969         British Council Grant
• 1967         Scottish Universities Short Term Grant

In 1994 Waldemar Zacharasiewicz became a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and served on its Committee for Literary Scholarship. In 2000 he was elected to Full Membership of the Academy. In 2010 he was elected to membership of Academia Europea, and in 2014 to the Royal Society of Canada as a Foreign Fellow.

He has organized three international symposia in the field of American literature in Vienna and has also coordinated three international conferences on Canadian culture. From 1998 to February 2014 he was Director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Vienna.

Since July 2012 he has been the chair of the Commission on "The North Atlantic Triangle: Social and Cultural Exchange in Europe, the USA and Canada" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In this capacity, he has convened three international conferences and symposia in Vienna.

He has given lectures at many academic institutions such as the Universities of Mainz, Bonn, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Siegen, Wuppertal, Regensburg, Freiburg and Kiel (Germany), Genoa, Padova, Venice and Bergamo (Italy), University of Cracow, Universities of Poznan, Lódz and Gdansk (Poland), Bratislava (Slovakia), Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), Lund (Sweden), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Eötvös Lórand University (Budapest, Hungary), Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria), Sinaia (Roumania), Charlottesville/U VA/, Georgia State, Baylor University, Texas A & M University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Emory University, University of Minnesota, Tulsa University, Stanford University, University of California at Davis, University of Maryland at College Park., College of William & Mary (USA), Edmonton, University of Toronto, Ottawa University, St. John, St. Thomas University, Fredericton (N.B.), Saint Francis Xavier, Acadia University (N.S.), St. John's (Nfdl.), Brock University, University of British Columbia (Canada).