Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Alexandra GANSER

Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Alexandra GANSER

Current Research Interests & Activities

AAAS Annual Conference "Cycles, Ruptures, (Dis-)continuities in American Studies," Oct. 3-4, 2025
North American Astrocultures, Astrofuturism, mobility futures: project "Colonizing Mars: Planetary Settlement in Contemporary American Culture" (forthcoming: special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies "American Astrocultures," co-ed. with Jens Temmen)
US-American, Anglophone Caribbean, and Canadian maritime literatures & cultures:
- Im/mobilization and necropolitics: project "Narratives of Flight in Contemporary North American Cross-Oceanic Refugee Literatures"
- series editor (with Meg Samuelson and Charne Lavery), Maritime Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Completed project: "Crisis and Discourses of (Il)Legitimacy in American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865," FWF / Elise Richter Grant, 2013-2018
  For further details, please visit the project website.
Cultural studies/theory, American popular culture, historical popular culture studies, visual cultures
Gender studies
Native American and First Nations studies
Ecocriticism

Head of the interdisciplinary research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies, Univ. of Vienna (2016-2024) and FWF doc.funds PhD program "Cultural Mobility Studies" (2019-2024)
Executive Director, Zentrum für Kanadastudien (ZKS) / Centre for Canadian Studies
Professor of American Studies (Literature & Culture), Dept. of English & American Studies, 2015- ; chair since 10/2017
Habilitation (Venia Legendi), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2016
post-doc, Univ. Vienna, Dept. of English and American Studies (2014-15)
Ph.D. American Literary & Cultural Studies (2007, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Assistant Professor, American Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2006-14)
Fellow, interdisciplinary Ph.D. program (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) "Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference & Transdifference," FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2004-2006)
Fulbright Fellow, University of Oklahoma at Norman (2003-2004)
M.A., U of Vienna (2002): English and American Studies & History

Teaching (selection)

"The Blue Humanities: Thinking with/through Water" (PhD SE)
Lecture series "Women in Hollywood from the Silent Era to the 21st Century" (with Julia Pühringer, in cooperation with Gartenbau Kino)
Indigenous Futurisms: Art, Literature, Activism (SE)
Witches and Witchcraft in American Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives (SE & EX, in cooperation with Burg Golling, Salzburg)
co-director, first European Summer School in Canadian Studies (ESSCS), with Centre for Canadian Studies Innsbruck (July 2022)
Faculty, IFK_Sommerakademie 2021, "Transformationen kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Mobilität", Sektion 1: Mobilität in der Krise: Transatlantische Perspektiven. August 2021.
Cultural Theories and Popular Cultures: Focus USA (VO)
Survey of North American Literatures (VO)
Re-Reading the American Renaissance (SE)
Theorizing Black and White (AR)
African American (Im)mobilities in American Literature through the Centuries (PS)
co-director, uni:vie Summer School "Archive-Based Filmmaking Workshop" with James Forsher and Rainer Köppl, July 2019.
America's Conquest of Outer Space (SE)
Rap and Hip Hop in the US (CMA)
North American Refugee Literatures (SE)
De-Colonizing the Ocean: Contemporary Multimedia Art and the Sea (CMA in cooperation with Clemens Rettenbacher, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary/TBA21 Exhibit "Tidalectics")
Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies (PhD SE)
The Prison Industrial Complex in American Culture (PS)
Outlaws and Misfits: Cultures of Deviance (RingVO)
New African Writing in the United States (PS)

Publications

Books and Special Issues

With Barbara Gfoellner, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, and Steffen Woell, eds. "Archipelagic Spaces and Im/Mobilities." Spec. forum, Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) 14.1 (2023).
With Gudrun Rath, ed. "Liberty and Death: Pirates and Zombies in Atlantic Modernity." Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 20.3 (2023).
With Charne Lavery, ed. Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Open Access
Caring for Cultural Studies: A Tribute to Monika Seidl. Ed. with Barbara Maly-Bowie, Elisabeth Lechner, and Eva Schoergenhuber. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2022.
With Leopold Lippert, Helena Oberzaucher, and Eva Schörgenhuber, eds. "Im/mobilities in American Culture." Spec. Issue of JAAAS - Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 3.1 (2021).
Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies. Ed. with Annegret Pelz. Göttingen: V&R / Vienna UP, 2020.
Crisis and Legitimacy in American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Open Access
Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Ed. with Birgit Daewes and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
AustroBob: Österreichische Aneignungen von Bob Dylans Poesie und Musik. Ed. with Eugen Banauch and Martin Blumenau. Wien: Falter, 2014.
Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women's Road Narratives, 1970-2000. New York: Rodopi, 2009.
Ed. with Katharina Gerund and Heike Paul. Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in American Culture and Beyond. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
Ed. with Heike Paul. Screening Gender: Geschlechterszenarien in der gegenwärtigen US-amerikanischen Populärkultur. Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 9. Wien, Münster: LIT, 2007.
Ed. with Katharina Gerund and Christina Judith Hein. COPAS: Current Perspectives in Postgraduate American Studies 9 (2008).
Ed. with Vibha Arora. EcoCultures. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 7.2 (May 2007). Special Issue on Ecocriticism.

Forthcoming and Recent Essays & Reviews

with Barbara Gföllner. "Astropelagic Afrofuturism: Outer Space Im/mobilities in Canisia Lubrin's 'Voodoo Hypothesis.'" In: Entangled Future Im/Mobilities. Ed. Romana Bund et al. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024. 29-52.
"Astrofuturismus: Utopien der Mobilität." In: Zukunftsnarrative. Zur Deutungsmacht kultureller Erzählmuster. Ed. Judith Gärtner, Martina Kumlehn, and Stephanie Wodianka. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024. 45-60.
"Transatlantic Triangulations and/in Musical Variations: Bob Dylan’s Trajectories into Austrian Popular Music." European American Studies. Ed. Heike Paul and Donald Pease. Hanover: Dartmouth UP (in preparation).
with Jens Temmen and Clemens Rettenbacher. "A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt." Archipelagic Spaces and Mobilities (Special Issue). Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) 14.1 (2023). 273-301.
with Charne Lavery. "Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities." Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 1-17. Open Access.
"Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction." Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture, ed. A. Ganser and Charne Lavery. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 211-234. Open Access.
with Gudrun Rath. "Liberty and Death: Pirates and Zombies in Atlantic Modernity." Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 20.3 (2023), 365-380.
"'O'er us, rovers free': Performing Gender and National Identity in Jacksonian Pirate Melodrama Pirate Melodrama." The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Ed. Leopold Lippert and Ralph Poole. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022. 179-210. DOI: 10.14361/9783839452530-009

with Annegret Pelz et al. "Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Mobilitätsstudien konzeptualisieren / Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Mobility Studies." Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies. Ed. with Annegret Pelz. Göttingen: V&R / Vienna UP, 2020. 1-44.
"Mobilität und Medialität im Hollywood-Weltraumfilm: Interstellar und The Martian." Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies. Ed. with Annegret Pelz. Göttingen: V&R / Vienna UP, 2020. 45-63.
"Astrofuturism." Critical Terms in Future Studies. Ed. Heike Paul. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 35-43.
"From the Black Atlantic to the Bleak Pacific: Re-Reading Benito Cereno." Atlantic Studies 15.2 (2018). Spec. Issue "Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies." Ed. Jens Temmen and Nicole Poppenhagen. 218-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1384612
Rev. Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present, ed. Charlotte Mathieson. Transfers: Journal of Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies 8.1 (March 2018). 144-146.
"Mobility in Early Modern Anglo-American Accounts of Piracy." Piracy, Place, and Property. Ed. Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis. London: Routledge, 2017. 81-92.
"Painting (the) In-Between:  Twentieth-Century Indigenous Border Art  at Glacier/Waterton National Parks." In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Stefan Brandt. Canadiana 20. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2017. 114-30.
"A 'civil wildness': Nature and Frontier Migration in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? (1839)." Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.4 (2017): 469-88.
"Der Pirat als Nationalheld? Piraterie und Krisenverhandlung in der US-amerikanischen Populärkultur des 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel Lieutenant Murrays Fanny Campbell (1844)." Populäre Piraten: Vermessung eines Feldes. Eds. Irmtraud Hnilica and Marcel Lepper. Berlin: Kadmos, 2017.103-18.
"Territorrialities of Flight: The Refugee Narrative in Edwidge Danticat and Madeleine Thien." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU) 49.2-3 (2016). Special issue "Refugees and/in Literature," ed. Sladja Blazan and Nigel Hatton.
"Caroline Kirkland." Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. oxfordbibliographiesonline.com. 2016.
"Gerald Vizenor: Transnational Trickster of Theory." Native North American Survivance and Memory: The Vizenor Continuum. Ed. Birgit Daewes and Alexandra Hauke. London: Routledge, 2016. 16-33.
"Twin Peaks: Serializing the US-Canadian Border." Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Ed. with Birgit Daewes and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 55-79.
with Birgit Daewes and Nicole Poppenhagen. "Season Recap: A Preface." Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Ed. with B. Daewes & N. Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 9-14.
with Martin Blumenau. "Bringing It All Back Home? Wolfgang Ambros' Aneignungen Bob Dylans." AustroBob: Österreichische Aneignungen von Bob Dylans Poesie und Musik. Ed. with Eugen Banauch and M. Blumenau. Wien: Falter-Verlag, 2014. 108-17.
"The Coastal Figuration of the Caribbean Pirate in the Late-Seventeenth Century." Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places. Ed. Anna-Margaretha Horatschek, Yvonne Rosenberg, and Daniel Schäbler. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. 135-55.
"Hipster Tourism and Hidden Mobilities in Chuck Palahniuk's Fugitives and Refugees." Culture and Mobility. Ed. Klaus Benesch. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 103-20.
"Pirate Science, Coastal Knowledge: Chorographies of the American Isthmus in the Late Seventeenth Century." Agents of Transculturation: Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens. Ed. Sebastian Jobs and Gesa Mackenthun. Münster: Waxmann, 2013. 115-35.
"The Pirate Ship as a Black Atlantic Heterotopia: Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca." Contact Spaces in American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena. Ed. Petra Eckhard, Klaus Rieser, and Silvia Schultermandl. Vienna: LIT, 2012. 51-75.
"That the Enchantments of the Sea may not have too strong and quick a Force upon some: Seafaring Mobilities in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy around 1700." Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in American Culture and Beyond. Ed. with Heike Paul and Katharina Gerund. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 31-52.
"Specters of Slavery, Phantoms of Luxury: Utopian Economics in A. O. Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America (1678/84)." American Economies. Ed. Eva Bösenberg, Reinhard Isensee, and Martin Klepper. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 303-25.
"Rituals of Citizenship in Winold Reiss's Indian Portraits: A Transatlantic Reading." Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives. Ed. Karsten Fitz. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 237-54.
"Lap Dancing for Mommy: Queer Intermediality, Chick Lit, and Trans-Generational Feminist Mediation in Erika Lopez' Illustrated Narratives." Amerikastudien / American Studies 56.2 (2011): 219-40.
"War Wounds: Bodily Inscriptions of Trauma and Cultural Memory in Silko's Ceremony." Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner. Vienna: LIT, 2011. 103-21.
"Navigating Little Italy: Carceral Mobility in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets." EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas. Ed. Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr, and Olaf Kaltmeier. Trier: wvt, 2011. 139-54.

Papers & Lectures (selection)

with Jens Temmen. "An Archipelagic Reading of Outer Space." International Workshop "Archipelagic Imperial Spaces and Mobilities," Univ. of Leipzig & online, July 15-17, 2021.
"Mobilities of Conquest in Hollywood’s Near Future Visions of Outer Space." Guest Lecture, Univ. Rostock, 21 Jan. 2021 (online).
"Maritime Mobilitäten: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven." Invited talk, TRANSMARE Kolloquium (Trierer Institut zur Erforschung des Transfers von Menschen, Gütern und Ideen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart), Univ. Trier, 13 Jan. 2021 (online).
"Maritime Flight in Contemporary Refugee Novels from the U.S. and Canada." Paper, Conference "Forms of Migration: Literature. Performance. The World," University of Graz/FWF. 2 May 2019.
"Twin Peaks' Seriality of the Double." Salzburg University, 22 Jan. 2019.
"Refugee Literature between the Caribbean and the US," Keynote, Conference "Migration, Flucht und Evakuierung in den Amerikas." Univ. Graz, Oct. 20, 2018.
"The Many Faces of Piracy in Antebellum American Literature," guest lecture, Univ. of Innsbruck, 24 June 2018.
"Trans-Oceanic Kinship and the Ghosts of the Dead in Madeleine Thien and Edwidge Danticat," MESEA conference, Univ. of Graz, June 1, 2018.
Symposium Re-Reading Melville & Hawthorne, Amerika Haus, 9 May 2017.
"Refugee Memories: Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter." Guest Lecture, Univ. Graz, 25 Apr. 2017.
"The Anthropocene Goes Outer Space: Terraforming im Hollywoodfilm." Lecture Series "Das Anthropozän," Univ. Wien, German Studies Department (Eva Horn), 15 Jan. 2018.
with Alexandra Hauke. "Indigenous Mobilities in Arctic Canada: Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." Lecture Series "Kanada: UmWelten und GrenzRäume," Centre for Canadian Studies/ZKS 29 Nov. 2017.
"Medialität und Mobilität im Hollywood-Weltraumfilm: Interstellar und The Martian." Ringvorlesung Mobilität und Medialität, 24 Jan. 2017.
"Painting 'Indians' at the U.S.-Canadian Border." Conference "In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture," Univ. Graz, June 2-4, 2016.
Bob Dylan at 75: Roundtable participant, Kulturverein Wimpassing, May 22, 2016; book presentation AustroBob, AmerikaHaus, May 24, 2016.
"Cross-Dressing and Piracy in Antebellum American Literature." FAU Erlangen, May 10, 2016.
"(Nicht) erzählte Männlichkeit: Bob Dylan in Österreich und Deutschland der 1970er und 80er Jahre." Symposium "POP SUB HOCH GEGEN (II): Erzählen", KHM Köln, April 28-29, 2016.
"Stranger than TV: Reading Twin Peaks as Prequel to the Y2K Television Series." Amerika Haus Vienna, March 2, 2016.
"Maritime Mobilities: An Introduction." Conference opening, Maritime Mobilities: Critical Perspectives from the Humanities. Feb. 1, 2016.
"(Alp)Traum USA." Aktionsradius Wien, Nov. 17, 2015.
"Crisis and Risk in 19th-Century Popular Narratives of Piracy." "Perilous Passages: The Birth of Risk in 19th-Century American Culture." Oct. 23–24, 2015, Schloss Thurnau. (paper in absence)
"Reading Pirate Narratives in Antebellum America: Tales of Misery, Tales of Beginnings." American Studies Association annual conference, Toronto, Oct. 8-11, 2015.
"Transatlantic Triangulations and/in Musical Variations: Bob Dylan's Trajectories into Austrian Popular Music and the Legacy of European American Popular Music Studies." European American Studies Workshop, Dartmouth College and Bavarian America Academy. Munich, 15 May 2015.
"'Parallel Encounters' and 'damn fine coffee': Twin Peaks' Border Seriality." Invited guest lecture, Univ. of Erlangen, Nov. 12, 2014.
"Gerald Vizenor: Transnational Trickster of Theory." International conference "Native North American Survivance and Memory: Celebrating Gerald Vizenor," Univ. Vienna, June 20-23, 2014.
"A 'civil wildness': Nature and Frontier Migration in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? (1839)." Symposium "Nature - Mobility - Literature: The Environmental Imagination of Migration," Univ. Bamberg, Jan. 24, 2014. Re-invited to Workshop 7 "A World on the Move: The Environmental Politics of Migration," Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Würzburg, June 12-15, 2014.
"Piracy and Legitimate Authority in James Fenimore Cooper's Red Rover (1827)." American Studies Colloquium, Univ. Regensburg, Jan. 10, 2014.
"Coastal Knowledge: Isthmian 'Pirate' Narratives, Cultural Difference, andScientific Discourse in the Late 17th Century." Conference "Contested Knowledge in the Western Hemisphere," Univ. Rostock, Sept. 18-19, 2013.
"Der Pirat als Nationalheld? Piraten in der US-amerikanischen Populärliteratur in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts." Conference "Populäre Piraten. Zur Vermessung eines Feldes," Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Sept. 28-29, 2012.
"Reading Multiple Mobilities: Chuck Palahniuk's Fugitives and Refugees." Bavarian American Academy (BAA) Conference "Cultures of Mobility," Munich, July 5-7, 2012.
"Piratical Consumption and the Black Atlantic Critique of the Slave Economy in the Mid-19th Century." International conference "Buying America: Literature and Consumption in the 19th Century," Univ. of Paderborn, June 12-13, 2012.
"From Port Royal to Boston: Articulating the Mobility of Pirates around 1700." Nomadism and Mobile Ways of Life in the Americas/Nomadismo y formas de vida con movilidad en las Américas, International Conference, Feb. 15-17, 2012, Urania Wien.

Workshop & Conference Organization (selection)

With Leopold Lippert, Helena Oberzaucher, & Eva Schörgenhuber: 45th annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), “American Im/Mobilities,” Vienna, 16-18 Nov. 2018; keynotes: Hester Blum, Heike Paul, Mimi Sheller
With Annegret Pelz: Author's Workshop “Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften,” Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien, 2 Oct. 2018.
With Eugen Banauch, Marc Chalier Helena Oberzaucher, Jörg Türschmann, & Daniel Winkler: 20th Anniversary Research Fest: “Kanada in Wien, Wien in Kanada / Canada in Vienna, Vienna in Canada / Le Canada à Vienne, Vienne au Canada,” University of Vienna, 14-16 June 2018.
Workshop “Minor Mobilities in North American Literature and Culture,” University of Vienna, 3-4 May 2018.
With Gudrun Rath: “Liberty and Death,” Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien, 18-19 Jan. 2018.
With Steve Hoelscher (University of Texas/Austin): Student Workshop "Transnational American Studies and Popular Culture," 8 June 2017.
Student Symposium "Black Music in Chicago and Vienna: Roots and Routes," Amerika Haus, 27 June 2016.
With Stefanie Schäfer: Workshop, DGfA Annual Conference: "Embodiments of the Law in American Literature and Culture," Osnabrück, May 2016.
Interdisciplinary conference "Maritime Mobilities: Critical Perspectives from the Humanities," Vienna, 1-2 Feb. 2016.
With Michela Borzaga, Dieter Fuchs, & Tamara Radak: student symposium"Commemorating Stuart Hall: Representation--Encoding/Decoding--Race," Dept. of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, 6 Dec. 2014.
With Birgit Daewes, Alexandra Hauke, & Nicole Poppenhagen: conference "Transgressive Television," Amerika Haus Vienna, 1-3 Oct. 2014.
With Birgit Daewes, Alexandra Hauke, & Nicole Poppenhagen: conference "Native North American Survivance and Memory: Celebrating Gerald Vizenor," U of Vienna, 20-23 June 2014.
With M. Butler: workshop "Popular Culture on the Move: Transnational Aspects of the Popular in America through the Centuries," U Oldenburg, 11-13 Oct. 2012.
With Heike Paul & Tanja Roppelt: Levi Strauss Lecture in American Culture and Civilization, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in cooperation with the German-American Institute Nuremberg (DAI), June 2012.
With Heike Paul: international FAUNAC Lecture Series "Transnational America," FAU Erlangen (2012)
With Heike Paul & Meike Zwingenberger: 3rd International DAAD Summer Academy for PhD Students, Bavarian America Academy (BAA) in cooperation with Wayne State U/Detroit & U of Warsaw "Transatlantic American Studies: Democratic Cultures, Past and Present," 14-28 May 2011.
Workshop chair, "The Ocean as a Contact Space," AAAS Conference "Contact Spaces in American Culture," U Graz, 22-25 Oct. 2009.
With Heike Paul & Katharina Gerund: conference "Imagining Alternative Mobilities: Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives," FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, June 2009.
With Stefanie Schäfer: workshop "Critique for What? American Studies and Cultural Studies," annual conference, German Association for American Studies, Jena, June 2009.

Grants, Awards, Fellowships

Habilitationspreis, Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2016.
U.S. Embassy Fellowship, Salzburg Global Seminar/Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association (SSASA) symposium, “Defining America: New Writing, New Voices, New Directions," Sep. 27-Oct. 1, 2014
Award for Best Article in Amerikastudien/American Studies (2011/12) for "'Lap Dancing for Mommy': Queer Intermediality, Chick Lit, and Trans-Generational Feminist Mediation in Erika Lopez's Illustrated Narratives"
Christoph-Daniel Ebeling Research Grant, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts (2009)
European Fellow 2009-10, Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele Univ., UK (2009)
Award, Best Dissertation, Bavarian America Academy (2008)
Fellow, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy (2007)
Fellow, Bavarian American Academy (BAA) Summer School (2007)
Fellow, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies Association (SSASAA)

Functions

President, Austrian Association for American Studies, 2017-18; 2024-25 (board member since 2015)
Director, Interdisciplinary Research Platform & FWF doc.funds program Mobile Cultures and Societies
Executive Director, Centre for Canadian Studies (ZKS)
Mentor, "doc:muv Mentoring-Programm für prae-doc Nachwuchswissenschafterinnen"
Reviewer, Wissenschaftsministerium (2015- ), Austrian National Bank Jubiläumsfonds
Fulbright Liaison & Selection Committee GLTA Program (2015- )
Salzburg Global Seminar in American Studies country representative (2014- )
Vice President, Verein zur Erforschung Kontinentalamerikas und der Karibik (KonaK), 2014-
Reader, Contemporary Women's Writing, 2011-
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: Women's Representative, Dept. of English, American, and Romance Studies (2011-13); non-tenured faculty representative (2007-9); Mentor, ARIADNEphil program