Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Privatdoz. MA
Full Professor for British Cultural and Literary Studies DE
Contact: monika.pietrzak-franger@univie.ac.at
Research Profile
- Medical Humanities - esp. contagious diseases and their socio-political role and mediality (historical, transcultural), Medicine, Literature and the Arts, (Digital) Medical Cultures
- Adaptation Studies, Intermediality and Transmediality Studies (transcultural, 18C-21C)
- Medial processes of stigmatization and discrimination
- Historical Materiality Studies, Materiality Theory and History of Knowledge
- Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Masculinity Studies (transcultural), Body Theories
- British Literature, Culture and Media: esp. Victorianism and Neo-Victorianism
- (Auto-)Biography Research: Artist Biographies, Biopics
- Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Current Projects
- Interuniversity Cluster: "Post-COVID-19 Care: Medical Humanities and Health Economies at the Frontlines" (project start: 1 Oct. 2021)
- "COVID-19 beyond Borders: Rethinking Medical Humanities at the Frontlines" (interdisciplinary online lecture series and conference, 1 June - 7 July 2021, University of Vienna)
- "Post-COVID-19 Art Worlds: Viral Theatre, Precarity and Medical Humanities" (21 - 23 July 2021, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover)
Viral Theatre Podcast
"Viral Theatre Podcast" is a series of episodes based on our hybrid conference on the topic which took place from 21-23 July 2021 and was sponsored by the Volkswagen-Foundation.
14 March 2022: Episode 1 - Heidi Liedke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger (hosted on RedCircle :: Spotify)
5 April 2022: Episode 2 - Sarah Bay-Cheng (hosted on RedCircle :: Spotify)
26 April 2022: Episode 3 - Jane Macnaughton (hosted on RedCircle :: Spotify)
17 May 2022: Episode 4 - Final roundtable discussion (hosted on RedCircle :: Spotify)
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Team
PostDocs
Curriculum Vitae
- from 2023 Elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)
- from Deputy Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies,
10/2022 University of Vienna - 09/2022 DAAD Visiting Scholar, New York University, NY, USA
- from Re-elected Trustee of the Association of Adaptation Studies
06/2022 - from Elected Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies,
06/2022 University of Vienna - 10-12/2021 Visiting Professor, The Centre for the Humanities and Health, King's College London
- from Co-Head of Research Cluster "Post-COVID-19 Care: Medical Humanities and Health Economies at the
10/2021 Frontlines" (University of Vienna/Medical University of Vienna) - from Elected Alternate Member of Faculty Conference of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies,
03/2020 University of Vienna - from Member of Studies Conference, University of Vienna
03/2020 - from Full Professor for British Cultural and Literary Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies,
10/2019 University of Vienna - 09/2019 Elected Trustee of the Association of Adaptation Studies (link)
- from 2019 Member of the Editorial Board, Journal Adaptation (Oxford University Press), UK (link)
- from 2019 Member of the Board of Referees, Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies
(link) - 04/2011 - Book Review Editor, Journal Adaptation (Oxford University Press), UK
09/2019 - 10/2014 - Stand-In/Deputy Professorship (Vertretungsprofessur), University of Hamburg, Germany
10/2019 - 04/2018 - Acting Director, Institute of English and American Studies (IAA), University of Hamburg, Germany
03/2019 - 03/2018 Visiting Scholar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 09-10/ DAAD Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Haus, New York University, USA (link)
2017 - 08/2016 Visiting Academic, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- 11/2015 BritCult Award (Dt. Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen) for habilitation treatise "Spectres of
Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility" (link) - 04/2013 - Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), TU Braunschweig, Germany
10/2014 - 08/2011 - Volkswagen Visiting Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Department of Anthropology
07/2012 - 07/2007 - Habilitation at the University of Siegen, Germany
09/2014 - 04/2003 - PhD, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, International Performance and Media Studies
11/2006 Programme, supported by: Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz - 10/1997 - M.A. English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Université d'Avignon
06/2002 et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France
Organisation of Interdisciplinary Conferences, Workshops, Summer Schools, Lecture Series
- 2023 Interdisciplinary Conference Threads of Life: Textiles in Medicine and the Arts; 20th June; with Monika
Ankele et al. (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab) (link) - 2023 Long Covid Care: Eine Podiumsdiskussion; 16th Jan.; with Carina Hilmar (University of Vienna) (link)
- 2022 Resilience: An Explorative Workshop; 30th June; with Henriette Löffler-Stastka (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- 2022 Mentoring Workshop, Association of Adaptation Studies; 22nd June; with Thomas Leitch
(Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) - 2022 A Visiodemic: Pandemische Medienwelten und ihre Virulenz - student workshop, Internationale Akademie
Traunkirchen; 6th–8th June; with and at Internationale Akademie Traunkirchen - 2021 Viral Theatre: Post-COVID-19 Art Worlds, Precarity and Medical Humanities - international symposium,
Hannover; 21st–23th July; with Dr. H.L. Liedke (University of Koblenz-Landau) - 2021 COVID-19 beyond Borders: Rethinking Medical Humanities at the Frontlines - international
symposium, University of Vienna; 6th–9th July; with Prof. W. Schütz (Medical University of Vienna),
Prof. A. Elsner (University of St. Gallen), F. Seebacher (Austrian Academy of Sciences) (link) - 2021 Graduate Student Workshop, Association of Adaptation Studies, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK;
9th June; with Prof. Thomas Leitch - 2020 Celebrity & Memory: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Perspectives - interdisciplinary lecture series, University
of Vienna; winter term 2020; with Prof. Sylvia Mieszkowski and Dr. Sandra Mayer (link) - 2020 (2021) Graduate Student Workshop, Association of Adaptation Studies, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France;
30th Sept. (postponed to 2021) - 2020 Medical Humanities: Cultures, Sciences, Media - interdisciplinary lecture series, University of Vienna;
summer term 2020 (link) - 2020 Nineteenth-Century Transmedia Practices - international symposium, University Vienna; 30th Jan.–1st Feb.;
with Prof. Christina Meyer (link) - 2018 Scales and Scaling in Texts and Textual Analysis – Joint Symposium of the University of Hamburg and the
University of Southampton; 13th–16th Dec.; with Prof. Daniel Brown, Prof. Ute Berns, JProf. Stephan Karschay - 2018 Panel "Layers of Victorian Skin: Microscopic, Urban, and Global", North American Victorian Studies Association,
St. Petersburg, Florida; with Dr. Ariane de Waal (Innsbruck) and Dr. Nora Pleßke (Magdeburg) - 2018 DAAD Summer School "Global Humanities in Transnational Exchange", Shandong University, China,
5th–25th Sept.; with Prof. Gordon Mitchell - 2016/17 Lecture series "Immer noch Shakespeare?!", University of Hamburg; with Prof. Ute Berns and
JProf. Stephan Karschay (link) - 2016 Member of the Organizing Committee, Anglistentag, University of Hamburg; 21st–24th Sept.
- 2016 Section "Mash-ups", Anglistentag, University of Hamburg; 21st–24th Sept.; with Prof. Dr. Lucia Krämer
- 2015 Transforming Cities: Narratives of Urban Change in the 19th and 21st Centuries - international
conference, TU Braunschweig; 3rd–4th July; with Prof. Eckart Voigts and Dr. Nora Pleßke (link) - 2015 Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation - international
conference, Schloss Herrenhausen; 25th–27th Feb.; with PD Dr. Lucia Krämer (link) - 2014 Medical Power and Ethics: Mediality and Media Convergence, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz;
12th–14th Feb.; with PD Dr. Pascal Nicklas (link) - 2013 Member of the Organizing Committee, Adaptation, Intermediality, Participatory Culture, TU Braunschweig;
24th Sept. - 2012 Member of the Organizing Committee, Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics,
University of Amsterdam; 13th–15th June - 2012 Disease, Communication and the Ethics of (In)Visibility, Washington University in St. Louis, USA; 6th–7th Feb.
- 2009 Darwin our Contemporary – Re-Imaginations and Medialisations of Darwin and Cultures of Neo-Darwinian Ideas,
University of Siegen; 27th–28th Nov.; with Prof. Eckart Voigts-Virchow - 2008 Adaptations – Performing across Media and Genres, 17th CDE Annual Conference, Attendorn; 1st–4th May;
with Prof. Eckart Voigts-Virchow
Reviewer for (Institutions, Journals, Publishers)
Journal Re:visit. Humanities & Medicine in Dialogue (Editorial Board member since Dec. 2022); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (Panel co-chair; since 2022); Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies (since 2021); Journal Atlantis (since 2021); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (since 2018); Journal Adaptation (Oxford University Press) (since 2011); Journal Film-Philosophy (Open Humanities Press) (since 2013); Journal Victoriographies (Edinburgh University Press) (since 2014); Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Berghahn Journals) (2015); IB Tauris, London; Palgrave Macmillan; Routledge; International Journal of English Studies (University of Murcia) (2018)
Outreach: Knowledge Transfer and Extracurricular Activities
- 13.06.- Exhibition "Threads of Life: Textiles in Medicine and the Arts" - AIL Angewandte Interdisciplinary
14.07.2023 Lab (link) - 17.05.2022 "Viral Theatre Podcast - Episode 4" (together with Heidi Liedke, published on Spotify: link)
- 26.04.2022 "Viral Theatre Podcast - Episode 3" (together with Heidi Liedke and Jane Macnaughton, published on
Spotify: link) - 05.04.2022 "Viral Theatre Podcast - Episode 2" (together with Heidi Liedke and Sarah Bay-Cheng, published on
Spotify: link) - 14.03.2022 "Viral Theatre Podcast - Episode 1" (together with Heidi Liedke, published on Spotify: link)
- 22.02.2022 "Corona: Die Macht der Bilder" - Interview for Rudolphina - Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Wien
(link) - 29.04.2021 "Die Bilder einer Pandemie. Und was sie mit uns machen." – Lecture for Denkfrühstück [acht vor acht]
(Denkwerk - think & tank; Netzwerk Werbung) (link) - 10.06.2020 Die Ikonografie einer Krankheit – Interview for Der Standard (link)
- 16.05.2020 Was Bilder über das Coronavirus noch erzählen – Interview for ORF Ö1 and ORF ON Science (link)
- 13.05.2020 Sars-CoV-2 & Covid-19 - Was Bilder erzählen +++ In welchen Netzwerken geforscht wird –
Radio commentary, ORF Ö1 - 11.05.2020 Die Bildsprache des Coronavirus – Medienportal University of Vienna (link)
- 07.05.2020 #CoronaAlltag: Die Macht der Bilder – Guest commentary for "Corona Geschichten aus dem
Krisen-Alltag" (APA-Science * Natur & Technik) (link) - 2020 Dangerous Bodies and Healing Spaces – Student Book and Instagram Project,
University of Vienna (link) - 01.04.2019 Read-Play-Bingewatch – Student Podcast Project, University of Hamburg
- 26.01.2018 Taboo-Breaking Fashion – Student Congress, University of Hamburg (link)
- 01.02.2017 Death and Dying – Exhibition and Catalogue; with Prof. Dr. G. Mitchell, Ida Roscher and with the
Students of English / Religion, Gipsabguss Sammlung, University of Hamburg - 02.07.2016 Remix Cultures – Joint Student Conference, University of Hamburg; with Prof. Eckart Voigts,
TU Braunschweig - 29.-30.01.2016 The City of the Future – Student Congress, University of Hamburg
- 07.11.2015 Radio interview, "Lady Florence Dixie", Narr. Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann, WDR
- 2013 - 2014 Jury Member, Daniil Pashkoff Prize for Creative Writing in English by a Non-Native Speaker
- 10/2013 Theater excursion, London, German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in English;
with Prof. Eckart Voigts - 06.01.2012 Radio interview, "Neo-Viktorianer und Steampunk", Narr. Dennis Moebus. Scala – Aktuelles aus
der Kultur, WDR5 - 28.01.2011 Victorian Intertexts and Subtexts – Student Conference, University of Siegen; with Dr. Mark Berninger,
University of Mainz - 08.-09.01.2010 Master and PhD Colloquium, Haus Nottbeck, Oelde; with Prof. Eckart Voigts, Prof. Christoph
Ribbat, JProf. Miriam Strube, Paderborn University - 2007 - 2009 Co-ordination of Siegen Theatre group "Desperate Thespians"; with Prof. Eckart Voigts
Membership in Academic Organizations (selection)
- Member of Working Group History of Medicine/Medical Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2019); Principal Investigator for the Project "Medicine and the Arts"
- Environmental Science Research Network (Member of the Advisory Board since 2020)
- The Association of Adaptation Studies (Elected Trustee since 2019; Co-Editor of Adaptation; 2011–2019; Member of the Editorial Board of Adaptation, since 2019)
- German Society for Contemporary Drama and Theatre in English (Treasurer 2013–2020)
- Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (Affiliate 2008–2013)