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, Sexuality, Body Theory
- 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)
Post-Covid-19 Care: (Long) Covid & Society Podcast
This podcast forms part of the interuniversity cluster project "Post Covid-19 Care" between the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna. It aims to facilitate conversations and engage in dialogues about the multifaceted concept of 'care' and socioeconomic dimensions, within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and specifically Long Covid. Each episode features one or more academics or professionals from different areas discussing the meaning, the importance, the challenges and current changes of 'care' in their respective fields. Additionally, we will explore how we might look at Long Covid from these various perspectives of 'care'.
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)
Recordings from the interdisciplinary lecture series and conference "COVID-19 beyond Borders" (July 2021)
COVID-19 beyond Borders: Rethinking Medical Humanities at the Frontlines
Interdisciplinary online lecture series (1-29 June 2021) & interdisciplinary online conference (6-7 July 2021) held at the University of Vienna
Scientific Committee:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna), Prof. Dr. Anna Elsner (University of St. Gallen), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schütz (Medical University of Vienna) and Dr. Felicitas Seebacher (ÖAW)
Organising Team:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna), Prof. Dr. Anna Elsner (University of St. Gallen), Dr. Tamara Radak (University of Vienna), Mag. Rebecca Söregi (University of Vienna), Alina Lange, MA (University of Vienna), Ulrike Zillinger (University of Vienna)
X (Twitter): #Covid19beyondBorders
The online lecture series and online conference were held in cooperation with the Center for Medical Humanities, University of Zurich
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Team
PostDocs
PraeDocs
Olivia Helmholz-Vero
Charlotte Peters
Devon Schiller (ÖAW)
former team members:
Carina Hilmar
Alina Lange
Administrative assistance
Curriculum Vitae
- from Head of Department, Department of English and American Studies,
10/2024 University of Vienna - from 2024 Deputy Head of Section "Knowledge, Literature and Media", Doctoral School of Philological
and Cultural Studies (PhilKult), University of Vienna - from 2024 Member of the Steering Committee, Forschungsverbund Gesundheit in der
Gesellschaft, University of Vienna - 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)