Centre for Irish Studies (CIS)
Welcome to the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies
In 2009, the Embassy of Ireland and the University of Vienna, under the aegis of Prof. Werner Huber, devised a partnership programme with a view to fostering and strengthening the study of Ireland. Under this scheme the Centre for Irish Studies has been organising readings, lectures, workshops and conferences relating to the 'matter of Ireland.'
We acknowledge the generous support of The Embassy of Ireland in Austria; The Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin; Culture Ireland.
Research and Teaching Foci:
Austria- & Southeastern Europe-Related Cultural Transfer & Circulation
Contemporary Feminist Activism in Ireland
Contemporary Irish Poetry
Contemporary Irish Poetry Performance and Spoken Word
Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance
Cultural Production during the Celtic Tiger
Irish (Post)Modernism, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien
Postcolonial Ireland and Ambivalent Irish Whitenesses
Narrative and Filmic Assessments of Irishness as a National Identity
Stage Irishness
The Literary Hoax
The Tudor Conquest and Its Consequences
Research Cooperations:
Charles University Prague; Leeds Beckett University; Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg; University College Dublin(UCD); University of Exeter; University of Ljubljana; EFACIS: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies; IASIL: The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures; The International James Joyce Foundation; The James Joyce Italian Foundation (Roma III).
The Irish Studies Centre entertains friendly relations with CDE, NISN, SOFEIR, BAIS.
Research Projects:
Anglophone High Modernism and Southeastern Europe (application)
Cultural mediation in producing and teaching British and American plays in Austria and Slovenia (OeAd)
Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities: International Conference (2016) and Publication (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
The Relative Skin: Whiteness in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film (book project)
Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland: Placing Voice in Performance (PhD research within the Poetry Off the Page ERC Project)
Stage Irish: The Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School (2018), International EFACIS Conference (2019) and publication (WVT, 2021)
The Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School: “The Irish Carnivalesque” (July 2017); “Stage Irishness” (July 2018); “Bull Island” – The Nonhuman Turn in Irish Studies (July 2019)