Irish Studies

Research and Teaching Foci

• Austria- & Southeastern Europe-Related Cultural Transfer & Circulation
• Contemporary Feminist Activism in Ireland
• 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 Troubles
• The Tudor Conquest and Its Consequences: Famine, hetero-stereotyping, othering

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 (Università Roma III). 

Centers & Research Projects

• Anglophone High Modernism and Southeastern Europe (application)
• Cultural mediation in producing and teaching British and American plays in Austria and Slovenia (OeAd)
• The Relative Skin: Whiteness in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film (book project)
• Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities: International Conference (2016) and Publication (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
• Stage Irish: The Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School (2018), International EFACIS Conference (2019) and publication (WVT, 2021)
• The Parish Review – International Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies (Paul Fagan)
• The Vienna Centre for Irish Studies
• 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)