"Habilitation":
Venia Docendi for American Studies (2006)
Habilitationsschrift: "Bodily
Sensations: The Female Body in Late-Eighteenth-Centurty American Culture"
Doctor of Philosophy,
American Literature (1999)
Dissertation. "Articulating
Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation"
Mag. Phil. (M.A.) English
and American Language and Literature (1992) and
Spanish and Latin American Language and Literature (1992)
Thesis: "The Problem of Identity
as Reflected in the Works of Three Texas Mexican Authors"
Teaching Diploma for teaching ESL
and Spanish as a second language at Austrian secondary schools
University of California at Irvine
Visiting Fellow in the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese (1997)
University of Trieste, Italy
ERASMUS student in the English
Department (1992-1993)
Universitity of Texas at Austin
Fulbright Scholar in the English
Department (1990-1991)
EMPLOYMENT
January
to June 2009: Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at Stanford University
(Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies)
Currently: “Privatdozentin” and “Universitätsassistentin”
(Assistant Professor) of American Literature and Culture in the English
and American Studies Department at the University of Vienna
2007-2008:
Appointment as Adjunct Professor of English at Bradley University
in Peoria, IL
2003-2005:
Visiting Researcher in the English Department at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Summer
Term 2001: Guest Professor in the English Department at the Albert-Ludwigs-
Universität Freiburg, Germany
Since 1991: Spanish Teacher at the "VHS Mödling" (evening school
for adults)
1998-1993: "Vertragsassistentin" (University Assistant) in
the English and American Studies Department at the University of Vienna
1995-1997: "Universitätslektorin für Englische Sprachübungen"
(University Lecturer) in the English and American Studies Department
at the University of Vienna
1994-1993: "Unterrichtspraktikum" (High School Teacher) for
English and Spanish at BG Mödling, Untere Bachgasse and BG Mödling,
Keimgasse
1994-1993: "Vertragslehrerin" (High School Teacher) for English
at BG Mödling, Keimgasse
1992-1990: Language Lab Tutor for American English at the English and
American Studies Department at the University of Vienna
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2003-2005:
Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Research
Funds (FWF)
2003:
Siegfried Ludwig Fonds
2003:
Grant of the Local Government of Lower Austria (Top-NÖ Landesstipendium)
2002-2003:
Participation in the Mentoring Program (mu:t) of the University of
Vienna
1997: Grant of the Austrian Ministry of Education to do research for
my dissertation at the University of California at
Irvine
1997: Who is Who in Austrian Education and Sciences (Edition Praesens,
1997)
1997: Interview for San Antonio Light, "Austrian learns Chicano
Culture" (March 30, 1997)
1995: Grant from the United States Information Service for the participation
in the American Studies Workshop "The
Literature of Ethnicity
in the United States" at the Center for the Study of American
Culture and Language
of the Salzburg Seminar
in Schloß Leopoldskron, Salzburg (extension of Middlebury College,
VT),
1992: ERASMUS Grant
1990: Fulbright Scholarship
1990: Grant of the Austrian Ministry of Education (bm:wf) to study at
UT Austin
RESEARCH PRIZES
2005:
Theodor Körner Fonds Research prize for the project “Bodily Sensations”
1999:
Siemens Prize for Best Dissertation in American Studies in Austria
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007:
Chair of Selection Committee for the Fulbright Prize for the Best
Dissertation in American Studies in Austria in 2007
2005:
Evaluator of a dissertation project for a “Marie-Andeßner-Stipendium”
at the University of Salzburg
2003:
External Grader of a Ph.D. thesis and international opponent at the
dissertation defense at the University of Oulu, Finland (May 2003)
OFFICES HELD
2007:
Board Member of the Austrian Association of American Studies
2006-2007:
Vice-President of the Austrian Association for American Studies
2001-2002:
Secretary of the Austrian Association for American Studies
1998-2003:
Board Member of the Austrian Association of American Studies
1994-2000:
Vice Treasurer of the “Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Nordamerikastudien
an der Universität Wien”
INSTITUTIONAL ADMINISTRATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
Since
2007 (“Gleichbehandlungsbeauftragte”) Equal Opportunity
Officer at the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Vienna
2007-2008
Member of the curriculum development group for the transdisciplinary
“Erweiterungscurriculum” Gender Studies
Since
2006 Member of the curriculum development group for the M.A. program
Gender Studies at the University of Vienna
Since
2006 Substitute Member of the curriculum development group of the
new BA/MA curriculum
2002-2003
Elected Representative for the Faculty of Humanities at the University
of Vienna
2001-2003 Equal Opportunity Officer in the Dept. of English and American
Studies
2001-2003
Assistant to the Department Chair (duties included semester planning
and course administrations)
Since
2000 Member of the Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Committee at the
University of
Vienna
EDITORIAL DUTIES
Since
2003: Founder and Editor of the series “American Studies in Austria”
(LIT-Verlag publisher) together with Hanna Wallinger and Klaus Rieser
ORGANIZATION OF LECTURE SERIES
Since
2007: Co-Organizer of the lecture series “Queer Inverventions:
Debates on Cultural Studies and the Arts” (together with Dr.
Andrea Braidt, Dept. of Theater, Film, and Media Studies, and Dr.
Susanne Hochreitner, German Dept.)
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZATION
2002:
Conference Organizer of the annual international conference of the
Austrian Association for American Studies on the topic of "(Anti-)Americanisms"
(Nov. 8-10)
2002:
Conference Organizer of the 10th International Congress of Latino
Cultures in North America on the topic of “Body Signs:
The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production” (June 30-July 2)
1995:
Organizing Committee of “Remembering the Individual/National/Regional
Past” Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies
in Vienna, Austria (November)
1994:
Organizing Committee of the Symposium “Images of Central Europe in
Travelogues and Fiction” (April)
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP CHAIR
Session Chair, “Latina/o Art and Popular Culture.” Konferenz
“Latino/a Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations
and Politics of Representation in the U.S.” Bielefeld (11. Jänner
2008).
Session Chair, “Gender I” anläßlich der 4. Graduiertenkonferenz
für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (25.
Mai 2007).
Session
Chair, “Making National Bodies: (Non-)Conformism and the Early Republic.”
“European Association for American Studies (EAAS): “Conformism, Non-Conformism,
and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States.” (April 7,
2006)
Session
Chair “Embodiment, Sex and Gender in Late 18th-Century America” at
the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (ASECS) in Las Vegas, NV (March 31, 2005)
Session
Chair, “Nature, Environment and Ecological Criticism in U.S. Latino
Literature.” EAAS Conference in Graz (April 17, 2000)
Session
Chair, “ Chicano/a literature panel.” “Narratives of Resistance.”
Almagro, Spain (November, 19, 1997)
Session
Chair, “The Thirties.” America and the Left, Annual Meeting of the
Austrian Association of American Studies, Graz, Austria (November
21, 1992)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American
Association for the Study of the Eighteenth Century (ASECS)
Society
of Early Americanists (SEA)
Austrian
Association for American Studies (AAAS)
DgfA
(German Association for American Studies)
GKS
(Association for Canadian Studies)
MELUS
Europe (Multi-ethnic literatures of the United States)
ACLA
(American Comparative Literature Association)
GNEL
(German Association for New Literatures in English)
Association pour la diffusion et l'étude des cultures latines en Amérique
du Nord (France)
Fulbright Alumni Association in Austria
Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Nordamerikastudien an der Universität
Wien
Alumna of the Salzburg Seminar
Austrian Association of University Teachers of English (AAUTE)
