PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS
 
 

“Bodily Sensations: The Female Body in Late-Eighteenth-Century American Culture”: under review with Ashgate Press.

 

Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation. Wien: Braumüller 2002.


 

EDITIONS

 

Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. Hg. Astrid M. Fellner. Wien: LIT Verlag, forthcoming 2008.

(Anti-)Americanisms. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner, Michael Draxlbauer, Thomas Fröschl. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005.

 

ARTICLES

• “Crossing Borders, Shifting Paradigms: New Perspectives on American Studies.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2008 (33:1).

“Mercy Otis Warren: Das Dramatische Werk.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd ed. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler.

“‘Sexing the Body’: Sentiment, Desire and the Politics of the Erotic in Early American Culture.” Sex and Sexuality: Exploring Critical Issues. Ed. Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Nick Rumes. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008. (http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/idp/ebooks.htm)

“‘Subversive Bodily Acts’: The Photography of Laura Aguilar.” Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2008. 149-162.

“‘Ugly Betties and Beautiful Babes’: The Politics of Style in Recent TV Series.” Latino/a Images for the 21st Century. Ed. Josef Raab. Double Issue Bilingual Press. Tucson: Arizona.

“Teaching American Studies as Cultural Studies.” Gem. mit Klaus Heissenberger. American Studies in Austria. Ed. Dorothea Steiner. Wien: LIT Verlag.

"Transhemispheric Visions, Border Studies and the Literatures of the Americas." American Studies in Austria. Ed. Dorothea Steiner. Wien: LIT Verlag.

“The Wounded Male Body: Cecile Pineda’s Face.” Critical Essays on Cecile Pineda. Ed. Juan Bruce Novoa. Houston: Arte Público Press.

“A Poetics of the Flesh: Representation, De/Colononization and Resistance in U.S. American Literature.” Gem. Mit Susanne Hamscha. Body Metaphors as Gendered Metaphors. Hg. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag.

“The Gendered Nature of Liberty in the Early United States.” Freiheit und Geschlecht - Offene Beziehungen, Prekäre Verhältnisse. Hg. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner und Ursula Wagner. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2008. 123-137.

“‘On the Equality of the Sexes’: Geschlechterdebatten im ausgehenden 18. Jh. in den USA.” Querelle des Femmes Bd. 3. Hg. Friederike Hassauer. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008. 365-378.

“‘Subversive Bodily Acts’: The Photography of Laura Aguilar.” Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. Hg. Astrid M. Fellner. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2008. 149-162.

“Talking Home”: Transnational Ethnicity in Writings by U.S. American and German Women of Color. Voices: San Antonio College Multicultural Journal (2006), 51-62.

“Que(e)r durch den Mainstream?: The L Word und die Probleme der Normalität“. [sic!] Forum für Feministische GangArten (Oktober 2006), 18-20.

"'Other Places': The Concept of Borderlands as a Paradigm of Transnational Territoriality in Chicana Literature." Borderline Identities in Chicano Culture. Ed. Michele Bottalico and Salah el Moncef bin Khalifa. Venezia: Mazzanti Editori, 2006. 67-77.

“Other Sexes. Bridging Textual Borders.” Die Kategorie Geschlecht im Streit der Disziplinen. Ed. Marlen Bidwell-Steiner and Karin S. Wozonig. Gendered Subjects. Vol. 1. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005. 90-107.

• “Haus, Haushalt, Häuslichkeit: Eine kulturhistorische Analyse der Rolle der Frau in den USA”. Arbeit und Geschlecht. Freiburger Frauenstudien. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung. 16 (2005): 41-54.

• “‘American Culture’: Teaching the Differences Within.” The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies after 9/11 and Iraq. Ed. Walter Grünzweig. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2004. 41.

• “Body for Body: The Repulsive and Eroticized Bodies of Djuna Barnes.” The EmBodyment of American Culture. Ed. Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer, and Heinz Tschachler. Münster: LIT Verlag.

• “‘I was born in East L.A.’: Humour and the Displacement of Nationality and Ethnicity.” Gem. mit Klaus Heissenberger. Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial. Ed. Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 161-75.

• “Teaching American Culture.” ELT News 46 (February 2002): 79-85.

• “Body Crossings: Corporeality in Chicana Literature.” Double Crossings/Entre Cruzamientos. Ed. Mario Martín Flores and Carlos von Son. Academia NJ: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2001. 67-80.

• “Loving in the War Years: Teaching Peace through Lesbian Texts.” American Studies and Peace. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Ed. Dorothea Steiner and Thomas Hartl. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001. 275-286.

• “Cultural Encounters Between Women: Feminist Theory in the Age of Multiculturalism.” Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies. Ed. Sonja Bahn and Mario Klarer. ZAA-Studies, Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 2000. 187-198.

• “‘What I Was Telling You Was My Version’: Re-presenting Chicana Selves.” Multiculturalism and the Representation of the American Self. Ed. William Boelhower and Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2000. 259-272.

• “The (S)elective Memories of a Cowgirl: Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce’s A Beautiful, Cruel Country.” Remembering the Individual, Regional and Collective Past. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz in co-operation with Michael Draxlbauer. Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 1999. 221-231.

• “Agbada and kwashi-what? Can we use post-colonial texts in the classroom?” Gem. mit Susanne Reichl. English Language Teaching News 39, Oct. 1999, 64-71.

• “‘Lyrics Alone Soothe Restless Serpents’: The Fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor.” Daughters of Restlessness: Women’s Literature at the End of the Millenium. Ed. Hanna Wallinger and Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 1998. 153-163.

• “‘I must have done something bad to my mother’s womb...’: Graciela Limón’s The Memories of Ana Calderón.” El Mito de lo Umbilical/Los Latinos en América del Norte. Proceedings of the VIIth International Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States. Ed. Axel Ramírez and Patricia Casasa. Mexico City: UNAM, 1997. 11-19.

• “Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street: Owning a White House as a Promise for Being,” Confrontations et Métissages: Actes du VIe Congrès Européen sur les Cultures d’Amérique Latine aux États-Unis. Ed. Benjamin-Labarthe, Elyette et al. Bordeaux: Maison des Pays Ibérique: 1995, 123-131.

• “Américo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez: An Analysis of the Genre and the Problem of Identity.” El Poder Hispano: Actas del V Congreso de Culturas Hispanas de los Estados Unidos. Ed. Moncada Lorenzo Alberto, et al. Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, 1994, 399-415.
 

 

REVIEWS

• Bidwell-Steiner, Marlen and Karin S. Wozonig, ed. A Canon of Our Own? Kanonkritik und Kanonbildung in den Gender Studies (A Canon of Our Own? Criticism and Formation of Canons). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2006. In: Aspasia. Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. (im Druck)

• Review of Juanita Ramos, ed. Compañeras: Latina Lesbians. Latina History Project, 2004. FreiburgerFrauenstudien 17 (2005): 275-77.

• Review of Francisco A. Lomeli and Karin Ikas, eds. U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures. Transnational Perspectives. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000.” Anglistik 14/2 (2003):188-191.

• Review of Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. Trudier Harries. New York: Palgrave, 2001 in Modern Language Review, forthcoming.

 

INTERNET ANTHOLOGY

“In a Different Light”: An Anthology of Students’ Projects on Queer Theory. Hg. Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha (2007)
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/astrid.fellner/queertheory.htm

 

FORTHCOMING

Articles:

“‘At Last Lost in Paris’: Urban Imaginaries in U.S. American and Canadian Expatriate Writings.” Paris in the 1920s. Eds. Margarete Rubik und Elke Mettinger.

“Performing Cultural Memory: The Transamerican Archive of Colonial American Literature” Invited to contribute to a volume on “Transnational American Memories.” Ed. Udo Hebel.

 

PLANNED PROJECTS

Book Project:

“The Contact Zones of Popular Culture: U.S. Cultural Exchanges in Austria since the 1980s.”

Articles:

“Making Columbia: Bodily Representations of “America.” Making National Bodies. Hg. Astrid M. Fellner und Stefan Brandt. London: Peter Lang.

“Revolutionary Bodies: The Politics of Embodiment in American Culture.” planned for AmerikaStudien.

“Changing Sex Across the Atlantic: Early American Cross-Dressing Narratives.” Early American Literature.

“Austrian Borderlands: Can Postcolonial Theory Offer Anything to Debates on Multiculturalism in Austria?”

“Dance of the Berdache”: Two-Spiritedness in Canadian Literature.

Edition:

Making National Bodies. Ed. Astrid M. Fellner and Stefan Brandt.

Reviews:

Geuder, Ann-Catherine. Chiana/o Literaturbetrieb: Wege in die Öffentlichkeit seit 1965. Heidelberg: Winter 2004. Amerikastudien.

Bandau, Anja and Marc Priewe eds. Mobile Crossings: Representations of Chicana/o Cultures. Trier: wvt, 2006. Amerikastudien.

Konferenz mit Sammelband:

Konferenzplanung gemeinsam mit Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Irvine): “New World Encounters”: Travel, Empire and Alterity in North America 1500-1800.

 

GEPLANTES DRITTMITTELPROJEKT

“The Contact Zones of Popular Culture: U.S. Cultural Exchanges in Austria since the 1980s” (FWF Antrag geplant Frühjar 2008).

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2008

“‘It’s all About the Dough’: The Paris Hilton Phenomenon.” Planned Talk at the Annual Conference of the AAAS in Velden am Wörthersee on the topic of “The Almighty Dollar” (October 24-26, 2008)

“‘A Compleat Body of Divinity’: Visions of Sexuality and the Body in Puritan New England.” Accepted for the ESSE Conference in Aahrus, Denmark (August 22-26, 2008).

Conference Respondent to the Panel “Multiethnic Immigrations in Film.” Annual Conference of the Society for Multi-ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) in Leiden (June 26, 2008).

Conference Respondent to the Panel “Blinde Passagiere: Die Figur des Fetischs bei Homi K. Bhabha.” Conference “Dritte Räume. Homi K. Bhabha’s Kulturtheorie: Anwendung. Kritik. Reflexion.” University of Vienna (April 3-5, 2008).

• “‘Ugly Betties and Beautiful Babes’: The Politics of Style in Recent TV Series.” Konferenz “Latino/A Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and Politics of Representation in the U.S.” Bielefeld (12. Jänner 2008).

2007

• “Teaching American Studies as Cultural Studies.” Gem. mit Klaus Heissenberger. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association of American Studies, Graz (2. November 2007).

• “América Aquí: Transhemispheric Visions, Border Studies and the Literatures of the Americas. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association of American Studies, Graz (3. November 2007).

• “Comparative Ethnic Studies: Cultural Analysis and Critical Traditions of Latino/a Literature in Europe.” Keynote Lecture “The Futures of Latino/a Studies: A Symposium on the Practices of Latinidad.” Bryn Mawr College, PA (10. Oktober 2007).

• “Recent Developments in Latino/a Studies in Europe.” “The Futures of Latino/a Studies: A Symposium on the Practices of Latinidad.” Bryn Mawr College, PA (11. Oktober 2007).

• “Latino/a Queer Studies at Austrian and German Universities.” “The Futures of Latino/a Studies: A Symposium on the Practices of Latinidad.” Bryn Mawr College, PA (11. Oktober 2007).

• “Crossing Borders, Shifting Paradigms: New Perspectives on American Studies.” Austrian Association for Teachers of English (AAUTE) in Salzburg (1. Juni 2007).

• “The Difference That Came to Matter: Sex and Gender in the Early Republic” im Panel “The American Enlightenment in Transatlantic Perspectives.” 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Atlanta (24. März 2007).

• “Who ever saw a boy amuse himself with a doll?“ Geschlechterdifferenz in den frühen USA. Institut Wissenschaft Kultur (IWK) in Wien (10. Jänner 2007).

2006

• “‘Sexing the Body’: Sentiment, Desire and the Politics of the Erotic in Early American Culture” at the 2nd Global Conference on Sex & Sexuality in Vienna (December 3, 2006).

2005

• “Cross-dressing and the Meanings of Sexual Difference in the Late-Eighteenth-Century American Literature” at the American Literature Association conference in Boston (May 21, 2005).

• “Transatlantic Dialogues: Female Quixotes in Late Eighteenth-Century America” in the seminar “Transatlantic Dialogues” at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Las Vegas, NV (April 2, 2005).

• “Nature’s Body.” DeBartolo Conference on “The Nature of Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Engagements with the Natural World” in Tampa, FL (February 17, 2005).

2004

• “‘Talking Home’: Transnational Ethnicity in Writings by U.S. American and German Women of Color.” 10th Annual San Antonio College Multiculturalism Conference. San Antonio, TX (April 21, 2004).

“Sentiment and the Female Body in Late-Eighteenth-Century American Literature”: Central New York Conference of Language and Literature. Cortland, NY (October 29, 2004).

2003

• “Route 66.” US Icons and Iconicity. AAAS Conference in Graz (November 8, 2003).

• “Technologies of the Self: The Photographs of Laura Aguilar.” El Foro Hispano at the University of Vermont at Burlington (October 3, 2003).

• “Sexing the Body: The Female Body in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette.” Central New York Conference of Language and Literature. Cortland, NY (October 20, 2003).

• “The Female Body in the Early National Period.” Body Conference: The Flesh Made Text in Thessaloniki , Greece (May 16, 2003).

• “Crossing Over: Queer Body Images of the Other Side.” American Comparative Literature Association in San Marcos, CA. (April 5, 2003).

2002

• “Bodies on Stage: The Female Body as Cultural Critique in Chicana Theater.” 10th International Conference on Latino/a Cultures in the United States in Vienna (June 29, 2002).

“Other Places: Borderlands in Chicana Literature.” European Association of American Studies in Bordeaux, France (March 22, 2002).

2001

• “Body for Body: The Repulsive and Eroticized Bodies of Djuna Barnes.” The EmBodyment of American Culture. 27th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies in Klagenfurt (October 27, 2001).

2000

• “Body Crossings: Corporeality in Chicana Literature.” Double Crossings: Intercultural Relations of Minorities in North America. 9th International Congress of Latino Cultures in North America. California State University at San Marcos (May 12, 2000).

1999

• “Loving in the War Years: Teaching Peace through Lesbian Texts.” American Studies and Peace. 25th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies in Salzburg (November 7, 1999).

1998

• “Cultural Encounters Between Women: Feminist Theory in the Age of Multiculturalism.” Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism. 24th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies in Innsbruck (November 7, 1998).

• “Nomads, Migrants, Exiles, and Other Travelers: Latina Identity on the Move.” Shifting Boundaries: Place and Space in the Romance Cultures of North-America. VIIIth International Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States in Groeningen (26. May 1998).

1997

• “Border Ballads: When Folklore is the Base of Literature.” Simulacrum America: The U.S.A. and the Popular Media, Annual Conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies, Graz, Austria (November 22, 1997).

• “Ethnogenesis in Chicana Literature.” Narratives of Resistance: African American, Chicano/a, and Caribbean Literature in Almagro, Spain (November 19, 1997).

• “Articulating Selves: The Reconstruction of Chicana Identity in the Works of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and Graciela Limón.” New Perspectives on Chicano/a Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles (May 16, 1997).

• "Childhood Memories: The Articulation of Chicana Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce’s A Beautiful Cruel Country.” Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity. San Antonio, TX, (July 11, 1997).

1996

• “I must have done something bad to my mother’s womb...“: Graciela Limón’s “Representing Chicana Selves.” ERASMUS Intensive Program “Multiculturalism and the Representation of the American Self.” Trieste, Italy (April 23, 1996).

• "The Memories of Ana Calderón,” Seventh International Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States “The Umbilical Myth: The Latinos in North America” in Taxco, Mexico (August 7,1996).

1995

• “The Selective Memories of a Cowgirl: Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce’s A Beautiful, Cruel Country.” Remembering the Individual/Regional/National Past. Jahrestagung der Austrian Association for American Studies, Vienna (November 18, 1995).

• “Issues of Chicana Identity,” First International Intensive Program of the American Studies ERASMUS-Group, Mainz, Germany (July 6, 1995).

1994

• “Chicana Literature: Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street.” Symposium “Introducing Chicano Studies” in Graz (June 22, 1994).

• “Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street: Owning a White House as a Promise for Being,” VIth European Conference on Latino Cultures in the U.S. in Bordeaux, France (July 8, 1994).

1992

• “Américo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez: An Analysis of the Genre and the Problem of Identity.” 5th Congreso Internacional de Culturas Hispanas de los Estados Unidos”(5th European Conference on Latino Cultures in the U.S.) in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (July 8, 1992).

• “Américo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez: An Analysis of the Genre and the Problem of Identity.” National Association of Chicano Studies Conference in San Antonio, Texas (March 22, 1992).

 

GUEST LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

2008

• “Imperial Histories and the Colonial Difference: The Emergence of Border Thinking in the Americas.” Ringvorlesung “Encounters with/in the US.” Center for the Study of the Americas in Graz (April 17, 2008).

2007

• “A Poetics of the Flesh: Representation, De/Colononization and Resistance in U.S. American Literature.” Ringvorlesung “Körpermetaphern als Geschlechtermetaphern.” Universität Wien (23. Oktober 2007).

• “Singing the Border”: Border Ballads and other Folkloric Tales. Gastvortrag Universität Erlangen (25. Jänner 2007).

2006

• “The Gendered Nature of Liberty in the Early United States.” Ringvorlesung “Freiheit und Geschlecht—Offene Beziehungen, Prekäre Verhältnisse.” Universität Wien (7. Dezember 2006).

• “Decolonizing Theory: Critical Paradigms of Xicanisma.” Gastvortag Universität Wien (12. Dezember 2006).

• “Revolutionary Bodies: The Politics of Embodiment in American Culture.” Universität Tübingen (15. Dezember, 2006).

2005

• “Of Amazons and Angels: The Debate on Women in the 1790s”: Humboldt University, Berlin (June 27, 2005).

• Presentation of Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation at the Five-College-Women-Research Center at Mt. Holyoke College, MA (March 11, 2005).

2004

• “Bodily Sensations: The Female Body in Late-Eighteenth-Century American Culture.” American Antiquarian Society. Lunchtime Colloquium. Worcester, MA (November 5, 2004).

2003

• “Other Sexes: Bridging Textual Borders.” Ringvorlesung Gendered Subjects 1: Die Kategorie Geschlecht im Streit der Disziplinen (November 10, 2003).

• Book presentation of my book Articulating Selves: Contemporary Chicana Self-Representation at the University of California at Irvine (April 9, 2003).

• “Live(s) on the Mississippi—A Journey in Cultural Geography from Chicago to New Orleans (and back on the internet).” University of Vienna. Presentation of the Humanties “Geist Schafft Wissen” (March 5, 2003).

2002

• “Haus, Haushalt, Häuslichkeit: Eine kulturhistorische Analyse der Rolle der Frau in den USA”. University of Freiburg, Germany. Freiburger Frauenforschung, Vortragsreihe “Arbeit und Geschlecht” (December 12, 2002).

• “This Sisterhood Called Feminism” and “Women of Color: Chicanas.” PI Vienna Seminar “The American Way of Life” (April 22-24, 2002).

2000

• Together with Susanne Reichl. “Ethnic Literatures in English.” “Ringvorlesung Cultural Studies: Perspectives on Cultural Identities.” Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Vienna, (October 31, 2000).

1999

• “Nomadism, Migrancy and Identity.” Institut für Amerikanistik, Universität Innsbruck (October 21, 1999).

1998

• “Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street.” California State University at San Marcos (April 4, 1998).

1997

• “The Memories of Ana Calderón by Graciela Limón and Imaginary Parents by Sheila Ortiz Taylor.” San Diego Mesa College, CA (July 24, 1997).

1995

• “A European Perspective on Chicano Literature.” San Diego Mesa College, California (February 8, 1995).

 

INTERVIEWS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2008

• Interview for Der Standard on “Teaching American Studies and Anti-Americanism at Austrian Universities.” (March 4, 2008) http://oe1.orf.at/programm/?datum=20080109

• Interview auf Ö1: Betrifft Geschichte: Die Kennedys - Der amerikanische Glamour-Clan. 7-11. Jänner 2008
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/?datum=20080109

2007

“USA Goes Vienna.” Die Universitaet-Online (June 18, 2007) http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/beitraege/news/usa-goes-vienna/66/neste/4.html

1997

Who is Who in Austrian Education and Sciences (Edition Praesens, 1997)