Professor Extraordinarius of Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies, Technical University of Koszalin
Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna 2003-10

Conferences

Conference Organization & Fund Raising:

• Viennese Coordinator and Fundraiser of the Shakespeare-Tage 2008: Vienna, April 24-27 (419 participants).
  

• As a Member of the 'Weltbühne Wien' Advisory Board (Research Project Ewald Mengel): International Conference on Drama, Theatre, and Cultural Transfer: Vienna, May 11-13, 2008.
  
  
• In Support of His Excellency Mr. Frank Cogan, Ambassador of Ireland to Austria and Werner Huber: Bloomsday in Vienna 2007 & 2009.
  
  
• In Support of Ewald Mengel and the 'The Contemporary South African Novel' Project Team: International Conference on Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Vienna, 08-11 April, 2010.
  
  
• As a Member of the Eranos Conference Group: Eranos Research Seminar: Villa Corliano (San Giuliano Terme / Pisa), 18-22 July, 2012.
  
  
• With Wojciech Klepuszewski: "Changing Places" - Anglo-American and German Perspectives on University Fiction: t.b.a.

   

Panels, Introductions and Chairs of Discussion:

• Nicola Watson (Open University), "A Taste of History - Shakespeare and Culinary Tourism": Shakespeare-Tage 2008 Wien: "Bühne und Bankett".

• Friedemann Kreuder (Mainz), "Aldilà Teatrale - Hamlet und die Andere Welt": Herbsttagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 2008 Mainz: "Hamlet".

• Peter Holbrook (Queensland), "Shakespeare and the Modern: Hardy, Eliot, Gunn": Shakespeare-Tage 2009 Weimar: "Shakespeare: Aufbruch in die Moderne".

• Joyce/Drama/Fiction: Maria-Ana TUPAN: "Life/Liber: Joyce's Reinscription of a Post-Romantic Gender Dyad in Finnegans Wake" - Ulf DANTANUS: "Friel Better Than Ibsen?: On 'Translating' HeddaGabler" – David CLARK: "Emerald Noir? Contemporary Irish Crime Fiction": 7th EFACIS Conference: “Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges” University of Vienna 2009.
  
  
• Enno Ruge (München), "The Baddest Neighbourhood? Shakespeare im Dickicht der Vorstädte": Shakespeare-Tage 2010 Bochum: "The Playwright and the City – London um 1600 als kulturelle Metropole".
  
  
• Tamara Radak (University of Vienna), "'Where I end and you Begin': O’Brien’s Flanndings and Joyce’s Re-beginnings" — Sonja Jankov (University of Novi Sad, Serbia/Charles University in Prague), "Inventing a Phono-Electric Cell: O’Brien’s Poetics of Intermediality after Synge and Joyce" — Mark Corcoran (NUI Galway), "'The House is going to burst!': O'Brien's influence on Patrick McCabe": 100 Myles: The International Flann O'Brien Centenary Conference, University of Vienna 2011.
  
  
• Aaron Powell (Birmingham), "A Magic Circle at the Sacred Banquet: A Consideration of the Intellectual Relationship between the Eranos Movement and the Temenos Academy": Eranos Research Seminar, Villa Corliano (San Giuliano Terme / Pisa) 2012.
  
  
• Paul Edmondson (Stratford-upon-Avon): "Speaking Shakespeare’s Sonnets": Herbsttagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft Weimar 2012: "The Sonnets - Die Sonette".
  
  
• Ioana Zirra (Bucharest), "High Modernist Collective Memory Bombs and Booms: “The Waste Land” and Ulysses and the Injunction “Make Love, Not War!”" — Martin Potter (Bucharest), "Cultural Memory as Tradition and Sacrament in David Jones’ Poetry": Cultures of Memory, Memories of Culture - The 15th Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 2013.
  
  
• The Clowning of Science: Ancient Authorities
  Meltem Gurle (Bogazici University), "The Third Man Argument: Problems of O’Brien’s Dualistic Ontology" —
  Julia Jordan (Cardiff University), "The Atomic Swerves of Flann O’Brien" — Noam Schiff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Morality, Science and the Death Drive in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman": Problems with Authority: The II International Flann O’Brien Conference, Rome 2013.
  
  
• t.b.a. Eranos-Conference: "The Virtues of Tolerance", Neamt Monastery Romania, 2013.