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

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Employment:

• Professor Extraordinarius (profesor nadzwyczajny), since 08/2012
  
  
• Visiting Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: Technical University of Koszalin, 02/2011-07/2012
  
  
• Full-Time Lecturer in Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies: University of Vienna, 01/2005-01/2011 (+ deputyship 10/2003-12/2004)
  
  
• PhD English Literature (major), Comparative Literary Studies & German Literature: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 02/2002 (Dr. des.) / 02/2005 (Dr. phil.)
  Supervisors: Hans Walter Gabler, Werner von Koppenfels
  PhD Research: Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Fritz Senn), 03/2000
  Postgraduate Research on 'Tradespeak' in the Pacific Region: Massey University New Zealand, 07-09/1997
  
  
• M.A. (Magister Artium): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 06/1997
  Exchange Student: University of Reading, 10/1993- 04/1994
  Undergraduate: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 11/1991-07/1993
  National Service: Landshut, 07/1990-07/1991
  
  
• Abitur (Latinum) [University-Entrance Diploma]: Gymnasium Dingolfing, 06/1990
  Exchange Pupil: Oak Hills High School Cincinnati, Ohio, 09/1987

Positions:

• Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft since 04/2008.
  Co-Administrator of the Society's Website
  Co-Editor of the Society's Semi-Annual Newsletter, Web Editor of the Society's E-Journal Shakespeare Seminar Online
  Member of the Society's PR-Board
  Viennese Coordinator and Fundraiser of the Society's Spring Conference 2008 (419 participants).
  Responsible for the Society's Bi-Annual Conference Reports, since 2004
  
  
• Member of the Eranos Conference Group since 06/2007
  
  
• Member of the 2007-10 FWF Research Group 'Weltbühne Wien': The Reception of Anglophone Plays on Viennese Stages of the 20th Century
  

Fellowships and Honours:

• Short list place 1 for W1-Professor of Early Modern Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2008
  
  
• Shortlisted for the Figdor-Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Literary Studies 2008
  

• Stipend awarded by the Franz-Marie-Christinen-Foundation, 1998-2001

• Junior Fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria (Promotionsstipendium des Freistaat Bayern zur Förderung des Wissenschaftlichen und Künstlerischen Nachwuchses), 1997-2000

Professional Memberships:

• Austrian Association for University Teachers of English (AAUTE)

• Deutscher Anglistenverband (German Association for University Teachers of English)

• Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society)
  
  
• European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

• The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)
  
  
• The International Flann O'Brien Society (IFOBS)

• The International James Joyce Foundation
  
  
• The James Joyce Italian Foundation
  

Research Interests:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies

• James Joyce, Hiberno-Anglo-American High Modernism and Irish Studies (16th ct - contemporary)
  
  
• Literary and Cultural Theory / Cultural Studies:
  
  Rewriting the Ancients: Cultural Archaeology, Intertextuality, Myths and Archetypes
  Discursive and Semiotic Approaches to Representation
  Intermediality: Literature, Music, Film & Visual Arts
  Cultural Transfer and Circulation