DR. MELANIE FERATOVA-LOIDOLT

Official:

University of Vienna (A)
Department of English
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8
1090 Vienna
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik
melanie.feratova-loidolt@univie.ac.at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/melanie.feratova-loidolt

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH:

18.06.1973, Austria/Mödling (NÖ)

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. (Dr. phil.), English Literature, May 2005 (“mit Auszeichnung”)

University of Vienna

Dissertation:
“Dancing With Death. Women's Painful, Feverish and Fatal Encounters With Life and Love.
A Study on the Patriarchal Denial of Female Subjectivity and Woman's Quest for Heterosexual Recognition. A Feminist Theoretical Investigation & a Gender Comparative Analysis of the Theme in Literary Representation of the 19 th and Early 20 th cent.”

First Advisor: Prof. Margarete Rubik
Second Advisor: Prof. Rudolf Weiss

M.A. (Mag.phil), English Literature, June 1999 (“mit Auszeichnung”)

University of Vienna

Diploma-Thesis: “Gender and the Gothic”
First Advisor: Prof. H. Foltinek

Second Subjects:
English: Language & Gender
Art History & Theatre Studies

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION:

Gender Studies, Feminist Poststructuralist Theory, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Cultural Studies, 19 th and 20 th cent. English Literature

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Lecturer in Gender Studies
Department of English, University of Vienna , November 2005 - present

Research Assistant of Prof. Margarete Rubik
Department of English, University of Vienna , November 2005 - February 2006
Project: “American Drama on the Viennese Stage”

“Universitätsassistentin” (comparable to: „Associate Junior Professor“)

Department of English, University of Vienna , March 2004 – November 2005
The position was limited to the duration of Prof. Eva Müller-Zettelmann's parental leave.

Research Assistant of Prof. Herbert Foltinek

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna , Autumn 1999
Project: “Translation & Performance of English Plays on the Viennese Stage in the 18 th cent.”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Lecturer in Gender & Interdisciplinary Studies

Department of English, University of Vienna , September 2004 – present
Module K 501/701, undergraduate level, interactive course designed by the lecturer (90mins)

•  SS 2006

“Heret(h)ics: Feminist Negotiations of the Divine, Religion, and Dogmatic Iconographies of the Female Body In Quest for an Ethical Space.”

•  WS 2005

“Through the Looking Glass: Female Artistic Selves Refractured and Reimagined Beyond the Patriarchal Camera Obscura.”

•  SS 2005

“Eve's Meta-morphosis: Phantasmal Reimaginings of Female Fall and Male Re-creationIn Literary and Visual Representation from the 17 th to the 21 st cent. and Its Cultural Implications”

•  WS 2004:

“Dancing With Death: Tracing Out Female Subjectivity Between Eros and Thanatos In Literary Representation Through the Lens of Feminist Theory and Myth”

Tutor in English Literature

Department of English, University of Vienna, September 2002 – January 2004

•  SS & WS 2003

Tutorial for the Survey Lecture “From Renaissance to Restoration” (held by Dr. Elke Mettinger-Schartmann)

•  WS 2002

Tutorial for the Survey Lecture “From Classicism to Modernism” (held by Dr. Eva Müller-Zettelmann)

Non-academic Teaching: English Language Teacher

at the “Volkshochschule Wien-Ottakring” (public school for adults), February 2006 – present

PRESENTATIONS:

--- „Eve's Meta-morphosis. Phantasmal Re-imaginings of Female Fall and Male Re-creation in Literary Representations from the 17 th to the 21 st cent.”

Conference: “Metamorphic Changes”, University of Salzburg , May 2005. (presentation)

--- „Die Aporie der Tochter in der Zwischenwelt – Konsequenzen der patriarchalen Einschreibung der Mutter als ein Ort des Scheiterns. Perspektiven des radikalen Differenzfeminismus.“

Lecture-Cycle: “Gender & Generation” organised by the „Projektzentrum für Genderforschung“ SS 2004
(Lecture 90mins, June), University of Vienna

--- „Melancholie und Geschlecht: Konsequenzen der patriarchalen Einschreibung der Weiblichkeit als kathartisches, selbstreflexives Konstrukt des Mannes.“

Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna , November 2003
Presentation (90 mins) in Dr. Ingvild Birkhan's lecture course “Tod, Schrift, und Geschlechterdifferenz”

PUBLICATIONS:

--- “Die Aporie der Tochter in der Zwischenwelt: Konsequenzen der patriarchalen Einschreibung der Mutter als ein Ort der Scheiterns. Perspektiven des radikalen Differenzfeminismus.“

In: Bidwell-Steiner, Marlen und Karin S. Wozonig (Hg.) Gender & Generation II (Gendered Subject Band 2).
Innsbruck : StudienVerlag, 2005. (276-292).

--- Current application for publication of the dissertation. (rodopi, Routledge, Polity Press)

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS:

Projektzentrum für Genderforschung, University of Vienna
University Campus, 1090 Wien <http://www.univie.ac.at/gender/>

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

From1991- present I have been working at the theatre-festival “Festspiele Reichenau” ( Austria , NÖ) as assistant of production- and stage-management and as dramaturgical assistant.

The theatre is led by my parents Prof. Peter and Mag. Renate Loidolt .