Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau
Portrait by Pamela Rußmann
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau
Professor of American Studies at the Department of English and American Studies
Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 8.3
Spitalgasse 2-4
1090 Vienna
Austria
Email: alexandra.ganser@univie.ac.at
Research Interests
- Astrocultures, Astrofuturism, mobility futures: project "Colonizing Mars: Planetary Settlement in Contemporary American Culture"
- US-American, Anglophone Caribbean, and Canadian maritime literatures & cultures:
- Im/mobilization and necropolitics: project "Narratives of Flight in Contemporary North American Cross-Oceanic Refugee Literatures"
- Transnational, transatlantic American studies & the Black Atlantic
- Cultural studies/theory, American popular culture, historical popular culture studies, visual culture
- Gender studies
- Native American and First Nations studies
- Ecocriticism
Publications
Ganser, Alexandra et al. "Introduction: American Im/mobilities". and Ganser, Alexandra Lavery, Charne (ed.). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture. Springer. (Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS)). 2023.
Ganser, Alexandra "Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction". and Ganser, Alexandra Lavery, Charne (ed.). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 3). 2023.
Ganser, Alexandra and Charne Lavery, editors Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. (Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 3).
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra, Jens Temmen and Clemens Rettenbacher. "A Sea of Stars? Towards an Astropelagic Reading of Outer Space with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt". Journal of Transnational American Studies. 2023, 14(1). 273-301. https://doi.org/10.5070/T814161197
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra et al. Caring for Cultural Studies: A Tribute to Monika Seidl V&R unipress. 2022.
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra, Abenteuer Adria: Inseln, Schätze und Piraten: Erbe Österreich, ORFIII: TV & More, Television show, 2021
Ganser, Alexandra and Charne Lavery "Introduction". and Ganser, Alexandra Lavery, Charne (ed.). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan. (Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 3). 2021.
Ganser, Alexandra and Gudrun Rath. "Introduction: Liberty and Death in Atlantic Modernity". Atlantic Studies. 2021.
Ganser, Alexandra "“O’er us, rovers free”:
Performing Gender and National Identity in Jacksonian Pirate Melodrama". and Poole, Ralph Lippert, Leopold (ed.). The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Transcript Verlag. 2021, 179-209.
Ganser, Alexandra and Stefanie Schäfer, The Trans-Atlanticist Ladyfiction Podcast: Octavia Butler's Parables, Web publication, 2021
Ganser, Alexandra "(Im)Mobilität und Medialität im Hollywood-Weltraumfilm: Interstellar und The Martian". and Ganser, Alexandra Pelz, Annegret (ed.). Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies. Göttingen: V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 2020, 147-168.
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865 Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. (Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 1).
Dannecker, Petra et al. "Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Mobilitätsstudien konzeptualisieren". and Ganser, Alexandra Pelz, Annegret (ed.). Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften/Mobile Cultures and Societies. V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 2020, 9-56.
Pelz, Annegret and Alexandra Ganser, editors Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften – Mobile Cultures and Societies Göttingen: V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 2020.
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA). 2019, 67(2). 201-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2019-0018
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative. By Alexa Weik von Mossner (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017), 269pp.". Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS). 2019, 175-177. https://doi.org/10.25364/20.1:2019.1.18
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra "Astrofuturism". Paul, Heike (editors). Critical Terms in Future Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific: Re-reading "Benito Cereno"". Atlantic Studies. 2018, 15(2). 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1384612
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Narrating the Sea: Charlotte Mathieson, ed., Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600– Present (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 281 pp., 5 illustrations, €93.59 (hardback), €74.96 (ebook)". Transfers. 2018, 8(1). 144-146. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2018.080113