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
Gföllner, Barbara and Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau "Astropelagic Afrofuturism: Outer Space Im/mobilities in Canisia Lubrin’s ‘Voodoo Hypothesis’"., Atanasova, Daniela, Bund, Romana, Buschmann, Dovaine Diniega, Rachael Donat, Jana Gföllner, Barbara Kopf, Nicola (ed.). Entangled Future Im/Mobilities. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 2024.
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, 211-234.
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, Alexandra and Charne Lavery "Introduction". 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 et al. "Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities". Journal of Transnational American Studies. 2023, 2023(1). 75-92.
Ganser, Alexandra and Gudrun Rath. "Introduction: Liberty and Death: Pirates and Zombies in Atlantic Modernity". Atlantic Studies. 2023, 20(3). 365-380.
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra and Charne Lavery "Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities". and Ganser, Alexandra Lavery, Charne (ed.). Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone LIterature and Culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 3). 2023, 1-17.
Rath, Gudrun and Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau, editors Pirates and Zombies Taylor & Francis. 2023. (Atlantic Studies; Journal number 3, Vol. 20).
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 "“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.