Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau

Portrait by Pamela Rußmann

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. ""The Coastal Figuration of the Caribbean Pirate in the Late-Seventeenth Century."." Navigating Cultural Spaces, edited by Anna-Margaretha Horatschek, Yvonne Rosenberg and Daniel Schäbler, Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2014, 135-155

Ganser, Alexandra. "Rez. zu Border Studies." Amerikastudien, 2013, 58(3), 509-514

Ganser, Alexandra. "Navigating Little Italy: Carceral Mobility in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets." EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas, edited by M. Butler, J. Gurr and O. Kaltmeier, Trier: Unknown publisher, 2011, 139-154

Ganser, Alexandra. "War Wounds: Bodily Inscriptions of Trauma and Cultural Memory in Silko's Ceremony." Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production, edited by A. M. Fellner, Wien: LIT Verlag, 2011, 103-121

Rheindorf, Markus, Alexandra Ganser and Julia Pühringer. "Bakhtin's Chronotope on the Road: Space, Time, and Place in Road Movies since the 1970s." Facta Universitatis. Series Linguistics and Literature, 2006, 1-18

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