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

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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-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." Critical Terms in Future Studies, edited by Heike Paul, 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
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Science-Fiction-Forscherin über Hollywoods Zukunftsvisionen: Die Apokalypse wird vorausgesetzt." Der Standard: Forschung, 2018.
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Ben Bradley/Jay Young/Colin M. Coates, Hg., Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016 (352 S.; ISBN 978-1-55238-859-4; CAD 34,95)." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2018, 38, 137-138
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Territorialities of Flight: The Refugee Narrative in Edwidge Danticat and Madeleine Thien." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2018, 49(2/3 2018), 147-161
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. ""Der Pirat als Nationalheld? Piraterie und Krisenverhandlung in der US-amerikanischen Populärkultur des 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel Lieutenant Murrays Fanny Campbell (1844)."." Populäre Piraten: Vermessung eines Feldes, edited by Irmtraud Hnilica and Marcel Lepper, Berlin: Kadmos, 2017, 103-118
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "From “Wall-Flower” to “Queen of the Forest”: Frontier Migration, Nature, and Early Ecofeminism in Caroline Kirkland’s “A New Home, Who’ll Follow? ” (1839)." Amerikastudien, 2017, 61(4), 469-488
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Mobility in Early Modern Anglo-American Accounts of Piracy." Piracy, Place, and Property, edited by Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis, London: Routledge, 2017, 81-92
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Painting (the) In-Between: Twentieth-Century Indigenous Border Art at Glacier/Waterton National Parks." In-between - liminal spaces in Canadian literature and culture, edited by Stefan L. Brandt, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Wien: Peter Lang, Canadiana: Literaturen/Kulturen - Literatures/Cultures - Litteratures/Cultures, Vol. 20, 2017, 115-131
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Gerald Vizenor: Transnational Trickster of Theory." Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: The Gerald Vizenor Continuum, edited by Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Hauke, New York: Routledge, 2016, 16-33
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra, Oxford Bibliographies: Caroline Kirkland, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0018.xml?rskey=YGVHXi&result=1&q=kirkland#firstMatch: Oxford University Press, Web publication, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0018
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra, Birgit Däwes and Nicole Poppenhagen. "Season Recap: A Preface." Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series, edited by Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser and Nicole Poppenhagen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, American Studies - A Monograph Series, Vol. 264, 2015, 9-14
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Transgressive Serialization and the Serialization of Transgression at the US-Canadian Border: Twin Peaks." Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American Television, edited by Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser and Nicole Poppenhagen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, American Studies - A Monograph Series, Vol. 264, 2015, 55-79
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra, Birgit Däwes and Nicole Poppenhagen, editors. Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series, Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 2015
Banauch, Eugen, Alexandra Ganser and Martin Blumenau, editors. AustroBob: Österreichische Aneignungen von Bob Dylans Poesie und Musik, Falter Verlag, 2014
Ganser, Alexandra and Martin Blumenau. "Bringing It All Back Home?." AustroBob: Österreichische Aneignungen von Bob Dylans Poesie und Musik, edited by Alexandra Ganser, Eugen Banauch and Martin Blumenau, Wien: Falter Verlag, 2014, 108-117
Ganser, Alexandra. "Rev. of Visual Cultures—Transatlantic Perspectives, ed. Volker Depkat and Meike Zwingenberger." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 2014, 132(2), 431-435
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
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