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-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. "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. ""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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