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-Blumenau, Alexandra. "Astrofuturismus: Utopien der Mobilität." Zukunftsnarrative: Zur Deutungsmacht kultureller Erzählmuster, edited by Judith Gärtner, Martina Kumlehn and Stephanie Wodianka, 1 ed., Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, Edition Kulturwissenschaft, Vol. 295, 2024, 45 - 60 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839470824-004
Ganser, Alexandra and Gudrun Rath. "Liberty and death: Pirates and zombies in Atlantic modernity." Atlantic Studies, 2023, 20(3), 365-380 https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2161725
Ganser, Alexandra. "Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction." Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery, 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." Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Maritime Literature and Culture, Vol. 3, 2023.
Ganser, Alexandra et al. "Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities." Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023, 14(1), 75-92 https://doi.org/10.5070/t814160878
Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra and Charne Lavery. "Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities." Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone LIterature and Culture, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery, 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, Alexandra et al. "American Studies as Im/Mobility Studies Introduction." Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 2021, 3(1), 1-7
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." The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices, edited by Ralph Poole and Leopold Lippert, 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." Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften / Mobile Cultures and Societies, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Annegret Pelz, 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." Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften/Mobile Cultures and Societies, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Annegret Pelz, V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2020, 9-56 https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737012089.9
Pelz, Annegret and Alexandra Ganser, editors. Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften – Mobile Cultures and Societies, Göttingen: V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2020 https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737012089
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