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, Alexandra. "Der Bukanier als Grenzgänger: Englischsprachige Piratenliteratur im späten 17. Jahrhundert". Matices: Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal. 2011, 67. 34-36.
Ganser, Alexandra. "Lap Dancing for Mommy: Queer Intermediality, Chick Lit, and Transgenerational Feminist Mediation in Erika Lopez' Illustrated Narratives". Amerikastudien. 2011. 56(2).
Ganser, Alexandra "Navigating Little Italy: Carceral Mobility in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets"., Butler, M. Gurr, J. Kaltmeier, O. (ed.). EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas. Trier: Unknown publisher. 2011, 139-154.
Ganser, Alexandra "War Wounds: Bodily Inscriptions of Trauma and Cultural Memory in Silko's Ceremony". Fellner, A. M. (editors). Body Signs: The Body in Latino/a Cultural Production. 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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