CURRICULUM VITAE. Education and professional information

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Education and professional information 1965 graduation from university preparatory high school in Linz, Austria, with honors University of Salzburg, English Studies (major), German Studies (minor) Special doctoral student, Cornell University, USA (Fulbright Scholarship) 1973 Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) University of Salzburg Assistant Professor, University of Salzburg ACLS-Fulbright Scholar, Princeton University, USA 1987 Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Minnesota, USA (Fulbright Grant) 1988 Habilitation in Amerikanistik (Advanced Research degree in American Studies) 1988 ff. Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Salzburg Visiting Professor, English Department, University of Vienna, Austria research periods at John F. Kennedy Institut, Berlin (1980s), University of Utah, USA (1990s) Chair, Department of English-American Studies, University of Salzburg 2002 Visiting Professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (1 term) Sept and Feb months of research, University of Stellenbosch American Studies activities/ international relations activities AAAS -Austrian Association for American Studies: Board member since 1974 (founding year), Treasurer, , President, and , Vice-President, and , , Secretary EAAS - European Association for American Studies, Board member, , Treasurer, , Trustee, DGfA - German Association for American Studies, member since 1979 ASA - American Studies Association, member, Board member, Austro-American Society, since 1988; Vice-President, Chair, Foreign Relations Committee, Humanities and Social Science Faculty, Salzburg University, Coordinator, Exchange Program with University of Minnesota, since 1993 Organizer of an American Studies Program for Salzburg students at University of Utah, 1994, 1995 Coordinator, Joint Study Program with University of Utah, since 1995 Member of various exchange program committees with universities in the US, Canada, Switzerland; Member of CEPES/UNESCO Working Group on "Europe-U.S.A.: Recognition of Qualifications", ; U.S.A. specialist of Austrian Rectors' Conference, ; Member of American Studies Advisory Group for The Salzburg Seminar, 1993, 1994; Coordinator, cooperation between the University of Salzburg and The Salzburg Seminar, 1995 ff.; Faculty member, American Studies Center of The Salzburg Seminar, Spring 1996; Expert, Evaluation of Programmes of the European Union: language expert for TEMPUS- TACIS Project Evaluation Session (Torino, Italy, Sept.1996); ECTS-Departmental Coordinator (Dept. of English and American Studies at Salzburg), 1996ff.;

2 Chair, Working Group on "European Studies", since 1997; Organizer, 1st Task Force Meeting of APIEL (Advanced Placement International English Language Examination), in Salzburg June 1998; Member, TEMPUS-PHARE Academic Experts Meeting in Prague, June 1999; Delegate, Meeting of European Ministers and education specialists in Bologna, "The European Space for Higher Education" (where the "Bologna declaration" was signed), June 1999; Austrian APIEL representative, at European Task Force Meetings in Düsseldorf (September 1999), Montreux (September 2000), Utrecht (Spring 2001); and APIEL Information Meeting in Heidelberg (June 2001); President of AAAS, organizer of the "Silver Jubilee Conference" in Salzburg, Schloss Leopoldskron (November 5-7, 1999) on "American Studies and Peace"; Chair, First Session on APIEL at an EAIE Conference, Maastricht, (November 1999). Co-Coordinator, Exchange Program with University of Stellenbosch (Spring 2001 ff.) Lecturing at home and abroad "Emily Dickinson: Image Patterns and the Female Imagination" (AAAS Conference, Salzburg) "Identity vs. Identification: Dickinson and Post-Dickinson (EAAS Conference, Amsterdam) "Women Poets in the Twilight Period" (EAAS Conference, Paris) "American Women's Poetry - An Attempt at Typology" (AAAS Conference, Salzburg) "Women Poets as Sculptors of Meaning: Adelaide Crapsey, Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein (EAAS Conference, Rome) "Feminist Literary Criticism - Aspects of Reconstructing the History of American Poetry" (DGfA Conference, Berlin; co-organizer of Workshop on "Reconstructing American Literature, with Fritz Fleischmann, Wellesley) "The Japanese Influence on Anglo-American Poetry" (Dialog Congress on "Europe - U.S.A. - Japan (Forum Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria) "Emily Dickinson - Slantness as Vision and Strategy" (Internat'l Dickinson Symposium, Nice, France) "Defining Emily Dickinson's 'Americanness' at the 'Second Stage'" (internat'l Dickinson Conference, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Emily Dickinson and the Female Tradition in American Poetry" (Univ. of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) "Definition und Selbstdefinition der Frau in der amerikanischen Lyrik" (Lecture Series on "Woman", Univ. of Salzburg) organizer, Marianne Moore Symposium (University of Minnesota) "Marianne Moore and All Those Anthologists" (Marianne Moore Conference, University of Maine, Orono) "Marianne Moore - Imagist, Modernist, Woman Poet" (College of St.Thomas, St. Paul, MN) "Regionalism and the Poetry of Amy Clamitt and Lorine Niedecker" (AAAS Conference, Salzburg) "'In Distrust of Merits': Marianne Moore Raises a Female Voice Against War" (DGfA Conference, Regensburg, Germany) "The Contribution of Feminist Criticism to Contemporary Criticism" (Univ. of Lodz, Poland)

3 "From 'No Man's Land' to 'Canonland': Women Poets Mapping the Territory" (Coloqio on the Canon in English/American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal) "Marianne Moore: American Modernist Reconsidered (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) paper and participation in panel on "European Perspectives on American Studies: Integration and Liberalization" (Northwestern University, U.S.A.) "Committed to Communication: Emily Dickinson and the Reader" (Fribourg, Switzerland) "Emily Dickinson's Sub-versifying Mode and the Critical Response of the Eighties" (University of Berne, Switzerland) "Marianne Moore as a Modernist (Woman) Poet" (University of Basel, Switzerland) "Dickinson's 'Letter A' to the World: Culture, Coding, and the Sub-versifying Mode as Issues of Translation" (Internat'l Dickinson Conference, Washington, D.C.) organizer, "Columbus Day 1992" (English-American Studies, Salzburg University) co-organizer of "Literary Historians Shoptalk", with Fritz Gysin, Berne (EAAS Conference, Luxembourg) seminars on modern and contemporary American women poets (Niedecker and Clampitt, Moore and Bishop, Ochtrup and Hampl) (University of Fribourg) speaker, International Panel, at Conference "50 Years of American Studies at Minnesota" (University of MN, Minneapolis) "From Literary Criticism to Cultural Studies" (AAUTE Conference of the Austrian Teachers of English, Salzburg) "War and the Poem: Pattern and Ritual as (Anti-) Strategies in Some Modernist Women Poets" (Stephen Crane Memorial Conference of AISNA- Italian Association for North American Studies, Rome) "Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop" (University of Vienna) "Minimalism and Maximalism of Form: Lorine Niedecker and Amy Clampitt Take Up the Challenge of Space and the Poem" (EAAS Conference, Warsaw; workshop on "Freedom and Form: American Poetry, ) Chair, "Literary Historians Shoptalk" (EAAS Conference, Warsaw) "Feminist Retheorizing: The Canon and the Heartland": Women Poets, Literary History, and the Myth of America" (American Studies Workshop: Themes in Contemporary American Literature, American Studies Center, Salzburg Seminar) Chair, "Graduate Student Forum 3" (AAAS Conference, Salzburg) Session Chair, Conference of the Israel Association for American Studies on "The Americanization of America" (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) "Suspending Belief: American Optimism at Stake" (7th Tampere Conference on North American Studies, Tampere, Finland); Chair of various sessions; "Education and Training Cooperation in the context of the new EU transatlantic relationships with Canada and the United States" (Opening Remarks, Transatlantic Conference, Cagliari) "Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy" (17th International Ezra Pound Conference, Brunnenburg, Italy, on Ezra Pound and Poetic Influence) 1998 Panel Presentation on Academic Recognition (ESIB = European Student Union Conference on "Recognition of Qualifications", Vienna) Workshop Paper "When West Meets East: The Special Case of Pearl S. Buck" (AAAS Conference, Innsbruck) Panel Response, "Implementation of Internationalization Strategies: Of Marginal Significance Or All Pervasive?" (EAIE-Conference, Stockholm) Globalization and Its Effect on Higher Education (Conference of the Centro Studi Euro- Atlantici, "Which Global Village?", Genua).

4 1999 Introductory Statement on "American Studies and Peace" (AAAS-"Silver Jubilee" Conference, Salzburg) 2000 "American Studies European Studies: a Fruitful Dialogue?" ("Austria Week" at Bowling Green State University, Ohio). "Women's 'Enlightened' Re-visions of a New World," (Joint Conference of SANAS and AAAS; Workshop: "Foundational Myths and their Revisions," Zürich) Amerikastudien Europastudien: Chancen für einen Dialog? (Salzburg Fribourg Symposion on Multikulturalität und Multilingualismus" (Salzburg) 2002 American Studies Concepts as a Necessary Challenge to Intercultural Thinkers (and some ideas about diversifying such concepts from a European and South African Perspective). (English Department University of Stellenbosch) Projects New Worlds in context / transatlantic Cultural Studies: "America" (South) Africa (the frontier, colonialism and religion, founding myths, concepts of nature, etc.) The "Victorian Frontier" in Anglophone Cultures Contemporary South Africa: Aesthetics and Politics Transatlantic Negotiations (workshop project) Central concerns in research and teaching Literary historiography and issues of revisionism Gender Studies (American) women's poetic tradition transatlantic Romanticism, Victorianism, and Modernism individual authors: Wordsworth, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Amy Clampitt, Monica Ochtrup South Africa as a New World culture South African literature and aesthetics Intercultural questions in New World cultures MA theses supervised (completed) 1990 Steffen, Julia. Indian Removal Policy from Jefferson to Jackson with Particular Emphasis on the Choctaws: Historical and Literary Aspects 1992 Pichlbauer, Beate. "Them" in the Sixties. Victims and Awakened Women in Margaret Drabble's and Joyce Carol Oates's Novels 1993 Oegg, Barbara. Liberating the "Female Character": Domestic Feminism and Sarah Josepha Hale's Editorship of The American Ladies' Magazine, Scheutz, Brigitte. Mary Daly's Feminist Philosophy: From Roman Catholicism to "Pure Lust"

5 1993 Vormaier, Michaela. Following Traces into Narrative Space. The Case of Simon J. Ortiz and Leslie Marmon Silko 1994 Pointner, Katharina. From Fact to Fiction: Cajun History and Cajun Culture and their Potrayal in Creole and Anglo-American Literature 1995 Brosch, Alexandra. New England and New France: Places of a First Encounter Between Europeans and Natives in the New World. With a Focus on the Beginnings of Religion and Literature 1995 Feichtinger, Daniela. "A Memory Forgotten": Revision and Matrisexual Desire in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt 1996 Marinic, Sabine. Contemporary Autobiography in the Mexican American Borderland: Richard Rodriguez in Perspective 1996 Petermichl, Heidemarie. "The Story Comes Up Different Every Time...": Louise Erdrich's Novels, Enzenbrunner, Fiona. (Re)-Writing the Sentimental Novel: The Work of Five Nineteenth-Century Women in Context.1997 Wagnleitner-Suppin, Elisabeth. Islands of Illusion 'Truth Stranger Than Fiction': Hawaii's Image and Polynesian Reality, Ablinger, Birgit. Still 'Saints in Sunbonnets': Female Protagonist in the Pioneer Family Story 2000 Piekarz, Christie. Fiction into Film: Three Henry James Novels as Narratives à la Hollywood Wernisch, Alexandra. "Madame Butterfly": : A Stereotype and Its Challenge 2001 Schiefersteiner, Birgit. Gail Jones' Novels and the Challenge of Defining the Self through the Black Female Body Frauenhoffer, Johanna. A Shared History: Second Generation Jewish American Writers Respond to the Holocaust Strobl, Verena. Historical, Cultural, and Literary Views of African American Women in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula Panagger, Iris. The History of South Africa as Apartheid History and Post-Apartheid Responses 2004 Borzaga, Michela. Tatamkhulu Afrika: A Contemporary South African Poet ( ) 2004 Meister, Karin. The pen as Sword: Barbara Kingsolver's Literature of Social and Political Change supervision of MA theses in progresss Chen, Yi-Heng. Reading Literature in Context: The Case of South African Jews Stütz, Christa. Eudora Welty. A post mortem Assessment. supervision of doctoral dissertations in progress Borzaga, Michela. Literary Periodization in Postcolonial Contexts (South Africa) Breninger, Birgit. "In the Name of Whom"? Literary Reconstructions of National and Religious Myths

6 Szczurek, Karina. Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa courses taught WS 1974/75 bis WS 1977/78 Sprachpraktisches Englisches PS I (Practical English) (taught every Semester) SS 1976 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Selected American Short Story SS 1977 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Selected American Authors of the 1920s WS 1977/78 VO: American English Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Modern American Jewish Writers SS 1978 VO: American Women Writers of the 20th Century Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Selections from Southern Fiction WS 1978/79 VO: American Education Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: John Updike SS 1979 VO: New England Writing: Old and New Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Selections from 19th-Century American Literature WS 1979/80 PS: New England Poetry of the 20th Century Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Saul Bellow PS: American Urban Literature SS 1980 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: American Writers of the Midwest PS III: American Poetry and Prose of the 19th Century WS 1980/81 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Southern Fiction and Drama PS : American Poetry of the Jazz Age PS : The Plays of Tennessee Williams SS 1981 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Thornton Wilder PS: John Steinbeck PS: The American Indian SS 1982 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Joyce Carol Oates (Fiction and Poetry) WS 1982/83 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I PS: American Poetry to 1900 SS 1983 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: William Faulkner PS: American Storytelling to 1900 WS 1983/84 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Walt Whitman PS: Amerìcan War Poetry

7 SS 1984 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I PS: American Poetry WS 1984/85 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Adrienne Rich (Poetry and Theory) PS: Sylvia Plath SS 1985 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I PS: Short Fiction from the South WS 1985/86 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I SS 1986 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Willa Cather (Regionalism and Feminism) PS: The American Local Color Story WS 1986/87 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I "Scribbling Women": Sentimental Novelist and Poetess in Victorian America SS 1987 Guest professor, English Department, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Winter Quarter 1987 (Jänner - März) VO: American Poetry: Beginnings to 1890 SE: The Rise of Modernism: The Female Contribution (the 1890s through the 1920s) Spring Quarter 1987 (April - Juni) VO: Voice in American Women's Poetry SE : Emily Dickinson PS: American Short Stories (Abendkurs) Summer Session I (Mitte Juni - Ende Juli 1987) VO: American Poetry:1890 to the Present PS: Famous English and American Poems WS 1987/88 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I SS 1988 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Nathaniel Hawthorne WS 1988/89 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS I PS: Books That Changed America SS 1989 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: American Indian Writing PS: The American Frontier: Cultural Concept and Literary Subject WS 1989/90 VO: Survey ofamerican Literature, Beginnings to 1775 PS: The American Short Poem SS 1990 VO: Survey of American Literature, Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Early American Immigrant Writing

8 WS 1990/9 VO: Survey of American Literature, PS: Lillian Hellman SS 1991 VO: Survey of American Literature, Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: American Novels of the Sixties and Eighties: The Case of John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates WS 1991/92 VO: American Studies: Between Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies SE: American Feminist Writing: 1848-l968: The First Stage SS 1992 SE: American Feminist Writing since 1968 : The Second Stage Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: 'Little Freaks': The Child Protagonist in American Fiction WS 1992/93 SE:1492/1992: Discovering "America"/Reinventing Columbus in Literature Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Contemporary American Literature and the Hispanic Encounter SS 1993 SE: Emily Dickinson: New England Poetess as Master Poet Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: Walt Whitman: "I Sing Myself": WS 1993/94 VO: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1775 Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: "Voices and Visions":The Art of Poetry in the Context of Video Narration: Part I (Marianne Moore, W.C. Williams, Wallace Stevens) SS 1994 VO: Survey of American Literature:1776 through the Civil War Period Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: "Voices and Visions": The Art of Poetry in the Context of Video Narration: Part II (Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell) WS 1994/95 VO: Survey of American Literature: The Twenties through the Fifties Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II: 'Tradition and the Individual Talent': American Women Writers in the 19th Century SS 1995 VO: American Studies: From Literary Criticism to Cultural Studies VL. Survey of American Literature: the 1920s through the 1950s SE: Seminar für DissertantInnen und DiplomandInnen WS 1995/96: VO: Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft /Introduction to the Study of Literature SE: Women's Writing in the Americas: Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Context WS 1995/96: Guest Professor, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Wien VO: English and American Romanticism Reconsidered: Gender - Vision - Genre SE: "Tradition and the Individual Talent": The Victorian Woman Writer in a Transatlantic Perspective SS 1996: VO: American Poetry from the Fifties through the Eighties SE: De-Europeanizing the American Novel? The Asian-American Impact

9 SE: Seminar für DissertantInnen und DiplomandInnen WS 1996/97: VO: English and American Romanticism: Poetry and Poetic Theory SS 1997: VO: English and American Romanticism: The Novel SE: Writing Beyond the Model: Master Narratives in New (Cultural) Contexts SE: Seminar für DissertantInnen und DiplomandInnen WS 1997/98: VO: American Modernism: The Challenge of the Long Poem PS: Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II SS 1998: VO: Landes- und Kulturkunde der U.S.A. / The U.S.A.: The Land, the People, the Culture SE: William Faulkner: Major American Modernist and Southern Mythmaker WS 1998/99: VO: American Literature Survey I: Beginnings to 1775 SE: Literary Nobel Prize Winners SS 1999: VO: American Literature Survey II: PS: Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II WS 1999/2000: VO: American Literature Survey III: SE: American Literature at the Turn of the Century SS 2000: VO: American Literature Survey IV: from the 1920s through the 1950s PS: Literaturwissenschaftliches PS II WS 2000/01: VO: Survey of American Literature I: Beginnings to1800 PS: Utopia and Gender in America SS 2001: VO: American Civilization / Landes- u. Kulturkunde der Vereinigten Staaten SE: Color and Culture: "Whiteness" und Scrutiny WS 2001/02: VO: Survey of American Literature II: The 19th Century SE: The Making of Americans: From the Founders to Gertrude Stein Spring 2002: (1st term) Guest professor, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 2nd-year SE: 19th-Century Literature: American Voices, American Visions 3rd-year Elective: "The Making of Americans": A Survey of 19th-Century American Literature (Genre, Gender, Race, and Identity Formation)

10 SS 2002: VO: Survey of American Literature III. Fin-de-Siècle through the 1950s PS: Immigration and Multilingual America WS 2002/3 VO: American Women Poets: A Linking-Figures Approach SE: North America and South Africa: Cultural Myths in Context PV: Privatissimum SS 2003 VO: North American Civilization PS: The Indians: Native Americans and "Other" Americans WS 2003/04 VO: Introduction to the Study of Literature VO: American Modernist Writing by Women a "No Man's Land"? PV: Priviatissimum SS 2004 VO: North American Civilization SE: Contemporary American and South African Poetry WS 2004/05 VO: Introduction to the Study of Literature SE: The Victorian Frontier in Anglophone Writing PV: Privatissimum SS 2005 VO: Writing "Nature" in America and South Africa PS: City Poetry in Perspective: New York and Cape Town SE: Forschungsseminar (Research Seminar)