CV
Foto: Anna Babka, San Francisco 2012
Curriculum vitae │Associate Professor Dr. Anna Babka
| Since 7/2014 | Associate Professor at the German Department, University of Vienna. |
| 7/12-10/2012; 2001-2002 | BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group, UC California at Berkeley |
| 5/2010-7/2014 | Tenured Position at the German Department, University of Vienna |
| 1/2006-12/2011 | Award: Hertha-Firnberg-Postdoc-Position and Elise-Richter-Senior Postdoc Position (Austrian Science Fund FWF) at the German Department, University of Vienna. Project: Necessary Interconnections: postcolonial-Queer. Postcolonial Theories and Queer Theories in dialogue with texts in German language. On the interaction of theoretical insights and literary exploration. |
| 4/2000-7/2002 | Postdoctoral Affiliated Member at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) |
| 9/2001–8/2002 | Erwin-Schrödinger-Mobility-Stipend (Austrian Science Fund FWF) for research abroad (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 4/1999-10/2000 | Postdoctoral Graduate Scholar at the 'Graduateschool Repräsentation Rhetorik Wissen', European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany |
| 10/1998
| Promotion Dr. Phil. (equivalent to PhD, summa cum laude) at the University of Vienna, Department of German Studies, Doctoral Thesis: Interrupted - Gender and the Tropes of Autobiography |
Principal fields of Research / Research Emphasis
Theory and Methodology of Literary Studies and Cultural Studies; methodological relations between Gender Studies and Cultural Studies; Theory and Methodology of Comparative Literature Studies │ Autobiography; Theory of Autobiography; Genre Theory │ Cyberfeminism, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies │Deconstruction; Rhetoric │Literature of Romanticism (a.o. Heinrich von Kleist, Bettina von Arnim) │ Travel Writing by women in the 19th century (a.o. Ida Pfeiffer, Ida von Hahn-Hahn) │ Literature of the turn of the century (o.a. Else Lasker-Schüler, Robert Michel) │ 'Biedermeier' Literature (Franz Grillparzer), Post-War-Literature (a.o. Ingeborg Bachmann, Heinrich Böll) │ Contemporary Austrian Literature (a.o. Elfriede Jelinek, Josef Winkler) / Literature after 2000, ‘Migrant Literature’ (Semier Insayif, Julya Rabinowich).
Peer Reviews / Wissenschaftliche Beirätin
- The American Academy in Berlin | www.americanacademy.de, Peer Reviews
- Aussiger Beiträge. Germanistische Schriftenreihe aus Forschung und Lehre. Praesens Verlag, Vienna, Peer Reviews.
- Journal of Research in Gender Studies, Wissenschaftliche Beirätin
- Studia Germanica Gedanensia, Wydawnictwo, Uniwersytetu Gdánskiego, Wissenschaftliche Beirätin, Peer Reviews
Scholarly Workexperience / Research Projects
| running time: 2012-2014 | WTZ-Cooperation Austria-Croatia, bilateral research project: Narratives in the Postimperial Context, |
| running time: 2013-2014 | WTZ-Cooperation Austria-Czech Republic, bilateral research project: Begegnungen und Bewegungen: österreichische Literaturen, http://germanistik.univie.ac.at/homepageannababka/veranstaltungen-und-projekte/projektmitarbeit-wtz-kooperation-oesterreich-tschechien-begegnungen-und-bewegungen-oesterreichische-literaturen-2013-2014/ |
| running time:
running time: 1/2009-12/2010
| Necessary Interconnections: postcolonial-Queer. Postcolonial Theories and Queer Theories in dialogue with texts in German language. On the interaction of theoretical insights and literary exploration. Elise-Richter-Position at the German-Dept., University of Vienna, Funding: Austrian Ministry of Science, http://germanistik.univie.ac.at/hertha-firnberg-stelle/ WTZ-Cooperation Austria-Rumania, bilateral research project: GESCHLECHTERROLLEN UND GENDERFORSCHUNG IN RUMÄNIEN UND ÖSTERREICH. EINE KONSTRASTIVE UNTERSUCHUNG LITERARISCHER UND MEDIALER QUELLEN. (vgl. http://roek.univie.ac.at) |
| 1/2006–12/2011 | Necessary Entanglements. Postcolonial Theories and Gender Theories as Perspectives for German Literary Criticism. Hertha-Firnberg Post- |
| since 2005 | Project of the Edition and Translation of parts of the oeuvre of the American theorist and artist Trinh T. Minh-ha (at Turia & Kant, Vienna), cf: http://germanistik.univie.ac.at/homepageannababka/veranstaltungen-und-projekte/buchpraesentation-lesung-trinh-t-minh-ha-woman-nativeother-berlin-2010/ |
| 2002–2003 | Project assistance at the research platform „Gender IT!“ lead by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education; project: „Die Medialität von Geschlecht. Zum Verhältnis von Geschlecht und IKT in wissenschaftskommunikativen und -organisatorischen Prozessen“ [pdf-download], (together with Gerald Posselt) |
| 11-2002-11/2003 | Project assistance at the project Organisationsprozesse feministischer Wissenschaften in inner- und außeruniversitären Zusammenhängen: Bedingungen - Möglichkeiten - Hemmnisse, Verband feministischer Wissenschafterinnen, FSP Gender Studies, http://www.vfw.or.at/activity/Projekt02.html [Endbericht: pdf-download] |
| 2/2001-11/2002 | Project leader (together with Sibylle Moser) of the research project Produktive Differenzen: Geschlechterforschung als Beobachtung und Performanz von Differenz, financed by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Education, Vienna. |
| 2/2001-11/2002 | Project leader (together with Sibylle Moser) for the conception and implementation of the Website productive differences. Research forum for Gender Studies and Theories of Difference. Financed by the Austrian National Bank Funds, http://differenzen.univie.ac.at/index.php |
| Since 9/1999 | Lecturer for German Studies, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies |
| 8/1999-8/2001 | Research assistant and manager of the project Development of a Graduate-School „Narratives in Media Change“, multi-part project of AG Kulturwissenschaften/Cultural Studies, Aug. 2000-Aug. 2001 and, related to this project, author of the comparative study: Institutionalisation of Kulturwissenschaften/Cultural Studies in Europe (Spain, Germany, Great-Britain, Netherlands), (together with Hildegard Haberl); Funding: Austrian Ministry of Science, [pdf-download] |
| 1995-1998 | Research assistant, project: The Private Library of Ingeborg Bachmann. An Intertextual Analysis. Project-manager: Prof. Dr. Robert Pichl, Dept. for German Studies, University of Vienna; Funding: Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank |
| 1993-1995 | Research assistant, project: Critical Edition of the Works of Ingeborg Bachmanns »Todesarten«-Project; Project-manager: Prof. Dr. Robert Pichl, Dept. for German Studies, University of Vienna; Funding: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung |
| 1992/93 | Research assistant, project: Anthology of Austrian and Hispanoamerican contemporary writers; Project-manager: Prof. Alberto Martino, Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Vienna |
| 1992/93, 1993/94; 1994 | Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Vienna |
Political-coordinating activity at the University of Vienna
| since 5/2010 since 6/2007
since 4/2006
1/2004-12/2005
1992-1995 1990-1994 | Member of staff association of academic personnel Substitute member of Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlungsfragen and commissioner for equal treatment for the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies Substitute member of the Academic Senate fort he Kritische Liste PLUM+GAKU+IG LektorInnen Deputy spokesperson for the external lectorers at the Department of German Studies Member of the factulty council and miscellaneous commissions (Frauenforschungskommision, Habilitationskommissionen, Raumkommission, Lehrauftragskommission) Editing of the student’s paper Kom.miT (12 issues) Student representatives at the Department of Comparative Literature |
Memberships
| since 8/2013 | Founding Member of aka, Arbeitskreis für Kulturanalyse (http://aka.univie.ac.at) |
| since 3/2010 | Member of the board: "LOOP. Verein zur Erforschung von Mediensystemen" |
| since 1/2010 | IVG (Internationale Vereinigung Germanistik) |
| since 1/2007 | Verein Arbeitskreis Altgermanistik |
| since 1/2006 | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik |
| since 8/2004 | Deutscher Germanistenverband |
| since 1/2002 | Verband feministischer Wissenschafterinnen |
| since 1/2000 | Modern Language Association |
| since 1/2000 | The International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) |
| since 1/96 | Movie-n-opera. Multimedia Productions, Vienna |
Universität Wien
Philologisch-
Kulturwissenschaftliche
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Institut für Germanistik
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