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Professor Dr. Silvia Schultermandl

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of American Studies (Prof. Schultermandl)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • American fiction and life writing, from the 18th century to the present
  • Literary theory
  • Transnational American Studies
  • Family and kinship studies
  • Transnational Feminism
  • 9/11

Academic Education

since 2018Venia legendi in American Studies, University of Graz, Austria Habilitation: “States of Ambivalence: Transnationalism as Aesthetic Experience in American Literature from Equiano to 9/11.”
since 2004Dr. phil in American Studies, University of Graz, Austria Dissertation: “Unlinear Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Relationships and the Politics of Location in Asian American and Caribbean American Literature.” summa cum laude
since 2001Mag. phil. in English and American Studies, Media Studies, University of Graz

Work Experience

since 04/2021Professor and Chair of American Studies, University of Münster
02/2019 - 03/2021Associate Professor of American Studies, Department of American Studies, University of Graz
04/2012 - 01/2018Assistant Professor of American Studies, tenure track; Department of American Studies, University of Graz
09/2014 - 12/2014Fulbright Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
06/2007 - 03/2012Assistant Professor, non-tenure-track; Department of American Studies, University of Graz
2006 - 2007Lecturer, English Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2004 - 2005Lecturer, English Department, New York College, Skopje
09/2005 - 12/2005Post-doctoral research fellowship, Rutgers University
03/2005 - 09/2005Lecturer, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Graz

Functions and Memberships

since 2018Delegate of the European Association of American Studies
since 2017Series Co-Editor, Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference, Palgrave Macmillan
since 2016Editorial Advisory Board Member, WiN
since 2016Editorial Board Member, Brill/Rodopi’s book series, Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature
since 2016Board member, Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS)
since 2014Editorial Board Member, ASIATIC
since 2012ASA: American Studies Association
since 2011DGfA: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
since 2010MLA: Modern Language Association
since 2008Series Editor, Contributions to Transnational Feminism, LIT Verlag
since 2007EAAS: European Association of American Studies
since 2007AAAS: Austrian Association of American Studies
since 2006MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
since 2006MESEA: The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies of Europe and the Americas
since 2005Editorial Board Member, for Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American Studies
2018 - 2019Vice-President, Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS)
2012 - 2013Vice-President, Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS)
2010 - 2011Secretary, Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS)
2006 - 2010President and founding member of AYA, Austrian Committee of Post Graduate Students to the EAAS

Publications

Reframing Twenty-First Century American Literature: 'Post-postcritical Reading' Through Materiality, Affect, and Representation
Norrick-Rühl, Corinna; Schultermandl, Silvia (2025)
In: Philologie im Netz, 99
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Affective Worldmaking - Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality
Schultermandl, Silvia, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew, Dijana Simic (eds.) (2022)
Transcript Verlag.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
American Studies as Vulnerability Studies
Schultermandl, Silvia; Ciftci, Gulsin; Reimer, Jennifer A. (eds.) (2022)
In: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 4(1)
Type of Publication: Special issue of a journal
American Studies as Vulnerability Studies: Introduction
Schultermandl, Silvia; Ciftci, Gulsin; Reimer, Jennifer (2022)
In: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 4(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Introduction: Ethnicity and Kinship in Contemporary European and North American Literature
Schultermandl Silvia, Rieser Klaus (2021)
In: Schultermandl Silvia, Rieser Klaus (eds.), Ethnicity and Kinship in Contemporary European and Northamerican Literature. Routledge.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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