Biography
Artist-researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (IC Institute for Cultural Studies) and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. MFA in fine arts (2008) and PhD in cultural studies (2015) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Principal Investigator of the FWF postdoc research project "The Hysteric as Conceptual Operator" [J 4164-G24], at the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of Vienna (2018-2020). Research Fellow at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (winter 2021–2022).
Areas of Specialization
contemporary visual culture in relation to performance (history) studies, US-American and European cultural studies and its intermediality (twentieth century and its transferal to early twenty-first century). Main areas of research include: visual culture, American (horror) film studies, (new) hysteria studies, cultural studies, performance studies.
Current Project
The Ties That Bind. Emotional Landscapes from Vienna to Los Angeles, 1918–1945
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
All-American-Gothic Girl. Das Gerechtigkeit einfordernde Mädchen in US-Amerikanischen Erzählungen. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2017.
(ed.), Performing Hysteria: Image and Imaginations. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020. Peer-reviewed and Open Access.
(ed.), Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts: Rising in Revolt. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Peer-reviewed.
(ed.), Beschwörungsrituale. Wien and Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2016.
“#masshysteria”. In: FKW – Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur, Nr. 70. Januar 2022: 106-108. Peer-reviewed.
“#witchtok”. In: FKW – Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur, Nr. 70. Januar 2022: 140-143. Peer-reviewed.
“Witchcraft Activism: Aiming for Social Justice through Feminist Curatorial Practices”. In: Elke Krasny und Lara Perry (eds.). Curating as Feminist Organizing. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2022.
“Searching for Methods in this Madness”. In: Johanna Braun (Ed). Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 1–20. Peer-reviewed.
“Notes on Hysteria in and as Arts-based Research, a Case Study”. In: Johanna Braun (Ed). Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 319–338. Peer-reviewed.
“From Witchcraft Activism to Witch Hunt Sentiments: The Changing Political Landscape in American Horror Story”. In: Aaron K. H. Ho (Ed). The New Witches: Critical Essays on 21st Century Television Portrayals. McFarland, 2021: 28–40. Peer-reviewed.
“Introducing Performing Hysteria”. In: Johanna Braun (Ed). Performing Hysteria. Leuven University Press, 2020: 11–26. Peer-reviewed.
“Hysterical Cure: Performing Disability in the Possession Film”. In: Johanna Braun (Ed). Performing Hysteria. Leuven UP, 2020: 207–232. OA and Peer-reviewed
“Beyond Your Wildest Screams: Haunted by American Dreams”, In: Thomas Ballhausen, Christa Tuczay (Ed). Traumnarrative. Motivische Muster – Erzählerische Traditionen –Medienübergreifende Perspektiven. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2018: 153–163.
“Unterwegs: Palmen, Meer und die Angst vor Massenhysterie”. Scilog. Vienna, October 2018. Open Access Journal of the Austrian Science Fund.
“Witchcraft Hysteria: Die Heimsuchung der Salemer Gerichtsverfahren in aktuellen öffentlichen Debatten in den Vereinigten Staaten”. FemWiss Journal – Swiss Association of Feminist Studies, Bern, 2018: 16-25.
“Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live (On Mass Hysteria I)”, In: Katharina Brandl, Daniela Brugger, Christiane Krejs (Eds). Magic Cirlce. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2018: 40–41. (Exhibition Catalogue)
“With Whom Am I Speaking? The Hysteric in US-American Horror Film and Her Dissociative Political Dimensions”, In: Thomas Ballhausen, Günther Friesinger, et al. (Eds). Id/entity. Vienna: edition mono, 2017: 111–124.
“The American Girl and the Horror of (In)Justice”. In: Elisabeth von Samsonow (Ed). Epidemic Subjects / Radical Ontologies. Berlin/Zurich/Chicago: Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press, 2017: 119–134. peer-reviewed.
“Das Recht der Toten: (Un)tote Mädchen, US-amerikanisches Recht und der Horror des Unrechts”. In: MEDIENIMPULSE. (4/2016). online, Open Access Journal. peer-reviewed.
“A Breath of Fresh Air”. (Interview with Laure Murat). All-Over. Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik. #11. Basel/Vienna/Dusseldorf, December, 2016. online, Open Access Journal.
“Beschwörende Adressierungen: Vorwort” and “A Girl’s Girl: Eine Untersuchung zu den psychologischen und medialen Implikationen eines Stars der Wiener Jahrhundertwende und zu seiner Übertragung auf die Bedingungen des 21. Jahrhunderts”, both in: Johanna Braun (Ed). Beschwörungsrituale. Vienna and Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2016: 9–14 and 96–101.
“The Ghosting of History: Ein Nachwort zu Thomas Ballhausens gespenstischen Sprache der Geschichtsphilosophie. (Epilogue)”. In: Thomas Ballhausen. Gespenstersprache: Notizen zur Geschichtsphilosophie. Vienna: DER KONTERFEI, 2016.