Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz studied English and German at the University of Graz and received his Dr. phil. degree in 1967 and served as Univ. Assistant in the Dept. of English. He submitted his postdoctoral thesis for the habilitation in 1973 after research in Birmingham and Oxford, GB, and was promoted to Universitätsdozent. In 1974 he was appointed Full Professor English and American Studies at the University of Vienna and served in this capacity until October 2010. From 1998 to February 2014 he was also Director of the Canadian Studies Center of the U of Vienna. In between he was a Visiting Professor, Visiting Fellow or Visiting Scholar at many North American universities (such as the U of Virginia and Yale U, Duke U and the U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford U and the U of British Columbia, the U of Minnesota and the U of Maryland at College Park, the U of Ottawa, Princeton U and the U of Texas at Austin, and at the U of South Carolina in Columbia. He also taught as an Erasmus Visiting Professor at several European universities. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of Academia Europaea, and a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

He has received grants and research awards from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Humanities Research Center in Austin as well as the Fulbright Commission and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and has had several Canadian Studies Research Awards. In 2018 he was awarded the title of "Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa" of the Eötvös Loránd University. His main areas of research are the transatlantic cultural exchange, travel literature and imagology, immigration and ethnic voices in North America, the literature and culture of the American South, the literature and culture of (Anglophone) Canada.

He has published six monographs and has edited or co-edited more than twenty collections of essays, as well as more than 100 articles in professional journals or collections of essays as well as more than 30 reviews.

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