Mag. Dr. phil.

Maria Katharina Wiedlack

Maria Katharina Wiedlack

Member of the Young Academy since 2020

  • Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna

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Orcid-ID:

0000-0002-9236-8819

Research Areas:

  • Linguistics and Literature
  • American studies
  • General linguistics
  • Gender studies
  • Disability studies
  • Cultural history

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • Austrian Association for Gender Research (ÖGGF)
  • German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
  • US American Studies Association (ASA)
  • European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Selected Prizes:

  • PEEK Arts-based Research Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project “The Magic Closet and the Dream Machine: Post-Soviet Queerness, Archiving, and the Art of Resistance”
  • Elise Richter Research Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project “Rivals of the Past, Children of the Future: Localizing Russia within US National identity Formations from a Historical Perspective”
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for the project “Looking Eastward-Part II.”
  • Hertha Firnberg Research Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project “Looking Eastward”
  • Publication Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the book “Queer-Feminist Punk: An Anti-Social History”

Selected Publications:

  • (2015) Queer-Feminist Punk: An Antisocial History. Vienna: Zaglossus, Monograph, Peer-reviewed and awarded with the Publication Grant by the Austrian Science Fond (FWF).
  • (2020) Wiedlack, Katharina, Saltanat Shoshannova, and Masha Godovannaya (Eds). Queering Paradigms VIII: queer-feminist Solidarity and the East/West Divide. London: Peter Lang.
  • (2019) Wiedlack, Katharina. “Enemy Number One, or Gay Clown: The Russian President, Masculinity and Populist Tendencies in US media.” NORMA, 15 (1), 59–75. Peer-reviewed journal article, open access. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2019.1707459
  • (2018) Wiedlack, M. Katharina. “In/visibly Different – Melania Trump and the Othering of Eastern European women.” Feminist Media Studies, 19 (8), 1063–1078, Peer-reviewed journal article, open access. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1546205
  • (2017) Wiedlack, M. Katharina. “Gays vs. Russia: Media Representations, Liberal Values, and the Construction of a (Post)Modern West.” EJES, Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies, 21 (3), 241–257, Peer-reviewed journal article, open access. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2017.1369271