American Studies
Sections
American Studies 

Dr. Elisabeth Siegel

 

Curriculum vitae

Education
1999 Abitur, Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany
2005 Magister (English and American Studies, Business Administration), TU Chemnitz, Germany
2009 Dr. phil. (English and American Studies), University of Vienna, Austria
   

Academic Appointments
2010 Part-time lecturer, English Department, University of Vienna, Austria
2005-2009 Research assistant and lecturer, English Department, University of Vienna, Austria
   

Work Experience

05/2013-02/2014

 Project manager, branding agency Brainds, Vienna, Austria
05/2010-04/2013

Head of Communications, publishing house Braumüller, Vienna, Austria
09/2004-10/2004 Intern Communications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
05/2004-07/2004 Intern EU Liaison Office and Arts Department, Goethe-Institut Brussels, Belgium
08/2002-09/2002 Intern Communications, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
 

Awards and Honors
2001-2005 Scholarship, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw)
   

Academic Functions
2006-2008 ERASMUS-coordinator, English Department, University of Vienna, Austria
   

Organization of Conferences
2009 “Staging Interculturality,” Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), University of Vienna
  “Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges,” Annual Conference of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), University of Vienna
2004 “Literature and the Media,” TU Chemnitz
   

Publications

Scholarly Articles

“‘Stuff That Happened To Me’: Visual Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005).”
COPAS (2009) <http://www-copas.uni-regensburg.de/articles/issue _10/10_07_text_siegel.php>. [Also published in: Contemporary Literary Criticism301. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Gale Goup, 2011.]

“‘Another fleeting image’: Pictorial Memory in John Banville’s The Sea.”
In: Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß, eds. Intermedialities. Trier: wvt, 2007. 107-117.

Reviews

Rippl, Gabriele, and Torsten Hoffmann, eds. Bilder: Ein (neues) Leitmedium? Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006. Sprachkunst 38.1 (2008): 185-189.
   

Teaching
 
University of Vienna
   
SS 2010  
  • Queen’s Evidence: Representations of Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II (S)
WS 2008/2009
  • Picture-Books: Word and Image in English Literatures (S)
WS 2007/2008
  • Introduction to Cultural and Regional Studies (Vorlesungskonversatorium)
SS 2007  
  • Introduction to Cultural and Regional Studies (Vorlesungskonversatorium)
   
TU Chemnitz
   
WS 2004/2005
  • Introduction to the Study of English Literature (T)
SS 2003  
  • Introduction to English Linguistics (T)
WS 2002/2003
  • Introduction to English Linguistics (T)