• Stellvertretende Institutsleiterin
  
• Mitglied (wissenschaftlicher Mittelbau) des Fakultätsrates
  
• Mittelbauvertreterin der Curriculums-Kommission
  
• Ansprechperson für die Masterstudien der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

• Magisterstudien in Anglistik und Amerikanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Universität Innsbruck, 2007 und 2008)
  Diplomarbeit: "Skip and Rewind: When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film"
  Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2009
  
  
• Doktoratsstudium in Anglistik and Amerikanistik (Universität Innsbruck, 2011)
  Dissertation: "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
  Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2012

• Television Studies (particularly 21st-century American scripted primetime series)
• Contemporary American Politics
• Film Studies (particularly Hollywood film)
• Narrative Theory
  
• American Literature
  

laufendes Semester: Lehrveranstaltungsbeschreibung

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television.
Edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022.

"Fictional 'Dissections' of a Medical Curiosity? Facial Disfigurement in Grey's Anatomy"
in The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television. Edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022, pp. 189-209.

"Trump as the 'Kardashian of Politics'? Daniel J. Boorstin's 'Pseudo-Events' and the Rise of Donald Trump"
in The Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 3 (7 Oct. 2020), pp. 215-31.

Winner of the 2021 Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article.

Virtual Roundtable: “USA: Auslaufmodell Demokratie oder Leuchtturm des Westens?” Haus der Begegnung der Diözese Innsbruck. Online. December 14, 2021. 

“’I am not your Villain’: Fictional Depictions of Facial Disfigurement in US-American Television Narratives.” 2021 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10 – 13, 2021.

"’Turning Necessity into a Virtue’: The Online Classroom as Chance for Intercultural Exchange.” “Digital Americas” (48^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies.” Online. October 21 – 22 and 27 – 29, 2021.

“The 21^st-Century Action Woman: Female Violence in Scripted Television Series.” 2021 PCA/ACA National Conference. Online. June 2 – 6, 2021.

Virtual Roundtable: “The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: An American Recovery?” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. May 5, 2021.

Virtual Roundtable: “The End of an Era? Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the American Presidency.” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. January 26, 2021.