• Stellvertretende Institutsleiterin
  

• Koordinatorin des Mentoringprogramms für den BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik

• Ansprechperson für die Masterstudien der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

• Mitglied (wissenschaftlicher Mittelbau) des Fakultätsrates der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
  

• Mittelbauvertreterin der Curriculums-Kommission 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"
  Gewinnerin des 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"
  Gewinnerin des Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2012

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

laufendes Semester: Lehrveranstaltungsbeschreibung

Co-Editor-in-Chief von JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies

Mitglied des Editorial Board von AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA – Agenda: Advancing Anglophone Studies)

Special Issue on "Cinematic Mountains" in New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2023.
edited by Cornelia Klecker and Christian Quendler

"Introduction: Cinematic Figurations of Mountains"
by Cornelia Klecker and Christian Quendler in New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-18.
 

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

"The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television: Introduction"
by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher in The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television. Edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022, pp. 1-17.

"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.

Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Country: ‘Real’ America or Political Myth?” University of Münster. Online. December 05, 2023.

“‘Non-Mothers as Non-Existent Character Trope: An Exploration of Pronatalism in 21^st-Century Scripted TV Series.” 2023 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA). Online. October 12-14, 2023.

Invited guest lecture: “‘Under His Eye,’ Over Her Dead Body: Streaming The Handmaid’s Tale.“ Workshop “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited.” University of Innsbruck, June 03, 2023. https://www.uibk.ac.at/canada/events-zentrum/2023/the-handmaid-s-tale-revisited.html.en.

“‘Stop the Steal’: The Flyover Country Trope as Political Strategy.” Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association titled “Conclusions.” George Mason University, Virginia (Hybrid). June 1-4, 2023.

“Streaming Gender-Based Violence: Rape Myth Acceptance as Narrative Gimmick.” 2022 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10–12, 2022. 

Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Fictions and US Politics” as part of the panel “Flyover Fictions: A New View on Literature, Film, and Politics.” Event series on “Rural Americas” organized by the Center for Interamerican Studies (ZIAS). University of Innsbruck, November 8, 2022.

“’Surprise, he’s innocent’: The Character Trop of the Wrongfully Accused White Man in the #MeToo Era.” “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (49^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies).” University of Salzburg, October 21-23, 2022.

“Still No Narrative Reckoning? Netflix Productions and the #MeToo Movement.” 2022 Cultural Studies Association Conference. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US. Hybrid. June 2-4, 2022. 

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.