Mag. Mag. Dr. Cornelia Klecker
Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Office hour
by appointment
Humanities building, 3rd floor, room 40304
Tel: +43 512 507-4179
Fax: +43 512 507-2879
E-Mail: cornelia.klecker@uibk.ac.at
Degrees
- English and American Studies (diploma and PhD)
- Comparative Literature (diploma)
Diploma thesis: Skip and Rewind. When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film
PhD thesis: Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film
Research and Teaching
- Television Studies (particularly 21st-century American scripted primetime series)
- Contemporary American Politics
- Film Studies (particularly Hollywood film)
- Narrative Theory
- American Literature
Teaching
current semester: course descriptions
Most Recent Publications
"Trump as the 'Kardashian of Politics'? Daniel J. Boorstin's 'Pseudo-Event' and the Rise of Donald Trump"
in The Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 3 (7 October 2020), pp. 215-31.
in The Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 3 (7 October 2020), pp. 215-31.
"Female 'Lone Wolves': The Anti-Social Heroine in Recent Television Series"
in The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 53, no. 2 (2020), pp. 431-53.