Mag. Mag. Dr. Cornelia Klecker
Deputy Department Chair
Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
Humanities building, 3rd floor, room 40304
Tel: +43 512 507-4179
E-Mail: cornelia.klecker@uibk.ac.at
Office hour: by appointment
Administration
- Deputy Department Chair
- Coordinator of the Mentoring Program for the BA English and American Studies
- Contact person for the MA programs of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
- Member (mid-level faculty) of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
- Member (mid-level faculty) of the Curriculum Commission of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
Degrees
- MA in English and American Studies and Comparative Literature (both University of Innsbruck, 2007 and 2008)
Diploma thesis: "Skip and Rewind: When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film"
Winner of the Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2009 -
PhD in English and American Studies (University of Innsbruck, 2011)
PhD thesis: "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
Winner of the Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2012
Interests in 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
Editorships
Co-editor-in-chief of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Member of the editorial board of AAA – Agenda: Advancing Anglophone Studies (AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik)
Most Recent Publications
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.
in The Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 3 (7 October 2020), pp. 215-31.
Most Recent Conference Papers, Guest Lectures, and Roundtable Discussions
“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” (49th 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” (48th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies.” Online. October 21 – 22 and 27 – 29, 2021.
“The 21st-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.