Mag. Eva-Maria Müller
Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Office
Humanities building, 5th floor, room 40527
Phone: +43 512 507-41618
E-Mail: Eva-Maria.Mueller@uibk.ac.at
Research and teaching interests:
- Travel and tourism in literature and theory
- Postcolonial literature and theory
- Interdisciplinary mountain studies
- Sport and literature
- Ecocriticism
- Interdisciplinary and transcultural developments in the study of culture
- Transnational and transatlantic American Studies
Education:
- Doctoral candidate at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen, Germany
- Master (teaching degree) English and Biological Studies, University of Innsbruck
- Master thesis: Trapped between Traditions and Transformations. Teacher-Figures as Metonyms for the Australian Nation
- PhD thesis: Rewriting Alpine Orientalism: Lessons from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps
(Stolzenberg Award and Canada Award)
Publications/Reviews:
- “Alpenreich / Alpine Riches: Writing Back Mountain Stories.” In Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction, 249–68. Cross/Cultures 201. Leiden, Boston: Brill/ Rodopi, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004359581.
- “Teaching the Empire: Lessons about (In)Dependence.” In Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires, 101–26. Cross/Cultures 182. Leiden, Boston: Brill/ Rodopi, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004302280.
- “Johann Georg Lughofer, Hrsg., Das Erschreiben der Berge: Die Alpen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 81. Innsbruck: Innsbruck UP, 2014. 376 S.” Journal for Austrian Studies 49, no. 1–2 (Spring-Summer 2016): 133–36.