Gender and Generations

THIRD PARTY FUNDED PROJECTS

• MascAge - Ageing Masculinities (Roberta Maierhofer, Heike Hartung, Matthew Sweney, Lisa-Nike Bühring, Barbara Ratzenböck, Florian Pirker)

• Geschlecht und Alter/n im Kontext der Populärkultur, insbesondere der Musik (Roberta Maierhofer, Nicole Haring)

• Let’s Talk about Gender: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Education (Nicole Haring)

CURRENT POSTDOC PROJECTS

• Men Provide, Women Care? Reflections on the Significance of Socio-Cultural Constructions of the Sex Binary for Identity Constructions of Older German Men (Lisa-Nike Bühring)

CURRENT PROMOTIONAL PROJECTS

• The Emergence of Masculinities in US Blank Fictions (Filippo Maria Bagnasco)
• Poetic Pop: Alternative Value in Garbage (Matea Lacmanovic)
• Images of Islands in Caribbean-American Literature (Mirna Maric)
• Mediating Individual and Collective Identities: Paula Huntley and Alice Mead as American Perspectives of the Kosovo (Besmir Shishko)
• Narratives and Representation of Contemporary America: A Critical Reading of David Foster Wallace (Seyedhamed Tayebi)
• Cultural Diversity and Individual Identity In Educational Contexts (Dagmar Wallenstorfer)

COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Erzähltes Altern in Stadt und Land: Kulturelle Narrative, Prozesse und Strategien im Lebensverlauf (Roberta Maierhofer, Oana Ursulesku, Barbara Ratzenböck)

COMPLETED POSTDOC PROJECTS

• Putting age in its place: age, space, and identity in North American anglophone care home narratives (Ulla Kriebernegg, 2015)

COMPLETED PROMOTIONS

• Albanian Lands, People, and Culture in the Focus of Two Anglo-Saxon Women Travellers - M. E. Durham and R. W. Lane (Fatmir Ramadani, 2019)
• Representations of 'Female Freaks' in the Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor (Anneliese Marie Heinisch, 2019)

COMPLETED DIPLOMA AND MASTER THESES

• Home as prison: Shirley Jackson's writings (Elizabeth Lattacher, 2019)
• "You too can walk like a gentile": the construction & portrayal of Jewish and national identities in the work of Gary Shteyngart (Juliane Linner, 2019)
• Embodiment as resistance: an Inter-American comparison of young adult literature (Victoria Reicher, 2019)
• Ms.(ing) power: a tool of feminist resistance (Nicole Haring, 2019)
• "On the road, anything is possible": the construction of old age in road narratives featuring old female protagonists (Miriam Rappitsch, 2019)
• Cowboys and Gauchos roaming the plains: an Inter-American comparison (Stefan Wonisch, 2019)
• My identity is beautiful: Female empowerment through Chicana poetry slam: an analysis of selected contemporary Chicana performance poetry (Antonia Gruber, 2018)
• Locating gender and identity from an Inter-American perspective (Angela Lukenda, 2018)
• "A Greenhorn no longer": Assimilation and acculturation in Abraham Cahan's "Yekl" and The Rise of David Levinsky (Melanie Gürentz, 2018)
• The (un-)fear of forgetting: Representations of dementia, the fear and will to forget in Lee Changdong's poetry and Michel Gondry's eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Gabriel Schmidt, 2018)
• Longing for "a Breath of Understanding": The representation of Jewish immigrant life in Anzia Yezierska's short stories (Melanie Mayer, 2018)
• "I was in America, among the Americans, but not of them": A comparison of Anzia Yezierska's and Mary Antin's short stories (Yagmur Kökcü, 2018)
• "Laughing to Keep from Crying": The Boondocks comic series as a classroom guide for teachers (Marie Lisa Knabl, 2018)
• In search of connections: community and self in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" (Eva Trenkler, 2018)
• Nature and man in Poe's A Descent into the Maelstrom and Crane's The Open Boat (Matthias Milchrahm, 2018)
• Becoming a (wo)man: The portrayal of gender in four contemporary young adult novels from the Americas (Lisa Maria Palli, 2017)
• Constructing gender in a comparative analysis: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868) and Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl (2013) (Carina Köberl, 2017)
• No single stories: Multilocal spaces and identities in selected novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Taiye Selasi, and NoViolet Bulawayo (Angelika Heiling, 2017)
• "But let me tell you a story": Representations of Jewish identity in selected short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Claudia Edeltraud Gomernik, 2017)
• "I just want to not be me": The struggles of growing up in young adult literature (Julia Unterweger, 2017)
• I am what I am: Sexuality in young adult fiction (Sandra Mercedes Hassler, 2017)
• Everything will be fine: Sick kids and the representation of diseases in American young adult literature (Tanja Schnecker, 2017)
• Representations of dementia and its effects on interpersonal relationships in "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova and "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro (Pia Sonnleitner, 2017)
• Female embodiment in American young adult literature (Elisabeth Rogen, 2017)
• Falling into place: Representations of female empowerment in selected novels by Cristina García (Eva-Maria Trinkaus, 2017)
• "We should all be feminists": The portrayal of female characters in the novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Maja Kasić, 2016)
• “If books did not tell me who I was, I would write those that did.” Helen Barolinis Autobiographien im Kontext der Italo-Amerikanischen Literatur (Katharina Elisabeth Kreiter, 2016)
• Depiction of identity and agency in selected works of Chicana literature (Michael Schmid, 2016)
• Growing up with loss: Narratives of coping for young adult readers (Katja Viviana Marianne Berghofer, 2016)
• Dystopian young adult novels in American literature (Nadine Katharina Kreinz, 2016)

COMPLETED MASTER THESES AS PART OF UNI for LIFE

• Sucht im Alter: Medikamentenmissbrauch und -abhängigkeit bei Frauen über 65 Jahre im Langzeitpflegebereich in Oberösterreich (Ruth Maria Fenzl, 2016)
• "Müssen oder Dürfen"? Die Arbeitssituation von Pflegefachkräften 50+ in der Langzeitpflege im Salzburger Flachgau (Anneliese Flasch, 2016)
• „Universal Design“ und „Design for all“: Eine gerontologisch orientierte Analyse zweier aktueller Design-Konzeptionen mit dem Fokus auf Produktdesign (Alice Geiger, 2014)