Alexandra Ganser & Alexandra Ganser 
Caring for Cultural Studies [PDF ebook] 

This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna’s Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field. The Festschrift on the occasion of her retirement reflects on cultural studies as a discipline, its history and possible futures, aspects of care as in crisis and as practiced by Monika Seidl, and engages with her academic work in articles of different styles by contributors including Magdalena Berger, Lawrence Grossberg, Sabine Harrer, Roman Horak, Christian Huck, Thomas Kühn, Elisabeth Lechner and Judith Kohlenberger, Barbara Maly-Bowie, Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, Anette Pankratz, Annegret Pelz, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Julia Pühringer, Susanne Reichl, Ranthild Salzer and John Storey. It includes a preface by Alexandra Ganser.

Om författaren

Susanne Reichl is professor of contemporary English literature at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna and head of the research platform #Youth Media Life. Her research interests include time travel stories, children’s and young adult literature and media, reading and the teaching of reading and literature, and the way that social media platforms create new book cultures and literary discourses.