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Dr. Ralph Poole
Universitätsprofessor

Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralph J. Poole
Professur für Amerikanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / American Studies

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Interests

  • American Literature and Culture from the early colonial era to the 21st century
  • Popular Culture, Genre Studies (film, television, musical, melodrama, comedy)
  • Gender and Feminist Theory, LGBTIQIA+, Trans* and Masculinity Studies
  • Transnational and Comparative American Studies (Transatlantic, Caribbean, Turkey)

Institutional Responsibilities

Univ.-Prof. of American Studies (Amerikanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)

Deputy Head of Department

Member of AKG

Member of IER

Coordinator ISEP

Deputy Coordinator DSP “Popular Culture Studies”

Faculty Member DSP “macht.bildung.gesellschaft“

Faculty Member DSP “Gendered Body Politics”

Faculty Member ATHENA – Salzburg Center for Intersectional Research

 

Research Projects

My FWF-project on “Remember the Ladies: Gender and Comedy in the Age of the American Revolution  https://earlyamericantheater.com;  https://researchoutreach.org/articles/remembering-the-ladies/ has ended – at least for now – with the publication of  The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices, ed. with Leopold Lippert (2021). 

Another long-term project comes to a preliminary conclusion with the publication of  Queer Turkey: Transnational Poetics of Desire (2022).

The current focus of my research is on a collaborative project on “Rugged Rocks, Gentle Men: The Politics of Gender and Transnationality in the Postwar Austrian Heimatfilm” with Annette Keck, LMU Munich.

Another plan relating to the Heimatfilm but with a transnational perspective is my research and book project on “Queer Heimatfilm: Transnational Aesthetics and Transforming Genre”.

I also continue to work on talks and essays relating to my project on “Extravagant Strangers: Queerness and Exile in Caribbean Literature and Popular Culture”.

 

Recent Publications

Recent Publications