Anna Babka

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Anna Babka (* 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian literary and cultural scientist , author and politician . She is also an associate professor for modern German literature at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna . Her main research interests are literary and cultural theory , cultural studies gender research , cyber feminism , queer studies and postcolonial studies .

Scientific work

education

Babka studied comparative literature , German , Romance studies and feminist theory at the University of Vienna, the Université de Lausanne and the Sorbonne Université in Paris . In the winter semesters 1992/93 and 1993/94 as well as in the summer semester 1994 she worked as a tutor at the Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature Studies in Vienna. Her diploma thesis, which Ingeborg Bachmann wrote in France in 1994 : on the reception of work and person , was published two years later by Hora Verlag in Vienna. In October 1998 she received her doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Vienna. Her dissertation is entitled Interrupted - Gender and the Tropics of Autobiography and was published in book form by Passagen Verlag in Vienna in 2002 .

Research and teaching

From 1992 to 2003, Babka worked as a research assistant on the following research projects:

year title management
1992/93 Anthology of Austrian and Hispanoamerican contemporary writers Alberto Martino, Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature
1993-1995 Critical Edition of the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann's “Types of Death” project Robert Pichl, Institute for German Studies
1995-1998 The Private Library of Ingeborg Bachmann. An intertextual analysis Robert Pichl, Institute for German Studies
1999-2001 Development of a Graduate School "Narratives in Media Change" Self-organized as part of the project of the working group Kulturwissenschaften / Cultural Studies
2002-2003 Organizational processes of feminist sciences in internal and non-university contexts: conditions - possibilities - barriers Association of Feminist Women Scientists
2002-2003 The mediumship of gender. On the relationship between gender and ICT in science-communicative and organizational processes Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research

From April 1999 to October 2000, Babka held a postdoc position in the Graduate School “Representation - Rhetoric - Knowledge” at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and from April 2000 to July 2002 at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University van Amsterdam . From September 2001 to August 2002 she stayed at the University of California at Berkeley on the Erwin Schrödinger Mobility Scholarship .

From February 2001 to November 2002 she designed and set up the website productive differences together with Sibylle Moser . The online platform was created as part of the research project Productive Differences: Gender Research as Observation and Performance of Difference by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research , on which the scientists were working at the same time. It is dedicated to the transdisciplinary linking and contrasting of modern theoretical approaches to the "construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of gender and gender".

Since 2005 Babka has been editing and translating the works of the postcolonialist theorist Trinh Thi Minh Ha . The translations have been published by Turia & Kant in Vienna.

In January 2006 she was accepted into the Hertha Firnberg postdoc program of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research and carried out research at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna until December 2011. Your research project is entitled Necessary Entanglements. Postcolonial Theories and Gender Theories as Perspectives for German Literary Criticism . She then received the position of the Elise Richter Senior Postdoc Program and did research on Necessary Interconnections: postcolonial queer. Postcolonial Theories and Queer Theories in dialogue with texts in German language. On the interaction of theoretical insights and literary exploration .

As part of the scientific-technical cooperation of the Austrian Exchange Service Society , she worked from 2009 to 2014 on bilateral research projects between Austria and Romania , the Czech Republic and Croatia . The projects deal with questions of research on gender and gender roles, migration literature and post-imperialism of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Since October 2019, Babka has been part of the research project Gender revisited: Negotiating Gender in the Age of Posthumanism at the University of Graz together with Hildegard Kernmayer , Marietta Schmutz, Jasmin Doubek and Julia Lingl. The changed role of gender in posthumanism is examined on the basis of a gender-theoretical and literary-artistic discourse .

Research priorities

Teaching

In March 2010 Babka received a regular position as assistant professor at the Institute for German Studies, which she held until July 2014 as a visiting professor at the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley, with the exception of a three-month research stay. Since then she has been an associate professor at the Institute for German Studies in Vienna.

Her lectures and seminars deal mainly with feminist theory, gender and queer theory in the context of recent German literature, the theory and methodology of literary and cultural studies, poetry slam in theory and practice, migration and flight, postcolonialism and the life and work of the Austrian Writer Barbara Frischmuth . Since 2014 she has been supervising diploma theses and dissertations on feminist, gender-theoretical, deconstructivist and post-colonial topics.

Scientific administrative activity

In 1990, Babka took up the post of departmental representative at the Institute for European and Comparative Linguistics and Literature and was editor of the study magazine Kom.miT . Between 1992 and 1995, 12 issues were published under her leadership. From 2004 to the end of 2005 she was a member of the faculty and other commissions such as the women's research committee, the habilitation committee, the space committee and the teaching commission. In addition, since May 2010 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the works council for academic staff and a substitute member of the working group for equal treatment issues at the University of Vienna.

Memberships in scientific societies

Political work

Babka has been involved with the Wiener Grünen in Vienna's seventh district, Neubau , since 2005 . From November 2006 to February 2016 she was a member of the board of the Neubauer Grünen and since 2013 a district councilor. From 2016 to 2019 she was part of the club management.

Together with Ursula Berner , she has curated the political art exhibition “ Green Gallery 7 ” annually since 2007 and is chair of the cultural commission.

Publications

Monographs

  • Ingeborg Bachmann in France. For the reception of work and person . Hora, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3702701087 .
  • Interrupted - Gender and the Tropics of Autobiography . Passagen, Vienna 2002, ISBN 9783851654301 .
  • with Gerald Posselt: Gender and Deconstruction. Terms and commented on the basic texts of gender and queer theory. With the assistance of Sergej Seitz and Matthias Schmidt. Facultas / UTB, Vienna 2016, ISBN 9783825247256 .
  • Postcolonial queer. Explorations in theory and literature . Turia & Kant, Vienna 2019, ISBN 9783851329285 .

Editorships

  • Queer Reading in Philologies. Models and Applications . With the collaboration of Meri Disoski , Ursula Knoll , Julia Malle, Renaud Lagabrielle and Maria Katharina Wiedlack. Edited by Anna Babka and Susanne Hochreiter . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 9783899713879 .
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha: Woman, Native, Other. Post-colonialism and feminism writing . Ed. And with a foreword by Anna Babka. Translated by Kathrina Menke . With the assistance of Matthias Schmidt. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2010, ISBN 9783851325799 .
  • Colonial and post-colonial German-language literature (Section 43). Supervised and edited by Adjaï Paulin Oloukpona-Yinnon , ed. by Anna Babka and Axel Dunker. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 9783631632147 .
  • The pleasure in culture / theory. Transdisciplinary interventions. For Wolfgang Müller-Funk . Edited by Anna Babka, Daniela Finzi and Clemens Ruthner. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2012, ISBN 9783851326970 .
  • Postcolonial Readings. Perspectives on German-language literature . Edited by Anna Babka and Axel Dunker. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 9783849810023 .
  • Encounters and Movements: Austrian Literatures . Edited by Anna Babka, Renata Cornejo and Sandra Vlasta. Praesens 2014 (= Aussiger contributions. Germanistic series of publications from research and teaching, Vol. 8), ISBN 9783706908139 .
  • Broken narratives / narratives in rupture. Theoretical positions and applications . Edited by Anna Babka, Marlen Bidwell-Steiner and Wolfgang Müller-Funk . Vienna University Press, Vienna 2016, ISBN 9783847105961 .
  • "When lying down, the horizon is always so far away." Crossing borders with Barbara Frischmuth. Edited by Anna Babka and Peter Clar. With the collaboration of Flora Petrik . Special number, Vienna 2017, ISBN 9783854494652 .
  • Thinking Postcoloniality - Spectra of German Research in Togo . Edited by Obi Assemboni, Anna Babka, Laura Beck and Axel Dunker. Praesens, Vienna 2017, ISBN 9783706908306 .
  • "I write, therefore I am". Spellings with Barbara Frischmuth. Edited by Anna Babka, Silvana Cimenti and Peter Clar. Special number, Vienna 2019, ISBN 9783854495291 .

aka | Texts

The aka | texts series includes monographs, anthologies and lectures, and is presented by Anna Babka, Peter Clar, Daniela Finzi, Ingo Pohn-Lauggas, Matthias Schmidt, Gianna Zocco (No. 3–6) and Marina Rauchbacher (from No. 7) published.

  • Johan Schimanski: Limits. Try a poetics of boundaries. Edited by Anna Babka and Matthias Schmidt. Turia & Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2020, ISBN 9783851329704 .
  • Judith Butler : Politics of the death instinct. The death penalty case. Sigmund Freud Lecture 2014. Edited by the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna and the Cultural Analysis Working Group. From the American by Gerald Posselt and Sergej Seitz. Turia & Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2014 (= aka | texts, 1), ISBN 9783851327601 .
  • Matthias Schmidt (Ed.): Returns to Jacques Derrida's »The Postcard«. An essayistic glossary. Edited by the cultural analysis working group. With the collaboration of Tanja Veverka. Turia & Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2015 (= aka | texts, 2), ISBN 9783851328158 .
  • Mieke Bal : Lexicon of cultural analysis . Edited by the cultural analysis working group. Translated from the English by Brita Pohl. Turia & Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2016 (= aka | texts, 3), ISBN 9783851328387 .
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha: Elsewhere, within here. Immigration, flight and the border event . Edited by Anna Babka and Matthias Schmidt. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2017 (= aka | texts, 4), ISBN 9783851328493 .
  • with Katrin Lasthofer: Representation Revisited . With contributions by Marianne Maderna , Nikita Dhawan , Anna Babka and Mieke Bal. Turia & Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2017 (= aka | Texts, 5), ISBN 9783851328752 . [In cooperation with the Gender Research Unit at the University of Vienna].
  • Alenka Zupančič : Freud and the death drive . Edited by the Sigmund Freud Museum and aka Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse. Translated from the English by Sergej Seitz and Anna Wieder. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2019 (= aka | texts, 6), ISBN 9783851328929 .
  • Judith Butler: When the gesture becomes an event. Edited by Anna Babka and Matthias Schmidt. From the American English by Anna Wieder and Sergej Seitz. Turia & Kant, Vienna 2019 (= aka | texts, 7), ISBN 9783851329278 .

Article (selection)

  • with Hildegard Haberl: Kulturwissenschaften / Cultural Studies and Gender Studies. On the relations of transdisciplinary research approaches and the tendencies towards their institutionalization . In: Gabriele Moser (Ed.): Quo Vadis University. University profile formation from the perspective of feminist theory and gender studies . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 2002, pp. 155–172.
  • Feminist literary theories . In: Martin Sexl (Ed.): Introduction to the theory of literature . WUV (UTB TB), Vienna 2004, pp. 191–222 (readable online here ).
  • 'Masked Spread'. Derrida, the hymen and the reading of the gender difference - a perspective . In: Peter Zeillinger (Ed.): After Derrida. Deconstruction in contemporary discourses . Turia & Kant, Vienna 2006 , pp. 200–217 (readable online here ).
  • 'In-side-out' the Canon. Postcolonial theories and gender theories as perspectives for German literary studies . In: Marlen Bidwell-Steiner / Karin S. Wozonig (eds.): A Canon of Our Own . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Wien / Bozen 2006, pp. 117–132 (readable online here ).
  • Queering the differences. Gender, deconstruction and the diversity of difference. In: Bernhard Müller / Michael Rosecker : Library of Basic Values. Equality - questions of identity, similarity, diversity and difference. Everyday Association Verlag, Wiener Neustadt 2007, pp. 260–270.
  • Reading Kleist Queer. A rhetorical-deconstructive reading of 'About the Marionette Theater' . In: Anna Babka / Susanne Hochreiter (ed.): Queer Reading in Philologies. Models and Applications . Vienna University Press at V&R unipress, Vienna 2008, pp. 237–264 (readable online here ).
  • with Meri Disoski / Susanne Hochreiter / Stefan Krammer : cuddly toys. Love and multiply! In: Pia Janke (Ed.): Ritual. Power. Blasphemy. Art and Catholicism in Austria since 1945 . Praesens, Vienna 2010, pp. 359–361 (readable online here ).
  • with Peter Clar: Elfriede Jelinek. Feminism, politics and a gender- and queertheoretical perspective of “Illness or Modern Women & Ulrike Maria Stuart”. In: Journal of Research in Gender Studies , Vol. 2 (1). Addleton Academic Publishers, New York 2012, pp. 66–86 (readable online here ).
  • Remembrance / Memory and the Tropics of Autobiography. On the internal performance of gender norms . In: Jacob Guggenheimer u. a. (Ed.): 'When we were gender ...'. Remember and forget genders. Analyzes of gender and memory in gender studies, queer theories and feminist politics . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 67-76.
  • Construct the Balkans. Read Postcoloniality. An attempt with Karl May's Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi from "In den Schluchten des Balkans". In: Matthias Schmidt u. a. (Ed.): Narratives in a (post-) imperial context. Literary identity formation as potential in the regional tension between Habsburg and Hoher Pforte in Central and Southeastern Europe . Francke, Tübingen 2015, pp. 103–116.
  • with Ursula Knoll: tell gender. On the rhetoric of the interruption in Herculine Abel Barbin's autobiographical notes. In: Anna Babka / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner / Wolfgang Müller-Funk (eds.): Broken Narratives / Narrative im Bruch. Theoretical positions and applications . Vienna University Press, Vienna 2016, pp. 195–222.
  • Distant understanding and / or the language of love in poems by Friederike Mayröckers. In: Johann Lughofer (Ed.): Friederike Mayröcker: Interpretations - Comments - Didacticizations (Ljurik) / International Lyric Days of German Studies Ljubljana , Vol. 5. Praesens, Vienna 2017, pp. 105–116.
  • Laugh with Medusa. Spellings of cultural and sexual difference in Barbara Frischmuth. In: Anna Babka / Silvana Cimenti / Peter Clar (eds.): "I write, therefore I am". Spellings with Barbara Frischmuth . Special number, Vienna 2019, pp. 155–169.

Articles in internet magazines and forums

  • Remembering and forgetting and the question of identity . In: derStandard.at , (June 26, 2001) (can be read online in der.Standard.at ).
  • The Days of the Human May be Numbered. Theorizing Cyberfeminist Metaphors. Rereading Kleist's "Gliedermann" as Cyborg, as "Ghost in the Shell" . In: TRANS. Internet magazine for cultural studies , vol. 15, (August 2004) (readable online in TRANS ).
  • with Susanne Hochreiter / Wolfgang Lederhaas: Queer Studies read sexuality 'across' . In: ORF ON Science , (November 2006).
  • Gender (research) and deconstruction. Preliminary considerations on the relationship between two spaces for reflection. In: Productive Differences. Forum for Difference and Gender Research , (June 2007) (readable online in Productive Differences ) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anna Babka, Ao. Prof. Dr. In: Germanist Directory. German Academic Exchange Service, Society for University German Studies, September 29, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Anna Babka. In: University of Vienna. University of Vienna, accessed on July 15, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ Ingeborg Bachmann in France: on the reception of work and person. In: University of Vienna. University of Vienna, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  4. ↑ productive differences. In: University of Vienna. University of Vienna, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Gender roles and gender research in Austria and Romania. A contrastive examination of literary and media sources. In: Cooperation project Austria Romania. University of Vienna, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Gender revisited. Negotiating Gender in the Age of Posthumanism. In: We work for tomorrow. University of Graz, 2020, accessed on July 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Anna Babka. In: u: find. University of Vienna, July 15, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Anna Babka. In: The Green New Building. The Greens, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Cultural Analysis Working Group. In: University of Vienna. University of Vienna, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Babka, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna