Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (born September 24, 1942 in Graz ) is an Austrian English and Americanist .

Live and act

Zacharasiewicz was promoted to Dr. phil. obtained his doctorate and habilitation in English philology with Franz Karl Stanzel at the University of Graz in 1974 . In 1974 he was appointed full professor of English and American studies at the University of Vienna , where he taught until his retirement in 2010. From 1994 he was a corresponding and from 2000 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Since 2012 he has headed the commission The North Atlantic Triangle: Social and Cultural Exchange between Europe, the USA and Canada as chairman.

For many years he was committed to the cultural exchange between North America and Austria. In addition to linguistics and literary studies, his research areas included American studies, English studies, comparative literature , cultural history and modern history . Together with Werner Sollors , he did long research in the field of cultural self-images .

Visiting professorships

• University of Birmingham
• Shakespeare Institute and Worcester College, University of Oxford
• University of Virginia
• Yale University
• Duke University
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Stanford University
• University of Mainz
• University of Minnesota
• University of Maryland at College Park
• Ghent University
• University of Bergen
• Syddansk Universitet
• University of Ottawa
• University of Padua
• University of South Carolina
• University of Texas System

Selected memberships

• Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Academia Europaea
• European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Board of Trustees of the European Forum Alpbach

Selected publications

• The "Cosmic Voyage" and the "Excursion" in English poetry of the 17th and 18th centuries. Dissertation Graz, 1966, revised and published, Vienna 1966.
• Johannes Kepler, James Howell and Thomas Lansius, The Competition of European Nations as a Literary Theme in the 17th Century. In: Johannes Kepler, 1571 to 1971, memorial from the University of Graz. Graz 1975.
• Climate theory in English literature and literary criticism: from the middle of the 16th to the early 18th century (= Vienna Contributions to English Philology, Volume 77). Vienna, 1977, ISBN 3-7003-0160-X .
• The storytelling of the American South. (= Income from research. Volume 270). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 1990, ISBN 3-534-08796-8 .
• The image of Germany in American literature. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-12467-7 .
• Images of Germany in American Literature. University of Iowa, 2007.
• Imagology revisited. (= Studia Imagologica Volume 17). Amsterdam, 2010.

Web links

• Waldemar Zacharasiewicz on the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Waldemar Zacharasiewicz on the website of the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Retirements 2010 University of Vienna , accessed on July 17, 2017.
2. ↑ In the Heart Chamber of Modernity, in: ORF News from January 22, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2017