Marina Rauchenbacher

Biography

 

Marina Rauchenbacher (Dr.) is affiliated with the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at the IKM with the project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics, on which she works together with Susanne Hochreiter and Katharina Serles (University of Vienna) and in cooperation with Evelyn Annuß (ICGP). She is also affiliated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), working on a long-term editorial project on Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler’s early works.

          Marina studied German Philology and Communication Studies at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. She completed her studies with a dissertation thesis on the reception of the German-language author Karoline von Günderrode. Marina worked at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna on various projects (especially Kunst im Text, led by Prof. Konstanze Fliedl) and as a university assistant (prae doc) and taught at the University of Vienna (Department of German Philology and Master program Gender Studies) and the University of Graz (Master program Interdisciplinary Gender Studies). Among others, she completed research stays at the Freie Deutsches Hochstift Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Heidelberg (for her dissertation) and was an Affiliated Scholar of the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. 

          Marina is a board member and founding member of the Austrian Association for Comics and a board member of Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse (“Working Group on Cultural Analysis”). She also works as a curator and, amongst other things, curated Narrating Violence: A Comic Exhibition for the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna (in collaboration with Daniela Finzi). 

 

Research Focus

  • Comics Studies
  • Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Intersectionality Studies
  • (Feminist, gender-theoretical) Visual Culture Studies and Image Theories
  • Posthumanism
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Reception Theory
  • German-language literature around 1800 and since 1900

 

Publications

Rauchenbacher, Marina. “Comics from the German-Language Realm and Health Humanities: An Overview.” The Health Humanities in German Studies, edited by Stephanie M. Hilger. Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 79-98. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350296220.ch-5

---. “Turmepisoden und Wassermythen: Machtkonfigurationen und ihre Subversion in Olga Flors Die Königin ist tot.” Offengelegte „Dämmerkonflikte“: Zum gesellschaftspolitischen Sensorium von Olga Flors Literatur, edited by Gudrun Heidemann, Kalina Kupczyńska, and Marina Rauchenbacher. Vienna, Sonderzahl, 2024, pp. 65-79.

Loidl, Sonja, Susanne Hochreiter, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles, editors. Graphisches Erzählen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Vienna, Praesens Verlag, 2024, Wiener Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 2.

Heidemann, Gudrun, Kalina Kupczyńska, and Marina Rauchenbacher, editors. Offengelegte “Dämmerkonflikte”: Zum gesellschaftspolitischen Sensorium von Olga Flors Literatur. Vienna, Sonderzahl, 2024.

Rauchenbacher, Marina. “Un_familiäre Selbst. Des- und Re-Orientierung in Parsua Bashis Nylon Road.” Familie und Comic: Kritische Perspektiven auf soziale Mikrostrukturen in grafischen Narrationen, edited by Barbara Margarethe Eggert, Kalina Kupczyńska, and Véronique Sina. Walter de Gruyter, 2023. Comicstudien 1, pp. 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110786392

Arthur Schnitzler, Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, edited by Marina Rauchenbacher. Walter de Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111085593

Rauchenbacher, Marina. “Gewalt erzählen in Comics / Narrating Violence in Comics.” Gewalt erzählen. Eine Comic-Ausstellung / Narrating Violence. A Comic Exhibition, edited by Daniela Finzi and Monika Pessler Vienna. Sigmund Freud Museum, 2023, pp. 10-41.

---. “Gewalt. Eine begriffliche Annäherung / Violence. Approaching a Definition.” Gewalt erzählen. Eine Comic-Ausstellung / Narrating Violence. A Comic Exhibition, edited by Daniela Finzi and Monika Pessler. Vienna, Sigmund Freud Museum, 2023, pp. 6-9.

---. “Programmatisch Alice: Irrgärten und Grenzüberschreitungen des Erzählens.” Die Königin Vontjanze. Kleiner Atlas zum Werk von Anke Feuchtenberger, edited by Andreas Stuhlmann and Ole Frahm. Hamburg, Textem, 2023, pp. 195-204.

---. “Das ‘Wunder an unserem Kinde’: Körper, Dis_ability, Krankheit in Heidi-Comics – am Beispiel Klara.” Wiedersehen mit Heidi. Polyperspektivische Lektüren der Heidi-Romane von Johanna Spyri, edited by Linda Leskau and Sigrid Nieberle. Bielefeld, transcript, 2023. Diversity in Culture 1, pp. 311-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462898-020

Hochreiter, Susanne, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles, editors. Comics aus und über Österreich, special issue of Journal of Austrian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2022.0028

---, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles. “Queer Visualities­–Queer Spaces. German-Language LGBTQ+ Comics.” The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren. UP of Mississippi, 2022, pp. 114-33. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w227ck.10

---, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles. “Vorwort der Herausgeberinnen.” Comics aus und über Österreich, special issue of Journal of Austrian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2022.0028

---, Marina Rauchenbacher, and Katharina Serles. “Gender in Comics? Fragen und Antworten zum Forschungsprojekt Visualitäten von Geschlecht in deutschsprachigen Comics.” Mitteilungen der Vereinigung österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen & Bibliothekare, vol. 75, no. 1, 2022, 1, pp. 226-39. https://doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v75i1.7214

Rauchenbacher, Marina. “Comics – posthuman, queer-end, um_un-ordnend.” Genealogy+Critique, no. 8 (2022), 1, pp. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.9167

 

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Dr. Marina Rauchenbacher

FWF project Visualities of Gender in German-language Comics

 

E-Mail: rauchenbacher@mdw.ac.at