Dr. phil. Marina Rauchenbacher

Visiting Professor Gender and Performativity

rauchenbacher(at)mdw.ac.at

Biography

Marina Rauchenbacher (Dr.) was affiliated with the ICGP for the project Visualities of Gender in German-Language Comics (gendercomics.net; funded by the Austrian Science Fund), on which she worked together with Susanne Hochreiter and Katharina Serles (University of Vienna) and in cooperation with Evelyn Annuß (ICGP). She is also currently affiliated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), where she is working on the long-term editorial project of the early works of Arthur Schnitzler. Marina teaches at the University of Vienna and at the Institute for the International Education for Students (IESabroad).

She studied German and Communication Studies at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, completing her studies with a dissertation on the reception of the German-language author Karoline von Günderrode. Marina worked on various projects and as a university assistant at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna and taught at the University of Vienna (Institute for German Studies and Master’s Program in Gender Studies), the University of Graz (Master’s Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies) and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (IKM/ICGP). She has completed research stays at the Freies Deutsches Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Heidelberg (for her dissertation), and was an affiliated scholar with the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marina is a founding member and board member of the Austrian Association for Comics and a board member of aka – Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse. She also works as a cultural educator and curated the exhibition Narrating Violence. A Comic Exhibition at 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

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