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Dr. Clemens Ruthner

Associate Professor (German)
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Dr. Clemens Ruthner

Associate Professor (German)
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 Clemens.Ruthner@tcd.ie

 3531896 1935


Born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied German philology, philosophy, history and communication studies at the local university (Alma Mater Rudolphina). Has been living & working abroad since 1991: in Budapest (Hungary), Antwerp (Belgium), Edmonton (Canada) and Birmingham (UK), before he came to Ireland in 2008. Visiting professorships in Leuven (Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Hercegovina), Leipzig (Germany), Berkeley (USA) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). Literary and cultural scholar, book reviewer, author and translator.
  Alterity / Otherness   Area Studies (Central Europe)   Cultural Economy   Cultural Studies and Theory   GENDER   Literary theory   Modern German and Austrian literature   Sexuality Studies   Translation
Project Title
 The Long Shots of Sarajevo, 1914
From
2012
To
2014
Summary
Investigating the Event, its Narratives and Presence in Cultural Memory in Central Europe
Funding Agency
EC and foundation Sarajevo Coeur de l'Europe (F)
Project Type
Research, congress, 2 600 pg. publications
Person Months
48
Project Title
 Zentren / Peripherien in Österreich-Ungarn, 1867-1918
From
2004
To
2006
Summary
On power relations and cultures in the multi-ethnic late Habsburg Empire - their impact on the creation and symbolism of space (unpaid board member and research associate)
Funding Agency
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna
Project Title
 Konstruktionen des Fremden: Bosnien-Herzegowina in deutschsprachigen Texten, 1878-1918
From
2003
To
2007
Summary
On the cultural ("colonial") construction of the Bosnian Other in Austrian and german texts around 1900 (part-time researcher)
Funding Agency
SFO, U of Antwerp
Project Type
individual research project (Post-doc)
Project Title
 Herrschaft, Literarizität und ethnische Differenzierung in Österreich-Ungarn, 1867-1918
From
2001
To
2005
Summary
On the relation of cultural symbolism and power in constructions of identity / ethnicity in the late Habsburg Empire. Team member as a paid researcher (part-time, Post-Doc)
Funding Agency
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Project Type
Team research project

Details Date
Editor of the series IDENTIFICATIONS (Königshausen & Neumann Publ., Wuerzburg, Germany) 2018
Member of the academic advisory board of the Brenner Archiv, U of Innsbruck, Austria 2019
Member of the academic advisory board of the WienMuseum 2016
Member of Advisory Board for an M.A. program in Sexuality Studies (DCU) and external examiner 2010
Editor of the Journal "Germanistische Mitteilungen" (GM), Brussels 1998
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Dutch Fluent Fluent Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Medium
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
Italian Basic Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Austrian Society of Germanists (ÖGG) 1992 PRESENT
International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), USA 1993
Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (BGDV) 1993 PRESENT
Förderkreis Phantastik e.V., Wetzlar (D) 1995 PRESENT
Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) 2000 PRESENT
Internationale Gesellschaft für Mittel- und Osteuropaforschung e.V. (IG.MOF), Vienna 2001 2013
Interdisciplinaire Werkgroep Postcoloniale Literaturen, Antwerpen (B) 2002 2008
Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland 2008 PRESENT
Arbeitskreis fuer Kulturanalyse (AKA, Vienna) 2013 PRESENT
Clemens Ruthner, Nancy Nenno, Daniel Bitouh, Black Austrian Studies: Schwarze Menschen in der Literatur, Kultur und Gesellschaft Österreichs., New York, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2026, 400pp, Notes: [Central European Culture series.], Book, SUBMITTED
Furchtbare Herkunft: Zum Horror der Heim.at (mit H. P. Lovecraft) in, editor(s)Stefan Alker-Windbichler, Nicole Streitler-Kastberger , dentitäten, Körper und Umwelten in der österreichischen Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, Bielefeld, transcript, 2026, pp79 - 90, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Die Kultur und ihre Ungeheuer: Fantastik, Liminalität und Kulturökonomie., Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2024, 128pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Outbreaks of the Balkan Village Vampire in the Eighteenth Century in, editor(s)Simon Bacon , The Palgrave Handbook of The Vampire, London, Palgrave, 2024, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Colonial Lessons to Learn from Habsburg, 1878-1918, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2023, Notes: [special issue for RE:SET], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Vahidin Preljevic, Peter Handkes Jugoslawien-Komplex: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme nach dem Nobelpreis., Würzburg:, Könighausen & Neumann, 2022, 300pp, Book, SUBMITTED
Being 'Borderline': Liminality as a Heuristic Concept in, editor(s)Wolfgang Müller-Funk , Borders of Europe, Rome, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2021, pp111 - 121, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Tropenkoller der männlichen Herrschaft. Eine postkoloniale Lektüre von Stefan Zweigs Novelle Der Amokläufer (1922). in, editor(s)Bernhard Fetz et al. , Stefan Zweig Weltautor, Vienna, Zsolnay, 2021, pp230 - 239, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [(= Profile 28)], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Sleeping Beauty's Awakening: Habsburg Colonialism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1918 in, editor(s)Frantisek Sistek , Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges, Oxford, New York, Berghahn, 2021, pp76 - 91, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Literature as Proxy War. Handke, Serbia, and the Austrian "Inability to Mourn., Journal of Austrian Studies, 54, (3), 2021, p20 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Auf der Anderen Seite: Kubins Briefe und sein einziger Roman (Afterword) in, editor(s)Franz Hamminger , Mein armer Liebling: Alfred Kubin an Hedwig Kubin. Briefe von 1905-1909, Brunnenthal, Landstrich, 2019, pp270 - 278, [C. Ruthner], Notes: [(afterword for a letter edition)], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Phantastik und/als Liminalität in, editor(s)Wiebke Amthor, Susanne Scharnowksi , Wilde Lektüren: Literatur und Leidenschaft. Festschrift für H.R. Brittnacher zum 60. Geburtstag., Bielefeld, Aisthesis, 2012, pp35 - 52, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Arthur Schnitzler "Full Circle" (Reigen), 2007, -, Notes: [(dramaturge)], Theatre Production, PRESENTED
Clemens Ruthner, Elfriede Jelinek: "Nora", 2005, -, Notes: [(dramaturge)], Theatre Production, PRESENTED
Blutsauger von heimischer Zunge: Der Vampir in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (und Bram Stokers Quellen). in, editor(s)Thomas Le Blanc, Clemens Ruthner, Bettina Twrsnick , Draculas Wiederkehr, Wetzlar, Schriftenreihe der Phantastischen Bbliothek, 2003, pp59 - 83, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Thomas Le Blanc, Clemens Ruthner, Bettina Twrsnick(ed.), Draculas Wiederkehr. Tagungsband 1997, Wetzlar, Schriftenreihe der Phantastischen Bbliothek, 2003, 262 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Unheilige Allianzen. Groteske (und) Fantastik in deutscher Sprache 1900-1933 - ein Überblick, Jahrbuch der Österreich-Bibliothek in St. Petersburg, 5, 2001, p12 - 27, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Die andere Seite Kakaniens: Österreichische Phantastik nach 1900 , 1000 Jahre Österreich im Spiegel seiner Literatur, Dunedin Conference 1996, edited by August Obermayer , Otago University Press, 1997, pp97 - 103, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Untoter Import/Export: Der Vampir als literarische Tauschfigur zwischen SO-europäischer und deutschsprachiger Kultur, Deutsch aktuell: Aus der Praxis des Deutschunterrichts in Rumänien , 1997, p39 - 42, Notes: [special issue [Tagungsbeiträge Poiana Brasov]], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Jenseits der Moderne: Abriß und Problemgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Phantastik 1890-1930, Traumreich und Nachtseite. Die deutschsprachige Phantastik zwischen Décadence und Faschismus. Tagungsband 1995, Wetzlar, edited by Thomas Le Blanc, Bettina Twrsnick , Schriftenreihe der Phantastischen Bibliothek, 1995, pp65 - 85, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
nomination for Provost's Teaching Award TCD 2011, 2013, 2015
MOEL Visiting Professorship by ÖFG (U of Sarajevo) HT 2011
Official Austrian Visiting Professor to Canada 2003-08
Young Scholar Travel Grant, Grillparzer Award (U of Vienna) 1993
three scholarships for excellent postgraduate performance ("Leistungsstipendien", Senate U of Vienna) 1991-97
As a co-founder of the international research network KAKANIEN REVISITED in 2000, I was among the first academics to adopt the novel paradigm of Postcolonialism in the field of Habsburg Studies, particularly with respect to the imperial period of Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878-1918, and its processes of inequality and othering after the military occupation and annexation of the region. This new approach, creating a trans-disciplinary link between history, literary/cultural studies and the social sciences, is now widely accepted. This is evident in the fact that our network figures prominently in the new 'Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur' (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017). The 'Habsburg postcolonial' group has also inspired various follow-up research projects, conferences and publications by other researchers, for example: two PG courses for research PhDs at the U of Vienna; a Special Research Group (SFB) at the U of Trier, Germany; the PhDs by Lejla Campara (Vienna, 2011), Robert Lemon (Harvard, 2010), Lejla Campara (Vienna, 2011), Ulrich Bach (Stanford, 2016), etc. In order to discuss and disseminate our approaches, we also founded an internationally respected web-journal (www.kakanien.ac.at) in 2001, to which I have been one of the most active and discussed contributors. The anthologies of essays that I co-edited and published with Francke have also had a remarkable international impact. For example, as a consequence of these publications, I became the initiator of the biggest European on-site conference on 'The Long Shots of Sarajevo, 1914' in 2014; this event was made possible by competitively awarded funding of the European foundation Sarajevo: Coeur de l'Europe and the EU (112,000€). And finally, in early 2018, my monograph entitled 'Habsburg's Dark Continent' came out. It brings together my research work of the last 15 years; in a review, Prof. Katie Arens (U of Texas) wrote it "is a must-read, not only for its insights into the final century of Austria-Hungary." (in: Journal of Austrian Studies, 2020). . Having built a solid reputation in the field of Austrian and Central European Studies, I was also invited to be have become a contributor to the 20C German literary history survey (Leuven: Peeters Publ., 2006), which is the only one of its kind in the Dutch-speaking countries. Other invitations arising from my research include seven visiting visiting professorships (for details, see above). Another important field of my research is identity and Otherness, and particularly the fantastic/Gothic in literature and culture. This was was already the focus of my PhD, 'Am Rande' (2001), and I was the primary editor of an anthology of essays entitled 'Nach Todorov' (2006), which proceeds from the theories of the renowned theorist to propose new conceptualizations of the literary genre. The first print runing of this book sold out quickly; it is often quoted and lauded, e.g. by Yvonne Ivory in the German Studies Review (USA) 31.1, 2008. In the last ten years, I have also moved into the field of Austrian gender and sexuality studies with three influential publications (2011, 2019, 2021) that are now in their 2nd print.