People - Clemens Ruthner

Co-ordinator of European Studies Option: Cultures of Memory and Identity in Central Europe

Clemens Ruthner finished his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna, Austria in 2001. He was the director of the Austrian and Central European Research Centre OCTANT at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is currently Lecturer in German and European Studies in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Ruthner´s research interests include cultural narratives of Otherness (e.g. monstrosity, ethnicity, gender etc.), cultural theory and Central European Studies (19th and 20th century). He has authored two books on the fantastic in literature (Unheimliche Wiederkehr , 1993; Am Rande, 2004) and is editor or co-editor of several anthologies of essays, e.g.:

•  Literatur und Politik in Ungarn (1993)
•  Was bleibt? Ex-Territorialisierung in der deutschsprachigen Erzählprosa nach 1945 (2000)
•  Kakanien revisited. Das Fremde und das Eigene (in) der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie (2002)
•  Periphere Identitäten in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 (2002)
•  Nach Todorov. Neuere Zugänge zu einer Definition des Phantastischen in der Literatur(2005)
•  Zentren, Peripherien und kollektive Identitäten in Österreich-Ungarn, 1867-1918 (2006)
•  Aneignungen und Entfremdungen: Franz Grillparzer's Inter/Nationalism ( 2007)
•  WechselWirkungen. The social, political and cultural impact of Austro-Hungarian occupation on Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878-1918 (forthcoming)
•  Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Austrian Literature and Culture. Proceedings of the MALCA Conference 2007 (forthcoming)

Some of his English and German articles in the field of Central European Studies can be found online at www.kakanien.ac.at