MARTINA PFEILER (RESEARCH, UNIVERSITIES)

Martina Pfeiler was born in Leoben, Austria, in 1976. She studied English and American Studies and Geography and Economic Studies from 1995 to 2001 at the University of Graz and at Roehampton Institute London in the United Kingdom. She completed her habilitation and PhD at TU Dortmund University in Germany, where she received her venia legendi in American literary and cultural studies in 2017. Since 2023, she has been Professor of Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Education Upper Austria. From 2021 to 2024, she was Vice-PI in the ERC/FWF-funded project “Poetry Off the Page. Literary History and the Spoken Word” at the University of Vienna, where also currently also teaches and conducts research at the Department of English and American Studies. Her book publications on poetry performances include  Poetry Goes Intermedia. U.S.-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. – und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive (Francke Verlag) and Sounds of Poetry. Contemporary American Performance Poets (Narr Verlag), as well as several book chapters and articles on the popularization of UK and US-American poetry and on the popularization of Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick through Hollywood. She is co-editor of the poetry slam anthology Pott Meets Poetry: The First Illustrated Slam Anthology of the Ruhr Area (Lektora Verlag).

Martina Pfeiler has given numerous international conference presentations and undertaken research stays in Brazil, Japan, the USA, and the UK, including conducting interviews with international poets, filmmakers, and media artis. She is currently working on a co-authored volume titled In the Event of Poetry: Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context (Palgrave).  https://martinapfeilercrossroads.com/  

Mersolis Schöne  (film maker, fine arts, researcher)

Mersolis Schöne is a multidisciplinary film artist, visual artist, and researcher
based in Vienna, Austria. In his cinematic work, he deals with methods of film-based philosophising as well as with the communication of art, philosophy, and science. In his process-oriented approach, he combines these methods withexperimental and poetic forms. In 2017 he founded Moving Thought – Film+Philosophy (www.movingthought.org) to implement projects that focus on these purposes.
He has received national and international recognition for his films and served as a juror at several international film festivals.

https://www.mersolisschoene.com | https://linktr.ee/mersolis