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Clemens Ruthner

Assistant Professor
Germanic Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Professor Social and Political Sciences
Biography

Clemens Ruthner was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied German philology, philosophy, history and communication studies at the local university (Alma Mater Rudolphina). However, he has been living & working abroad since 1991: in Budapest (Hungary), Antwerp (Belgium), Edmonton (Canada) and Birmingham (UK), before he came to Trinity in 2008. Visiting professorships in Leuven (Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Leipzig (Germany), and Berkeley (USA). Aside from his academic work, Dr Ruthner is a publicist and translator.

Research Intrest

His research focusses on German and Austrian literature (19th-20th c.), Central European Studies, Otherness (e.g. ethnicity, foreignness, sexuality, monstrosity / vampirism), Postcolonial Studies, literary and cultural theory.

List of Publications
Zur Theorie der Liminalität, oder: Die Grenzwertigkeit der Fantastik in, editor(s)Mario Grizelj , Der Schauer(roman): Formen - Diskurszusammenhänge - Funktionen, Würzburg, Könighausen & Neumann, 2010, pp77 - 90, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [= "Film - Medien - Diskurs, vol. 27], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner, Raleigh Whitinger (ed.), Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture. Proceedings of the MALCA Conference in Edmonton,2007, Austrian Culture Series, 46, P. Lang (New York), 2011, 420 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
The Back Side of Viennese Fin-de-siècle: Josefine Mutzenbachers Infamously Infantile Sexuality in, editor(s)Clemens Ruthner, Raleigh Whitinger , Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, New York, P. Lang, 2011, pp91 - 104, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Rückblick & Prolog: (Zentraleuropäische) Kulturanalysen mit WMF & Co. in, editor(s)Anna Babka, Daniela Finzi, Clemens Ruthner , Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie: Transdiszplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, pp11 - 18, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Homi Bhabha & The 40 Thieves. Zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Konzeptualisierung nationaler Stereotypen. in, editor(s)Anna Babka, Julia Malle, Matthias Schmidt , Dritte Räume. Homi K. Bhabhas Kulturtheorie. Kritik. Anwendung. Reflexion., Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, pp43 - 64, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Between Aachen and America: Bhabha, Kürnberger and the Ambivalence of Imagology in, editor(s)Davor Dukic , Imagology Today: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives, Bonn, Bouvier, 2012, pp137 - 160, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [Aachener Beiträge zur Komparatistik vol 10], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Generation Ö: Zur Begrifflichkeit und ihrer Anwendung auf die österreichische Literaturgeschichte in, editor(s)Joanna Drynda , Zwischen Aufbegehren und Anpassung: Poetische Figurationen von generationen und Generationserfahrungen in der österreichischen Literatur, Frankfurt (M.), Warsaw et al., P. Lang, 2012, pp13 - 27, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [= Posener Beiträge zur Germanistik. Vol 32], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Fantastic Liminality: A Theory Sketch in, editor(s)Lars Schmeink and Astrid Böger , Collisions of Reality: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe, Berlin, New York, de Gruyter, 2012, pp35 - 49, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Anna Babka, Daniela Finzi, Clemens Ruthner, et al., Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie: Transdiszplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, 491pp, Notes: [edited volume (festschrift)], Book, PUBLISHED
Vampir in, editor(s)Hans Richard Brittnacher & Markus May , Phantastik Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler, 2013, pp493 - 500, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Austria-Hungarys Only Colony: Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878-1918 in, editor(s)Róisín Healy, Enrico Dal Lago , The Shadow of Colonialism in Europes Modern Past, 1860s to 1960s, London, Palgrave, 2014, pp156 - 169, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Vahidin Preljevic, Clemens Ruthner(ed.), SARAJEVSKI dugi pucnji 1914 : događaj - narativ - pamćenje , University of Sarajevo / Zenica, June 2014, Vrijeme, 2015, 592 p, Notes: [Bosnian version of the proceedings], Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
Clemens Ruthner; Vahidin Preljevic(ed.), The Long Shots of Sarajevo: Ereignis - Narrativ - Memory, University of Sarajevo, June 2014, A. Francke, Tübingen, 2015, 700 p, Notes: [Some chapters in English], Proceedings of a Conference, IN_PRESS
Besetzungen: A Post/Colonial Reading of Austrian and German Cultural Narratives on Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878-1918 in, editor(s)Clemens Ruthner et al , WechselWirkungen, New York, P. Lang, 2015, pp221 - 242, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Raymond Detrez, Diana Reynolds Corleone, Clemens Ruthner, Ursula Reber, WechselWirkungen: The social, political and cultural impact of Austro-Hungarian occupation on Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1878-1918, New York, P. Lang, 2015, 400pp, Notes: [Austrian Culture Series], Book, PUBLISHED
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