Wolfgang Zach
Professor Emeritus, Mag. phil., Dr. phil., Ph.D. (Hon)
Honorary Professor at the University of Fiji
Research and Teaching Interests
- Shakespeare
- 18th- and 20th-Century British and Irish Literatures
- Postcolonial Studies, esp. Indigenous Australian Literature
- Slavery and Racism, National Images and Stereotypes
- Literary Theory
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Full Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Innsbruck until 2013, Professor and Chair of the Section "New Literatures in English" at Graz University until1994
Visiting Professor/Research Fellow at universities in Klagenfurt, Münster and Halle-Wittenberg, Trieste, Verona and Lecce, Oxford (Mansfield), Malta, Nigeria (Nsukka), Singapore (NUS), Tokyo (Waseda), Kyoto (Doshisha) and Nagoya (NSU), Montreal (Concordia), Brisbane (Griffith)
Director of CISLE-Centre for the International Study of Literatures in English (since 1987). Organized several international conferences and received numerous awards and fellowships for his scholarly work. Former Vice-President of IASIL and EACLALS. (Co-)editor of five journals and a series of monographs.
Selected publications
‚Poetic Justice’. Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Doktrin, Anglia Buchreihe 26, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1986.
Rutherford Mayne: Selected Plays (ed.). With Biographical and Critical Introduction and Commentary, Irish Drama Selection Series, Gerrards Cross and Washington D.C,: Colin Smythe 2000.
Racism, Slavery, and Literature (ed. together with U. Pallua), Bern et al.: Lang 2010.