Cornelia Klecker

Mag. Mag. Dr. Cornelia Klecker

Deputy Department Chair

Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52d, 6020 Innsbruck

Humanities building, 3rd floor, room 40304

Phone: +43 512 507 41614
E-Mail: Cornelia.Klecker@uibk.ac.at

Office hour: by appointment

Administation

  • Deputy Department Chair
  • Coordinator of the Mentoring Program for the BA English and American Studie
  • Contact person for the MA programs of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
  • Member (mid-level faculty) of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
  • Member (mid-level faculty) of the Curriculum Commission of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
  • Project leader of OJPO – Online Journal Publishing Office

Degrees

  • MA in English and American Studies and Comparative Literature (both University of Innsbruck, 2007 and 2008)

    Diploma thesis: "Skip and Rewind: When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film"
    Winner of the Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2009

  • PhD in English and American Studies (University of Innsbruck, 2011)
    PhD thesis: "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
    Winner of the Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2012

Interests in Research and Teaching

  • Television Studies (particularly 21st-century American scripted primetime series)
  • Contemporary US-American politics
  • Film Studies (particularly Hollywood film)
  • Narrative Theory
  • US-American Literature

Teaching

current semester: SS 2025

past semesters: WS 2024/2025 | SS 2024

Publications (selected)

  • Invited guest lecture: "Trump vs. Democracy: From Reality Show to Imperial Presidency." Part of the lecture series "US Politics Uncovered: Wohin steuern die USA?" organized by the Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck. October 10, 2024."Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO): Popular Misogyny and/in Popular Streaming Narratives." 2024 NEPCA Conference. NIchols College, Massachusetts (hybrid). October 3-5, 2024.
  • “(Narrative) Choice: (Temporarily) Childfree Female Characters in US-American Primetime Series.” 2024 PCA/ACA National Conference. Chicago. March 27-30, 2024.
  • Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Country: ‘Real’ America or Political Myth?” University of Münster. Online. December 05, 2023.
  • “‘Non-Mothers as Non-Existent Character Trope: An Exploration of Pronatalism in 21st-Century Scripted TV Series.” 2023 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA). Online. October 12-14, 2023.
  • Invited guest lecture: “‘Under His Eye,’ Over Her Dead Body: Streaming The Handmaid’s Tale.“ Workshop “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited.” University of Innsbruck, June 03, 2023. https://www.uibk.ac.at/canada/events-zentrum/2023/the-handmaid-s-tale-revisited.html.en.
  • “‘Stop the Steal’: The Flyover Country Trope as Political Strategy.” Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association titled “Conclusions.” George Mason University, Virginia (Hybrid). June 1-4, 2023.
  • “Streaming Gender-Based Violence: Rape Myth Acceptance as Narrative Gimmick.” 2022 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10–12, 2022.
  • Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Fictions and US Politics” as part of the panel “Flyover Fictions: A New View on Literature, Film, and Politics.” Event series on “Rural Americas” organized by the Center for Interamerican Studies (ZIAS). University of Innsbruck, November 8, 2022.
  • “’Surprise, he’s innocent’: The Character Trop of the Wrongfully Accused White Man in the #MeToo Era.” “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (49th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies).” University of Salzburg, October 21-23, 2022.
  • “Still No Narrative Reckoning? Netflix Productions and the #MeToo Movement.” 2022 Cultural Studies Association Conference. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US. Hybrid. June 2-4, 2022. 
  • Virtual Roundtable: “USA: Auslaufmodell Demokratie oder Leuchtturm des Westens?” Haus der Begegnung der Diözese Innsbruck. Online. December 14, 2021. 
  • “’I am not your Villain’: Fictional Depictions of Facial Disfigurement in US-American Television Narratives.” 2021 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10 – 13, 2021.
  • "’Turning Necessity into a Virtue’: The Online Classroom as Chance for Intercultural Exchange.” “Digital Americas” (48th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies.” Online. October 21 – 22 and 27 – 29, 2021.
  • “The 21st-Century Action Woman: Female Violence in Scripted Television Series.” 2021 PCA/ACA National Conference. Online. June 2 – 6, 2021.
  • Virtual Roundtable: “The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: An American Recovery?” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. May 5, 2021.
  • Virtual Roundtable: “The End of an Era? Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the American Presidency.” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. January 26, 2021.
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