Our research team is currently working on the following PhD and Post-Doc projects under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger.

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  ‘Making Sense: Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Texts’
  Alina Lange’s PhD project explores early modern perceptions of the ‘deformed’ body.
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  ‘Embodying Long Covid – The Discursive Construction of a Health Movement’
  Carina Hilmar’s PhD project focuses on Long Covid patient communities and the surrounding patient activism.
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  ‘Face Time: The Semiotic Temporalities of Biometric Art’
  In his doctoral research project, Devon Schiller proposes that biometric art that uses emotion recognition is fundamentally poly-temporal.
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  ‘Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878-1918’
  James Aaron Green’s ÖAW-funded project examines literary thought experiments that pose the question, What would it mean to live forever?