Hildegard Kernmayer is a literature and cultural studies scholar who works as an Associate Professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Graz.
1997: doctoral program within the interdisciplinary special research area "Moderne. Wien und Zentraleuropa um 1900"
2007: foundation and establishment of the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Graz
2008 to 2010: Marie Curie Fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin with the project "Literatur und Wahrnehmung. Zur ästhetischen Phänomenologie der Moderne"
2012: habilitation at the University of Graz.

Guest lectureships and visiting professorships at the University of Wrocław, the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Minnesota. Board member of the International Society for Cultural Studies (KWG) since 2017 - expected to become spokesperson in October 2019; books and essays on topics including aesthetics and poetics, Jewish studies, gender studies and cultural studies.

Collaborations:

• in the field of perception research: since 2008 with the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin (here especially with Falko Schmieder: media scientist); since 2017 with Stefan Krankenhagen (philosopher, University of Hildesheim), Amalia Barboza (sociologist, Saarland University), Christian Allesch (psychologist, University of Salzburg), Florian Dombois (artistic research, Zurich), Rainer Schönhammer (psychologist, Halle): Objective: Establishment of an international and interdisciplinary research network on perception research
• in the field of feuilleton research: Erhard Schütz (HU Berlin); numerous joint publications; currently: publication of the Metzler-Handbuch Feuilleton; Simone Jung (media sociologist, University of Hamburg); joint conference organizations and publications
• in the field of gender studies: Inge Stephan (HU Berlin); Ulrike Vedder (HU Berlin); Anna Babka (University of Vienna)