Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl

Silvia Schultermandl works as an Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies. As a literary and cultural studies scholar, she works in the fields of affect studies, gender studies, and transnationalism studies, with a particular focus on intersectional and queer-feminist politics in and of literature, film, popular culture, and social media.

Her monographs Transnational Matrilineage: Mother-Daughter Conflicts in Asian American Literature (2011) and States of Ambivalence in American Literature (forthcoming) focus on literary constructions of identity and concepts of belonging of marginalized subject positions. Her numerous edited volumes deal with different expressions of affective kinship structures in the context of gendering, racialization and (trans-)nationalization.
She is editor of the series "Contributions to Transnational Feminism" (since 2009, LIT-Verlag) and "Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference" (since 2018).

She is a member of the international affect research network "Global Sentimentality" and part of the EU project "HostFilm: Hospitality in European Film". At the University of Graz, she will be in charge of the research cluster "Medien und Gegenöffentlichkeiten" in the research network Heterogeneity and Cohesion.