Silvia Schultermandl

Silvia Schultermandl was an Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies at University of Graz. 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.

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 was  in charge of the research cluster "Medien und Gegenöffentlichkeiten" in the research network Heterogeneity and Cohesion.

Elisabeth-List-Fellowship Projekt: Intimate Readings: Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings