Prof. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg

Ulla Kriebernegg is head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC) and a lecturer at the Medical University of Graz. She is an Americanist and cultural gerontologist and focuses her teaching and research on cultural representations of dementia, age(ing), gender and care as well as medical humanities and narrative medicine. In her habilitation thesis, she investigated the role of the narrative space of the institution "old people's home" in contemporary North American literature for the narrative construction of age(ing) in the USA and Canada. This question was also central to the anthology "Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care" (transcript 2017), which she published together with Sally Chivers and in which both scholars, worked together with renowned experts from Canada, the USA and Europe in order to approach the topic of institutional care from various disciplines.

Ulla Kriebernegg is founder and chair of the Age and Care Research Group Graz and vice president of the European Network in Aging Studies. She is also co-editor of the journal The Gerontologist and the Aging Studies series (transcript Verlag Bielefeld). She is a member of the scientific advisory board of the journals Age Culture, Humanities and the Journal of Aging Studies. Interdisciplinary work in the field of aging studies is particularly important to her: as a literary and cultural scientist, she is a member of the steering committee of the North American Network in Aging Studies and the Humanities and Arts Committee of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). She is also Principal Investigator in the profile-building area "Dimensions of Europeanization" and co-spokesperson of the cluster "Aging, Demography and Care" of the research network "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" as well as an active member of its cluster "Gender".

She has led several projects in the field of ageing and care research. She has already received several awards for her commitment to research and teaching, including the Seraphine-Puchleitner Recognition Award for Doctoral Supervision from the University of Graz and the Best Published Article Award from the Margaret Atwood Society (2018). Since 2020, she has been a Research Fellow at the Trent Centre for Aging and Society (TCAS) at Trent University in Canada.