Clemens Ruthner
Assistant Professor
Germanic Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Clemens Ruthner was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied German philology, philosophy, history and communication studies at the local university (Alma Mater Rudolphina). However, he has been living & working abroad since 1991: in Budapest (Hungary), Antwerp (Belgium), Edmonton (Canada) and Birmingham (UK), before he came to Trinity in 2008. Visiting professorships in Leuven (Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Leipzig (Germany), and Berkeley (USA). Aside from his academic work, Dr Ruthner is a publicist and translator.
Research Interest
His research focusses on German and Austrian literature (19th-20th c.), Central European Studies, Otherness (e.g. ethnicity, foreignness, sexuality, monstrosity / vampirism), Postcolonial Studies, literary and cultural theory.
Publications
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Zur Theorie der Liminalität, oder: Die Grenzwertigkeit der Fantastik in, editor(s)Mario Grizelj , Der Schauer(roman): Formen - Diskurszusammenhänge - Funktionen, Würzburg, Könighausen & Neumann, 2010, pp77 - 90, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [= "Film - Medien - Diskurs, vol. 27], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Clemens Ruthner, Raleigh Whitinger (ed.), Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture. Proceedings of the MALCA Conference in Edmonton,2007, Austrian Culture Series, 46, P. Lang (New York), 2011, 420 p, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
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The Back Side of Viennese Fin-de-siècle: Josefine Mutzenbachers Infamously Infantile Sexuality in, editor(s)Clemens Ruthner, Raleigh Whitinger , Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture, New York, P. Lang, 2011, pp91 - 104, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Rückblick & Prolog: (Zentraleuropäische) Kulturanalysen mit WMF & Co. in, editor(s)Anna Babka, Daniela Finzi, Clemens Ruthner , Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie: Transdiszplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, pp11 - 18, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Homi Bhabha & The 40 Thieves. Zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Konzeptualisierung nationaler Stereotypen. in, editor(s)Anna Babka, Julia Malle, Matthias Schmidt , Dritte Räume. Homi K. Bhabhas Kulturtheorie. Kritik. Anwendung. Reflexion., Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, pp43 - 64, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Between Aachen and America: Bhabha, Kürnberger and the Ambivalence of Imagology in, editor(s)Davor Dukic , Imagology Today: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives, Bonn, Bouvier, 2012, pp137 - 160, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [Aachener Beiträge zur Komparatistik vol 10], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Generation Ö: Zur Begrifflichkeit und ihrer Anwendung auf die österreichische Literaturgeschichte in, editor(s)Joanna Drynda , Zwischen Aufbegehren und Anpassung: Poetische Figurationen von generationen und Generationserfahrungen in der österreichischen Literatur, Frankfurt (M.), Warsaw et al., P. Lang, 2012, pp13 - 27, [Clemens Ruthner], Notes: [= Posener Beiträge zur Germanistik. Vol 32], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Fantastic Liminality: A Theory Sketch in, editor(s)Lars Schmeink and Astrid Böger , Collisions of Reality: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe, Berlin, New York, de Gruyter, 2012, pp35 - 49, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Anna Babka, Daniela Finzi, Clemens Ruthner, et al., Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie: Transdiszplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Vienna, Berlin, Turia + Kant, 2012, 491pp, Notes: [edited volume (festschrift)], Book, PUBLISHED
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Vampir in, editor(s)Hans Richard Brittnacher & Markus May , Phantastik Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler, 2013, pp493 - 500, [Clemens Ruthner], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
