Markus Reisenleitner (PhD
University of Vienna) is affiliated with the Department of Humanities' European Studies program, the Graduate Program in Humanities, the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. Before joining York's Division of Humanities
in 2006, he taught at the University of Vienna, the Vienna campus
of the University of Oregon's International Program, the
University of Alberta, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where
he was Head of the Department of Cultural Studies from 2004-2006. Markus
Reisenleitner is a research associate of Hong Kong's Kwan Fong Cultural
Research and Development Programme, a member of the executive
of the Canadian Comparative
Literature Association, and a member of the editorial
collective of the web journal spacesofidentity.net.
Current Research Interests
Current research focuses on visual and textual interpretations of global cities, European urban culture, and history, memory and nostalgia in popular and digital culture. (cf. full list of publications and research-related activities.)
Most recent publications:
- Lutter, C., M. Reisenleitner. (2009/1999). Cultural Studies: eine Einführung [Cultural Studies: an Introduction]. 6 ed. Vienna: Turia + Kant.
- Morris, M., M. Reisenleitner and C. Turner (eds.). (2008). Urban Imaginaries. Spec. Issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 9(4): Routledge.
- Reisenleitner, M. (2008). Das Belvedere -- ein Palast mit Ausblick: Europäische Geschichte und Gedächtnis im urbanen Raum. In M. Scheutz and V. Vales (Eds.), Wien und seine Wienerinnen. Ein historischer Streifzug durch Wien über die Jahrhunderte (pp. 355-372). Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau.
- Reisenleitner, M. (2007). There's No Place Like Charmed: Domesticity, the Uncanny, and the Utopian Potential of the City. Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV. K. Beeler and S. Beeler. London; New York, L.B.Tauris: 143-165.
- Reisenleitner, M. (2007). Beyond Bildung: The "Disciplinarity and Dissent" of Cultural Studies in the Global Managerial Academy. Hyphenated Histories: Articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic Studies in the Contemporary Academy. A. C. Gow. Leiden; Boston, Brill: 19-41.
- Reisenleitner, M. (2006) "A Palace with a View: Imagining Europe in the Baroque City." spacesofidentity 6(2).
- Reisenleitner, M. (2006). Stuart Hall (*1932). Identitätsrouten ohne Garantien. Culture Club II Klassiker der Kulturtheorie. M. L. Hofmann, T. F. Korta and S. Niekisch. Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp: 312-328.
- Ingram, S. and M. Reisenleitner (2006). "Polarizing Avalon: The European Virtuosity and Global Virtuality of Mamoru Oshii's Filmic Imaginary." New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 4(2): 129-138.
I am on sabbatical leave from 1 July 2009 until 30 June 2010.
Recent Teaching
For up-to-date information on teaching-related issues (events of interest, office hours etc.), please refer to the notice board.
Recent Graduate Courses
Recent Undergraduate Courses
- AS/HUMA 2195: Defining Europe: An Introduction to European Studies (FW 2008/09)
- AS/HUMA 3605: Imagining the European City in Literature and Film (FW 2008/09)
Recent Service
- Committee on Curriculum and Academic Planning Policy, Faculty of Arts (chair)
- Curriculum Committee, Division of Humanities (chair)
- Research Committee, Division of Humanities (chair)
- Executive, Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (member)
