Publications

Scholarly books

Authored books

• Lutter, Christina, and Markus Reisenleitner. Cultural Studies: eine Einführung [Cultural Studies: an Introduction]. 6 ed. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2009 [1999].
• Reisenleitner, Markus. Frühe Neuzeit, Reformation und Gegenreformation: Darstellung, Forschungsüberblick, Quellen und Literatur. Handbuch zur neueren Geschichte Österreichs; Bd. 1. Innsbruck: Studien-Verlag, 2000.
• ---. Die Produktion historischen Sinnes : Mittelalterrezeption im deutschsprachigen historischen Trivialroman vor 1848. Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe I, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Bd. 1338 = Publications universitaires européennes. Série I, Langue et littérature allemandes ; vol. 1338 = European university studies. Series I, German language and literature ; vol. 1338. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang, 1992.

Edited books

• Morris, Meaghan, Markus Reisenleitner, and Caroline Turner, eds. Interasia Cultural Studies Special Issue: Urban Imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific. Vol. 9:4: Routledge, 2008.
• Ingram, Susan, Markus Reisenleitner, and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik, eds. Floodgates – Technologies, Cultural Ex/change and the Persistence of Central Europe. New York; Frankfurt/M.; Vienna: P. Lang, 2005.
• Ingram, Susan, Markus Reisenleitner, and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik, eds. Ports of Call : Central European and North American Culture/s in Motion. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
• Ingram, Susan, and Markus Reisenleitner, eds. Placing History: Themed Environments, Urban Consumption and the Public Entertainment Sphere. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2003.
• Ingram, Susan, Markus Reisenleitner, and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik, eds. Reverberations : Representations of Modernity, Tradition and Cultural Value in-between Central Europe and North America. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang, 2002.
• Ingram, Susan, Markus Reisenleitner, and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik, eds. Identität. Kultur. Raum: Kulturelle Praktiken und die Ausbildung von Imagined Communities in Nordamerika und Zentraleuropa. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2001.
• Erlach, Daniela, Markus Reisenleitner, and Karl Vocelka, eds. Privatisierung der Triebe? Sexualität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang, 1994.

Book chapters

• Reisenleitner, M. "Gibson Country: Global City-Spaces in the North-American Imaginary of Pattern Recognition and Spook Country." In The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Eds. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 231–42.
• ---. "Das Belvedere – ein Palast mit Ausblick: Europäische Geschichte und Gedächtnis im urbanen Raum." Wien und seine Wienerinnen. Ein historischer Streifzug durch Wien über die Jahrhunderte. Eds. Martin Scheutz and Vlasta Vales. Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau, 2008. 355–72.
• ---. "There's No Place Like Charmed: Domesticity, the Uncanny, and the Utopian Potential of the City." Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV. Eds. Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler. London; New York: L.B.Tauris, 2007. 143–65.
• ---. "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. Ed. Andrew Colin Gow. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2007. 19–41.
• ---. "Stuart Hall (*1932). Identitätsrouten ohne Garantien." Culture Club II Klassiker der Kulturtheorie. Eds. Martin Ludwig Hofmann, Tobias F. Korta and Sibylle Niekisch. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2006. 312–28).
• ---. "Welcome to Class Europa: European Virtuosity and Global Virtuality in Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon." Floodgates – Technologies, Cultural Ex/change and the Persistence of Central Europe. Eds. Susan Ingram, Markus Reisenleitner and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik. New York; Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang, 2005. 221-34.
• ---. "The American Traveling Detective and the Exotic City: Pépé Le Moko, Macao and The Third Man." Ports of Call: Central European and North American Culture/s in Motion. Ed. Markus Reisenleitner Susan Ingram, Cornelia Szabó-Knotik. Frankfurt/M.: P. Lang, 2004. 259-68.
• ---. "Public Entertainment and the Construction of a Public Entertainment Sphere in Nineteenth-Century Vienna." Placing History: Themed Environments, Urban Consumption and the Public Entertainment Sphere. Eds. Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2003. 17-31.
• ---. "Once Upon a Time: the Commodification of the Middle Ages in German Trivialromane around 1800." Placing History: Themed Environments, Urban Consumption and the Public Entertainment Sphere. Eds. Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2003. 65-81.
• ---. "Imaginationen von Los Angeles zwischen Ramonaland und noir-Apokalyptik."Placing History: Themed Environments, Urban Consumption and the Public Entertainment Sphere. Eds. Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2003. 223-40.
• ---. "»Des Pudels goldener Kern«: legitimate theater and notions of European culture in Dawson City, Yukon."Placing History: Themed Environments, Urban Consumption and the Public Entertainment Sphere. Eds. Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2003. 165-74.
• ---. "Beach-Haus vs. Traum(a) Factory: The L.A. experience through Central European Eyes." Reverberations : Representations of Modernity, Tradition and Cultural Value in-between Central Europe and North America. Eds. Susan Ingram, Markus Reisenleitner and Cornelia Szabo-Knotik. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: P. Lang, 2002. 241-58.
• ---. "Karlsbad Resolutions." Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Vol. 2. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 1317–18.
• ---. "Karl Kraus." Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Vol. 2. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 1357–58.
• ---. "Grillparzer." Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Vol. 2. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 990–91.
• ---. "'Des Pudels goldener Kern': legitimate theater and notions of European culture in Dawson City, Yukon." Identität. Kultur. Raum: Kulturelle Praktiken und die Ausbildung von Imagined Communities in Nordamerika und Zentraleuropa. Eds. Susan Ingram, Markus Reisenleitner and Cornelia Szabó-Knotik. Vienna: Turia&Kant, 2001. 257-67.
• ---. "Austria: To 1918." Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. Vol. 1. London; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 147–50.
• Fischer, Wladimir, et al. "Sprache als Handlung und Träger sozialer Identität." Ästhetik und Ideologie – Aneignung und Sinngebung – Abgrenzung und Ausblick. Ed. Christina Lutter. Vienna: Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Verkehr und Kunst, 1997. 191–202.
• Erlach, Daniela, and Markus Reisenleitner. "A Relational Approach to Computer based Studies of Genealogy, Family Patterns and Social Bonding." Structures and Contingencies in Computerized Historical Research. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Association for History and Computing. Eds. Onno Boonstra, Geurt Collenteur and Bart van Elderen. Hilversum: Verloren, 1995. 199–207.
• Reisenleitner, Markus, and Karl Vocelka. "Tourismus: geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung und Einsatzmöglichkeiten." Neuland: berufliche Horizonte für Geistes- und SozialwissenschaftlerInnen. Ed. Gabriele Schuster. Vienna: Wiener Universitätsverlag, 1994. 43–50.
• Erlach, Daniela, and Markus Reisenleitner. "A Prosopographical Onscreen Manual of the Austro Bohemian Nobility in the Early Modern Period." Storia e Multimedia: Atti del / Proceedings of the Settimo Congresso Internazionale / Seventh International Congress Association for History and Computing. Eds. Francesca Bocchi and Peter Denley. Bologna: Grafis Edizioni, 1994. 161–70.
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Der Umgang der modernen Kulturgeschichtsschreibung mit Intertextualität in der Frühen Neuzeit." Intertextualität in der frühen Neuzeit: Studien zu ihren theoretischen und praktischen Perspektiven. Eds. Wilhelm Kühlmann and Wolfgang Neuber. Frühneuzeit-Studien; 2. Frankfurt/M; New York: P. Lang, 1994. 1–30.
• Reisenleitner, Markus, and Karl Vocelka. "Die Kultur des Adels der Habsburgermonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit / Plemiska kultura v habsburski monarhiji v zgodnjem novem veku." Begegnung zwischen Orient und Okzident / Srecanje z Jutrovim Na Ptujsekm Gradu. Ptuj: Ptuj Museum, 1992. 37–42.
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Ritterbild und Mittelalter Rezeption von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart." Die Ritter. Burgenländische Forschungen; Sonderband 8. Eisenstadt: Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Landesarchiv Landesbibliothek, 1990. 164–74.

Journal articles

• Reisenleitner, M. "Einleitung: Die Sieben Todsünden in der Frühen Neuzeit." Die Sieben Todsünden in der Frühen Neuzeit. Spec. Issue of frühneuzeit-info 21/1+2 (2010): 5–7.
• Ingram, Susan, and Markus Reisenleitner. "Polarizing Avalon: The European Virtuosity and Global Virtuality of Mamoru Oshii¹s Filmic Imaginary." New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 4.2 (2006): 129–38.
• Lutter, Christina, and Markus Reisenleitner. "Post/colonial Studies und/oder Cultural Studies’? Oder: ‘Ist diese Frage wirklich wichtig?" Kakanien Revisitied (2002).
• ---. "Introducing History (in)to Cultural Studies: Some Remarks on the German-speaking Context." Cultural Studies 16 (2002): 611–630 .
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Institutionalizing Cultural Studies in Austria: a View from Afar." Cultural Studies 16.6 (2002): 896-907.
• Lutter, Christina, and Markus Reisenleitner. "Cultural Studies in Österreich." L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 12.2 (2001): 353–55.
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Habsburgische Höfe in der Frühen Neuzeit – Entwicklungslinien und Forschungsprobleme." Opera Historica. Editio Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis (1999): 97–114.
• Reisenleitner, Markus, and Karl Vocelka. "Höfe und Residenzen des Adels in den österreichischen Ländern im 16. und zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts." Opera Historica. Editio Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis 3 (1993): 47–60.
• Reisenleitner, Markus, et al. "Studien zur Mentalitäts und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Geschichte des Adels der Frühen Neuzeit in der Habsburgermonarchie." Opera Historica. Editio Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis 2 (1992): 34–37.
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Kulturgeschichte auf der Suche nach dem Sinn. Überlegungen zum Einfluß poststrukturalistischer Theoriebildung auf moderne Kulturgeschichtsschreibung." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 3.1 (1992): 7–30.
• ---. "Wege zum Adel. Theoretische Zugänge zur Kultur einer Elite." Frühneuzeit info 1.1.2 (1990): 28–37.
• ---. "Die Bedeutung der Werke und Theorien Norbert Elias’ für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit." Frühneuzeit info 1.1.2 (1990): 47–57.

Contributions to spacesofidentity.net

• Ingram, Susan, and Markus Reisenleitner. "The Identity-Producing Spaces of Hong Kong: Reflections on Ackbar Abbas’s City of Disappearance." spacesofidentity 8.1 (2008).
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "A Palace with a View: Imagining Europe in the Baroque City." spacesofidentity 6.2 (2006).
• ---. "On the Road Again: Globalizing Humanities." spacesofidentity 6.3 (2006).
• Editors. "Of Networks, Submerged Histories and the New (Central) Europe." spacesofidentity 4.2 (2004).
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Slashing Postcolonial Studies, or: Why this Debate Still Bothers Me. A Response to Clemens Ruthner’s ‘K.u.K. ‘Kolonialismus’ als Befund, Befindlichkeit und Metapher’." spacesofidentity 3.1–2 (2003).
• ---. "Central European Culture in Search of a Theory, or: the Lure of ‘Post/colonial Studies." spacesofidentity 6(2002).
• ---. "Tradition, Cultural Boundaries and the Construction of Spaces of Identities." spacesofidentity 1.1 (2001).
• ---. "Reluctance, Modernity’s Curse: A Review of Ales Debeljak’s ‘Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and its Historical Forms’." spacesofidentity 1.4 (2001).
• Ingram, Susan, and Markus Reisenleitner. "Imagining Modern Vienna: Two Recent Exhibitions." spacesofidentity 1.2 (2001).
• Reisenleitner, Markus. "Tradition, Cultural Boundaries and the Construction of Spaces of Identity." spacesofidentity 1.2 (2001).

Papers read

Invited presentations

• “Keynote: Can(n)ons of accountability and the university 2.0: knowledge production and research in interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies under the conditions of global knowledge economies.”
  (International symposium "The Return of Monuments: Current Retrospective Tendencies in Musicology", Vienna, 1-4 December 2010
• “Pop and Politics before / after the Crisis.”
  (IFK_PODium Roundtable with Lawrence Grossberg and Karin Harrasser, University of Applied Arts and University of Vienna, April 2010)
• “A Question of Residence: Early Modern Court Society and the Urban Texture of Contemporary Vienna.”
  (Florida International University, Miami, 11/09, sponsored by the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, the European Studies Program at FIU, and the Department of History Graduate Student Association (DOHGSA) at FIU)
• “Hong Kong Global, Toronto Unlimited: Local Lifeworlds, Cultural Plurality and Urban Experience in the Global Metropolis.”
  (Wiener Vorlesung [public lecture organized by the Mayor of Vienna], Vienna City Hall, 06/07)
• “Humboldt's Heritage?  Humanist Erudition, Liberal Arts, and Cultural Studies in the Global Academy.”
  (Lecture, Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, 10/05) 
• “What the Walls Remember: Sites of Memory in the Urban Environment”
  (Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 03/05)
• “Cultural Studies, World Cities and Globalization”
  (Center for Cultural Studies, L’viv National University, 06/03)
• “Situating Cultural Studies in Academic and National Contexts.”
  (Center for Cultural Studies, L’viv National University, 06/03)
• “World History and Postcolonial Studies”
  (Department of History, University of Vienna, Austria, 06/03)
• “The City, The Colony and the Criminal: Transgression and Containment of Space in Pepe Le Moko, Macao and The Third Man”
  (Lingnan University, 02/03)
• “The Chicago Columbian and the City Beautiful Movement”
  (University of Victoria, B.C., 02/03)
• “Taming Metro-Mazes: Cities in the Popular Imagination”
  (Lingnan University, 09/02)
• “Imaginationen von Los Angeles zwischen Ramonaland und noir-Apokalyptik”
  (University of Vienna, 06/01)
• “Once upon a Time: The Commodification of the Middle Ages in German Trivialromane around 1800”
  (University of Alberta, 03/01)
• “Tradition, Cultural Boundaries and the Construction of Spaces of Identity in Central Europe”
  (Florida International University, Miami FL, 10/00)
• “Cultural Hegemony and Popular Theatre”
  (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami, 10/99)
• “Music and Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: The Image of a Period”
  (Departments of Music and History, University of Saskatchewan, 09/99)
• “Social Control and Cultural Hegemony in Viennese Popular Theatre, 1780–1848”
  (Department of History, University of Alberta, 04/99)
• “Language Use as Solidarity and Division in the Early Modern Period”
   (Institute for Early Modern Studies, Vienna, Austria, 01/97)
• “Aristocratic Elites in the Habsburg Lands in the Early Modern Period”
  (Department of History, University of London, 11/93)

Conference/Workshop Presentations

• "History, Memory and the Digital Image"
  (American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, 04/11)
• "Exploring Urban Imaginaries: Cities of Memory and Nostalgia as Objects of Study in Visual Culture, Cultural History and Comparative Literature"
  (International Comparative Literature Association, Seoul, Korea, 08/10)
  
• "It's a Kind of Magic: Situating the Nostalgia for Technological Progress and the Occult in London's Urban Imaginary"
  (International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Hong Kong, 06/10)
  
• "Digital Nostalgia in Cinematic Urban Imaginaries"
  (China and the West: Cosmopolitics, Memory and Visual Media in the 21st Century, University of Hong Kong, 06/10)
• "Translating the Past, Digitally: Nostalgia, the City and the Digital Image in Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005) and Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008)
  (CCLA panel, Congress 2010, Concordia University, Montreal, 05/10)
• “Reimagining the Urban Future as Nostaglic Pasts: War and its Digital Reconstruction inThe Sky Crawlers (2008) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.” (2004)
  (American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, 04/10)
• “The Sky is the Limit: CGI Space, Animated Cities, and Digital Nostalgia for the Future in The Sky Crawlers (2008) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).”
  (Popular Culture Association International Meeting, Turku, Finland, 07/09)
  
• “Londonland’s Nodality Between New Age and New Media: William Gibson’s and Dan Brown’s Global Geographies of London’s Bestselling Urban Imaginary.”
  (Conference “Literary London 2009: Representations of London in Literature”, Queen Mary University, London, 07/09)
• “The Sky is the Limit: CGI Space, Animated Cities, and Digital Nostalgia for the Future in The Sky Crawlers (2008) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).”
  (CCLA panel, Congress 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa, 05/09)
• “Virtually Flauneuring Eastern Europe and Global Imaginaries: The Streetscapes of Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon.”
  (Conference “Prises de Rue / Street Takes: Streets and Roads in Contemporary European Cinemas / Rues et Routes dans les cinémas européens contemporains.” McGill University, Montreal, 09/08)
• “Gibson Country: Global City-Spaces in the North American Imaginary.”
  (Conference “The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism”, University of Göttingen, Germany, 07/08)
• “Chinatown Nostalgia in London’s Docklands.”
  (International “Crossroads” Conference in Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, 07/08)
• “A Dope Boat from China: Imagining London in Post-War German Popular Culture.”
  (Conference “Literary London 2007: Representations of London in Literature”, University of Westminster, London, 07/07)
• “Limehouse, Global Trade, and Popular Culture in the Persisting Nostalgia of London’s Urban Imaginary.”
  (CCLA panel, Congress 2007, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 05/07)
• “Memories of Migration.”
  (International Interdisciplinary Conference “Lessons from History”, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 06/06)
• “Edgar Wallace, Uncannily British: Imagining London in German Popular Cinema during the 1960s.”
  (Joint CCLA/CAUTG panel, Congress 2006, York University, Toronto, 05/06)
• “Poles of Globalization: Arthurian Myth and the Realities of the European Union in Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon.”
  (Conference “Meaningful Marginalities: Religious Influences and Cultural Constructions”, University of Alberta, 05/06)
• “Conceptualizing a Framework for German Studies.”
  (DAAD Steering Committee Meeting, York University, 12/05)
• “Ghost in the City: Transnational Urban Imaginaries in Cyberpunk”
  (International Roundtable “Urban Imaginaries: Spatiality after Colonialism,” Australian National University, Canberra, 07/05)
• “Welcome to Class Europa”
  (International Conference “Cinema in Europe: Networks in Progress,” Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 06/05)
• “Beyond Bildung: The ‘Disciplinarity and Dissent’ of Cultural Studies in the Global Managerial Academy”
  (International Conference “Hyphenated Histories, Cultural Theory and the Humanities Tradition in the Contemporary Academy,” Department of History, Classics and Religious Studies and Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 05/05)
• “Pole-arizing Avalon: The Persistence of European Myth in the Asian Imaginary”
  (International Workshop “Floodgates,” Toronto, 07/04)
• “Hunting the Global Urban Cool in William Gibson’s Asian Imaginary”
  (International Conference “Urban Imaginaries: An Asian–Pacific Research Symposium,” Hong Kong, 06/04)
• “Texturing Global City-Space in the Matrix of Style: Networks, Flows and Routes in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition”
  (International Conference “Net – Culture – Science,” Budapest, 12/03)
• “Producing the Urban Experience in Popular Culture”
  (International Workshop “East Asian Cities: New Cultural and Ideological Formations,” Shanghai, 12/03)
• “Asian Villains and the Modern Western Metropolis: The Containment of Colonial Space in Sax Rohmer’s Novels”
  (2003 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., 02/03) 
• “Among the Throng but not of the Throng – Male Subjectivity and Visions of the City”
  (Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Sociological Association, Hong Kong, 11/02)
• “The American Traveling Detective and the Exotic City: Macao, Algiers and The Third Man” (International Workshop Ports of Call, Vienna, 10/02)
• “Themes and the City: Themed Environments and the Construction of Urban Imaginaries”
  (organized and chaired panel at the 4th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland 07/02)
• “Visuality in Motion and the Production of Cityscapes: The Detective, the Exile and the Yuppie”
  (Summer Institute for Public Criticism and Visual Culture, Hong Kong, 06/02)
• “The Theming of Urban Environments”
  (Workgroup Global Cityscapes, Miami–Vienna, 06/01)
• “Beachhaus vs. Traum(a) Factory: The L.A. Experience Through Central European Eyes” (University of Alberta, 05/01)
• “Public Entertainment and the Construction of a Public Sphere in 19th-century Vienna: Creating a Middle Class Audience in Urban Entertainment Spaces”
  (German Studies Association, Houston, 10/00)
• “Themed Environments and Urban Consumption”
  (3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, 07/00)
• “Legitimate Theatre and Notions of European Culture in Dawson City, YK”
  (Workshop Cultural Practices and the Formation of Imagined Communities, Semmering, Austria, 06/00)
• “Spectacular Theatre-Theatre of the Spectacular: Social Control, Cultural Hegemony and Symbolic Resistance in the Popular Theatre of Vienna, 1780-1848”
  (Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Coral Gables, 10/99)
• “Tradition, Cultural Boundaries, and the Construction of Spaces of Identity”
  (Conference: Central European Culture Today, University of Alberta, 09/99)
• “Language, Meaning and Social Identity in the Habsburg Lands”
  (American Hungarian Educators’ Conference, Cleveland, 04/99)
• “Writing the History of Minorities: the Impact of Information Technologies”
  (Conference: Women in Musicology, University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Vienna, Austria, 02/98)
• “Interactivity and the Presentation of Music History
  (Anniversary Conference of the Department for Music History at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria, 12/97)
• “The Methodology of Media Culture: Internet / CD-ROM / Paper”
  (Symposium Culture - Communication - Technology, Triest, Italy, 10/97)
• “Music and Dance on Screen: The Opportunities of New Media”
  (International Federation of Television Archives Conference: Television Archives: Between Cultural Heritage and Profit Centres, Budapest, Hungary, 09/97)
• “Cultural Traditions in Central Europe”
  (International Congress of the International Musicological Society, London UK, 08/97)
• “Possibilities and Limitations of Multimedia Productions”
  (International Conference of the Association for History and Computing: The Dissemination of Knowledge, Glasgow, 06/97)
• “Language Use as Social Action and as a Carrier of Social Identity”
   (Austrian Historians' Conference, Vienna, Austria, 12/96)
• “The Nobility as a Strategic Elite in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 16th Century”
  (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, 10/95)
• “Computer-Aided Statistical Analysis of Data on the Musical Life of Associations in the 19th Century”
  (Hummel Foundation, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 10/95)
• “Network Analysis and Genealogical Studies” (Invitational Jubilee Conference of the Genealogical Society Adler, Vienna, Austria, 10/95)
• “Cultural Traditions in Central Europe: Possibilities of a Networked Historical Database”
  (University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Vienna, Austria, 03/95)
• “A Relational Approach to Computer-based Studies of Genealogy, Family and Social Bonding”
  (International Conference of the Association for History and Computing: Structures and Contingencies in Computerized Historical Research, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 10/94)
• “Databases as Prerequisites of Research in the Early Modern Period”
  (Conference Renaissance '92. A Question of Documentation, University of Toronto, 11/92)
• “Possibilities of Data Modelling and Data Preparation in the Historical Sciences”
  (International Conference of the Association for History and Computing: Storia&Multimedia, Bologna, Italy, 08/92)

Research Support

Externally funded

Internally funded

Contributions to the Profession

Conference Organisation

• panel organizer, International “Crossroads” Conference in Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, 07/08
• co-organizer, Visibility and Performativity in Urban Life: Migrants, Margins, Meanings, York, 6–8 September 2007
• co-organizer, Alternative Histories of Urban Consumption, Vienna, 14–16 Dec 2006.
• co-organizer, Sustaining Central European Cultural Diversity, York, 28-29 Oct 2005.
• co-organizer, Urban Imaginaries: An Asian-Pacific Research Symposium, Lingnan University, 22–24 May 2004. 
• organizer, Globalizations: Challenge for Asian Cultural Studies, Workshop for Hong Kong (Post)Graduate Students, Hong Kong Institute for Cultural Criticism, 2–3 June 2003.
• co-organizer, Ports of Call: Central European and North American Culture/s in Motion, Vienna, Austria, 5–8 October 2002.
• co-organizer, Cultural Practices and the Creation of Imagined Communities at the Turn of the Century: A Comparison between Central Europe and North America, Semmering, Austria, 1–3 June 2000.
• co-organizer, The Gutenberg-Galaxis? Information and Communication in the Early Modern Period, Vienna, 16–18 November 1994.
• co-organizer, Sexuality in the Early Modern Period, Vienna, October 1991.
• co-organizer, Death and Funeral Rites in the Early Modern Period, Vienna, November 1990.

Consultancies

• European Union (FP6: “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society”; FP7: “Histories and Identities: Articulating National and European Identities), consultant (March 2004; June 2005; October 2005; May 2007; June 2007; May 2008; June 2009)
• Dissertation Review Committee, University of Hong Kong (2010)
• University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Vienna, Habilitation Review Committee
• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Project Reviewer
• Austrian Ministry of Education, Project Reviewer

Editorial Work

• Cultural Studies (Vienna: Turia+Kant; Löcker); book series, co-edited with Christina Lutter
  • Grossberg, Lawrence. We Gotta Get out of This Place: Rock, die Konservativen und die Postmoderne. Vienna: Löcker, 2010. 460 pp.
  • Vol. 7: Donald, James. Vorstellungswelten moderner Urbanität. Vienna: Löcker, 2005. 278 pp.
  • Vol. 6: Morris, Meaghan. Zu früh, zu spät: Geschichte in der Popularkultur. Vienna: Loecker, 2004. 393 pp.
  • Vol. 5: Betz, Fritz and Johanna Riegler. Bilder der Arbeit im Spätkapitalismus: Zum strategischen Machtverhältnis von Arbeit, Selbst und Technologien. Vienna: Löcker, 2003. 261 pp.
  • Vol. 4: Horak, Roman. Die Praxis der Cultural Studies. Vienna, Löcker, 2002. 242 pp.
  • Vol. 3: Grossberg, Lawrence. What’s Going On? Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2000. 327 pp.
  • Vol. 2: Angerer, Marie-Luise. Body options. Körper.spuren.medien.bilder. Vienna, Turia+Kant, 1999. 207 pp.
  • Vol. 1: Fiske, John. Lesarten des Popularen. Vienna, 2nd ed. Löcker, 2003. 215 pp.
    
• frühneuzeit-info (academic journal, member of the editorial board, 1989–2000)
  
• spacesofidentity.net: tradition, cultural boundaries and identity formation in central Europe and beyond (refereed web journal)

Manuscript Reviewing

• Reviewer, History Compass
• Reviewer, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
• Reviewer, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
• Reviewer, Zeitgeschichte
• Reviewer, EPD Society and Space

Professional Organizations

• International Comparative Literature Association (since 2010)
• American Comparative Literature Association (since 2010)
• Canadian Comparative Literature Association (since 2006; member of the executive since 2007)
• Popular Culture Association (since 2004)
• Cultural Studies Association (founding member, since 2002)
• Association for History and Computing (since 1992)
• Institut für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit: Founding and Executive Board Member (since 1989)