Upcoming:
(1) Poesiefilmtage Weimar: https://poetryfilmtage.de/
I am excited to have been invited as a judge for the Poesiefilmtage Weimar. The festival takes place from June 4-June 7, 2026.
(2) ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL
April 7-10, 2026 | KÜNSTLERHAUS VIENNA (co-director/jury member)
For details of the event, please see:
https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/node/414
(3) 53rd Annual AAAS Conference “Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Cultures, Digital Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens” Nov. 5-7, 2026. University of Education Upper Austria and Private University of Education of the Diocese of Linz. Organized by Melissa Kennedy, Edith Kreutner, Martina Pfeiler. Please see cfp below.
Recent Conference Organisation & Chair:
52nd AAAS Conference “Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies“. October 3-5, 2025, University of Vienna.
FOTO CREDIT: TWO FINE PEOPLE Upcoming research: I’ll be in the UK from June 21, 2022 – July 2022, for archival research, meeting poets and attending poetry events. Looking forward to it!
Publications:
Forthcoming soon:
In the Event of Poetry. Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context Co-authored with Julia Novak, Marie Krebs, Shefali Banerji, Tapasya Narang, Peter Middleton, Claire Palzer, Helen Thomas, and Emily Timms. Palgrave 2026.
Pfeiler, Martina. “Popularisierung von Lyrik: Punk-Lyrik, Pop-Ästhetik und Live-Streaming von Poetry Slams im Vereinigten Königreich”. Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung, edited by Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Cosima Wolff, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561356-011
Martina Pfeiler, Don Dingledine, Kyle Meikle, Paolo Simonetti, and Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Soner Kaya (eds.) Special Issue: Melville, Media, and Narratives. Journal of Narratives and Language Studies. Vol. 12 (25), 2024.
“Teaching Melville Through the Lens of Popular Culture” has recently been published in A New Companion to Herman Melville (2022). Eds. Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge. 541-549.
Past Research and Conference Activities:
“But here is an Artist. Teaching Moby-Dick and Audiovisual Media in the American Studies Classroom.” 51st International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies: “Education, the Arts, and American Studies”. PH Vorarlberg. October 17-19, 2024.
Conference Chair for the Panel Creative and Activist Approaches in American Studies. PH Vorarlberg. Conference Chair for the Panel Creative and Activist Approaches in American Studies. PH Vorarlberg. October 18, 2024.
2nd Poetry off the Page Conference. St. Mary’s University, London. November 10-13, 2023 https://allbordersblur.univie.ac.at/
From May 31 to June 4, 2023, I conducted research at The British Library and attended the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Final as well as the Apples and Snakes 40th Anniversary Celebrations in London for a chapter on poetry. slams in the UK.
From March 15-23, 2023, I interviewed poets in Glasgow and Edinburgh and attended the Scottish Poetry Slam Final at the Britannia Panopticon.
Prof. Dr. Martina Pfeiler 