UPCOMING CONFERENCE
Registration is now open for the 53rd Annual AAAS Conference titled “Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Cultures, and New Digital Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens” Nov. 5-7, 2026. For further details and the registration link, please see link below: AAAS Conference
Organized by Melissa Kennedy, Edith Kreutner (AAAS Secretary), Martina Pfeiler (AAAS President).
Recent Events
Poesiefilmtage Thüringen: https://poetryfilmtage.de/ (jury member; expert talk KI & Poetryfilm) I have been invited as a judge for the Poesiefilmtage Thüringen. The festival takes place in Weimar from June 4-June 7, 2026.
Poetryfilmfestival Vienna, Stadtkino & Künstlerhaus Vereingung Wien, Co-organizer & jury member. Dir. Sigrun Höllriegl.
52nd AAAS Conference “Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies”. October 3-5, 2025, University of Vienna. Co-Organizer. Department of English and American Studies.
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!
Forthcoming Publications
In the Event of Poetry. Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context. Multi-authored book. With Julia Novak, Marie Krebs, Shefali Banerji, Peter Middleton, Tapasya Narang, Claire Palzter, Martina Pfeiler, Helen Thomas, and Emily Tims. Palgrave 2026.Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context: The Event of Poetry | Springer Nature Link
“Performance Poetry/Slam Poetry”. DeGruyter Handbook. Literatur und Performance. Hg. Lucia Ruprecht und Bettina Brandl-Ris. (forthcoming in 2027)
