• Stellvertretende Institutsleiterin
  

• Koordinatorin des Mentoringprogramms für den BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik

• Ansprechperson für die Masterstudien der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

• Mitglied (wissenschaftlicher Mittelbau) des Fakultätsrates der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
  

• Mittelbauvertreterin der Curriculums-Kommission der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät
  

• Magisterstudien in Anglistik und Amerikanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Universität Innsbruck, 2007 und 2008)
  Diplomarbeit: "Skip and Rewind: When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film"
  Gewinnerin des Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2009
  
  
• Doktoratsstudium in Anglistik and Amerikanistik (Universität Innsbruck, 2011)
  Dissertation: "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
  Gewinnerin des Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2012

• Television Studies (particularly 21st-century American scripted primetime series)
• Contemporary US-American Politics
• Film Studies (particularly Hollywood film)
• Narrative Theory
  
• US-American Literature
  

laufendes Semester: Lehrveranstaltungsbeschreibung 2024/2025

Editor-in-Chief von JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies

Mitglied des Editorial Board von AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA – Agenda: Advancing Anglophone Studies)

Special issue on (Re)Imagining Flyover Fictions in JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2024. 
guest edited by Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann.

Special issue on The Childfree Woman in Literature, Film, and Television in JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023. 

Special issue on Cinematic Mountains in New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2023.
guest edited by Cornelia Klecker and Christian Quendler

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television 
edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022.

"Trump hat ganz klar diktatorische Züge." Interview in Die Presse, 31 Oct. 2024.

"Der Dienstag geht auf die Bauern und Christen zurück." Gastkommentar in der Wochenzeitschrift Die Furche, no. 44, 31 Oct. 2024.

“(Re)Imagining Flyover: An Introduction”
by Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann in (Re)Imagining Flyover Fictions, special issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1-19. 

"Der Countdown läuft." Gastkommentar in der Wochenzeitschrift Die Furche, no. 31, 1 Aug. 2024.

“Childfree Female Characters: Narrating Pronatalism” in The Childfree Woman in Literature, Film, and Television, special issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-18. 

"Introduction: Cinematic Figurations of Mountains"
by Cornelia Klecker and Christian Quendler in New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-18.
 

"The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television: Introduction"
by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher in The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television. Edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022, pp. 1-17.

"Fictional 'Dissections' of a Medical Curiosity? Facial Disfigurement in Grey's Anatomy"
in The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television. Edited by Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher. Routledge, 2022, pp. 189-209.

"Trump as the 'Kardashian of Politics'? Daniel J. Boorstin's 'Pseudo-Events' and the Rise of Donald Trump"
in The Journal of American Culture, vol. 43, no. 3, 7 Oct. 2020, pp. 215-31.
Winner of the 2021 Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article.

Invited guest lecture: "Trump vs. Democracy: From Reality Show to Imperial Presidency." Part of the lecture series "US Politics Uncovered: Wohin steuern die USA?" organized by the Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck. October 10, 2024.

"Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO): Popular Misogyny and/in Popular Streaming Narratives." 2024 NEPCA Conference. Nichols College, Massachusetts (hybrid). October 3-5, 2024.

“(Narrative) Choice: (Temporarily) Childfree Female Characters in US-American Primetime Series.” 2024 PCA/ACA National Conference. Chicago. March 27-30, 2024. 

Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Country: ‘Real’ America or Political Myth?” University of Münster. Online. December 05, 2023.

“‘Non-Mothers as Non-Existent Character Trope: An Exploration of Pronatalism in 21^st-Century Scripted TV Series.” 2023 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA). Online. October 12-14, 2023.

Invited guest lecture: “‘Under His Eye,’ Over Her Dead Body: Streaming The Handmaid’s Tale.“ Workshop “The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited.” University of Innsbruck, June 03, 2023. https://www.uibk.ac.at/canada/events-zentrum/2023/the-handmaid-s-tale-revisited.html.en.

“‘Stop the Steal’: The Flyover Country Trope as Political Strategy.” Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association titled “Conclusions.” George Mason University, Virginia (Hybrid). June 1-4, 2023.

“Streaming Gender-Based Violence: Rape Myth Acceptance as Narrative Gimmick.” 2022 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10–12, 2022. 

Invited guest lecture: “Flyover Fictions and US Politics” as part of the panel “Flyover Fictions: A New View on Literature, Film, and Politics.” Event series on “Rural Americas” organized by the Center for Interamerican Studies (ZIAS). University of Innsbruck, November 8, 2022.

“’Surprise, he’s innocent’: The Character Trop of the Wrongfully Accused White Man in the #MeToo Era.” “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (49^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies).” University of Salzburg, October 21-23, 2022.

“Still No Narrative Reckoning? Netflix Productions and the #MeToo Movement.” 2022 Cultural Studies Association Conference. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US. Hybrid. June 2-4, 2022. 

Virtual Roundtable: “USA: Auslaufmodell Demokratie oder Leuchtturm des Westens?” Haus der Begegnung der Diözese Innsbruck. Online. December 14, 2021. 

“’I am not your Villain’: Fictional Depictions of Facial Disfigurement in US-American Television Narratives.” 2021 Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA). Online. November 10 – 13, 2021.

"’Turning Necessity into a Virtue’: The Online Classroom as Chance for Intercultural Exchange.” “Digital Americas” (48^th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies.” Online. October 21–22 and 27 – 29, 2021.

“The 21^st-Century Action Woman: Female Violence in Scripted Television Series.” 2021 PCA/ACA National Conference. Online. June 2–6, 2021.

Virtual Roundtable: “The First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: An American Recovery?” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. May 5, 2021.

Virtual Roundtable: “The End of an Era? Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the American Presidency.” University of Innsbruck and University of New Orleans. Online. January 26, 2021.