• Deputy Department Chair
• Coordinator of the Mentoring Program for the BA English and American Studie
• Contact person for the MA programs of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
  
• Member (mid-level faculty) of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
• Member (mid-level faculty) of the curriculum Commission of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Culture
  

• MA in English and American Studies and Comparative Literature (both University of Innsbruck, 2007 and 2008)

  Diploma thesis: "Skip and Rewind: When Time Gets out of Line in Mainstream Film"
  Winner of the Annual Fulbright Prize in American Studies 2009
  
  

• PhD in English and American Studies (University of Innsbruck, 2011)
  PhD thesis: "Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film"
  Winner of the 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

current semester: course descriptions

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

Member of the editorial board of AAA – Agenda: Advancing Anglophone Studies (AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik)  

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.

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.