Person

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Anna Seidel

T: +43-1-4277-42860

anna.seidel@univie.ac.at

Consultation hours: by arrangement via e-mail (anna.seidel@univie.ac.at)

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of West Slavic Literatures and Cultures

Research Focus Areas:
Central European (Polish/Czech/Slovak) Literatures and Cultures (19th-21st Century)
Energy & Environmental Humanities
Urban Texts, particularly in the Context of War and Memory Cultures
Post-migrant Cultures and Literatures
Intermediality (Literature, Film, Music, Games)
Central European Discourses
Literary Geography and Cartography

Winter term 2026

480100 UE Course on Literature and Cultural Studies - Phantoms, Ghosts, Vampires. Cultural Memory of the Repressed in East Central Europe

480106 UE Course on Regional and Cultural Studies - Polish Energy Cultures from the 19th to the 21st Century

Summer term 2026

480029 SE Seminar on Literature and Culture - Posthumanism in Slavic Studies: More-than-Human Narratives in East Central European Literatures and Cultures since 1900

480082 KO Colloquium on Literature and Culture - "Just visiting?" Collecting and telling stories of migration

480092 SE BA Seminar on Literature - Poetics of the Urban: The City in Central European Literatures of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Winter term 2025

480100 KO Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies - Drill, baby, drill made in Europe. The extractive aesthetics of Galician and Upper Silesian narratives of raw materials

480252 KO Intoxicated Central Europe: West Slavic Drug Texts of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Comedy mit Migration: Wenn in Österreich über Herkunft gelacht wird. Beganović, Adisa (Editorial Journalist); Seidel, Anna (Interviewee). 2026. kurier.at.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Forum 'Theory and Play'. / Seidel, Anna (Editor); Fabietti, Elena (Editor); Heinritz, Alena (Editor).
In: Symploke, Vol. 34, No. 1-2, 2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Historical and Contemporary Challenges for Central and Eastern European Cities: Narrating Contested Urban Space. / Seidel, Anna (Editor); Hiemer, Elisa Maria (Editor).
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. (Interdisciplinary Studies on Spatial Dynamics and Marginalization in Central and Eastern Europe).

Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed

Special Issue "Reimagining Central Europe". / Seidel, Anna (Editor); Wojcik, Paula (Editor).
In: Slavic Literatures, 2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Staging the Right to the City and its Impossibility: A Comparative Analysis of Spatial Strategies in Literary Texts and Video Games. / Seidel, Anna.
Games & Literature. ed. / Dîlan Çakir; Anna Kinder; Sebastian Möring. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2026. (Marbacher Schriften).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

The Petroconsciousness of Early Petrofiction. Environmental Destruction, Imperial Neglect and Non-Human Agency in Literary Representations of the Galician Oil Fields. / Seidel, Anna.
Environmental and Cultural Destruction at Imperial Margins. De Gruyter, 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Polnische Diaspora goes TikTok: Junge polnische Ethno-Comedy zwischen Selbstexotisierung und postmigrantischer Agency. Seidel, Anna (Editorial Journalist). 2025. Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Exophony as Practice of De- and Reterritorialization: Spatial and Linguistic Displacement in Early War Diaries from Ukraine. / Seidel, Anna.
In: Porownania. , Vol. 38, No. 2, 12.2025, p. 351-366.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Reclaiming the Right to the City: Bosnian and Polish War Narratives. / Seidel, Anna.
2025. Paper presented at CENTRAL Workshop “Materialities of memory in Central, East and South-East Europe”, Warszawa, Poland.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper

Myth no more? The Warsaw Sewers in Literature, Music, and Film. / Seidel, Anna.
Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives. ed. / Patricia García; David Pike. London: Routledge, 2025. p. 147-162.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Aufwachsen mit Kohle: Zur Bedeutung der oberschlesischen Kohleindustrie für Alltag und Identitäten von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Dominika Słowiks Atlas: Doppelganger und Gustaw Morcineks Czarna Julka. / Seidel, Anna.
Fossile Fiktionen: Kohle als Energiequelle in der Literatur von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart. ed. / Antonia Villinger. Fink / Brill, 2025. p. 191-213 (Literatur und Ökonomie, Vol. 13).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Die Stadt im Ausnahmezustand: Räumliche Subversionen in Kriegsnarrativen von Lidija Ginzburg, Miron Białoszewski und Dževad Karahasan. / Seidel, Anna.
1 ed. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2025. (Lettre).

Publications: Book › Peer Reviewed

Pasewalck, Silke (Hg.). Shared Heritage – Gemeinsames Erbe. Kulturelle Interferenzräume im östlichen Europa als Sujet der Gegenwartsliteratur. / Seidel, Anna.
In: Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 24, 2025, p. 269-272.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Book/Film/Event review

„Bo z nami ginęły.” Destroyed Architecture as Metaphor and Structural Principle in Miron Białoszewski’s Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego. / Seidel, Anna.
Pisanie i Czytanie Architektury. ed. / Agata Stankowska; Katarzyna Szewczyk-Haake . Vol. 7 Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2024. p. 189–201 (Literatura i Sztuka, Vol. 7).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Christoph Petersen/Markus May (Hg.). Heroen – Helden. Eine Geschichte der literarischen Exorbitanz von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Göttingen 2022. / Seidel, Anna.
In: Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. 2024, 2024, p. 350–357.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Book/Film/Event review

Reclaiming the feminine in cities at war: Female agency, spatial subversion, and linguistic resistance in women-authored literature. / Seidel, Anna (Corresponding author).
In: Studia Rossica Posnaniensia , Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024, p. 241–257.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Die Stadt in der Stadt: Warschaus Miasteczko Wilanów zwischen urbanistischer Utopie, imaginärem Konstrukt und konkreter Lebensrealität. Seidel, Anna (Author). 2023. Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Leningrad, Warschau, Sarajevo: Literarische Rekonstruktionen der Stadt im Ausnahmezustand. / Seidel, Anna.
Stadt – Krieg – Literatur: Stadt und Urbanität unter den Bedingungen des Krieges 1914-1945. ed. / Henning Hufnagel; Thomas Klinkert; Olaf Müller. Berlin [u.a.]: De Gruyter, 2023. p. 61–77.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Das Subversive literarischer Raumästhetik in Miron Białoszewskis 'Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego'. / Seidel, Anna.
Figurationen des Ostens: Zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Politik . ed. / Daria Khrushcheva; Mark Schwindt; Oleksandr Zabirko. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2022. p. 337-357.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

How to narrate urbicides? Lidija Ginzburg’s and Miron Białoszewski’s portrayals of urban destruction. / Seidel, Anna.
In: The University of Bucharest Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2022, p. 51-65.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed