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multilingualism writing, multilingual in literature, travel writing, literature and migration, postcolonial literature
Germany, Italy

Biography

Sandra Vlasta, Dr. (2008, University of Vienna), is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Genoa/Italy.
From April to June 2021 she was a Visiting Professor at the Sapienza Università di Roma.
Before, she was a researcher at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz/Gemany, where she was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow from October 2017 to March 2020.

She is the author of "Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English" (Brill/Rodopi, 2016) and has published on multilingualism and travel writing.

Main areas of research:
- multilingual writing, multilingual literature
- travelogue and travel writing
- migration and literature
- cultural transfer
- intercultural literature and theory
- postcolonial literature and theory

Activities

Employment (9)

Università degli Studi di Genova: Genova, IT

2022-10-28 to present | Senior Assistant Professor / Ricercatrice b a tempo determinato (Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne)
Employment
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: Mainz, DE

2020-04-01 to 2021-03-31 | researcher (Gutenberg-Institut für Weltliteratur und schriftorientierte Medien Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft)
Employment
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Sandra Vlasta

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz: Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE

2017-10-01 to 2020-03-31 | Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow (Gutenberg-Institut für Weltliteratur und schriftorientierte Medien/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft)
Employment
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: Mainz, DE

2013-10-01 to 2017-09-30 | lecturer (Gutenberg-Institut für Weltliteratur und schriftorientierte Medien Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft)
Employment
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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Vienna, AT

2013-07-01 to 2013-10-31 | project staff (The Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR))
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Sandra Vlasta

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Vienna, AT

2012-11-15 to 2013-03-07 | project staff (The Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR))
Employment
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Universität Wien: Vienna, AT

2008-10-01 to 2012-09-30 | assistant professor (Assistentin/wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) (Department of Comparative Literature)
Employment
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Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2005-10-01 to 2006-09-30 | OEAD lecturer (German department)
Employment
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Università degli Studi Roma Tre: Roma, Lazio, IT

2004-10-01 to 2005-09-30 | OEAD lecturer (Lingue e culture moderne)
Employment
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universität Wien: Vienna, AT

2003-03-01 to 2008-07-08 | Dr. phil. (Department of Comparative Literature)
Education
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Universität Wien: Vienna, AT

1995-10-01 to 2002-06-24 | Magister artium (Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English)
Education
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Professional activities (5)

Associazione Italiana di Germanistica: Rome, IT

2021-12-01 to present
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft DGAVL: Gießen, DE

2011-01-01 to present
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European Society of Comparative Literature ESCL/SELC : Paris, FR

2009-01-01 to present
Membership
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Sapienza Università di Roma: Rome, IT

2021-04-01 to 2021-06-30 | Visiting professor (Lingue e culture moderne)
Invited position
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Austrian Academy of Sciences: Vienna, AT

2007 | PhD Award for Migration Studies
Distinction
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Funding (2)

European Travel Writing in Context. The Socio-Political Dimension of Travelogues 1760-1850 (EUTWIC)

2017-10 to 2020-03 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 751378
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Writing the Nation, Writing the Self. The Socio-Political Dimension of Travel Writing in Europe (1760 – 1850)

Grant
Austrian Science Fund (Vienna, AT)
GRANT_NUMBER: J-4087
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Works (50 of 58)

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Introduction

Journal of Literary Multilingualism
2023-11-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Steven G. Kellman; Sandra Vlasta
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What Effect Can a Good Permanent Theatre Actually Achieve? (1785)

The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller
2023-01-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783031167973
Part of ISBN: 9783031167980
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Litterær flerspråklighet: begreper, former og funksjoner

Fortellinger om migrasjon Skandinavisk, tysk,- fransk- og spanskspråklig samtidslitteratur
2022-12-19 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 9788215065519
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Imagology and the Analysis of Identity Discourses in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Travel Writing by Charles Dickens and Karl Philipp Moritz

New Perspectives on Imagology
2022-11-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789004513150
Part of ISBN: 9789004450127
Part of ISBN: 9789004513150
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Sandra Vlasta

Postmemory and migration in contemporary multilingual literature by Tomer Gardi, Katja Petrowskaja and Igiaba Scego

Transnational 20th Century. Literatures
2022-04-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Sandra Vlasta

Literatur – grundsätzlich mehrsprachig!? Das politische Potenzial literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit heute, am Beispiel von Barbi Marković’ Superheldinnen

Interlitteraria
2021-08-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2228-4729
Part of ISSN: 1406-0701
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Sandra Vlasta

Enlightening Report Versus Enlightened Traveller On the various functions of images in Georg Forster’s Reise um die Welt (177880) and Karl Philipp Moritz’s Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 (1783)

Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal
2020 | Journal article
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Literarische (Mehr)Sprachreflexionen

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Literarische Reisen nach Italien

Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO)
2020 | Interactive resource
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grade
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Travel Writing: On the Interplay between Text and the Visual - Reisebilder - Bilderreisen: Zum Zusammenspiel von Text und Bild im Reisebericht

Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal
2020 | Journal issue or edition
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Sandra Vlasta

“Et in Arcadia Ego … ” Voyages et Séjours de Femmes en Italie, 1770–1870

Studies in Travel Writing
2019-04-03 | Book review
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Brüche erzählen – exophones Schreiben bei Levy Hideo und Guo Xiaolu

2018 | Book chapter
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7596576

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Brüchige Texte, brüchige Identitäten: Avantgardistisches und exophones Schreiben von der klassischen Moderne bis zur Gegenwart

2018 | Book
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7596578

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

From Commonwealth Literature to Black and Asian British Writers: The Long History of Migration and Literature in the United Kingdom

2018 | Book chapter
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8665902

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From the Exclusion of Individual Authors to the Transnationalisation of the Literary Field: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Germany

2018 | Book chapter
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8665890

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Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945: Fourteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond

2018 | Book chapter
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8665906

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New Austria, Old Roots: Writers of Immigrant Origin in Austria

2018 | Book chapter
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8665880

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Traiskirchen and the Language of the Law in Daniel Zipfel's Novel +Eine Handvoll Rosinen= (2015)

2018 | Journal article
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15685181

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

Traiskirchen and the Language of the Law in Daniel Zipfel's novel Eine Handvoll Rosinen (2015)

Austrian Studies
2018 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85071419474

Part of ISSN: 22224262 13507532
Contributors: Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

Wokommstduher?

2018 | Book
ISBN:

978-3-7069-0800-9

Contributors: Michaela Bürger-Koftis; Ramona Pellegrino; Sandra Vlasta
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Sandra Vlasta via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Literature, Migration and the Transnationalisation of Literary Fields – Austria and Great Britain

Transnational 20th Century. Literatures
2018-03-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Sandra Vlasta
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Sandra Vlasta

Attention and power in literature - The German book prize,Aufmerksamkeit und macht im literarischen feld - Der Deutsche Buchpreis

Aussiger Beitrage
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85019887949

Part of ISSN: 18026419
Contributors: Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

Aufmerksamkeit und Macht im literarischen Feld-der Deutsche Buchpreis

2016 | Journal article
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7352061

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

Zurück in die Zukunft - Digitale Medien, historische Buchforschung und andere komparatistische Abenteuer

2016-06-22 | Edited book
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‚Die Engländer sind eine Plage‘. Der Blick auf (andere) Italienreisende in Reiseberichten von Fanny Lewald und Charles Dickens

Zurück in die Zukunft – Digitale Medien, historische Buchforschung und andere komparatistische Abenteuer
2016-06-22 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-447-10640-5
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Sandra Vlasta

Kultur im Transfer

2016-04 | Edited book
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Bewegte Geschichten. Literarische Darstellungen von Migration

literaturkritik.de 3/2016
2016-03-08 | Interactive resource
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Contemporary migration literature in German and English: A comparative study

Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English: A Comparative Study
2015 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84960802536

Contributors: Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English: A Comparative Study

2015 | Journal article
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7937130

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

Islands to get away from postcolonial islands and emancipation in novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips

Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts
2015 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84982067513

Contributors: Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips

2015 | Journal article
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4381446

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

Nahrung und Gesellschaft – gemeinsames Essen in literarischen Darstellungen der DDR von Birk Meinhardt, Jochen Schmidt und Lutz Seiler

Germanica 57/2015
2015 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2107-0784
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Nahrung und Gesellschaft-gemeinsames Essen in literarischen Darstellungen der DDR von Birk Meinhardt, Jochen Schmidt und Lutz Seiler

2015 | Journal article
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4EB67EE32DBA125585257F8E0058444A

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

‚Vom Zauber der Zungen‘. Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Ein Land mit Eigenschaften: Sprache, Literatur und Kultur in Ungarn in transnationalen Kontexten
2015 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-7069-0840-5
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Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English

2015-10 | Book
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Wien – alternativ? Literarische Stadtdarstellung im Kontext von Migration: Barbara Frischmuths Die Schrift des Freundes, Doron Rabinovicis Ohnehin und Vladimir Vertlibs Zwischenstationen

Nach Wien! Sehnsucht, Distanzierung, Suche. Literarische Darstellungen Wiens aus komparatistischer Perspektive
2015-09-30 | Book chapter
Part of ISSN:

9783653061024

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Reisen und davon erzählen. Reiseberichte und Reiseliteratur in der Literaturwissenschaft

literaturkritik.de 9/2015
2015-09-03 | Interactive resource
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Sandra Vlasta

Islands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips

Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts
2015-05 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789004298743
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Die Lücke im Sinn. Vergleichende Studien zu Yoko Tawada

2014 | Edited book
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Encounters and movements: Austrian literatures,Begegnungen und Bewegungen: österreichische Literaturen

Aussiger Beitrage
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84988857247

Part of ISSN: 18026419
Contributors: Babka, A.; Cornejo, R.; Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrschriftlichkeit in Xialou Guos A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) und Semier Insayifs Faruq (2009)

Mehrsprachigkeit und multikulturelle Literatur. Multilingualism and Multicultural Literature
2014 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-3-7069-0772-9
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Mehrsprachigkeit und multikulturelle Literatur. Multilingualism and Multicultural Literature

2014 | Edited book
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‘Literature of Migration’: A New Trend in ‘Austrian Literature’ in the Twenty-First Century?

2014 | Book
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4293102

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Sandra Vlasta via MLA International Bibliography

Begegnungen und Bewegungen: Österreichische Literaturen

Aussiger Beiträge 8 (2014)
2014-12 | Journal issue or edition
Part of ISSN: 1802-6419
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'Literature of migration': A new trend in 'Austrian literature' in the twenty-first century?

Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures
2013 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-84924546601

Contributors: Vlasta, S.
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Sandra Vlasta via Scopus - Elsevier

‘Literature of Migration’: A New Trend in ‘Austrian Literature’ in the Twenty-First Century?

Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783035304695
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Sandra Vlasta

Colonial Memory. Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands De Mul Sarah Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011, 180 pp.

European Review
2013-04 | Book review
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grade
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Europe & Love in Cinema

Journal of Contemporary European Studies
2013-03 | Book review
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Angekommen und anerkannt? Die Rezeption des Autors Dimitré Dinev im deutschsprachigen Raum

2012 | Journal article
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6944303

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Aussiger Beiträge 6/2012

2012 | Journal issue or edition
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for International journal of the classical tradition. (1)