Dr. Elisabeth Lechner, BA BA MA MA
- Mail: elisabeth.lechner@univie.ac.at
- Telefon: +43-1-4277-42466
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Elisabeth Lechner is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, currently developing a habilitation project on food and “critical digestion” in Anglophone literature (incl. auto/biographical narratives, lockdown novels and ecofeminist fiction). She completed her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2020. Situated at the intersections of literary, cultural and media studies as well as affect & body studies, her research on ‘disgusting’ female bodies, body positivity and digital feminist activisms was published academically and as the German non-fiction book Riot Don't Diet! Aufstand der widerspenstigen Körper (2021, 4th edition).Apart from engaging in various forms of outreach and media activities, since 2025, Elisabeth Lechner is an ÖAD Science Ambassador (“ÖAD Wissenschaftsbotschafterin”), conducting workshops on media literacy, body shaming and lookism in Viennese schools. Key publications include “#Feminist – Naming Controversies and Celebrating Points of Connection and Joy in Current Feminisms” (2022, together with Greta Olson), “Störkörper” (2025) and co-editing the collected volumes Caring for Cultural Studies (2022) and Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).She is active on social media as @femsista.
Zuordnungen
Lehre (iCal)
2025W
- 124220 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar (BA) - Plants, Fungi and Soil - Ecofeminism and Earthcare in Times of Climate Collapse
- 124820 SE Cultural and Media Studies Seminar (MA) - Plants, Fungi and Soil - Ecofeminism and Earthcare in Times of Climate Collapse
- 126233 VK MEd 01A/B: VK Specific Issues in Language Learning and Teaching - Kulturdidaktik
2025S
- 120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies - Fruit, Meat, and Grains - The Cultural Politics of Food in the Age of Cannibal Capitalism Capitalism
- 123042 PS PS Literary Studies - Complex Consumption - Approaching Gender, Race and Class via Food in Victorian Literature
2024W
- 123046 PS PS Literary Studies - I can make money by my pen The Cultures and Poltics of British Women‘s Writing from Virginia Woolf to Carol Ann Duffy and Bernardine Evaristo
- 124183 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education - Face Filters, Skin Care Influencers and Fat Activism - Body Politics in the EFL Classroom
2023W
- 124263 KO Critical Media Analysis - Body Politics Revisited - An Introduction to Body Studies from Beauty Politics to Reproductive Justice
2023S
- 124263 KO Critical Media Analysis - Feminist Food Politics - Food and Its Role in Feminist Movements from the Suffragettes to Digital Climate Activism
2022W
- 124263 KO Critical Media Analysis - Transatlantic Feminist Foodways - Food and Its Role in Feminist Movements from the Suffragettes to Digital Climate Activism
- 124265 KO Critical Media Analysis - #MyBodyMyChoice - Analysing the Struggle for Reproductive Rights in a Post-Roe v. Wade World
2022S
- 124263 KO Critical Media Analysis - Digital Selves, Digital Activisms - Digital (In)Equality in Times of Platform Capitalism
2021W
- 124263 KO Critical Media Analysis - Digital Selves, Digital Activisms - Digital (In)Equality in Times of Platform Capitalism
2019S
- 124262 KO Critical Media Analysis - Nasty Women on the Rise - Analysing Unruly Femininities in Contemporary US Culture
2018W
- 124262 KO Critical Media Analysis - Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - Analysing Unruly Femininities in Contemporary Popular Culture
2018S
- 124262 KO Critical Media Analysis - Are You Beach Body Ready? Approaching Body Studies Through The Body Politics of Advertising
2017S
- 128110 VO Cultural Studies - MA M01 - Screening Pleasure
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