(*1947, Mürzzuschlag, Avstria), profesor na Oddelku za ameriške študije Karl-Franzens Univerze v Gradcu, Avstrija, kjer uči ameriško literaturo in kulturo. Diplomiral je iz zgodovine in angleško-ameriških študijev. Učenje in raziskovanje sta ga peljala v številne evropske in ameriške dežele. Piše poezijo in kratko prozo v angleščini in nemščini. Njegova besedila so objavljena online ali tiskana v Avstraliji, Evropi in ZDA. Svoja dela je bral v Albaniji, Avstriji, Bolgariji, Češki, Sloveniji, Švici in ZDA.
Professor at the American Studies Department at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria, where he teaches U. S. literature and culture; his degrees are in History and English/American Studies. Teaching and research have taken him to a good number of European and U. S. Currently he is working on a monograph about Austrian refugee publishers in the U.S.A. and is co-editing a volume of essays on theories applied to texts. He also writes poetry and short fiction in English and German; his texts have been published online and in print in Australia, Europe, and the U.S.A, and he has given readings from his work in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the USA.
Publications:
Scholarly books:
U. S. Icons and Iconicity (ed., Lit Verlag, Wien-Berlin, 2006)
What Is American? New Identities in U. S. Culture (ed., Lit Verlag, Wien-Berlin, 2004)
»Nature’s Nation« Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis (ed., VUU Press, Amsterdam, 2003)
Der Krieg der Bilder. Ausgewählte Dokumentarfilme zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und zum Vietnamkrieg. Trier: (ed., Wiss. Verlag Trier, 1993)
The European Emigrant Experience in the U. S. A. (ed.,Tübingen, 1992)
Utopian Thought in American Literature (ed.,Tübingen, 1988)
Fiktionen vom Krieg im neueren amerkanischen Roman (Tübingen, 1987)
About 100 essays and book reviews in international journals and critical anthologies.
Literary Texts:
Think Twice (with Gabriele Pötscher, Mariborska literarna druzba, Maribor 2006)
Love Lust Loss (with Gabriele Pötscher, Steir. Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz, 2003)
»going home«, »our home«, »mobile home«, »surprise.« Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 36 (December 2005) .http://www. gangway.net/ magazine
»he can do it.« JAWS 10 (Fall 2005)
»going home.« JAWS 9 (Spring 2005), 51.
»Nature and Me«, »Revisioning«, »Videotics«, »Winter Sky«. JAWS, 8 (Autumn 2004), 25-31.
»verzweifelte zwiebel«. Nationalbibliothek des Deutschen Gedichts. Ausgewählte Werke VI. Realis Verlag, o. O., 2003. S. 941.
»grazer stadtleben« Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 28 (June 2003) .http://www. gangway.net/magazine
(Prose) »Questioning the Past, Building a Memory“ JAWS 5 (2003), 7-8.
»September 11 - II«, »Death at Noon«. JAWS 4 (Fall 2002), 20-21.
»September 11 - II«, »Wine Country«, »Imagine«, »The Abbot’s Tower of Montmajour«, »To Be«, »Short Midlife Crisis«, »How To?«, »Difficult Words«, »So Easy«, »Parting«, »Telephone Call«, »Distance«, »Then«, »Hazards of the Profession«. On the Olomouc Colloquium Website at http://colloquium.upol.cz/coll02/02-pictures.htm#hoel
»September 11 - I«. Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. http://www.gangway.net/specials
»stoned«, »dependence«, »how to?« JAWS 2 (Fall 2001), 20-21.
»difficult words«, »mobile home«, »music«, »revisioning«. Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 20 (June 2001): http://www. gangway.net/magazine
»stadtleben«, »eislauf«, »befreiung«. http://www.junge-web-autoren.de/autorensuche.htm# [21.05.2001; site no longer functional]
»Autumn«, »short mid-life crisis«, »love’s colors«. JAWS 1 (Spring 2001), 15-16.
»Cividale«. Niederngasse Print, 1 (Jänner 2001), 28.
»gatherings,« »Milton Reconsidered,« »hazards of the profession«. De Consolatione Philologiae. Studies in Honor of Evelyn S. Firchow. Eds. Anna Grotans, Heinrich Beck, and Anton Schwob. Göppingen; Kümmerle Verlag, 2000, 759-761.
»cividale,« »duino,« »fügungen,« »spilimbergo«. Niederngasse. Die Zeitschrift für Lyrik. http://www. niederngasse.com/german/default.htm [23.07.2001; site not funnctional since 01.11.2003]
»Aaaaargh,« »Hard(ly) (En)core,« »Dark Thoughts,« »then«. Niederngasse. Die Zeitschrift für Lyrik. http://www.niederngasse.com/default1.htm
»scheintot«. textwelt. http://textwelt.vhs.at/
»nightlife,« nightwind,« »bedtime,« »long night,« »strange bird.« Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 12 (June 1999): http://www. gangway.net/magazine
»skirting reality,« »the loss of innocence«. Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 10 (Dec. 1998). http://www.gangway.net/magazine
»Berlin 1990,« »Leipzig 1990,« »New Orleans,« »to be,« »hazards of the profession,« »Wine Country,« »libération,« »above things«. Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 4 (June 1997): http://www.gangway.net/.
»Telephone Call,« »Summer in Verdun,« in: Journal for Transpersonal Studies, 16:1 (Juni 1997), 62.
»seinswelt,« »verzweifelte zwiebel,« »abstand,« »altersreim«. Gangway: The on-line lit magazine for contemporary Austrian and Australian Literature. No. 6 (Dec. 1997) http://www.gangway.net/
"Cantata,« "Leaving,« "Midnight Vistas,« "The Abbot’s Tower of Montmajour,« Wine Country,« in: English Studies, 5 (1994), Luxembourg, 111-117.
"A Very Cold Day,« "Your Life,« in: Gudrun Grabher et. al., eds. Suffering in Literature/Leiden in der Literatur. Gedenkband für Sepp L. Tiefenthaler, Innsbruck: 1994, 169-170.
