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Sylvia Mieszkowski
Sylvia Mieszkowski is professor of British literature at the University of Vienna and currently deputy-head of the research platform Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities (GAIN). Her current research is on short fiction (most recently by A. L. Kennedy and Zadie Smith), dystopian narratives (literary, filmic and graphic) and on the dialogue between Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture. Her publications in sound studies include: Sonic Interventions, co-edited with Joy Smith and Marijke de Valck (Rodopi, 2007); Resonant Alterities: Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction (transcript, 2014); Sound Effects: The Object Voice in English Fiction, co-edited with Jorge Sacido-Romero (Rodopi, 2015); ‘Noise, sound whirling and narrative dizziness in M.P. Shiel’s The House of Sounds’, in Unlaute: Noise/Geräusch in Kultur und Medien seit 1900, co-edited with Sigrid Nieberle (transcript, 2017).
Contact: Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 8.3, 1090 Wien, Austria.
