Professor Allyson Fiddler
Professor EmeritaResearch Overview
My research interests encompass contemporary German-speaking culture in a number of forms - literary, filmic, and more broadly socio-political. I'm very interested in the Nobel-prize-winning, Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek and have published many articles and chapters on her work as well as one of the first monographs on her oeuvre. My recent work has focused on issues concerning literary and cultural protest and resistance against the extreme right in present-day Austria.
Research Interests
My recent research focus has been in contextualising and analysing various different forms of cultural resistance to the far-right in Austria. The starting-point for this was the rise to institutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) in 2000 when it formed a coalition government with the People's Party. This event spawned a huge variety and volume of protest in the form of texts, performances, films, essays and songs. I address these phenomena in The Art of Resistance: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century (Berghahn Books).
Other publications address intercultural themes in contemporary, Austrian culture, dealing, for example, with Austrian-Slovenian cultural history and conflict, with multicultural influences in twenty-first century literature and film, with the representation of sport in culture and as constitutive of national identity, and with popular music and films as examples of cultural protest.
Additional Information
Editorial and International Boards
I am a member of the international advisory and editorial boards of the journal Austrian Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre (based at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, London) and the Elfriede Jelinek Forschungszentrum, Vienna.
The Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre in Vienna is on line at: http://www.praesens.at/elfriede-jelinek-forschungszentrum/. It has recently (2020) launched an inter-university research alliance (I am one of two scientific partners from Lancaster University).
Membership of Associations:
In addition to being a member of the above bodies, I am also a member of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS) and Women in German Studies (WIGS) and am the current Germanic and Low Countries Rep for the University Council for Modern Languages (UCML).
PhD Supervision Interests
Contemporary German Cultural and Literary Studies, including film studies, single-author/playwright/film-maker studies, women's studies, and especially interested in Austrian Studies
Selected Publications
The Art of Resistance: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century
Fiddler, A. 1/11/2018 Berghahn Books. 266 p.
Monograph
Reckoning with Rechnitz: on Elfriede Jelinek, translation and cultural reproduction
Fiddler, A. 18/12/2014 In: Austrian Studies. 22, p. 199-214. 16 p.
Journal article
Jelinek in the Arena: Sport, Cultural Understanding and Translation to Page and Stage
Fiddler, A., Juers-Munby, K. 29/12/2014 London : Modern Humanities Research Association. 214 p. ISBN: 9781781881163.
Book
Performing Austria: protesting the musical nation
Fiddler, A. 20/02/2014 In: IASPM@Journal. 4, 1, p. 5-20. 16 p.
Journal article
Lights, camera, …protest! Austrian film-makers and the extreme right
Fiddler, A. 29/02/2012 In: Journal of European Popular Culture. 2, 1, p. 5-18. 14 p.
Journal article
Fooling around with film: political visions of Austria - past, present and future
Fiddler, A. 1/12/2011 In: Austrian Studies. 19, 1, p. 126-141. 16 p.
Journal article
All Publications
‘Female Authors/Female Labours: Writing, Dramaturgy and Translation’
01/12/2016 → 31/07/2017
Research
The Author and the world: New interdisciplinary approaches to authorship
06/01/2014 → 05/01/2016
Research
Resisting Haiderisation
07/09/2007 → 01/08/2017
Other
Intermediality in Elfriede Jelinek
01/10/2006 → 31/12/2011
Other
Richard Strauss's Four Songs (1894) and German History
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Austrian Elections Round Table
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Art of Re/sister/ance:Ein Blick zurück auf Schwarz-Blau I
Invited talk
The Politics of Contemporary German Culture
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Book launch and Q&A
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Stonyhurst College
School Engagement
Women in German Studies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Picturing Austrian Cinema
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Picturing Austrian Cinema
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
1968-2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Female Authors/Female Labours: an Introduction
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Translation Workshop: I Exist Only as a Reflection
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Dramaturgy Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Dramaturgy Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
I Exist Only as a Reflection
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
The Wall
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Elfriede Jelineks 'Burgtheater': nicht/nur für Österreich?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Austrian Studies Association (Event)
Membership of committee
Austrian Studies Association
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Austrian Film Institute Prize Jury (External organisation)
Other Membership
Screening the literary
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Round Table Discussion. Elfriede Jelinek: Die Nestbeschmutzerin
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Elfriede Jelinek im literarischen Feld
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Picturing Austrian Cinema
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Celebrations: Festkultur in Austria
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Ruth Beckermann im Gespräch mit Allyson Fiddler
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Sedbergh School
School Engagement