Petra Ederer

External Lecturer and PhD student at the Department of English and American Studies

Research interests
children's and young adult literature
film and game studies
adaptation studies
time travel narratives
science fiction theory
teacher education
gender studies

Academic career
2014 to date External Lecturer in English Language Education (with a focus on literature, culture and reading), Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2014 to date Trainer of English Student Teachers
2011 to date PhD student, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Title of thesis: "The Empowered Child: Time Travel in Children’s and Young Adult Media and Its Ideological Implications"
2011 Mag.^a in English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2010 to date Teacher of English and History at GRG 21/Bertha von Suttner Secondary School, Vienna
2010 Mag.^a (with distinction) in English and History as a Teaching Profession, University of Vienna
2009/10 Lecturer, Department of German Studies, Dokkyo University, Soka, Japan
2009 Module German as a Foreign Language, Department of German Studies, University of Vienna

Publications

"Das erstarkte Kind in Jeans". In: Die Zeitreise. Ein Motiv in Literatur und Film für Kinder und Jugendliche. Ed. Sabine Planka. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 145-164.