Caring for Cultural Studies

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This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna's Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field. The Festschrift on the occasion of her retirement reflects on cultural studies as a discipline, its history and possible futures, aspects of care as in crisis and as practiced by Monika Seidl, and engages with her academic work in articles of different styles by contributors including Magdalena Berger, Lawrence Grossberg, Sabine Harrer, Roman Horak, Christian Huck, Thomas Kuhn, Elisabeth Lechner and Judith Kohlenberger, Barbara Maly-Bowie, Timo Fruhwirth and Sandra Mayer, Anette Pankratz, Annegret Pelz, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Julia Puhringer, Susanne Reichl, Ranthild Salzer and John Storey. It includes a preface by Alexandra Ganser.