MARKUS REISENLEITNER | YORK UNIVERSITY
Markus Reisenleitner is Professor of Humanities at York University. He is also affiliated with the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture and the Graduate Program in History. Before joining York’s Division of Humanities in 2006, he taught at the University of Vienna, the Vienna campus of the University of Oregon’s International Program, the University of Alberta, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where he was Head of the Department of Cultural Studies from 2004–2006. Markus Reisenleitner is editor-in-chief of Imaginations: Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image / Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies and past president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association.
Research interests
Professor Reisenleitner's research is situated at the intersections of Cultural Studies, Urban Humanities, Fashion Studies and Digital Humanities. He is currently working on a monograph on the countercultural origins of digital media culture. For a full list of publications and research-related activities as well as supervision of graduate students, please refer to the list of publications or the academic c.v. in pdf format.
Recent publications
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Narrativising the Connection of Lifestyle and Cultural Imperialism: William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.” Transcending Boundaries: Migrations, Dislocations, and Literary Transformations, edited by Igor Maver, Wolfgang Zach and Astrid Flögel, Stauffenburg Verlag, 2020, pp. 325–336.
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Canadian Comparative Literature in Bits: The Impact of Open Access and Electronic Publication Formats.” Comparative Literature in Canada: Contemporary Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publishing in Review, edited by Susan Ingram and Irene Sywenky, Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 237–47. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37329.
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “From Hippies to Hipsters: Urban Gentrification and Memories of the Counterculture.” Geschichte und Gerechtigkeit, edited by Aleida Assmann et al., LIT, 2019, pp. 231–35.
- Ingram, Susan, and Markus Reisenleitner. L.A. Chic: A Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion. Intellect ; University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Noir Transgressions: Bending Gender, Ethnicity, and Style in Recent LA Fiction and Film.” Transgressions / Transformations: Literature and Beyond, edited by Brigitte Johanna Glaser and Wolfgang Zach, vol. 25, Stauffenberg, 2018, pp. 209–18, http://www.stauffenburg.de/asp/books.asp?id=1430.
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Ruts of Gentrification: Breaking the Surface of Vienna’s Changing Cityscape.” Media Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, July 2018, pp. 281–306.
Recent conference presentations
- “Counterculture on the Move: Routes of US Imperialism and Imaginaries of Escape” (Keynote, Literary and Cultural Discourses of Mobility, University of Göttingen, Germany, 16 October 2019)
- “Climb Every Mountain: Provincializing European Lineages in Mountain Documentaries.” (European Popular Culture Association EUPOP 2019, Limerick, Republic of Ireland, 16-18 July 2019)
- “Hippies, Strangers, Colonizers: The Multifaceted Legacies of the Californian Counterculture.” (6th Annual Meeting On Social Inquiry and Its Dialectics: Otherness, Alterity, and Estrangement: Revisiting ‘The Stranger,’ Paros, Greece, 13-16 June 2019)
- Roundtable: “New Editing and Legitimizing Practices in Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities.” (Congress 2019, University of British Columbia, 1-4 June 2019)
- “Mediating Mountains: Patagonia’s Countercultural Lineages in Mountain of Storms (1968) and 180 Degrees South (2010).” (2019 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association of America, Washington DC, 17-20 April 2019)
- “Spectres of the Counterculture: The Properties of Gentrification in Silicon Beach, Los Angeles.” (Spectral Cities - Western Humanities Alliance Conference, Calgary Central Library, 2-3 November 2018)
- “Fiddling with Southern California at a Time of Upheaval: A.E. Maxwell’s Mystery Series.” (Alternative/Mainstream: A U.S. Studies Conference, St. Mary’s University, Calgary, 12-14 October 2018)
Current service
- Committee on Curriculum, Curricular Policy and Standards (since October 2019)
- Senator
- SSHRC Explore & Exchange Grants Committee
- Classroom Renewal Program Taskforce
- Open Access Steering Committee