MARKUS REISENLEITNER | YORK UNIVERSITY
Markus Reisenleitner is Professor of Humanities at York University and Director of the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. 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 focusses on the intersections and socio-political implications of popular culture, digital humanities, the urban, and fashion. 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.
Current teaching
- HUMA 6500 – Advanced Practices and Methodologies in Humanities Research (Fall 2024)
- CMCT7000 - Perspectives in Communication and Cultural Studies (Fall 2024)
Current service
- Graduate Program Director, Communication and Culture, York University (since 2022)
- Member, Executive of the Department of Humanities (since 2020)
- Member, Executive of the Graduate Program in Humanities (since 2019)
- Member, Open Access Open Data Steering Committee, York University
Recent publications
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Frictions and Re-Shapings of Patagonia’s Countercultural Imaginary.” Collisions of Cultures Frictions and Re-Shapings, edited by Lily Rose Tope and Wolfgang Zach, Kovac, 2022, pp. 531–42
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Fiddling with Southern California at a Time of Upheaval: A.E. Maxwell’s Mystery Series.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 52, no. 2, July 2022, pp. 190–205. utpjournals.press (Atypon), https://doi.org/10.3138/cras-2021-012.
- Reisenleitner, Markus. “Cultural Studies in Österreich – ein (Rück-)blick aus Kanada.” Cultural Studies revisited: Nordlicht/Revontulet - Aufbruch in Österreich und internationale Entwicklung, edited by Johanna Dorer, Roman Horak, and Matthias Marschik, Springer: Wiesbaden, 2021, pp. 253–62.
- 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.
Recent presentations
- “Sustainable Computing in Scholar-Led Publishing: Open Tools as Principle and Praxis” (DH 2024 Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Washington DC, 4-10 August 2024).
- “Beyond the Digital: Literary and Documentary Negotiations of the Materiality of Books in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (2013) and Au-Delà Du Papier (2023) (Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Montréal, 13-16 June 2024).
- “Mystical Hubris: The Destructive Appeal of AI in Devs, Foundation, and ST Discovery (Popular Culture Association National Convention, Chicago, 27-30 March 2024).
- “A Tale of Two Smart Cities: Fashioning Los Angeles and Toronto in Technofuturist Sunshine or Noir” (American Studies Association, Montréal, 2-4 November 2023).
- “Digitizing Intangible Heritage beyond the Database: A Question of Listening”, with Susan Ingram (Forschung zum kulturellen Erbe im digitalen Zeitalter, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 24-25 October 2023).
- “Tech Demos as Popular Culture Events” (8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft »Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures«, Saarbrücken, University of the Saarland, 27-30 September 2023).
- “Sidelining Synthetic Sidewalks: Toronto’s Resistance to Alphabet’s Algorithmic Urbanism” (The Synthetic City Conference: Exploring the Impact of AI and Digital Media on Urban Living, Dublin, 6-7 September 2023).
- “Auto-magic in the Digital World: Tech Demos as Popular Culture Events” (National Conference of the Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, 15 April 2023
- “Configuring Digital Practices for Scholar-Led, Multilingual, and Sustainable Publishing” (Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2023, Michigan State University, 17 March 2023)
- “Mobilizing Cultural Studies Lineages to Challenge Anglocentrism in Intercultural Communication” (Keynote, INTERSECT: Communication, Culture, Community, Royal Roads University, Colwood BC, 28 October 2022)
- “Rolling Up the Sidewalk: Toronto Tech Tribulations” (Keynote, Toronto Chic Symposium, Toronto, 30 September 2022)
- “What Gets Published as Cultural Studies?” What’s Happening to Cultural Studies?, Centre for Memory, Narrative, and Histories, University of Brighton, UK, September 15, 2022.
- “Translating Cultural Studies in an Oligopolistic Anglophone Academic Publishing Landscape.” Posthumanismus. Transhumanismus. Jenseits des Menschen? 7. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG), Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria, May 26, 2022.
- “Geek Goes the World: Revisiting the Mother of All Demos” (National Conference of the Popular Culture Association, 14 April 2022)
- “Imaginaries of Mobility: Locating Internet Culture on the Pacific Rim” (2021 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association, 4 June 2021)
- “Journal Typsetting and Galley Production” (York Digital Journals workgroup, York University (online), May 18 2021)
- “Roundtable: Questioning Inscription” (Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association: Changing Directions in Comparative Literature, 13 May 2021)
- “Discussant: Littérature et numérique : les sessions d'atelier du groupe CCLA” (Colloque Humanistica 2021, Association francophone des humanités numériques 10-12 mai 2021 Rennes (France), 11 May 2021)
- “Aspects théoriques de la gestion de version et plus particulièrement de Git” (Troisième réunion du groupe de recherche CCLA : Git et versionnement, 15 December 2020)