Gudrun M. Grabher
University Professor
Institut für Amerikanistik
Universität Innsbruck
Innrain 52
A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel: (0512) 507-4171
Fax: (0512) 507-2879

Publications

Emily Dickinson: Das transzendentale Ich. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1981. (Dissertation)

Die Lyrik Max Hölzers. Aussagemöglichkeiten surrealer Bildlichkeit. Frankfurt am Main: Haag und Herchen, 1982.

Das lyrische Du: Du-Vergessenheit und Möglichkeiten der Du-Bestimmung in der amerikanischen Dichtung.Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag,1989. (Habilitationsschrift)

Women in Search of Literary Space. Eds Gudrun M. Grabher and Maureen Devine. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1991.

Suffering in Literature / Leiden in der Literatur. Memorial Volume for / Gedenkband für Sepp L. Tiefenthaler. Eds. Gudrun M. Grabher, Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler, Sonha Bahn-Coblans, Susanne Moser, Arno Heller. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 1994.

Geburt und Tod im Kunstvergleich. Ed. Gudrun M. Grabher. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995.

Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Eds. Gudrun M Grabher und Ulrike Jeßner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1996.

Translating Dickinson. Conference volume documenting the first conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society in Washington, D.C., 22-24 October 1992: "Translating Emily Dickinson in Language, Literature, and the Arts." Eds, Margaret Freeman, Gudrun M. Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle.

The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Eds. Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, Cristanne Miller. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.

"The Lyrical Self." In The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Eds. Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, Cristanne Miller. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming.

"Epistemological Empathy: A.R. Ammons and Jorie Graham." Farleigh Dickinson Press, forthcoming.

"'One envies the Distinguished Dust': The Female Voice of Emily Dickinson on War." Italy, forthcoming.

"Courting the Other in Philosophy and Literature." Language and Literature, forthcoming, Spring 1999.

The Visibility of the Unsayable: Translating Selected e.e. cummings Poetms into Grman, with Comments.

"Formen des lyrischen Ich im Modernismus: Subjekt-Kult und Subjekt-Absage durch die Sprachskepsis." Geschichte und Vorgeschichte der modernen Subjektivität. Eds. Reto Luzius Fetz and Roland Hagenbüchle. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. (forthcoming)

Work in Progress

Der Abstraktionsbegriff in der anglo-amerikanischen Moderne: Einflüsse des japanischen Haiku (Arbeitstitel)

"The Concept of 'Beauty' in Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Lesley Dill's Art Pieces, and Estée Lauder's Autobiography A Success Story."

Hit or Miss? Approaches to English and American Poetry.

Aesthetics of the Unsayable: How Music and Painting Speak in the English Literatures.

The Self at Risk in English Literatures and Other Landscapes. Honoring Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday. Eds. Gudrun M. Grabher, et al. Tuebingen, Germany: Brigitte Narr, forthcoming 1999.

Research Interests

American Poetry
Literature and Philosophy
Literature and the Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Women's Studies
Literary Theory
Literature and Human Rights
U.S. American Culture
Canadian Literature