Waldemar Zacharasiewicz - Curriculum vitae#

Education and Teaching Record

• 1967 Dr. phil., University of Graz
• 1973 Habilitation for Englische Philologie, University of Graz
• 1973 Universitätsdozent, University of Graz
• 1974 - Full Professor of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
• 1971/72 Visiting Member, University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute and Worcester College, Oxford
• March-July 1979 Visiting Fellow, University of Virginia and Yale University
• Feb.-Aug. 1985 Visiting Scholar, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Oct. 1991-Feb. 1992 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Stanford University
• June 1994 ERASMUS Visiting Professor, University of Mainz
• March-August 1996 Visiting Scholar, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
• Visiting Professor, University of Maryland at College Park
• April 1998, Sep. 2000, Feb. 2001 SOCRATES Visiting Professorship in Gent, Bergen, Odense
• March-June 2001 Distinguished Fulbright Scholar UNC
• June 2001 Visiting Scholar University of Ottawa
• April 2004 SOCRATES Visiting Professorship in Padova
• Summer Term 06 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Southern Studies / University of South Carolina
• Cowles Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center / University of Texas

Awards and Prizes Record

• June 2009 - present Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Kanadische Literatur: Transatlantisch, Transkontinental, Transkulturell."
• Feb. 2006 - June 2009 Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Transatlantic Exchanges: Between the American South and Europe."
• Sept. 2002 - May 2006 Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Transatlantic Identities and Retrospection in Canadian Literature"
• Aug. 1999 - 2002 Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung/Austrian Science Foundation) "Southern Cultures and the Ideas of Europe"
• 2001 Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award
• 1994, 1988, 1981 John F. Kennedy Institute of Free Univ. of Berlin, research grant
• Oct. 1993 - 1995 Research Project (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) "Images of Central Europe"
• 1991 Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award + Fulbright Grant
• 1987 Oesterreichische Nationalbank Jubiläumsfonds- Projekt Grant Nr. 3108 (1.1.1988 - 30.6.1990)
• 1987 Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award
• 1984/85 ACLS and Fulbright Grants
• 1983 Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award
• 1978 American Council of Learned Societies Grant
• 1972 Theodor Körner Stiftungsfonds Award
• 1971/72 Austrian Ministry of Science and Research Award
• 1970 Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Short Term Grant
• 1969 British Council Grant
• 1967 Scottish Universities Short Term Grant

Since 1994 Waldemar Zacharasiewicz has been a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and its Committee for Literary Scholarship. In 2000 he was elected to Full Membership of the Academy.

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz has organized three international symposia in the field of American literature in Vienna and has also coordinated three international conferences on Canadian culture. He is currently Director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Vienna.

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz has given lectures at many academic institutions such as the Universities of Mainz, Bonn, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Siegen, Wuppertal, Regensburg, Freiburg and Kiel (Germany), Genoa, Padova, Venice and Bergamo (Italy), University of Cracow, Universities of Poznan, Lódz and Gdansk (Poland), Bratislava (Slovakia), Copenhagen and Odense (Denmark), Lund (Sweden), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Eötvös Lórand University (Budapest, Hungary), Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria), Sinaia (Roumania), Charlottesville/U VA/, Georgia State, Baylor University, Texas A & M University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Emory University, University of Minnesota, Tulsa University, Stanford University, University of California at Davis, University of Maryland at College Park., College of William & Mary (USA), Edmonton, University of Toronto, Ottawa University, St. John, St. Thomas University, Fredericton (N.B.), Saint Francis Xavier, Acadia University (N.S.), St. John's (Nfdl.), Brock University, University of British Columbia (Canada).