Roundtable Discussion
 

“Critical Media Analysis and the Crisis of Representation 

in the Era of Post-Truth”

Moderator: Markus Oppolzer (University of Salzburg)
Devon Anderson (University of Innsbruck)
Svenja Englemann-Kewitz (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf)
Manuela Naveau (University of the Arts, Linz)
Heidemarie Petermichl (Körner Gymnasium, Linz)
Christian Quendler (University of Innsbruck) 

Devon Anderson, BA MA MS
Devon Anderson is a doctoral candidate and university assistant with the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She holds degrees in English literature from Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a degree in education from Hunter College, CUNY. Devon's fifteen years of teaching experience include courses taught at Brown University, the University of Salzburg, the American International School Salzburg, La Guardia Community College, and the New York City Department of Education. In addition to pedagogy, Devon's academic research interests include queer theory, affect theory, narrative theory, and critical race studies. 

Dr. Svenja Englemann-Kewitz
Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz is Postdoctoral Researcher in American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. She holds a PhD from Dresden University of Technology with a thesis on Contemporary Ecocritical Imaginaries of the Circumpolar North. Her current research and teaching investigate intersections of digital and environmental humanities in the context of imagining alternative futures in U.S.-American literature and culture.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Manuela Naveau
Manuela Naveau is a university professor, an independent curator and an art-based researcher. For 18 years she headed Ars Electronica Export, and since 2023 she has been directing the department Interface Cultures and initiated the Critical Data Research Group at the University of Arts Linz. Her research and writing have focused on participation, interaction, and collaborative practices in Media Art, Digital Art and Critical Data, resulting in numerous academic publications, essays, and curatorial texts.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Markus Oppolzer
Markus Oppolzer is an Associate Professor of Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Literary Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg. His research interests are visual narrative media, multiliteracies, auto/biography and teaching literatures and cultures in secondary schools. 

Mag. a. Heidi Petermichl
Heidi J. Petermichl, * 1973, studied „Anglistik und Amerikanistik“ at the University of Salzburg; ERASMUS-program (one semester) at the University of Leeds, participation in the ASPUT-program at the University of Salt Lake City, Utah; Graduate Assistant at the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ECHA-diploma; ALM “Train the Trainer”-Certificate (Estes Park, Colorado), teaches at Körnergymnasium, Linz.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Christian Quendler
Christian Quendler is Professor of American Literature, Film and Media  and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of  Innsbruck. He is the author of three monographs, among them The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema (Routledge  2017), and principal investigator of the research project “Delocating  Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes of the Alpine Model.”