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Mag. Dr. Daniel Syrovy, Privatdoz.

daniel.syrovy@univie.ac.at

Winter term 2024

135000 UE UE Mentoring

135011 VO STEOP: General Literature

135034 PS Lit. Theory (PS): How Science fiction is narrated

135842 SE Proposal-Seminar for MA-Thesis

Summer term 2024

135001 UE UE Mentoring

135011 VO STEOP: Introduction to General Literature

135032 PS What is Narration?

135053 PS "Except the Bible and Shakespeare, there is not any book that sells better than Ossian." - Contexts, Reasons and Media of the Ossian-Hype

135814 KO KO M1: Conlangs and Literature

135842 SE Proposal-Seminar for MA-Thesis

Winter term 2023

135011 VO STEOP: General Literature

135034 PS Lit. Theory (PS): Genres Through Text and Paratext

135842 SE Proposal-Seminar for MA-Thesis

135843 MA Master Thesis

Syrovy, D. (2024). Das 19. Jahrhundert zwischen Zensurbürokratisierung und Freiheitskampf. In N. Roßbach (Ed.), Zensur. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (pp. 289-311). Nomos Verlag.

Syrovy, D. (2024). [Rezension] Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness. Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society, 2(6), 234-238. https://classiques-garnier.com/complit-journal-of-european-literature-arts-and-society-2023-2-n-6-sketches-of-black-europe-in-african-and-african-diasporic-narratives-esquisses-de-l-europe-noire-dans-les-recits-d-afrique-et-des-diasporas-africaines-comptes-rendus.html?displaymode=full

Syrovy, D. (2023). Between policing and literary criticism: Habsburg censorship of literature in Lombardy-Venetia. Neohelicon: acta comparationis litterarum universarum, 50(2), 577-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-023-00711-y

Syrovy, D. (2023). [Rezension N. 7885] Maurer, Stefan: Wolfgang Kraus und der österreichische Literaturbetrieb nach 1945. Wien: Böhlau 2020. Germanistik, 955.

Syrovy, D. (2023). Two early modern examples of “popular science”: The role of scientific societies for Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Charles Sorel. In M. Le Roux (Ed.), Modalités de la communication scientifique et technique: Perspectives historiques (pp. 97-108). Peter Lang. Histoire des Échanges, Communications, Postes et Territoires Vol. 13

Syrovy, D., Stockinger, S., (TRANS.), & Bachleitner, N. (2022). Censorship of literature in Austria, 1751-1848. In N. Bachleitner (Ed.), Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848: by Norbert Bachleitner. With chapters by Daniel Syrovy, Petr Píša, Michael Wögerbauer. Translated from German by Stephan Stockinger (pp. 199-221). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519282

Ferstl, P., Folie, S., Leschanz, C., Mallmann, T., & Syrovy, D. (Eds.) (2022). Vom Sammeln und Ordnen. Achim Hölter zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet. Weidler Buchverlag. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Syrovy, D. (2022). Fictitious Musicians - Fictitious Music? In J. Werner, & N. Bachleitner (Eds.), Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction (pp. 269-285). Brill. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Syrovy, D. (2022). Letzte Frauen. Die (Post)Apokalypse nach Marlen Haushofer und Hannelore Valencak. In A. Capovilla (Ed.), Marlen Haushofer: Texte und Kontexte (pp. 159-183). Frank & Timme.

Syrovy, D. (2022). On Literary Shipwreck before Robinson Crusoe. In C. Haug, J. Frimmel, & B. Bell (Eds.), 300 Jahre "Robinson Crusoe": Ein Weltbestseller und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte (pp. 41-53). De Gruyter.

Syrovy, D. (Ed.) (2021). Discourses on Nations and Identities. De Gruyter. XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings Vol. 3 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110642018

Syrovy, D. (2021). Literatur, Politik und habsburgische Zensur in Lombardo-Venetien. Harrassowitz. Buchforschung : Beiträge zum Buchwesen in Österreich Vol. 12

Syrovy, D. (2020). Language Puzzles and Puzzling Languages: Conlangs and Communication in Recent SF. Paper presented at Translating the Present: Science Fiction and our Futures. , Wien, Austria. https://www.ifk.ac.at/medien-detail/tagung-science-fiction-and-our-futures-vortrag-von-daniel-syrovy.html

Syrovy, D. (2020). Die Widmungstexte der deutschsprachigen Amadisromane vor 1600. In A. Noe, & H-G. Roloff (Eds.), Die Bedeutung der Rezeptionsliteratur für Bildung und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (1400–1750) : Beiträge zur sechsten Arbeitstagung in St. Pölten (Mai 2019) (Vol. 139, pp. 171-188). Peter Lang. Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, Reihe A

Syrovy, D. (2020). Literatur und Zensur in den italienischsprachigen Gebieten der Habsburgermonarchie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Region, 29(1), 39-56.

Syrovy, D. (2020). Massimo D’Azeglios Ettore Fieramosca und der historische Roman in Lombardo-Venetien zwischen Zensur und Nationalerzählung. In M. Bender, S. Schütz, & P. Grüttner (Eds.), Nonkonformismus und Subversion: Festschrift zu Ehren von Thomas Bremer Verlag Janos Stekovics.

Syrovy, D. (2020). Material dimensions of a chivalric romance: metanarrative and book history in Ortunez de Calahorra's Espejo de principes y cavalleros and other libros de caballerias. Neohelicon: acta comparationis litterarum universarum, 47(2), 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00559-6

Syrovy, D. (2020). The Originals of the Original of Don Quixote: Translation and Pseudotranslation in the Spanish Libros de Caballerías. In N. Bachleitner (Ed.), Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer (Vol. 2, pp. 97-107). De Gruyter. XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings Vol. 2 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110641998-009

Syrovy, D. (2020). Translation, Transmission, Irony: Benoît de Sainte-Maure and the Trope of the Fictional Source Text in Western Literature before Cervantes. In N. Bachleitner, A. H. Hölter, & J. A. McCarthy (Eds.), Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (pp. 447-492). Rodopi/Brill. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Vol. 200

Syrovy, D. (2019). What’s in a Name? On the Titles of Early Modern Narratives, in Particular Those of the Spanish libros de caballerías. In B. Besamusca, E. De Bruijn, & F. Willaert (Eds.), Early Printed Narrative in Western Europe (pp. 351-374). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563016-013

Curriculum vitae

2002–2008 Diploma programme Comparative Literature, University of Vienna (focus on Romance Studies); Thesis: Gedichtpassagen in Romanen. Eine Theorie ihrer Formen und Funktionen

2008–2012 Doctoral progamme Comparative Literature, University of Vienna; PhD-thesis: Problems of Genre in the Novels of Miguel de Cervantes and Charles Sorel

2008–2013 Lecturer at the Dpt. of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna

2010–2012 Researcher FWF-Project Die Österreichischen Listen verbotener Bücher 1750–1848 (P22320; Prof. Dr. N. Bachleitner) [The Austrian Lists of Banned Books, 1750-1848]

2013–2018 Post-doc Assistant at the Dpt. of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna

2014–2017 Researcher ÖNB-Jubiläumsfonds-Project Zensur der italienischen Literatur in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1750–1918 (P16069; Leitung Prof. Dr. N. Bachleitner) [The Censorship of Italian Literature in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1750-1918]

2015-2019 international teaching exchanges in the Erasmus+ programme (Università degli Studi di Milano, Università di Bologna, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

2016 Member of the Organizational Committee for the 21st Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Vienna, July 21–27, 2016

2018 "Habilitation" and venia legendi in Comparative Literature, University of Vienna. „Ein Zweig der Politik.“ Zur Bedeutung der habsburgischen Bücherzensur und anderer polizeilicher Maßnahmen für das literarische Feld Lombardo-Venetiens (mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem Zeitraum 1813–1848)

2019, May-July Lecturer at the Center for Book Studies, LMU Munich

2019– Senior Lecturer und Vice-Director of Studies for the Dpt. of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna

Research interests

- The Castilian 15-16th c. libros de caballerías, in particular their relationship to historiography, questions of genre, and translations (pseudo-translations)

- Metafiction and metanarrativity in late medieval/ Early Modern prose romances in their international dimension (Spanish, French, Italian, German)

- Book censorship in the Habsburg Monarchy (18th, 19th c.)

- Networks and structures of book publication of literary Modernism (English-language areas, Argentinia, Vienna)

- Participatory culture and Fandom throughout literary history

- Conlangs (constructed languages) in Science Fiction

Special qualifications and skills

Didactic Qualifications:
Attendance of various Seminars at the University of Vienna's Center for Teaching and Learning (2019-)

Languages:
German (first language); English, Spanish, Italian, French (written and spoken); Latin