Fulbright Austria Presents: In Conversation about Publishing and Writing

Marc Landry
2002–03 US Fulbright student (combined award)
2003–04 US teaching assistant
2016–17 Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies in Austria

Marc Landry is assistant professor of Central European history and associate director of Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches courses in Central European, global, and environmental history. Marc has also served as a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on the environmental history of modern Europe. He has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutsches Museum, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Fulbright Association. His research on the environmental history of the Alps has appeared in the journal Environmental History.Currently he is completing a book manuscript on the history of the Alps as a renewable energy landscape.

Andreas Rainer
2007–08 Foreign language teaching assistant

Andreas Rainer is the Wiener Alltagspoet. After three years in North America, during which he did his community service at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center and then taught at Bard College and the University of Connecticut on a Fulbright award, he returned to his hometown Vienna. He has worked for the social-media platform Yelp, headquartered in San Francisco, for the past six years and has managed the marketing and community programs in ten European countries. Andreas decided that instead of earning a lot of money, he would rather earn less and live from writing. Today, he spends his time—in addition to writing poetry everyday—as a journalist, copywriter, trainer of the Viennese dialect, and social-media consultant. He is the author of the book Wiener Alltagspoeten and was nominated for the 2015 shortlist and 2016 longlist of the FM4 Wortlaut literature competition. His short story "Wenn der Wienfluss wieder leuchtet" was published in the book Corona - Nichts wird mehr sein wie es war.

Annemarie Steidl
2010–11 Fulbright-University of Minnesota Visiting Scholar

Annemarie Steidl is associate professor at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, and currently head of the department. She finished her PhD at the University of Vienna in 1999 on migration patterns of Viennese artisans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her research interests include migration studies, industrialization and urbanization, history of artisans, gender studies, and quantitative methods. In 2004 and 2010, she participated in research projects at the University of Minnesota, taught courses at the history department, and was a guest scholar at the Center for Austrian Studies and at the Minnesota Population Center in Minneapolis. In 2011, she was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Annemarie has published articles in Social Science History and the Yearbook of Economic History and is author of Auf nach Wien! Die Mobilität des mitteleuropäischen Handwerks im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Haupt- und Residenzstadt. In 2017, together with Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier and James W. Oberly, she finished a volume entitled From a Multiethnic Empire to a Nation of Nations. Austro-Hungarian Migrants in the US, 1870–1940. Her latest book was published in 2021: On Many Routes. Internal, European, and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire, Purdue University Press.

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
2019–20 Fulbright-Karl Franzens University of Graz Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand is professor of German and global studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Recent projects include research on women’s Arthurian scholarship in German for the Journal of International Arthurian Studies and a monograph entitled Medieval Literature on Display: Heritage and Culture in Modern Germany (Bloomsbury 2020) as well as an article for This Year's Work in Medievalism (2018) on contemporary Austrian reception of the Nibelungenlied. In spring 2020 she was the Fulbright Visiting Professor for Cultural Studies at the University of Graz to work on a corollary project entitled Medieval Literature in the Modern Landscape: Heritage, Culture, and Identity in Contemporary Austria. The project explores Austrian identity at the intersection of medieval literature and modern monuments that celebrate older narratives as twenty-first century heritage.

Dianne H.B. Welsh
2014–15 Fulbright-Kathryn and Craig Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)

Dianne H.B. Welsh is the Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Founding Director of the Entrepreneurship Programs at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dianne has held three endowed chairs, where she started three entrepreneurship programs/centers. She was the 2015 Fulbright-Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship for Central Europe. She has lectured in 55 countries. Dianne is a recognized scholar in family businesses, international entrepreneurship, women-owned businesses, and franchising and has seven books and over 150 publications. Recently she published the 4th edition of Global Entrepreneurship and the 3rd edition of Cases in Global Entrepreneurship. She is a certified family business advisor and fellow with the Family Firm Institute. She received the Barbara Hollander Award (lifelong contributions to family business, education, and civic causes), in October. Dianne is currently writing a case at the request of the 18th-oldest family business in the world. She serves on the Tamarind Learning Education Council.