Ursula Moser
Ursula Mathis-Moser
Professor emerita (2015) of French and Spanish Literatures at the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the
University of Innsbruck (Austria);
Career:
Mag. phil. (1973), Dr. phil. (1976), Dr. habil. (1983); Full
Professor at the University of Innsbruck (2002-2015); Head of
Department (2008, 2012, 2013-2015);
Achievements:
Speaker and coordinator of the research platformCultures in
Contact(2005-2013); founder and director of theArchives of
Text and Music Studies(1985-2015); founder and director of the
Centre d'Étude de la chanson québécoise1995-2015);
co-director of the Centre for Interamerican
Studies(2009-2015); founder and director of the Canadian
Studies Centre(since 1997, ongoing), all at the University of
Innsbruck;
President of the German Association for Canadian
Studies(1995-1997); member of the national committee of the
Ministry of Education and Science for the European Year of
Languages(2000/1); Associate Editor of the International
Journal of Canadian Studies(2008-2011);
Visiting Professor at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and
Salzburg, at the Université de Montréal, the University of Alberta,
the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, and the Universidad de
la Habana.
Awards and distinctions (choice):
Liechtensteinpreis(1985), Prix Jean Éthier-Blais de
critique littéraire (2004), Prix Europe de l’ADELF (Mention
spéciale) (2013); Ordre des francophones d’Amérique (2012),
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2013), Officier dans
l’Ordre national du Mérite (2014), Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für
Wissenschaft und Kunst 1.Klasse (2015).
Areas of research and publications:
French and francophone literatures (19th and 20th centuries);
transculturality and migrant literatures (France, Quebec,
Caribbean); Quebec literature (poetry, chanson, women writers,
Quebec studies); Spanish literature; postcolonial theory;
intermediality, text and music studies (chanson).
