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Wolfgang Görtschacher |
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Wolfgang Görtschacher was born in Linz, Austria, in 1960. He read
English and American Studies as well as German Language and Literature
at the University of Salzburg. He gained his PhD with a history of the
little magazines in Great Britain from 1939 until 1993. At present he is a
Senior
Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg teaching literary criticism
and translation studies. He is the author of Little Magazine Profiles:
The Little Magazines in Great Britain 1939-1993 (1993) and Contemporary
Views on the Little Magazine Scene (2000). He co-edited (with
Ludwig Laher) So also ist das / So That's What It's Like: Eine zweisprachige
Anthologie britischer Gegenwartslyrik (Haymon, 2002), (with Laima
Sruoginis) Raw Amber: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry
(Poetry Salzburg, 2002), The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook (2005),
Fiction and Literary Prizes in Great Britain (2006), Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ in
English Poetry (2009), Mozart in Anglophone Cultures (2009), and Sound Is/As Sense
(with David Malcolm, 2016). He has published numerous articles on contemporary poetry, the
little magazine and small press scene, translation studies, crime fiction, and the short story. He is the
owner-director of the press Poetry Salzburg (formerly University of Salzburg Press), edits the
little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review (formerly The Poet's Voice), and works as
literary critic, translator, editor, and publisher. With Wolfgang Pöckl he co-edits the
academic journal Moderne Sprachen. Current projects include the Companion to British
and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 for Wiley Blackwell (with David Malcolm). |
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