The multidisciplinary series Studies in Intermediality comprises monographs and essay collections that explore dynamic relations between media, that is, complex processes of medial exchange, transformation, interaction, or interplay. The series highlights the fact that the field of Intermediality Studies has become increasingly variegated and that it advances overlapping, yet distinct theories of intermediality, transmediality, multimodality, and adaptation. These theories acknowledge an extensive range of relationships established among various media and investigate how more general conceptualizations of mediality emerge from ever-diversifying mediascapes, which incorporate media that have persisted for centuries as well as new formats (digital or otherwise) that continue to evolve in and across cultures.
The peer-reviewed volumes of Studies in Intermediality, which have been appearing since 2006, critically assess the internationally far-reaching and innovative scope of Intermediality Studies and related fields.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn.
All submissions are subject to a double-anonymous peer review process prior to publication.
Nassim Winnie Balestrini is professor of American Studies and Intermediality at the University of Graz, Austria, where she also serves as director of the Centre for Intermediality Studies in Graz (CIMIG). Beforehand, she taught at the universities of Mainz, Paderborn, and Regensburg (Germany), and at the University of California, Davis. She has published monographs on Vladimir Nabokov and on opera adaptations of nineteenth-century American fiction, essays on hip-hop life writing and rap poetry (e.g., in Popular Music and Society and in the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music Studies), on intermediality theory and practice (e.g., a special issue on “Depicting Destitution Across Media” for the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings), on American poetry, fiction, and drama, especially on climate change theater. She has edited collections on Adaptation and American Studies (2011) and on Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies (2018, with Ina Bergmann). Her current research focuses on contemporary poetry and on climate change theater.
Irina Rajewsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany. Previously, she held a junior professorship in Italian and French literature at the Freie Universität Berlin (until 2015), followed by various interim and visiting professorships in Germany and abroad (including at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the University of Graz, and the University of L’Aquila). Her research focuses on media-comparative studies (inter- and transmediality), with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of intermediality and on transmedial narratology and related fields (e.g. fictionality/factuality, meta-phenomena across media). Her book Intermediality (Intermedialität, 2002) has become a standard work in the field, and she has since published numerous other contributions to inter- and transmediality research, both nationally and internationally. She is currently working on questions of digital change and "digital feedback effects" in our so-called "post-digital age".
Series Editors
Nassim W. Balestrini, University of Graz, Austria
Irina Rajewsky, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Editorial Board
Walter Bernhart, University of Graz, Austria
Massimo Fusillo, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Janine Hauthal, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Sonja Klimek, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany
Ágnes Pethő, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania
Gabriele Rippl, University of Bern, Switzerland
Jens Schröter, University of Bonn, Germany
Christine Schwanecke, University of Graz, Austria
Daniel Stein, University of Siegen, Germany
Jan-Noël Thon, Osnabrück University, Germany
Werner Wolf, University of Graz, Austria