HS-Prof. Mag. Dr. Carmen Sippl is Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Learning and Teaching Futures Literacy in the Anthropocene, Head of Centre Futures Literacy, Professor for Cultural Semiotics and Plurilingualism at the University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria, and Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna.
Carmen Sippl studied Slavic and English Philologies at the University of Würzburg, was awarded a prize for her dissertation on Travel Texts of Russian Modernism, has received scholarships in excellency programmes, and worked in the Slavic department of the University of Salzburg. She has a long-time experience as a literary mediator, having worked for many years as an editor and publishing director in German and Austrian publishing houses. Her research focuses on the interrelations and entanglements of humankind and nature as reflected in literary processes and linguistic expressions, in narratives and visualizations. Working with contemporary writers and illustrators as well as with archival materials, she studies the concepts of nature negotiated in literature as a cultural practice in past and present, to gain insight into the ways cultural sustainability for alternative futures can be redesigned by literatures and languages as ecological forces within culture. She is the author of books and papers in her fields of research on translation as a medium of cultural dialogue, cultural sustainability in the Anthropocene, literature pedagogy and Futures Literacy, of book reviews and teaching materials, and is writing her own blog.
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