Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mv5kcj2uhs2kAAD Pre-Release v0.3.0 alert! Auden in Austria Digital now contains #WHAuden correspondence held in the #ViennaCityLibrary, including letters to Herta Staub and Felix Braun, and two poem typescripts, kept by @adz-krems.bsky.social! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social10 Sep 2026 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5kcj2uhs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mq52s355wc2aVery excited to share v0.2.0 of Auden in Austria Digital 🙌 Now making available for the 1st time the full correspondence between #WHAuden & #AustrianSocietyForLiterature. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden #DH #DigitalHumanities08 Jul 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq52s355wc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mpix4aixd226We were happy to collaborate with @andreasbrunner.bsky.social of @qwien.bsky.social on this first study of the newly discovered Auden Kurka Papers, available OA in the @tandfresearch.bsky.social Journal of Homosexuality. @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpix4aixd226https://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mn7kkis75c2tThe boxes of fan letters to Benjamin Disraeli yield some intriguing finds - like this correspondence with a young woman from Vienna, Bettina Wirth, which I've written about here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/abs/i-have-read-a-great-deal-and-written-a-little-female-authorship-and-transnational-practices-in-bettina-wirths-letters-to-benjamin-disraeli/B05C11D009F7A78A4DFA39D6978ABA1401 Jun 2026 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn7kkis75c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mmvcusqcrs2qAbout yesterday - #UnisRetten: https://petrifiedmusephotography.net/2026/05/27/save-the-universities-unisretten-documenting-a-demonstration-against-university-funding-cuts/28 May 2026 05:43 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmvcusqcrs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mgrh22dctc2gMany thanks to #Wienbibliothek for having us! It was a great evening talking about the #AustrianAuden & our work here at @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @kathiprager.bsky.social11 Mar 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgrh22dctc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mg64ecfef22jIf you are in Vienna next Tuesday, join us at #Wienbibliothek for some (German-language) glimpses into AAD editors' workshop: https://www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltungen-ausstellungen/veranstaltungen/forschungswerkstatt-w-h-auden-oesterreich #AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition #DigitalHumanities #DSE #SDE @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social03 Mar 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg64ecfef22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3mbcqwdeyas2bTruly seeing out the old year with a bang, in every sense of the word, at Schaubühne Berlin - here‘s to a very happy 2026!31 Dec 2025 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbcqwdeyas2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m75xlk6eoc2uBuilding tools at the interface of #DigitalEdition and #NetworkAnalysis. Stay tuned. 👀 https://fedihum.org/@timofruehwirth/115660656523275337 @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social04 Dec 2025 12:22 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m75xlk6eoc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m4arogx6s22gVery happy to share some of our research into #AustrianAuden with an international audience in this article by @philipoltermann.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Oct 2025 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4arogx6s22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m3ox6y22fc2tDelighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sensational-discovery-unknown-letters-by-poet-w-h-auden-found-in-lower-austria-1 @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Oct 2025 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ox6y22fc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m3owdsci222t📣 Excited to release v0.1.0 of the "Auden in Austria Digital" scholarly digital edition, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social, at the @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social of @oeaw.bsky.social! Featuring previously unpublished correspondences by #WHAuden in Austria. @oegfl.bsky.social auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/index.html https://auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/index.html21 Oct 2025 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3owdsci222thttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m3k6gmp4qc2hFew things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.19 Oct 2025 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3k6gmp4qc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m3k6gmp4qc2hFew things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.19 Oct 2025 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3k6gmp4qc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m2rdlll7ak23Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden09 Oct 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rdlll7ak23https://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3m2rdlll7ak23Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden09 Oct 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rdlll7ak23https://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3lzxi53bpas22Strong presence of @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social RU Literary & Print Culture Studies last week at @univie.ac.at for the "Exploring the Scandalous" conference - great papers & great discussions!29 Sep 2025 07:24 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzxi53bpas22https://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3lzrd4gl3hs2jGreat papers by @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social colleagues @diezypresse.bsky.social & Barbara Tumfart (on Bernhard’s Heldenplatz) & @ftb-oeaw.bsky.social‘s own @danielmilkovits.bsky.social, presenting on #Jelinek & quoting as a polemical practice! As ever, Austrian lit lends itself to a discussion of scandal26 Sep 2025 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrd4gl3hs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3lzpywkakhc2jInsightful interview with Sharon Marcus (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), opening our conference on "Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress“ at @univie.ac.at, co-organised by @oeaw.bsky.social, @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social & University of Zurich www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil... https://www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil..26 Sep 2025 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzpywkakhc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3lyfucywpr22yOn 5 September 2025, literary scholar and theater director #ReinhardUrbach died. https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20250908_OTS0126/wir-trauern-um-reinhard-urbach On 28 Sept 1973, he accompanied #WHAuden to his last reading. In the night of 28-29 Sept, Auden died in his Vienna hotel room. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oegfl.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social09 Sep 2025 13:49 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfucywpr22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/victorianceleb.bsky.social/post/3lxesrl7gh22gAnother day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃 Great vistas and great material! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social27 Aug 2025 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:mjsftbvg6ncgf5drmm76kf3n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxesrl7gh22g