I am a doctoral student, lecturer, and researcher in the field of North American literary, film, and cultural studies. My research focusses on the politics and poetics of Anglophone genre film, literature, and audio drama. Specifically, my doctoral project investigates temporalities in Indigenous and Black horror film and literature. In the past, I have also worked on British spoken word poetry and poetry performance in the project "Poetry Off the Page," which is based at the University of Vienna, where I also obtained my MA in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. 

• contemporary speculative literatures (particularly horror)  
• genre film (particularly horror)  
• Indigenous literatures 
• audio drama and podcast studies  
• film theory (particularly psychoanalysis, gender studies, queer studies)  
• poetry performance, spoken word poetry  

Book Contributions: 

Novak, Julia, et al. "Introduction." In Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context. Palgrave, forthcoming 2026.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

Krebs, Marie. "Obstructing the Hungry Gaze: Poetics of Refusal in Indigenous Futurisms." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies, forthcoming 2026.

---. "Swallowed Whole, or Sold for Parts? Gendering Cannibalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings (2004)." Asian Cinema, forthcoming 2026.

---. "On Home Invasions." Coils of the Serpent Special 14, 2025, pp. 15-29. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2025/08/on-home-invasions/.

Krebs, Marie; Petruj, Manuel and Rita Elisabeth Krebs. "Zwischen Tradwives und Tradition: Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit im Schulalltag der postfaktischen Gesellschaft thematisieren." #schuleverantworten, vol. 5, no. 1, Mar. 2025, https://doi.org/10.53349/schuleverantworten.2025.i1.a523.

Miscellaneous Publications 

Krebs, Marie. "Deconstruction and the Spoken Word, or: Embracing Différ( )nce." Poetry Off the Page Blog, 23 October 2025, <URL: https://poetryoffthepage.net/deconstruction-and-the-spoken-word-or-embracing-differ-nce/>.

Krebs, Marie, and Stefan Sonntagbauer. "Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein." Dr. Horror, 22 November 2025, https://www.podcast.de/episode/696316138/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-feat-marie-krebs.

---. "Home Invasion Horror (The Strangers, The Purge, Funny Games)." Dr. Horror, 9 October 2025, https://www.podcast.de/episode/694728713/home-invasion-horror-the-strangers-the-purge-funny-games-feat-marie-krebs.

Krebs, Marie. "Hacking at Leaves: Eine Wurzelbehandung (Filmkritik zur Diagonale 2024)." TFMLOG 2024, <URL:https://tfmlog.univie.ac.at/2024/08/31/hacking-at-leaves-eine-wurzelbehandlung/>.

Conference Papers 

Krebs, Marie. "Re-Temporalizing the Southern Gothic in Old Gods of Appalachia." Horror Studies Now, 27-29 May 2026, Northumbria University. Conference paper.

---. "Listening for Invisible Femininity: David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (1970) and Videodrome (1983)." Tagung der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien in deutschsprachigen Ländern, 20-22 February 2026, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. Conference paper.

---. "Beyond the Physical and the Metaphorical: How Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt (2022) Reconfigures Women’s Embodiment." Female Body Horror, 21-22 November 2025, University of Bremen. Conference paper.

---. "On Horror and (Non-)Telicity: Temporal Structuring and Survival." Postgraduate Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA): Crisis and Resilience, 6-8 November 2025, University of Leipzig. Conference paper.

---. "On Scandalously Effective Marketing: The Terrifier Franchise, Horror Reception, and Public Morals." Scandal! Exploring the Scandalous: Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress, 24-26 September 2025, University of Vienna. Conference paper.

---. "Of Happy Endings and New Beginnings: Horror’s Resilient Potentials." BAA Summer Academy: North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present, 16-23 July 2025, Goethe Institute of Montréal. Conference paper.

Wiedlack, Katharina, Marie Krebs, Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau, and Markus Schwarz. "Imagining and Teaching Otherwise: Futurisms in (North) American Studies Classrooms." Austrian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, 17-19 October 2024, University College of Teacher Education Feldkirch. Roundtable discussion.Book Contributions: 

Novak, Julia, et al. "Introduction." In Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context. Palgrave, forthcoming 2026.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

Krebs, Marie. "Obstructing the Hungry Gaze: Poetics of Refusal in Indigenous Futurisms." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies, forthcoming 2026.

---. "Swallowed Whole, or Sold for Parts? Gendering Cannibalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings (2004)." Asian Cinema, forthcoming 2026.

---. "On Home Invasions." Coils of the Serpent Special 14, 2025, pp. 15-29. https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2025/08/on-home-invasions/.

Krebs, Marie; Petruj, Manuel and Rita Elisabeth Krebs. "Zwischen Tradwives und Tradition: Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit im Schulalltag der postfaktischen Gesellschaft thematisieren." #schuleverantworten, vol. 5, no. 1, Mar. 2025, https://doi.org/10.53349/schuleverantworten.2025.i1.a523.

Miscellaneous Publications 

Krebs, Marie. "Deconstruction and the Spoken Word, or: Embracing Différ( )nce." Poetry Off the Page Blog, 23 October 2025, <URL: https://poetryoffthepage.net/deconstruction-and-the-spoken-word-or-embracing-differ-nce/>.

Krebs, Marie, and Stefan Sonntagbauer. "Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein." Dr. Horror, 22 November 2025, https://www.podcast.de/episode/696316138/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-feat-marie-krebs.

---. "Home Invasion Horror (The Strangers, The Purge, Funny Games)." Dr. Horror, 9 October 2025, https://www.podcast.de/episode/694728713/home-invasion-horror-the-strangers-the-purge-funny-games-feat-marie-krebs.

Krebs, Marie. "Hacking at Leaves: Eine Wurzelbehandung (Filmkritik zur Diagonale 2024)." TFMLOG 2024, <URL:https://tfmlog.univie.ac.at/2024/08/31/hacking-at-leaves-eine-wurzelbehandlung/>.

Conference Papers 

Krebs, Marie. "Re-Temporalizing the Southern Gothic in Old Gods of Appalachia." Horror Studies Now, 27-29 May 2026, Northumbria University. Conference paper.

---. "Listening for Invisible Femininity: David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (1970) and Videodrome (1983)." Tagung der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien in deutschsprachigen Ländern, 20-22 February 2026, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. Conference paper.

---. "Beyond the Physical and the Metaphorical: How Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt (2022) Reconfigures Women’s Embodiment." Female Body Horror, 21-22 November 2025, University of Bremen. Conference paper.

---. "On Horror and (Non-)Telicity: Temporal Structuring and Survival." Postgraduate Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA): Crisis and Resilience, 6-8 November 2025, University of Leipzig. Conference paper.

---. "On Scandalously Effective Marketing: The Terrifier Franchise, Horror Reception, and Public Morals." Scandal! Exploring the Scandalous: Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress, 24-26 September 2025, University of Vienna. Conference paper.

---. "Of Happy Endings and New Beginnings: Horror’s Resilient Potentials." BAA Summer Academy: North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present, 16-23 July 2025, Goethe Institute of Montréal. Conference paper.

Wiedlack, Katharina, Marie Krebs, Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau, and Markus Schwarz. "Imagining and Teaching Otherwise: Futurisms in (North) American Studies Classrooms." Austrian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, 17-19 October 2024, University College of Teacher Education Feldkirch. Roundtable discussion.

• "Tradwives, Manfluencer und Pro-Natalism: Wie Social Media der Jugend 'traditionelle Werte' vermitteln." Keynote lecture (PH Oberösterreich) at the symposium "Perspektiven Politischer Bildung" in Linz, 2026. 
   
• "'The call is coming from inside the house!': Home Invasion Horror, Radicalised Imagery, and Genre Politics." Guest lecture (University of Vienna) in lecture series “Re-Assessing Home” organised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Heinz, 2025.
   
• "Teaching (with) Poetry in Performance." Guest lecture (University of Vienna) in seminar "Literature and Language Education: Teaching (with) Poetry" organized by Dr. Marta Werbanowska, 2024.

WS 2026/27
Proseminar: A History of American Horror Literature