Wiebke Sievers has been working as migration researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 2003. Her research concentrates on migration and culture in Austria and in international comparison, with her main interest being in literature. However, she also works on theatre, cultural policies and the financing of culture. Her other research foci include literary translation and the internationalisation of literature.
She studied at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, the Université Stendhal in Grenoble and the University of Warwick where she completed a PhD in Translation Studies. Her PhD-thesis focused on the translation of contemporary German prose in Britain and France. She has recently completed her habilitation on the role of literature in processes of cultural change through migration at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder where she also teaches. Previously she taught at the University of Vienna, the University of Nottingham and the University of Düsseldorf.
