We are proud to announce a new publication by our center's director and head, Univ.Prof. Dr. Ulla Kriebernegg:
Putting Age in Its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction
10 March 2026, 318 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-6412-0
"How are long-term residential care and the construction of late-life identities connected in North American film and fiction? Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton, and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel, and prison functions in the newly emerging genre of the care home novel. What role does this setting play in the narrative construction of old age, and what hopes and fears are revealed? Kriebernegg argues that the spatiality of ageing needs to be included in discussions of late-life agency and care in the face of vulnerability."
Has this piqued your interest? Here is the link to the open-access version:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6412-6/putting-age-in-its-place/?number=978-3-8394-6412-0
Ulla Kriebernegg is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC) and full professor of Cultural Aging and Care Research at Universität Graz in Austria. In her research and teaching she focuses on North American literary and cultural studies, aging and care studies, and health humanities. She has taught internationally and has won several teaching and research awards.