Katharina Wiedlack is a post-doc Research Fellow at the department for English and American Studies, University of Vienna. She has conducted research and thought in the fields of Punk, Cultural, Gender, Queer and Disability Studies at UC Berkley, NYU, University of Vienna, State Technical University Novosibirsk, and other Universities. Her most recent research project focuses on representations of Russian bodies in US media and the construction of US national identity.