Wolfgang Görtschacher
Wolfgang Görtschacher was born in Linz, Austria, in 1960. He read English and American Studies as well as German Language and Literature at the University of Salzburg. He gained his PhD with a history of the little magazines in Great Britain. At present he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg teaching literary criticism and translation studies. He is the author of Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain 1939-1993 (1993) and Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (2000). Recently he co-edited (with Ludwig Laher) So also ist das / So That's What It's Like: Eine zweisprachige Anthologie britischer Gegenwartslyrik (Haymon, 2002) and (with Laima Sruoginis) Raw Amber: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry (Poetry Salzburg, 2002). He has published numerous articles on contemporary poetry, the little magazine and small press scene, and translation studies. He is the owner-director of the press Poetry Salzburg (formerly University of Salzburg Press), and edits the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review (formerly The Poet's Voice), and works as literary critic, translator, editor, and publisher. Current projects include a book on the impact of (Non-Shakespearean) Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama on later dramatists.