Ulla Kriebernegg

Ulla Kriebernegg is the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Age and Care (CIRAC) and full professor in Cultural Aging and Care Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. She is also an adjunct professor at the Medical University of Graz. Her academic focus is on cultural gerontology, health, and medical humanities. She is the author of Putting Age in its Place: Long-Term Residential Care in Contemporary Film and Fiction (forthcoming) and co-edited Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability and Long-Term Residential Care (2017) and Aging and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters (2023). Ulla is a founding member and former president and vice president (2015-2019) of the European Network of Aging Studies (ENAS) and served on the executive board of the North American Network in Aging Studies. She is Associate Editor for Humanities and Arts at The Gerontologist and a member of the GSA’s Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Gerontology Advisory Panel. She is a Fellow of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society, Canada, and a Fellow at the AgeCap Center of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ulla has taught internationally (Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, USA) and has received several teaching and research awards.