Magdalena Fuernkranz is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Scientist at the Department of Popular Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As co-leader of the projects “Performing Diversity” and “Female Jazz Musicians in Austria”, her recent research has focused on performativity, gender and intersectionality in pop and rock music, Austrian music scenes, and gender/identity in jazz. She is co-editor of Performing Sexual Identities. Nationalities on the Eurovision Stage (2017), author of Elizabeth I in Film und Fernsehen. De-/Konstruktion von weiblicher Herrschaft (2019), co-author of Aufführungsrituale der Musik. Zur Konstituierung kultureller Vielfalt am Beispiel Österreich (2021) and co-editor of the TheMA special issue Yugoslav Disco. Digging into an “excluded” musical culture of late socialism (2024).