Roberta Maierhofer is professor of American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA (since 1996). In 2012, she received the title Professor Honoris Causa of the University of Shkodra, Albania. From 1999 to 2011, she held a series of Vice-Rector positions for International Relations (1999-2003), International Relations and Affirmative Action for Women (2003-2007), and International Relations and Interdisciplinary Cooperation (2007-2011). In 2000, she initiated and established Joint Degrees at the University of Graz in the fields of English and American Studies, Sustainable Development, South Eastern European History, Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, and Cultural Sociology. As a founding member of the program, she acts as a co-advisor for the Joint Degree in English and American Studies. In addition, she established the focus area South-Eastern Europe for the University of Graz, as one of the first European universities, and was instrumental in establishing structures, programs and funding opportunities in order to establish an emphasis region in research, teaching and cooperation. This know-how of regional and inter-regional collaboration was fundamental for her leadership role at the Center for Inter-American Studies, which she directed from 2007-2025. From 2011-2023, she represented Austrian universities as a member of the board of the Austrian Fulbright Commission, and from 2011-2019, she was a member of the University Council of the University of Bamberg, Germany. Since 2004, she has been directing the Graz International Summer School Seggau, an interdisciplinary and intercultural platform in the fields of European and Inter-American Studies. Her research focuses on (Inter)-American Literature and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Transatlantic Cooperation in Education, Digitalization, Diversity, and Interculturality, Narrative Didactics, Ecocriticism, as well as Age/Aging Studies. She has also been instrumental in developing research projects on a national and international level, including the EU Gender-Net+ project “Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in European Literatures and Cinemas”, the Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) project, and the Ageing in Data project. Additionally, she has been initiating inter-cultural and transdisciplinary educational projects to develop narrative and arts-based methods for knowledge transfer.