Dr. Alexandra Millner is the Resident Director of Wellesley-in-Vienna and a lecturer at the University of Vienna, where she teaches courses on text analysis, German and comparative literature, and creative writing in the academic disciplines. Her main research is on contemporary literature, the culture of the late Habsburg Monarchy and Gender Studies. She also works as a literary critic.

Dr. Millner studied German and English philology at the University of Vienna, and received her PhD in 2000. She spent several years abroad, studying at the University of Aberdeen in 1990/91 and working as lecturer of Austrian literature and culture at the University of Rome from 1994 to 1997.

Dr. Millner lives in the heart of Vienna where she enjoys the city's rich cultural life. She regularly goes to the theater, to readings, exhibitions or concerts. She is quite an expert of Viennese coffeehouses--among her favorites is the "Café Bräunerhof" which used to be frequented by the writer Thomas Bernhard. One of her favorite restaurants is "Café Engländer" in the very center of Vienna with its delicious Austrian nouvelle cuisine where people meet after cultural events in the Museum of Applied Arts or one of the nearby theaters. On weekends, she likes going for a swim, bicycling or going for long walks in the vineyards or parks in Vienna. She also enjoys skiing and hiking in the mountains near Vienna. During the summer she loves exploring unknown parts of Europe by car. She has recently given birth to a son. Her partner is a theater critic.