Dr Birgit Lang
Lecturer - German Studies
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Qualifications
Mag. art. (Vienna), Dr. phil. (Vienna), Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education (Oxford).
Research interests and areas of supervision
Case Studies, genre, modernism, exile and migrant literature, contemporary German and Austrian literature, history of sexuality.
Biography
Birgit completed her tertiary education at the University of Vienna. She has worked as a researcher for the Austrian Ministry of Science and Humanities and has held post-doctoral lectureships at Duke University and at the Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. Before coming to Melbourne in 2006, she spent three years lecturing at Oxford University. In Semester 1 2009 she was a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. She is the responsible CI of the ARC project Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature (with Joy Damousi and Katie Sutton) and co-organizer of the conference Cases and Their Publics: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on the Case Study Genre at The University of Melbourne, 26-28 September 2011. For more information please see the Cases Conference web page.
Selected publications
Book
- Lang, B. (2006) Eine Fahrt ins Blaue. Deutschsprachiges Theater und Kabarett im australischen Exil und Nach-Exil (1933-1988). Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, Band 163 Berlin: Weidler. 346pp. www.weidler-verlag.de/
Reviews:
By Ulrike Garde, in: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies 44 (2) 2008, pp. 296-297
By J.M. Ritchie, in: The Modern Language Review 102 (3) 2007: p. 908
By Deborah Vietor-Engländer, in: Germanistik 47 (3/4) 2006: 5999
Edited Books
- Lang, B., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, A. Lewis, Ch. Weller (ed.s) (2011): Nach der Natur – After Nature. Freiburg: Rombach (Limbus. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 3) (in print)
- Lang, B., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, A. Lewis, Ch. Weller (ed.s) (2009): Narrative der Arbeit – Narratives of Work. Freiburg: Rombach (Limbus. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 2)
- Lang, B., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, A. Lewis, Ch. Weller (ed.s) (2008): Erinnerungskrisen - Memory Crisis. Freiburg: Rombach (Limbus. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 1) 274 pp.
Journal articles and book chapters
- Lang, B. (2011) "Sexualwissenschaften auf Reisen: Zur antikolonialen Mimikry in Magnus Hirschfelds Die Weltreise eines Sexualforschers (1933)," in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften. Sondernummer: Politische Reisen. Ed.s Liz Harvey und Johana Gehmacher (in print)
- Lang, B. (2010): "Die Erotik in der Photographie. Zum Habitus von Sexualwissenschaftern," in: LiThes. Zeitschrift für Literatur - und Theatersoziologie Vol. 5: 5-24. For more information please see the LiThes Vol. 5 web page
- Lang, B. and Johan Schimanski (2010) "Das Subjekt am Grenzübergang. Terézia Moras STILLE. mich. NACHT und Yoko Tawadas Das Leipzig des Lichts und der Gelatine," in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Vol. 129: 161-182. For more information please see the Erich Schmidt Verlag web page
- Lang, B. (2010) "Exilforschung: Zwischen nationaler und internationaler Verortung," in: Hackl, Wolfgang and Wiesmüller, Wolfgang (Ed.s): Germanistik im Spannungsfeld von Regionalität und Internationalität. Vienna: Praesens 2010 (Stimulus; 18), pp. 268-281
- Lang, B., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, A. Lewis, Ch. Weller (ed.s) (2009): Narrative der Arbeit – Narratives of Work. Freiburg: Rombach (Limbus. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 2)
- Lang, B. (2009) "The Viennese legacy of Casanova. The late erotic writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei," in: The Forgotten City? Vienna in Between the Wars. Ed. Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman. Rochester, NY: Camden House: 224-245. Review: Ritchie Robertson: Interwar Vienna (Review), in: Journal of European Studies 40 (2), pp. 185-186
- Lang, B. (2009) "The Travails of Exile: Lion Feuchtwanger's Exil and Anna Seghers' Transit," in: Narrative der Arbeit - Narratives of Work. Freiburg: Rombach (Limbus. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol 2), pp. 171-188