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Birgit Lang

Associate Professor In German
Languages and Linguistics
arts & humanities
social sciences
case study genre
literature
history of sexuality
cases
history
linguistics
language & linguistics
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Birgit Lang

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
History of Psychoanalysis
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Projects

Displaying the 5 most recent projects by Birgit Lang.

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Visual evidence: transforming modern sex research (1880s - 1930s)

This project aims to explore how photography and film transformed understandings of human sexuality. By analysing how and why doctors and sc..

2019 - 2022
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Visualising evidence: the transformation of modern sex research (1900-1933)

2018 - 2019
Completed
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RESEARCH GRANT SUPPORT SCHEME (‘near miss’) : The Invention of Autism

2016 - 2017
Completed
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Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature

Questions of sexual subjectivity continue to concern scholars in the humanities and social sciences today as they did in the 19th and early ..

2010 - 2016
Completed
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Cross Examination: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and the Interpretation of Literature

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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Birgit Lang.

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Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2021  |  History of the Human Sciences

This article analyses the slippery notions of the normal and normality in select works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and..

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Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity Through Art

Birgit Lang

Book Chapter  |  2020

Austrian émigré artist Louis Kahan (1905-2002) was a transnational subject: the child of Russian refugees, he grew up in fin-de-si..

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Collecting Stefan Zweig? Wes Anderson's Present-Day Habsburg Tale The Grand Budapest Hotel

undefined Lang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Austrian Studies

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Violent Women: Photographic Evidence, Gender and Sexology in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Gender & History

This article provides the first analysis of constructions of female criminality in sexological photography in Wilhelmine and Weima..

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What is Translation History? A Trust-Based Approach

Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony PYM

Book  |  2019

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the a..

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Origin. Herkunft. Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies 11

Book  |  2018

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Eugenics and the Origins of Autism

Jeffrey P Baker, Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2017  |  Pediatrics

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A history of the case study

B Lang, J Damousi, A Lewis

Book  |  2017

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Angst. Limbus. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies 12

B Lang, A Lewis

Book  |  2017

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A history of the case study: sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

B Lang, undefined Damousi, A Lewis

Book  |  2017

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Understanding Past Societies
Cultural Studies
Communication
Historical Studies
Language Studies
Non-Oriented Research
Other Language and Culture
Literature Studies

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2009

Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultur Studies, Vienna, Austria

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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor In German

Languages and Linguistics

Liaison Officer

German Studies Association Australia

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in H. E.

University of Oxford

Doctorate of Philosopy in German

University of Vienna

Master of Arts

University of Vienna

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Certificates & Licences

Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education

University of Oxford

Awarded: May 17, 2006

International Linkages

University of Tromso

Norway