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Birgit Lang

Associate Professor In German
Languages And Linguistics
arts & humanities
social sciences
case study genre
wilhelmine germany
literature
history of sexuality
cases
history
violence
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Birgit Lang

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
History of Psychoanalysis
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Birgit Lang

 

Birgit completed her tertiary education at the University of Vienna. She 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 teaching German language and literature at Oxford University, where she graduated from the Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education.

Birgit has two key research areas: She has published widely on the cultural history of German and Austrian refugees from National Socialism and their acculturation to and impact on the English-speaking world, in particular to Australia. Her second area of expertise lies in the cultural history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the German- and English-speaking worlds. Her most recent investigations in this context concern the early history of autism research.

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
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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
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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 50 most recent scholarly works by Birgit Lang.

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

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Gender and History

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

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

B Lang, A Lewis

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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The Queer Cases of Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Scientific Study of Homosexuality, 1890s-1920s

Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton

Journal article  |  2016  |  German History

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Michel Foucault , Herculine Barbin, and the Case Study Genre

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2016

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Limbus 2016 Besuch

A Lewis, B Lang

Book  |  2016

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Influencing Public Knowledge. Erich Wulffen and the Criminal Case of Grete Beier

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin, and the Case Study Genre

B Lang, Veronique Duche

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Altern / Ageing. LIMBUS. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8

B Lang, A Lewis

Book  |  2015

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Translation as Transposition Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Darwinian Thought, and the Concept of Love in German Sexual Modernity

Birgit Lang

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Introduction: Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

B Lang, J Damousi, K Sutton

Book Chapter  |  2015

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THE AESTHETICS OF SEXUAL ETHICS: GESCHLECHT UND GESELLSCHAFT AND MIDDLE-CLASS SEXUAL MODERNITY IN FIN-DE-SIECLE GERMANY

Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton

Journal article  |  2015  |  Oxford German Studies

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Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

B Lang, J Damousi, K Sutton

Book  |  2015

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and..

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Verbrecher im Fokus. Zur Zirkulation verbrecherischer und kriminalpsychologischer Fallgeschichten um 1900

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2014

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The Case of the Con Man: Criminal Writers, Legal Experts and the Question of Culture

B Lang

Book Chapter  |  2014

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Krieg / War. Limbus – Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft - Band 7

B Lang, A Lewis

Book  |  2014

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Limbus 6: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft: Topos Australien

Book  |  2013

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Split love? Jewish Émigré Australia, late 1930s - late 1940s

B Lang

Book Chapter  |  2013

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Haunted Encounters: Exile and Holocaust Literature in German and Austrian Post-war Culture

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2012  |  Religions

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Kleists Fall - Literarische und wissenschaftliche Konstellationen des (Nicht-)Wissens

B Lang

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Albrecht Dümling. Die verschwundenen Musiker. Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Australien.

B Lang

Book Chapter  |  2012

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Sexologies on tour: On the anticolonial mimicry in Magnus Hirschfeld's The World Journey of a Sexologist (1933)

B Lang

Journal article  |  2011  |  Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtswissenschaften

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Kuh, Anton, auch: Yorick, *12.7.1890 Wien, † 18.1.1941 New York. - Erzähler, Essayist, Kritiker u. Vortragskünstler

BL Lang

Book Chapter  |  2010

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Reinig, Christa, * 6.8.1926 Berlin, † 30.9.2008 München. - Lyrikerin, Prosa- u. Hörspielautorin, Übersetzerin

BL Lang

Book Chapter  |  2010

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Book review of Jurgen Bauer, No Escape. Aspekte des Judischen im Theater von Barrie Kosky

BL Lang

Journal article  |  2010  |  Modern Austrian Literature

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Die Erotik in der Photographie. Zum Habitus von Sexualwissenschaftern

BL Lang

Journal article  |  2010  |  Zeitschrift fuer Literatur und Theatersoziologie

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The Viennese legacy of Casanova: The late erotic writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei

B Lang

Book Chapter  |  2010

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Exilforschung: Zwischen nationaler und internationaler Verortung

BL Lang

Book Chapter  |  2010

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Das Subjekt am Grenzubergang. Terezia Moras „STILLE. mich. NACHT“ und Yoko Tawadas „Das Leipzig des Lichts und der Gelatine“

BL Lang, undefined Schimanski

Journal article  |  2010  |  Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Philologie

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The Viennese Legacy of Casanova: The Late Erotic Writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2009

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Sheridan Palmer. Centre of the Periphery. Three European Art Historians in Melbourne. (Book review)

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2009

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The Travails of Exile: Lion Feuchtwanger's Exil and Anna Seghers' Transit

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2009

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Theatergedächtnis im Exil und Nach-Exil. Der australische Fall [Memories of Theatre in Exile and After Exile. The Australian Case]

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2008

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Brecht & Co. German-speaking playwrights on the Australian stage

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2007  |  AUMLA-JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN UNIVERSITIES LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal: 'Selected tales'

Birgit Lang

Journal article  |  2007  |  AUMLA-JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN UNIVERSITIES LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

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Das private ist politisch: Juli Zeh's travelogue to Bosnia

B LANG

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  AUMLA Special Issue: Refereed Proceedings of the 2007 AULLA Conference

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Review of Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected tales

B LANG

Journal article  |  2007  |  AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association

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Review of Ulrike Garde'sbook Brecht & Co.: German-speaking playwrights on the Australian stage

B LANG

Journal article  |  2007  |  AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association

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Changing immigration politics: Cultural transfers down under(Immigrationspolitik im wandel: Transferprozesse down under)

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2006

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Eine Fahrt ins Blaue: Deutschsprachiges Theater und Kabarett im australischen Exil und Nach-Exil (1933-1988) [An open-ended journey: German-language theatre and cabaret in Australian exile and post-exile (1933-1988)]

B LANG

Book  |  2006

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The Dunera Boys: Dramatising history from a Jewish perspective

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Staying permanently: Walter A. Berendsohn and exile studies [Ein aufenthalt der dauer - Walter A. Berendsohn und die exilforschung]

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2005

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Book review of Exil und Nach-Exil

B LANG

Journal article  |  2004  |  Werkstatt Geschichte

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Exile cabaret and the 'politics of representation': The Little Vienese Theatre in Sydney, Australia (1945-1973)  /  Exilkabarett und die 'politik der repräsentation': Die kabarettaufführungen des Kleinen Wiener Theaters in Sydney, Australien (1945-1973)

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2003

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Austrian exile studies as part of the national memory? Aspects of the history of knowledge [Österreichische exilliteratur/forschung als arbeit am nationalen gedächtnis? Aspekte einer wissenschaftsgeschichte]

B LANG

Book Chapter  |  2003

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Keyword Analysis

Literary Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Communication
Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
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

Positions

Associate Professor In German

Languages And Linguistics

Liaison Officer

German Studies Association Australia

Education

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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