Christina Lutter

Christina Lutter (born September 17, 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and professor at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna.

life and work

Christina Lutter studied history at the University of Vienna from 1989 to 1992 and completed her postgraduate training at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (1992–1995). In 1997 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on political communication in the early modern period using the example of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Venice and King Maximilian I. Her habilitation as a university lecturer in medieval history followed in 2004 with a work on gender history on monastic reform communities in the 12th century, for which you u. a. was awarded the Carl Erdmann Prize of the Association of Historians in Germany and the Michael Mitterauer Prize.

From 1994 to 2007 she worked at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, initially as coordinator of the research programs humanities, social and cultural sciences and as deputy (from 2003) and interim (2007) head of the social sciences department.

Between 1998 and 2008 she held lectureships and visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna, Linz and Klagenfurt, at the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin and in Lüneburg. Christina Lutter has been teaching Austrian history as well as cultural and gender history at the University of Vienna since 2008.

She has been a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) since 2015 and a main member of the Council of the ÖAW since 2017. She is also active as a scientific adviser and reviewer in numerous national and international committees and programs.

She is editor of the Cultural Studies series at Löcker-Verlag and author of the introductory volume of the same name, co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften , was a board member of the journal Cultural Studies until 2018 , and is an executive board member of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK).

Research priorities

Her research focuses on the areas of cultural and gender history of the Middle Ages, with a special focus on forms of coexistence in communities between monastic, urban and court spaces. Since 2011 she has been a manager in the FWF- funded special research area Visions of Community on social and cultural communities in Central Europe.

Monographs

• Cultural history of tradition in the Middle Ages. Sources and methods for the history of Central and Southeastern Europe , with Elisabeth Gruber and Oliver Jens Schmitt. Böhlau UTB, Vienna a. a. 2017, ISBN 978-3-8252-4554-2 .
• Between the courtyard and the monastery. Cultural communities in medieval Austria (= change of staff. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78574-3 .
• Cultural studies. An introduction, with Markus Reisenleitner. 6th, revised edition. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78574-3 .
• Gender & Knowledge, Norm & Practice, Reading & Writing. Monastic reform communities in the 12th century (= publications by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 43). Vienna u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-486-57823-5 .
• The correspondence of Ferdinand I. Familienkorrespondenz 1534. Edition , with Christopher Laferl (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 90). Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99172-9 .
• Political communication at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age. The diplomatic relations between the Republic of Venice and Maximilian I (1495–1508) (= publications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Vol. 34). Oldenbourg, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-7029-0439-5 .

Editorships (selection)

• Meanings of Community across Eurasia , with Eirik Hovden and Walter Pohl (= Visions of Community. Vol. 1). Brill, Leiden 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-31197-8 .
• Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Medieval Forms of Identity in Europe and Asia , with Andre Gingrich (= History and Anthropology. Thematic Journal Issue. Vol. 26/1), Routledge, London a. a. 2015, ISSN (online): 1477-2612.
• Translations, with Helmut Lethen and Birgit Wagner (= Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2/2012). Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISSN  9783-9331 .
• Functional spaces, spaces of perception, spaces of feeling. Medieval ways of life between monastery and court (= publications by the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, Vol. 59). Böhlau 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78663-4 .
• Emotionen , with Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat (= Journal for Cultural Studies. Vol. 2/2010). Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1578-4 .
• Cultural history. Questions, concepts, approximations , with Margit Szöllösi-Janze and Heidemarie Uhl (= cross sections. Vol. 15). Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2004, ISBN 3-7065-4024-X .
• The power of categories. Perspectives on historical gender research , with Andrea Griesebner (= Viennese writings on the history of modern times. Vol. 4). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISSN  1681-701X .
• Cultural Turn. On the history of cultural studies , with Lutz Musner and Gotthart Wunberg . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85132-277-0 .

literature

• Herwig Wolfram : Christina Lutter. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/14, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, p. 179.

Web links

• Page from Christina Lutter at the University of Vienna
• academia.edu
• Literature by and about Christina Lutter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Visions of Community