Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schober-de Graaf

Professional Experience

Since September 2016
Professor of Visual Culture
Media and Communications Science Department, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria

2014-2018
Direction of the research project “Everybody: A transnational iconography” 2015-2018 – funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Sociology Department, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
since 2016 Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria

2013-2014
Professor of Sociology. Focus: General Comparison of Societies (substitute for Andreas Langenohl). Sociology Department, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany

2011-2013
Mercator Visiting Professor for Culturalisation and the Popularisation of ‘Gender’
Sociology Department, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
 
2009-2011
Visiting Professor. Research project: Picturing Gender (EU, Seventh Framework Program, Marie Curie Actions)
Philosophy Department, Verona University, Italy

2006-2009
Principal Investigator. Research project: City-Squats: The Cinema as a space for political action – funded by the Austrian Science Fond (FWF)
Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

2003-2006
Principal Investigator. Research project: Aesthetic tricks as a means of political emancipation – funded by the Austrian Science Fond (FWF)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna, Austria

2003
Post-Doc Researcher
Theory Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, Netherlands

2001-2002
Post-doc Fellow. Project: The Cinema as Political Utopia – Public Space as a Space of struggle: Contribution to a history of perception of Vienna between 1960 and 2000
Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

2000-2001

Principal Investigator. Research project: Cinema: Transformations of a Social Space. Vienna 1945–2000
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna, Austria

1994-1995

Research project: Women–History–Museum: Gender Difference in Cultural-History Museums
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Austria

April 2009
Habilitation; venia docendi “Contemporary History”.
Habilitation thesis: Ironie, Montage, Verfremdung. Ästhetische Taktiken und die politische Gestalt der Demokratie (Wilhelm Fink, 2009)
Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

2000
Ph.D.: History and Art History.
Doctoral Thesis: Blue Jeans: An Artificial Mythology
Final degree: Dr. der Philosophie (Ph.D.), with distinction
Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

1998-1999
Junior Fellowship at the IFK
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies Vienna, Austria

1996-1997
Graduate college Psychic Energies of the Visual Arts.
 J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

1984-1992
History, History of Art and Drama. Thesis: Programmatically staged historical exhibitions
Final degree: Mag. der Philosophie (MA), with distinction.
University of Vienna, Austria