Faculty

Richard Lein

Historian, assistant at the Institute of Legal and Constitutional History at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna; lecturer at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) in Vienna; he furthermore taught at the Prague University of Economics and Business, the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest as well as at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz; his main research and publication topics are the History of the Habsburg Empire in the 19^th and 20^th century, Legal History, Military History, History of the Czech Lands and Economic History of Central Europe.

Selected publications: Pflichterfüllung oder Hochverrat? Die tschechischen Soldaten Österreich-Ungarns im Ersten Weltkrieg (2011); A Train Ride to Disaster: The Austro-Hungarian Eastern Front in 1914 (Contemporary Austrian Studies, 2014); Plnění povinností, nebo velezrada? Čeští vojáci Rakousko-Uherska v první světové válce (2018); Österreich-Ungarns Kriegsfinanzierung 1914–1918. Budgetpolitik zwischen Steuern, Krediten und Kaufkraftabschöpfung (Jahrbuch für Mitteleuropäische Studien, 2018); Die Protokolle des cisleithanischen Ministerrats 1867-1918, Band II: 1868-1871 (2022); Fighting the Steamroller: The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces at the Russian Front, 1914–18 (Military Affairs in Russia’s Great War and Revolution 4, 2024).

Eveline List

Historian, economist and psychologist; retired professor of Cultural History at the Department of History, University of Vienna; psychoanalyst in private practice; training analyst of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Selected Publications: Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaften (2013); Psychoanalyse. Geschichte, Theorien, Anwendungen (2009); Mutterliebe und Geburtenkontrolle – Zwischen Psychoanalyse und Sozialismus (2006); and about 100 Articles on cultural studies, history, clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis.

Johann Georg Lughofer

Portrait Johann Lughofer — Johann Lughofer (© Johann Lughofer)

Johann Georg Lughofer

Assoc. Prof. of German Literature at the Department of German Studies of the University of Ljubljana, experience as lecturer at the Beijing-University (China), Exeter University (UK), and Stellenbosch University (South Africa); regularly teaching at the Departments of German Studies of the University of Vienna and of the University of Innsbruck as visiting professor.

Selected publications: Die Berge erschreiben. Die Alpen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. (2014); Österreich. Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft im Spiegel der Literatur. (2017); Paul Celan. Interpretationen – Kommentare – Didaktisierungen. (2020). Many articles on Austrian literature.

Jonas Pfohl

Postdoctoral Researcher in Musicology at the New Senfl Edition (FWF P 35141); based at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Lecturer at the University of Vienna; previously Researcher at the Alban Berg Complete Edition; main fields of research are sacred music of the sixteenth century (especially at the Habsburg courts), the music of Alban Berg, music philology.

Selected publications: Auf der Suche nach »möglichen« aus einer Zwölftonreihe gebildeten »Kanons«, in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 17 (2020), The Court Chapels of the Austrian Line (I): From Emperor Ferdinand I to Emperor Matthias, in: A. Weaver (ed.): A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2020), Motetten am Hof Maximilians II. (1527–1576). Komponieren im Zeitalter der Konfessionalisierung (2022), co-editor of: Lulu, in: Alban Berg Sämtliche Werke, vol. I/2 (2024).

Monika Schwärzler-Brodesser

Retired Professor and former Head of the Art Department at Webster Vienna Private University; doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna; graduate training at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna; taught at Webster University in St. Louis (USA), the study abroad program of the University of Oregon and Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences; lectured in postgraduate museology programs at the University of Basle (Switzerland) and the Federal Academy in Wolfenbüttel (Germany); lecturer at the univie: winter school of the Sommerhochschule (University of Vienna), as well as at the Department of Image Science at the Danube University Krems; founder and chair of the T.K. Lang Gallery at Webster University; work as free-lance writer; current fields of research: art and media theory, visual culture, creative writing.

Selected Publications: Digital Worlds and the Sound of Violence, in: N. Billias, L. Praeg eds.: Creating Destruction. Constructing Images of Violence and Genocid (2011); The Beast – On the Photographic Staging of the Large Hadron Collider at the Nuclear Research Center in Geneva, in: U. Fischer-Westhauser, U. Schögl eds.: PhotoResearcher 19 (2013); Psychisches Ding-fest machen. Franz West und Markus Schinwald – Herr(n) des Signifikanten. in: texte. psychoanalyse. ästhetik. kulturkritik, Heft 3 (2014); At Face Value and Beyond. Photographic Constructions of Reality (2016); Good Girls Grimacing. Grimacing and the Economy of Excess, in: Grimace. Membrana no. 2 (2017); Fotografie ohne Fotograf*innen, in: Fotogeschichte. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie, Heft 157 (2020); Talkative Skin / Skin Talking Back: On Iris Andraschek's Where to Draw the Line. in: Skin. Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture Vol.6 no.2 (2021).

Elana Shapira

Cultural and design historian; lectures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Vienna; specialist in the study of Viennese modernism; research interests include design and media in the 20^th century, Central European cultural networks, women’s modernisms, and diaspora aesthetics; She has organized major international symposia and workshops on such diverse topics as nationalism and modernism, art and psychoanalysis, émigré design cultures, Jews and cultural identity in Central European modernism, and women designers and artists in Vienna and Central Europe; forthcoming interdisciplinary international symposia are “Trauma and Dialogue” (Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, 2026) and “Design and Dance in the 20th and 21st century” (working title, 2026; to be announced).

Selected Publications: Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons and Modern Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna (2016); co-editor of: Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (2017); editor of: Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism (2018); co-editor of: Freud and the Émigré (2020); editor of: Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in: Central European Modernism (2021); co-editor of: Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit (2023); editor of: Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century (2025); editor of: Eine Wiener Schule in Berlin 1900-1933 (forthcoming 2025); co-editor with D. Finzi It Hurts! Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis (forthcoming 2025); co-editor with D. Stratigakos of: E. Briggs: An Unconventional Architect (forthcoming 2025); co-editor with A.-K. Rossberg Crossing Borders: Central European Women in the Arts (forthcoming 2026).

Stefan Wedrac

Historian working at the Museum of Military History in Vienna ; research fellow at the Institute of Legal and Constitutional History at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and lecturer at the WFU Flow House in Vienna; previously, he has been a researcher at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and is a former lecturer at IES Vienna; his research and publication topics include Austrian-Italian History (especially Trieste), History of World War I, Contemporary History (National Socialism), Brewing History, Health Insurance History, and Legal/Judicial History.

Selected publications: together with Marion Dotter: Der hohe Preis des Friedens. Die Geschichte der Teilung Tirols 1918–1922 (2018); Die Brauerei Zipf im Nationalsozialismus. Ein österreichisches Brauunternehmen zwischen NS-Kriegswirtschaft, V2-Rüstungsbetrieb und KZ-Außenlager (2021); together with Ina Markova: Hamburg des Ostens? Der Ausbau des Wiener Hafens in der NS-Zeit (2023).