Prof. Dr. Anna Schober (auch: Schober de Graaf)

Univ. Prof. für Visuelle Kultur

Institut für Kulturanalyse, Abteilung Visuelle Kultur

Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Full professor of Visual Culture at Klagenfurt University. Faculty of Humanities· Department of Cultural Analysis · Visual Culture Unit.

Former position(s)

2015–2018: Project leader Everybody: A Transnational Iconography (Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft) at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Klagenfurt University
2013–2014: Professor of Sociology. Focus: General Comparison of Societies (substitute for Andreas Langenohl). Department of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2011–2013: Mercator Visiting Professor for Culturalisation and the Popularisation of ‘Gender’ at the Department of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2009–2011: Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department of Verona University, funded by the EU, Seventh Framework Programme, Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
April 2009: University of Vienna, habilitation degree (Dr. phil. habil.) and venia legendi for Con-temporary History
2006–2009: Project leader, Austrian Science Fund project City-Squats: The Cinema as a Space for Political Action, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
2003–2006: Project leader, Austrian Science Fund- project Aesthetic tricks as a means of politi-cal emancipation, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
2001–2002 Post-doc position for the project Cinema as political utopia - public space as a space of struggle: contribution to a history of perception of Vienna between 1960 and 2000, fi-nanced by the Research Focus Cultural Studies, Ministry of Science, Austria in cooperation with the Austrian contemporary history society
January 2000: PhD in History (Dr. phil.), with distinction
1994-1995: Project co-leader, research project Women-History-Museum: Gender Difference in Cultural-History Museums, financed by the Austrian Ministry of Science, with G. Hauer, R. Mut-tenthaler and R. Wonisch
1994–1999: University of Vienna, Institute of Contemporary History. Doctoral course: History and Art History. Doctoral Thesis: Blue Jeans: An Artificial Mythology
1993–1995: Exhibition work for Kulturen an der Grenze–Kultury na Hranici, travelling exhibition on changing border-regimes, between the Czech Republic and Austria
1992–1994: Exhibition work for Daedalus. Transmediale Gesellschaft Vienna: Exhibition History of Poverty in Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Trieste 1693–1893.
1984–1992: Magister studies in History, History of Art and Drama at University of Vienna

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Anna Schober, The Cinema Makers. Public life and the exhibition of difference in south-eastern and central Europe since the 1960s, Exeter: Intellect books, 2013.

Anna Schober, Ironie, Montage, Verfremdung. Aesthetische Taktiken und die politische Gestalt der Demokratie, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2009.

Anna Schober, Blue Jeans. Vom Leben in Stoffen und Bildern, Frankfurt/ New York: Campus, 2001. Translation into Chinese and Taiwanese: Suxing Chen (transl.), Niuzai-ku. Dianfu-kuang-ye-yu-xinggang-de-ziwo-biaoshu, Peking 2002 (Leviathan Publishing Company) and Taibei 2003 (Harbin).

Anna Schober, Das inszenierte Geschlecht. Feministische Strategien im Museum, Vienna: Boehlau, 1997 (together with G. Hauer, R. Muttenthaler, R. Wonisch).

Anna Schober, Montierte Geschichten. Programmatisch inszenierte historische Ausstellungen, Vienna: J+V, Dachs Verlag, Edition Wien, 1994.

Articles

selection:
Naheinstellungen auf Kindergesichter: Bilder von undokumentierten Einwandernden als ambiva-lente Vermittler von Öffentlichkeit. In: Anna Schober and Brigitte Hipfl (eds.), Wir und die Ande-ren: Visuelle Kultur zwischen Aneignung und Ausgrenzung, Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag 2021, 99–24.

Das Bild im Plural: Methoden der qualitativen Forschung und Leitfragen der Analyse. In: Jasmin Donlic and Irene Strasser (eds.), Gegenstand und Methoden qualitativer Sozialforschung. Einblicke in die Forschungspraxis, Leverkusen 2020, 153–176.

Particular faces with universal appeal: A genealogy and typology of everybodies. In: Anna Schober (ed.), Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images, London and New York: Routledge (Arts and Visual Culture Series) 2019, 59–79.

Un vagabondo diventa un leader populista: Arriva John Doe come riflessione cinematografica sul ruolo degli ‘uomini qualunque’ nei processi politici. In: Cinema e Storia, No. 1/ 2019, special issue Cinema e populismo. Forme, immaginari e genealogie condivise, eds. Valerio Coladonato and Andrea Sangiovanni, 57–74.

Die “Gastarbeiterfilme” von Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmische Interventionen in die Projek-tionsflächen der Imagination. In: Rainer Winter, Alexander Geimer and Carsten Heinze (eds.), Die Herausforderungen des Films. Soziologische Antworten, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018, 207–229.

Gender ins Bild gesetzt. Kollektive Imagination und öffentliche Auseinandersetzung im post-modernen Europa. In: Anna Schober and Andreas Langenohl (eds.), Metamorphosen von Kultur und Geschlecht. Genealogien, Praktiken, Imaginationen, Munich: Wilhelm Fink 2016, 169–201.

City and Cinema as Spaces for (transnational) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from South-Eastern and Central Europe. In: Matthew-Paul Berg, Wladimir Fischer and Anastasia Christou (eds.), Narrating the City: Histories, Space and the Everyday, New York and Oxford: Berghan Books 2015, 139–174.

Movie/Cinema. In: Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth (eds.), Protest Cultures: A Companion Vol. 1: Elements of Protest, New York: Berghan Books 2015, 389-396.

Everybody. Figuren “wie Sie und ich” und ihr Verhältnis zum Publikum in historischem und me-dialem Umbruch. In: Jörn Ahrens, York Kautt and Lutz Hieber (eds.), Kampf um Images, Wies-baden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2014, 241–270.

Picturing ‘Gender’: Iconic Figuration, Popularization, and the Contestation of a Key Discourse in the New Europe. In: Dennis Zuev and Regev Nathansohn (eds.), Sociology of the Visual Sphere, London and New York: Routledge 2013, 57–80

Kino als Transnationale Bewegung. Zur Politisierung des Kinoraums in Frankreich, Deutschland, Österreich und Jugoslawien um 1968 In: Ingrid Böhler, Eva Pfanzelter, Thomas Spielbüchler and Rolf Steininger (eds.), 1968 – Vorgeschichten – Folgen. Bestandsaufnahmen der Öster-reichischen Zeitgeschichte. Siebenter Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2008, Innsbruck, Vi-enna, Munich, Bolzano: Studien Verlag 2010, 176–186.

Cinema as political movement in democratic and totalitarian societies since the 1960s. In: Ange-la Harutyunyan, Kathrin Horschelmann and Malcolm Miles (eds.), Public Spheres After Social-ism, Exeter: Intellect Books 2009, 41–65.

City-Squats: The cinema-space as a cave for politics In: International Journal of Media and Cul-tural Politics, No. 3: 1 2007, 25–46 (intellect books)

Edited volumes

Anna Schober and Brigitte Hipfl (eds.), Wir und die Anderen: Visuelle Kultur zwischen Aneignung und Ausgrenzung (= Klagenfurter Beiträge zur Visuellen Kultur Vol. 7) , Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-86962-395-5.
Anna Schober, Anna Schober (ed.), Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies), Routledge, September 2019 ISBN: 1138605883.

Schober, Anna and Langenohl, Andreas (eds.), Metamorphosen von Kultur und Geschlecht: Genealogien, Praktiken, Imaginationen, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2016.

Schober, Anna and Pechriggl, Alice (eds.), Hegemonie und die Kraft der Bilder, Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2013.

Schober, Anna (ed.), Aesthetik des Politischen, OEZG (Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuerGeschichtswissenschaften), No. 03/ 2004 (Studien Verlag).

Schober, Anna (ed.), Kuenstliches Licht. Huellen. Sichtbarkeit, MA-null. Magazin im offenen und oeffentlichen Raum, N2. 02/ Dezember 1998 (together with C. Angelmaier).

List of publications (Url)

http://www.annaschober.com/publications

Areas of research

- Histoy and aesthetics of the public sphere in modernity and late modernity
- Political iconology
- Transmedia visual culture studies (film, visual arts, social media, material culture)
- Art and the political
- performance and painting
- Picturing difference (gender and ethnicity)
- Cinema activism in central and south eastern Europe
- History of perception and practices of cultural appropriation
- Exhibition theory and museology
- Methodological questions of visual culture studies in the context of the humanities

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