Christina Lutter, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.

Christina Lutter is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Institute for Austrian Historical Research (IÖG) and Head of Dept. History. She is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has been PI of the project Social and Cultural Communities across Monastic, Urban, and Courtly Cultures in Central Europe within the SFB Visions of Community (VISCOM, 2011-2019) and is currently (2023-2026) PI of the project Gendering Maximilian. Gendered Dimensions of Court Organisation and Representation within the SFB "Managing Maximilian (1493-1519) - Persona, Politics, and Personnel through the Lens of Digital Prosopography" (Speaker: A. Zajic, funded by the FWF).

She holds a PhD from the Univ. of Vienna (Politische Kommunikation in der Frühen Neuzeit, Vienna: Oldenbourg 1998) based on archival research in Venice, enabled by a research grant of the Vienna University (1996). Her habilitation Geschlecht & Wissen. Monastische Reformgemeinschaften im 12. Jahrhundert (Vienna: Oldenbourg 2005) won among others the 2006 Preis des Verbandes der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands.

From 1994 to 2007 she worked at the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, first in programme management (Gender, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Transdisciplinary Research Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies) later as Deputy Head and Head of the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences. Between 1998 and 2008 she was lecturer and visiting scholar at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Klagenfurt, HU and FU Berlin and Lüneburg.

She is member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Member of the scientific board of the Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, Dresden; Vice president of the scientific board of the International Research Centre Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), and Member of the scientific board of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria.

She co-edits (with M. Reisenleitner) the book series Cultural Studies (Vienna: Löcker), is founding member/co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (ZfK, Bielefeld, transcript) and member of the editorial board of Cultural Studies (NY; London: Routledge, ed L. Grossberg & D. Pollock).

Research interests

* Medieval and early modern cultural and gender history, especially
* Religious reform movements in high and late medieval Europe
* Entangled medieval monastic, urban, and courtly cultures
* Medieval visions and practices of community
* Medieval and early modern representations of emotions
* Cultural Studies; Gender Studies