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

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

- 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