Katie Sutton

Associate Professor Katie Sutton is a scholar of German and Gender Studies at the Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics, located on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne (2008) and has held postdoctoral fellowships with the Australian Research Council and the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her research focuses on German 20th- and 21st-century culture, gender and sexuality history, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and sexology.

Key works include Sexuality in Modern German History (2023), a survey of 200 years of German sexual identity debates, and Sex between Body and Mind (2019), exploring early 20th-century debates on sexuality. She co-edited Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge (2015), examining interdisciplinary knowledge transfer. Sutton's research engages with archival material, visual culture, and trans and queer literature to interrogate historical constructions of gender and sexuality.

She currently leads the ARC-funded project 'Visual evidence: transforming modern sex research (1880s–1930s)' and has held roles such as Secretary of the German Studies Association of Australia. Her work bridges academic disciplines, emphasizing the cultural and social dimensions of scientific inquiry.