Gerhard Katschnig

Gerhard Katschnig is a Lecturer at the Institut für Kulturanalyse (Department of Empirical Cultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. His research spans cultural history, theory, and anthropology, focusing on Enlightenment intellectual history, historical mentalities, and the Alps-Adriatic region's transnational dynamics.

• Research Interests:
  • Cultural History (18th-21st centuries)
  • Cultural Theory (interdisciplinary approaches)
  • History of Mentalities (Enlightenment, World Wars)
  • Translation Studies (medieval knowledge transfer)
  • German as Academic Language (Habsburg universities)
• Selected Research Trends:
  • Analysis of ethnographic works and nationalization in Habsburg Empire
  • Enlightenment responses to cultural melancholy and ruins
  • Historical debates on vampirism and medical rationality
  • Intersections of bourgeois cosmopolitanism and nationalism in Trieste
  • Translation networks and Islamic-Latin knowledge exchange
• Grants:
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and Slovenian ARIS for 'Discourses of the In-Between' project (2024)
• Teaching:
  • Offers courses on cultural history and theory at AAU Klagenfurt
  • Examination organization and community-focused instruction
• Labs/Teams:
  • Collaborates with international scholars (e.g., Ute Holfelder, Walter Iber)
  • Engaged in Austrian-Slovenian transnational research