Katja Weidner

Katja Weidner is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Middle and Late Latin Philology at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies. Since 2021 she has led the FWF project Retexte en Page: the Latin Alexander Romance and in 2025 completed her habilitation with the monograph The Material Poetics of the Cambridge Songs.

Education:

• 2018 Dr. phil. summa cum laude (LMU Munich) – Medieval Latin & German Philology
• 2014 M.A. with distinction (LMU Munich) – Latin Philology, Philosophy, Classical Archaeology

Research focus:

Her work explores visionary and after-life narratives in late-antique and medieval Latin texts, the materiality of manuscript culture, retextualisation, and sensory imagery—especially olfactory motifs—combining approaches from comparative medieval studies, material philology, cultural studies and historical narratology.

Grants & awards:

• FWF stand-alone project grant (2025-29)
• Fritz Thyssen Stiftung project funding (2022-24)
• University of Chicago Mobility Fellowship (2023)
• VG Wort full publication grant (2019-21)
• Doctoral scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2009-14)

Supervision & teaching:

She currently supervises one doctoral and six ongoing MA projects, and offers courses ranging from manuscript reading to seminars on 12th-century love poetry and literary theory. Consultations are held online via Calendly.

Team & lab:

Her Vienna-based project team comprises a post-doc (Dr Monika Isépy), one pre-doc researcher, and two student assistants; she also co-edits the forthcoming volume Common Grounds: Towards a Medieval Comparative Literature with JProf. Carlotta Posth.