AsPr Katie Sutton

I completed my PhD research at the University of Melbourne and postdoctoral fellowships with the Australian Research Council at the University of Melbourne and with the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Potsdam. Since 2014 I have been based in the German and Gender Studies programs in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, where I live and work on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country.

My research and teaching interests focus on German 20^th and 21^st-century culture, literature, and history, with an emphasis on histories of gender and sexuality and queer, trans and neuroqueer studies. Currently I am completing a collaborative ARC DP project on photography and film in 20th-century sex research (with Birgit Lang, University of Melbourne), and I am a member of the ARC College of Experts.

My latest book, Sexuality in Modern German History (Bloomsbury, 2023) surveys 200+ years of German history, investigating the diverse ways in which individuals, activists, doctors, politicians, artists, social movements and cultural commentators have defined 'normal' sexuality and how these ideas have shaped identities, behaviours, bodies and practices.

Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s  (University of Michigan Press, 2019) is a cultural history of medical-scientific sex research examining debates between sexologists and psychoanalysts around the sexual life of the child, the nature of shellshock, the origins of homosexuality, trans identity, and the role of the sex hormones. Reviews: German History, Monatshefte, German Studies Review, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Social History of Medicine, Sexuologie.

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (Berghahn Books, 2011) explores the 'masculinization of woman' in 1920s German popular culture, in areas such as fashion, sport, literature, cinema, and magazines produced by newly emerging LGBTIQ+ minorities. It traces the controversies surrounding this figure's rise to media prominence through to the early Nazi era. Reviews: American Historical Review, Choice, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, German History, The Historian, Seminar, Women's History Review, Women in German Newsletter.                            

Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge (Routledge, 2015), co-edited with Joy Damousi and Birgit Lang, is one of the outcomes of the ARC Discovery Project "Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature" (2010-2014). This collection examines how cases serve as a means of transferring knowledge across disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction.