School of Languages and Linguistics

Qualifications

PhD (German Studies, Melbourne), BA (Hons, Melbourne).

Research interests/areas of supervision

Weimar Republic; History of Sexuality (Psychoanalysis, Sexology); Gender and Queer Studies; 20th-century German Cultural Studies

Biography

Katie commenced an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in August 2010 in the School of Languages and Linguistics as part of the Discovery Project research team "Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature" (CIs Dr Birgit Lang and Prof Joy Damousi). Previously she held a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship to the University of Potsdam, Germany (2009-2010). She teaches in the German and European Studies programs.

Selected publications

Book

2011

• Sutton, Katie. The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. (Reviewed in German Quarterly, German Studies Review, German History, Choice)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2012

• Sutton, Katie. "'We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun': The Politics of Transvestite Identity in Weimar Germany," in German Studies Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2012, pp. 335–54

2009

• Sutton, Katie. "The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany," in German Politics and Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2009, pp. 28-49

2008

• Sutton, Katie. "From Dandies to Naturburschen: The Gendering of Men's Fashions in Weimar Germany," in Edinburgh German Yearbook, Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 130-48

2004

• Sutton, Katie. "Female Masculinity in Weimar Cinema," in Traffic, No. 4, 2004, pp. 27-48

2003

• Sutton, Katie. "The Nazi and Communist Press and the Late-Weimar Abortion Debate," in Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Vol. 12, 2003, pp. 123-38

Interview

2012

• Norman, Beret and Sutton, Katie.  “Memory is always a story”: An Interview with Antje Rávic Strubel," in Women in German Yearbook, Vol. 28

Book chapters

2007

• Sutton, Katie. "Bridging the Rural/Urban Divide: Representations of Queer Female Experience in 1920s Germany," in Feiereisen, Florence and Frackman, Kyle (eds.,). From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp. 37-53

2005

• Sutton, Katie. "Female Masculinities and Conflicting Lesbian Identities in Anna Elisabet Weirauch's Der Skorpion," in Haschemi Yekani, Elahe and Michaelis, Beatrice (eds.,). Quer durch die Geisteswissenschaften: Perspektiven der Queer Theory. Berlin: Querverlag, 2005, pp. 267-81

Edited books and collections

2004

• Sutton, Katie (ed. and intro. with Guido Ernst and Andrew Hurley). Contexts, Contacts, Constraints. Melbourne University School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature. Melbourne: University of Melbourne School of Languages, 271pp.

Book reviews

2012

• Sutton, Katie. "Erik N. Jensen, Body by Weimar. Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (2010)," in German Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2012, p. 106

2011

• Sutton, Katie. "Julia Roos, Weimar Through the Lens of Gender: Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33 (2010)," in H-Histsex (online publication).

2008

• Sutton, Katie. "Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005)," in Lewis, A., Deiters, F.-J., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., and Weller, C. (eds.,). Limbus 1: Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises. Freiburg: Rombach, 2008, pp. 260-62

2006

• Sutton, Katie. "Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man," in Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Vol. 15, 2006, pp. 126-28

Awards and grants

2009

• Women in German Dissertation Prize (USA). Awarded annually to the dissertation that best reflects the values of the WiG Mission Statement, makes a substantial contribution to current dialogue in the research area; and demonstrates solid and innovative scholarship
• Stiftung für Deutsch/Amerikanische Wissenschaftsbeziehungen (SDAW) / German Studies Association (GSA) Award for Best Paper by a Social Scientist within Five Years of the Doctorate. Paper: "The Masculinized Female Athlete in Weimar Germany"
• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Postdoctoral Research Grant, University of Potsdam, Germany

Presentations

Recent conference presentations

2012

• “War, Violence, and Sexual Pathologies: Sexological and Psychoanalytic Responses to World War I.” Violence Studies conference, University of Newcastle, Australia (August).
• "The Case of the Invert: Cultural Translations of the Sexological Encounter in Weimar Germany.” Sexology in Translation Symposium, Birkbeck College, University of London (June).

2011

• "The Case of the Eonist: Contestations over Transvestite Life Histories in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Autobiographical Fiction." German Studies Association of Australia Biannual Conference, University of Queensland (November).
• "The Case/s of Transvestite Autobiography: Sexual Identities and Publics in 1920s Germany." Cases and their Publics conference, in conjunction with DP "Making the Case," University of Melbourne (September).

2010

• "Transnational Belonging in the City's Queer Spaces: Kutlug Ataman's Lola + Bilidikid." Imagining the New Berlin conference, in conjunction with Goethe Institut "Berlin Dayz" festival, University of Melbourne (November).    
• "'We Too Deserve a Place in the Sun': The Emergence of a Transvestite Public Culture in 1920s Germany." Melbourne/Monash Seminar Series, University of Melbourne (August).

Other information

Professional memberships

• German Studies Association of Australia
• German Studies Association (USA)
• Women in German