Katie Sutton

Background

About Katie Sutton

Experienced Lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Data Analysis, Lecturing, Editing, Public Speaking, and Research. Strong research and education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in German Studies from University of Melbourne. My research and teaching interests focus particularly on German 20th and 21st-century culture, literature, and history, including the history of gender and sexuality, and the period of Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933). My current monograph project “Sex between Body and Mind: Encounters between Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s” (University of Michigan Press, in press) examines the interdisciplinary relationships and debates between these two fields from the turn of the 20th century through to the interwar period. It focuses on debates around the sexual life of the child, the nature of shellshock, the origins of homosexuality, the role of the sex hormones, and transgender rights and identities, this monograph will offer the first truly cross-disciplinary account of the making of sex as an object of “scientific” study in modernity. My first book, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011, pb. 2013) explored the widely-discussed 'masculinization of woman' in 1920s German popular culture, in areas such as fashion, sport, literature, cinema, and magazines produced by newly emerging sexual minorities. It has been reviewed in American Historical Review, Choice, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, German History, The Historian, Seminar, Women's History Review, Women in German Newsletter.