Visiting Professorship in the summer term of 2021

After studying history and a combination of women's and gender studies, international development and Russian in Vienna, a year of study at the Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot and a stay in 2011 as a junior visiting fellow at the IGRS (Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study) at the University of London, Winter completed her doctorate at the University of Vienna in 2012. Her dissertation, published in 2014, was entitled "Geschichtspolitiken und Fernsehen. Representations of National Socialism on Austrian Television 1955-1970" and was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize, the Irma Rosenberg Prize and the Michael Mitterauer Prize. Since 2005, teaching at various universities (University of Vienna, University of Art and Design Linz, Paris Lodron University Salzburg) and departments (Contemporary History, Media Studies and Communication Studies, Theatre, Film and Media Studies, European Ethnology, Media, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies). From 2014 to 2016, researcher in the WWTF project "The changing role of audio-visual archives as memory storages in the public space. Using the example of private video sources" at the Austrian Media Library. Since 2018, Winter has been leading the project "Video as Technology of the Self" (Elise Richter Programme of the FWF) at the Department of Contemporary History.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Teaching

Key Research Topics

• Media history and theory (video, television, film)
• History politics and memory cultures
• Cultures of knowledge and audio/visuality
• Gender history
• Migration and post-colonialism to/in Austria

Selected publications

• Becoming a Vidéaste: Media Practices Between Collectivity and Strategic Claims of Directorship in French Feminist Video Activism. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (03 Sep 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2024.2398946
• Video as a Weapon, Extension, Mirror, Catalyst, and Virus: Transnational Metaphors and Concepts in Video Movements in the 1970s and 1980s. In: zeitgeschichte 50, no. 3 (2023): p. 325-346. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737015684.325
• Struggle over Control: Sound in Home Video. In: International Journal of Cultural studies 26, no. 1 (2023): p. 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779221135057
• Navigating Second Generation Memory and Auto/biography in Home Video. A Video Collection of Hojda Stojka, Son of Artist and Survivor of the Porajmos Ceija Stojka. In: Studia austriaca 31 (2023): p. 5-27. https://doi.org/10.54103/1593-2508/20323
• Fernsehen und Video. In: Marcus Gräser, Dirk Rupnow (Hg.): Österreichische Zeitgeschichte - Zeitgeschichte in Österreich. Eine Standortbestimmung in Zeiten des Umbruchs, Wien/Köln: Böhlau 2021, 429-447. https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205209980.429
• mit Drehli Robnik: Normalizing Nazism: History on Austrian State Television - Political Programmes in Times of Nationalist Government, in: Marina Gržinić, Jovita Pristovšek, Sophie Uitz (Hg.), Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism. Rethinking the Past for New Conviviality, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020, 478-497.
• "Who knows what comes tomorrow”. Post-Nazi political rehabilitation and sexual identities in Austria’s early Eurovision entries, in: Magdalena Fürnkranz, Ursula Hemetek (Hg.), Performing Sexual Identities. Nationalities on the Eurovision Stage, Wien 2017, 45-60. https://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/MDWeb/ive/downloads/Cover_klanglese11_Eurovision.pdf
• mit Christina Waraschitz, Gabriele Fröschl (Hg.): Aufnahme läuft. Private Videobestände - Öffentliche Archive? Vienna 2016.
• Geschichtspolitiken und Fernsehen. Repräsentationen des Nationalsozialismus im frühen österreichischen TV (1955-1970), Bielefeld 2014.