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Julia Secklehner

MPhil PhD
Univ.-Lekt. 25/26W
Sprechstunde: nach Anmeldung per E-Mail: julia.secklehner@uni-ak.ac.at oder kunstgeschichte@uni-ak.ac.at

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2025/2026 WS Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Abteilung Kunstgeschichte
  • 2024–2025 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Stipendiatin, Constructor University, Bremen, Deutschland
  • 2022–2024 Event Grant, Botstiber Foundation for Austrian-American History
  • 2022 Princeton University Library Research Grant, Princeton, USA
  • 2019 Research Fellow/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Masarky University, Brno (Brünn), Tschechien
  • 2018–2019 Research Fellow (Postdoc), Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham, England
  • 2016–2017 Teaching Assistant (Praedoc), The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
  • 2015–2017 Arts and HumanitiesResearch Council DoctoralTraining Scholarship, TheCourtauld Institute of Art, London, England
  • 2015–2017 Research Assistant (Praedoc), The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
  • 2014–2018 Dissertation, ‘Belligerent Drawing? Prague and Vienna's Satirical Press, 1918-1938‘, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
  • 2013–2017 MPhil by Research, ‘Hybridity, Communism and the Avantgarde: Irena Bluhova and Tina Modotti‘, University of Glasgow, Schottland

Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis Routledge, 2025. Open Access. *Winner of the Masaryk University Scientist Award 2024*
  • “Creativity from Vienna to the World: Transatlantic Exchanges in Design and Pedagogy” Special issue with Megan Brandow-Faller, Journal of Austrian-American History 9:1–2 (2025).
  • De la lumière à l'ombre. Lausanne 1923. with Jonathan Conlin, Ozan Ozavci, and Gökçe Erverdi. Antipodes, 2024. Graphic novel. Translations into Arabic, Turkish and Greek in progress.
  • Who are the ‘Indians’? Hans Larwin and the Visualization of the Roma and Native Americans in Interwar Austrian Popular Art and Visual Culture in Habsburg Encounters with Native America: Familiar Strangers. Edited by Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Křížová, and Michael Burri, 271–195. Budapest–Vienna–New York: Central European University Press, 2025.
  • From the alps to the metropolis: The many faces of Austrian expressionism after 1918 in Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century, edited by Elana Shapira, 127–140. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
  • Drawing a new life: Lisl Weil (1910–2006) between Vienna and New York Julia Secklehner. Journal of Austrian American History, 9:1–2 (2025), 145–172. Link
  • ’The Car and the Dirndl Get Along Well’: Modernity and Tradition in 1930s Austrian Fashion and Tourist Design. Julia Secklehner. Central Europe (2024), 1–20. Link
  • Eine ausgesprochene Wiener Spezialität ist die Kunstgewerblerin‘: Rosalia Rothansls Beiträge in Moderne Welt im Kontext ihrer Zeit Julia Secklehner; in Sammeln, Aneignen, Übersetzen. Rosalia Rothansl, Mileva Stoisavljevic-Roller und die moderne Hausindustrie, edited by Stefanie Kitzberger and Eva Klimpel. Berlin: New Toni Press, 2024.
  • Shadow Sides of Modernism: Poldi Wojtek’s Designs for the Salzburg Festival and Austria’s Conservative Modernity Julia Secklehner; in Interwar Salzburg. Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna, edited by Robert Dassanowsky and Katherine Arens, pp. 259–27. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.
  • Feminine horror’ or ‘eminent Viennese speciality’? Vienna’s Kunstgewerblerin in Paris 1925 Julia Secklehner. Art East Central 3:3 (2023), 13–36. Link
  • Eine andere Moderne? Neue Frauen am Land in den 1930er Jahren Julia Secklehner. Link
  • A New Austrian Regionalism: Alfons Walde and Austrian Identity in Painting after 1918 Julia Secklehner. Austrian History Yearbook (2021), 1–26. Link
  • Unsettling Heimat and the Touristic Ideal: Tropes of the Uncanny in Lois Hechenblaikner's Anti-Heimat Photography Julia Secklehner. Austrian Studies 29 (2021), 121-43. Link

Konferenzen & Vorträge (Auswahl)

  • Rewriting folk art in contemporary Central Europe: Romani design, transnationalism, and the politics of cultural heritage Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, University of Aberdeen, 2-6 June 2025.
  • A modernist language for the countryside: abstract photography and the interwar Hungarian village movement Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of York, 9–11 April 2025.
  • `When a Woman Does It, It's a Craft But When a Man Does It, It's Art:’ Knitting In Folk Culture, Fashion & Art SMArt Talks, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, 5 March 2025.
  • In Women’s Hands: The Gendered Dimensions of Social Photography in Central Europe, 1928–1948 113th College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, 12-14 February 2025.
  • A School for Becoming Human? Women Photographers in Anti-fascist Resistance Movements in 1930s Central Europe Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Conference, Boston, 21–24 November 2024.
  • Fashion design and folklore in woman’s art practice Womenpedia: Přednáškový cyklus Ženy v umění!, University of South Bohemia, České Buděvovice. 6 November 2024.
  • Gender, craft and war: handicrafts and emancipation in times of crisis, 1918–1945 European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies (EAM) Conference, Jagellonian University, Krakow, 17–19 September 2024.
  • Amateur Networks, the Bauhaus and Youth Activism: Irena Blühová’s Networks of Social Photography Fotograf gallery, Prague. 9 September 2024.
  • Socially Engaged Avantgardes: Women’s Networks of Photography in Interwar Central Europe Goethe Institut, Prague. 30 May 2024.
  • Changing Spaces: Gender and Display in Interwar East-Central Europe Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses, Design History Society Annual Conference 2023, Matosinhos, on 7–9 September 2023.
  • Composing the folk: Dance photography and the “staged” in interwar homeland photography 111st College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New York, 15-18 February 2023.