Mag. Katharina Gartner, MA

Katharina Gartner is a reseacher and lecturer on expressive cultures, with a special interest in youth and adolescence, music(king), and urban Africa.

Lecturer at the Departments of African Studies, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Musicology, and Education, University of Vienna
External Lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Research Scholar, Harvard University, 2022
https://africa.harvard.edu/event/african-studies-workshop-featuring-sean-jacobs?delta=0

Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Ghana, 2021/22, W20

IFK_Junior Fellow (+ Abroad), International Research Center for Cultural Studies, 2021-22
https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail-en/katharina-gartner.html

Prae Doc Researcher and Lecturer, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 2017-2020

Research Associate, Department of Musicology, University of VIenna, 2015-2018

OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS:
Gartner, Katharina (2021): "Shiny shabomen. Young Instrumental Musicians in Accra, and Performances of Masculinities in Popular Music." Gender, Place & Culture, 28/6, 806-828, 23pp.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1786016

FORTHCOMING:
Gartner, Katharina (Oct. 2025): "On the Meaning of Nonsense.
Psychoanalytic Discoveries about Playing." Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag.