Mag. Katharina Gartner, MA

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

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

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