Dr Susanne Korbel is principal investigator of the Austrian Science Funds project “Entanglements of Jews and non-Jews in private spaces in Budapest and Vienna, 1900–1930” (FWF ESP120). She is based at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz. In 2024/2025, she is visiting research fellow at the Central European University Vienna. She specializes in cultural studies, gender studies, migration, and Jewish history. The project she is currently working on investigates encounters between Jews and non-Jews in housing sites in order to develop new, non-exclusive narratives based on everyday life aiming to overcome narratives of particularity. Her first book is entitled Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (Böhlau 2021). She has held fellowships in Jerusalem, New York, Southampton, and Tübingen, and taught as visiting faculty with the Universities of Virginia and Haifa. She studied Cultural Studies, History and Cultural Anthropology in Graz, Jerusalem, Budapest, and New York and earned her doctoral degree from the University of Graz.
