This fellowship supports female researchers intending to finish their Habilitation within the next three years. Johanna will finalize her monograph on the place of rhetorics in Neo-Latin scientific texts. As part of the award ceremony, vice rector Ulrike Tanzer underlined that this fellowship should be seen as a signal for women in academia. In his laudatio, Martin Korenjak (LBI) presented Johanna Luggin’s academic achievements and also mentioned that she is an important and integral member of our Neo-Latin research team.

Update 21/06/2022

One of Austria’s leading newspapers, “Die Presse”, has recently interviewed Johanna on the award of this fellowship, her research, thoughts on working in the field of Neo-Latin especially for young researchers and more. You can find the interview HERE.