Britta I . McEwen, BA, PhD

Department

History

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Berghahn Books
  “A Home for Mothers in Vienna: Community and Crisis,” in Jason Coy, Ben Marschke, Jared Poley, and Claudia Verhoeven, Kinship and Community: Society and Culture in European History. 2014
• Berghahn Books
  Sexual Knowledge: Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934. 2012
• Sharing Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe
  McEwen, B. Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes Towards Children's Sexual Education in Austria, 1920-1936, p. 161-175 2008

Articles

• “”Die Eheberatungstelle des Roten Wien und die Kontrolle über den ehelichen Sex,” translated by Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter und Martina Nußbaumer, in Andreas Brunner et al, Sex in Wien:  Lust, Kontrolle, Ungehorsam.  Wien:  Wien Museum., p. 119-125 2016
• Journal of the History of Sexuality
  "Emotional Expression and the Construction of Heterosexuality:  Hugo Bettauer's Viennese Advice Columns"
  Volume 25 Number 1 (January 2016), p. 114-136 2016
• Austrian History Yearbook
  McEwan, Britta Review of Johnson Julie M. The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900. Central European Studies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2012.
  45, p. 257-258 2014
• German Studies Review
  Review of The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg & Simon Shaw-Miller 2014
• Austrian History Yearbook
  Review of The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900, by Julie M. Johnson, Austrian History Yearbook
  vol. 45, p. 257-258 2014
• Austrian History Yearbook
  McEwen, Britta Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria [REVIEW]
  43, p. 233-234 2012
• Women & Language
  Ha, Nina, McEwen, Britta Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation [book review]
  34, p. 93-94 2011
• Austrian History Yearbook
  McEwen, B. Welfare and Eugenics: Julius Tandler's Rassenhygienische Vision for Interwar Austria
  41, p. 170-190 2010
• Austrian History Yearbook
  “Welfare and Eugenics: Julius Tandler’s Rassenhygienische Vision for Interwar Austria,”
  XVI 2010, p. 170-190 2010
• Journal of the History of Sexuality
  McEwen, B. Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna.
  15, p. 132-135 2006

Publications

• Journal of Austrian Studies
  Manuscript Evaluation for “The K.’s,“ 2001

Presentations

• German Studies Association, San Diego, 2016 “Unmarried Mothers, Vormundschaft, and Viennese History in the fin-de-siècle” 2016
• European Studies Conference, Omaha, 2015 “Homes for Mothers in Vienna: Illegitimacy in the Early Twentieth Century” 2015
• Women’s History Month Kickoff, Creighton University, 2015 “Weaving Women’s Lives Together” 2015
• Faculty Fridays, Creighton University, 2014 “Sexual Knowledge” 2014
• German Studies Association Roundtable Participant, Kansas City, 2014: “Ego-Documents.” 2014
• German Studies Association, Denver, 2013 “Everyday Advice, Extraordinary Emotions: Constructions of Heterosexuality in 1920s Vienna” 2013
• German Studies Association, Milwaukee, 2012 “Everyday Love: Hugo Bettauer’s Viennese Advice Columns” 2012
• The Medicalization of Sex, Simon Frasier University, Vancouver BC, 2011 “Professionalizing the Personal: Eugenics and Sex Education in Interwar Vienna” 2011
• Modern Austrian Language and Culture Association, Pittsburgh, 2011 “Jewish Journalism? Hugo Bettauer as Advice Columnist” 2011
• Missouri Valley History Conference, Women in the Interwar Period (panel), Omaha, 2011 “’Reader, marry him!’ – Private Advice in the Public Sphere of Interwar Vienna” 2011

Awards

• Dietrich W. Botstiber Grant
  Botsiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
• “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
  Creighton University
• Faculty Teaching Fellowship
  For Critical Issues in Human Inquiry
  Creighton University
• “Iggy” Award for Freshman mentoring
  Creighton University