Katharina Eisch-Angus is a European ethnologist and university professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz. She researches and teaches on the ethnography of everyday close-up worlds and on memory, experience and narration in everyday cultural contexts.

For three decades, she has been researching the anthropology of borders, difference and liminality in terms of cultural theory and contemporary history, as well as nationalism and war, migration and post-socialist change.

In a second comprehensive research area, she examines everyday discourses of security and images and modes of experience of the contemporary subject in the context of neoliberal and governmental transformation and permanent liminality.

In various fields of cultural studies practice, she accompanies the topics of art, crafts and labour culture (especially in connection with the material glass). The focus is on museum practice, visual anthropology and the connections between artistic research and ethnography.

In methodological and epistemological terms, she explores the potentials of a processual ethnographic hermeneutics. She combines multi-modal, intersubjective field approaches with approaches from (ethno)psychoanalysis and the association-led, culturally semiotic exploration of cultural and social meaning.