Academic Achievements
Dr. phil. Peitzker was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Potsdam for her Cultural Studies analysis of the twentieth century Australian author, Dymphna Cusack.
In 1998, her uncompleted dissertation won the inaugural "Australia Award" of the International Federation of University Women in Geneva, Switzerland. The IFUW prize and grant had been created especially to acknowledge Peitzker's first empirical study and poststructuralist analysis of the internationally known humanitarian Dymphna Cusack, who had been a widely respected public cultural figure throughout the Cold War in Europe.
Australia's largest independent publishing house Allen & Unwin recently created a national revival of Dymphna Cusack. From June to October 2012, the publishers reprinted six of her best known novels and they have been steadily promoting Cusack's reputation as a significant Australian author.
After her 1999 lecture at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, the famous American philosopher, Judith Butler - upon whose work Peitzker's textual analysis of gender was based - personally appraised the Australian scholar's original "Cusack thesis" as the first in the world to apply Butler's poststructuralist philosophy to the fields of literary history and Cultural Studies. Peitzker's Auseinandersetzung with Butler's philosophical theories was a continuation of the concerns in her earlier, postgraduate, primary research: “A Genealogy of Australian Cultural Studies” and a history of female sexuality in Australia, acquired by the Fryer Library's Special Collections on her leaving Australia for Germany in 1994.
In 2013, Google Books published these three academic works by Tania Peitzker, in addition to a volume of her collected "Papers" held at the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
Upon completion, Peitzker's key arguments of the Cusack thesis were then published as an essay by the historic literary journal, Southerly, University of Sydney. The dissertation is held in the National Libraries of Germany, France and Australia, as well as in the special collections of a number of notable universities in Europe.
After graduating from the University of Potsdam, Peitzker was offered an appointment as Professor of English and Cultural Studies to create a multilingual postgraduate curriculum for the first ever European Masters Degree in Australian Studies, initiated by the English Department at the University of Lodz, Poland, with corporate and Australian Embassy support. As a postdoctoral academic, Lodz University subsequently commissioned from her a historiography on "The Cultural History of Women and Men in Europe" for an EU-funded university textbook on “European Civilisations” written by Swedish, English, Irish, Welsh and Polish academics on a grant from the Brussels-based university research programme TEMPUS.
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