From 1986 to 1991, Schmidt-Linsenhoff was co-editor of the art journalKritische Berichte. In 1990, she did a substitute professorship at the University of Oldenburg, and in 1992, a collaboration at the Institute of Cultural Studies Essen. Schmidt-Linsenhoff became Professor of Art History at the University of Trier with a focus on women's research from 1992 until her retirement in 2008. From 2001 to 2004, Schmidt-Linsenhoff initially took on the Käthe Leichter Visiting Professorship at the University of Vienna before teaching at the University of Cotonou in Benin. This was followed by a stay in the United States as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College. The Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies was founded at University of Trier on her initiative in 2005 and she remained on its advisory board until her death. It institutionalized interdisciplinary research, which now also includes the course "Intercultural Gender Studies". Schmidt-Linsenhoff research projects included:
1997–2000, DFG project "The subject and the others" regarding interculturality and gender difference from the early modern period to the present
1999–2002, Member of the Research Group Feminism and Enlightenment 1650-1850: a Comparative History at the University of London
2000–2006, spokeswoman for the Research Training Group Identity and Difference regarding gender construction and interculturality during the period of 18th-20th centuries
2004–2013, member of the graduate school program, "Sklaverei, Knechtschaft und Fronarbeit, Zwangsarbeit"
2005–2013, Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University of Trier
In 2008, together with her partner, the filmmaker Dieter Reifarth, she directed the film The Court. This is a documentary about the farm of the Senegalese artist Joe Ouakam, known as Issa Samb. She died February 14, 2013 in Frankfurt.
Filmography
La Cour - Der Hof, Director: Dieter Reifarth; Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff; Documentary, 2012, Germany / Senegal, 85 min
Selected works
Guido Reni in the judgment of the 17th century. Studies on the literary history of reception and the catalog of reproductive graphics, Dissertation. Kiel 1974.
with Herbert Uerlings, Karl Hölz : The subject and the others. Interculturality and gender difference from the 18th century to the present. Berlin / Bielefeld / Munich 2001.
with Karl Hölz, Herbert Uerlings : White Eyes. Gender myths of colonialism. Marburg 2005.
Aesthetics of difference. Postcolonial perspectives from the 16th to the 21st century. 2 vols. Marburg 2010. 2nd ed. 2014.
