This article discusses the development of Slovenian studies in Austria after 1918 with a special emphasis on current literary studies and its contribution to the discourse of scholarship on Slovenian literary studies. The first part focuses on the structural, staffing, and content-related dimensions of the discipline, and the second part outlines the literary studies focal points with which the research in Slovenian studies in Austria occupies a special place within Slovenian literary studies.

Članek obravnava razvoj avstrijske slovenistike po letu 1918 s posebnim ozirom na novejšo literarno vedo in njen prispevek k slovenističnemu literarnovednemu diskurzu. Prvi del osvetljuje strukturne, personalne in vsebinske razsežnosti stroke, drugi del pa prinaša oris literarnovednih težišč, s katerimi slovenistična raziskovalna dejavnost v Avstriji zavzema posebno mesto znotraj panorame slovenske literarne vede.