Dr. Katherine Trumpener

Biography

Katherine Trumpener taught at Yale University from 2002 and previously at the University of Chicago from 1990 to 2002. She specializes in areas such as the history of the European novel, 20th-century German literature, and European cinema, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. Her works explore post-Enlightenment British literature, Communist aesthetics, and children's literature. Trumpener authored 'Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire,' which utilizes a comparative approach to analyze the literary forms developed in Ireland and Scotland that shaped the literary traditions in Canada and British settler colonies. She has also co-edited 'The Viewing Platform: New Perspectives on the Panorama' and is working on 'The Divided Screen: Cinemas of Postwar Germany,' focusing on East and West German cinemas. Trumpener has served on editorial boards for various journals and received several fellowships and awards, including Yale’s Graduate Mentoring Award and the Modern Language Association Prize. Her educational background includes degrees from the University of Alberta, Harvard, and Stanford University.

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