Dr. Katrin Kohl

Biography

Katrin Kohl is a Faculty Lecturer at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her research focuses on literature and cultural politics from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. She is currently working on an edition of the poetic correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and Erika Mitterer while investigating the dialogic processes of the modernism period. Her research interests include Prussian king Frederick the Great, the work of eighteenth-century poet F.G. Klopstock, the writings of Holocaust-survivor H.G. Adler, and the theory and practice of metaphor. In 2016, she served as Programme Lead and Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Creative Multilingualism Project. Collectively, her teaching covers a broad range of topics in German literature from the eighteenth century, focusing on cultural connections across periods of German history. Special teaching interests include poetry, narratology, literary responses to the National Socialist past, GDR literature, and advanced translation. She supervises doctoral theses on various subjects, including modernist poetry, narrative literature, and translation theory. Kohl's work is characterized by her dedication to language teaching and creative multilingual initiatives.

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