Katrin Röder
Professorship:
English Literature (focus: 18th century – present), since 15 September 2024
To the Professorship (only German)
Department:
Cultural Studies
Studies and doctorate:
- 2011: “Habilitation” (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at the University of Potsdam, Germany (Venia Legendi: English Philology/Literary Studies)
- 2003: Doctorate in English Literature at Humboldt University of Berlin
- 1994: Master Degree in English and American Studies & German Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin

Stages:
- 2020-2022 and 2023-2024: Principal Investigator (“Eigene Stelle”, German Research Foundation), Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of English and American Studies
- 2013-2023: Interim and Guest Professor for British Literature and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, University of Vienna and University of Bamberg
Focus in research:
- History and development of the British novel (18th – 20th century), literature and conceptions of happiness, ethical literary criticism
- Literary Approaches in Disability, Gender, and Affect Studies
- Contemporary British and Indian Anglophone autobiographical storytelling (verbal, graphic, audiovisual, digital)
- Modernist literature
- Representations of Islam and the Ottoman Empire in early modern English drama