 Assistant Professor
German and Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218
Telephone: 410-516-7513
Email: kpahl@jhu.edu
Office: Dell House 501D
Office Hours: Thursday 3-5pm
Katrin Pahl is Assistant Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the board of directors of the Program in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at JHU. in 2008 (spring), she was a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität, Berlin, in the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion." She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. For the article "Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering," she was awarded the Best Article Prize from the Coalition of Women in German. Professor Pahl approaches literary and philosophical texts from a feminist and queer-feminist perspective. She currently works on a book that examines the poetics of emotionality in Hegel's philosophy. She is the editor of the 2009 issue on Emotionality of the journal Modern Language Notes. Her next project will explore theories of queer female, trans-lingual and parahuman sociability from the eighteenth century to the present.
Areas of Specialization
18th-Century to Contemporary German Literature and Philosophy (emphasis on early 19th and early 21st centuries), Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Theory of Language, Emotion Theory.
Selected Publications
"The Way of Despair," Hegel and the Infinite: Into the 21st Century, ed. Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, and Slavoj Zizek, New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
"'Geliebte, sprich!' - wenn Frauen sich haben," Penthesileas Versprechen: Exemplarische Studien über die literarische Referenz, ed. Rüdiger Campe and Bianca Theisen, Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2008.
“Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering,” TRANSIT, 2:1 (2006). Reprinted in: do not exist, europe, woman, digital medium, ed. Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick, Bremen: thealit Verlag, 2008.
“Speculative Rhythm,” Hegel and Language, ed. Jere Surber, Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
"A Reading of Love in Holderlin's Andenken," The German Quarterly, 78:2 (2005).
"I Shudder to Think in Transition: Between Cixous and Hegel," Oxford Literary Review 24 (2003).
Selected Courses
Graduate:
Poetic Rhythm: Hölderlin, Klopstock, Celan
Breieinander: Double Dealing
Sprachbiographien: Intercultural Literature
Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
Beautiful Soul and Romantic Irony: Felling, Gender, Theory
Undergraduate:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wassermänner und Meerjungfrauen
Critical Love: The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism
Introduction to Feminist and Queer Theory
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