Dr Katharina Herold
- Lecturer in English Literature
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Position
Lecturer in English Literature
Qualifications
BA (Munich)
BA (Goldsmiths, University of London)
MSt, D.Phil (Oxford)
Academic Background and Previous Positions
I have just completed my thesis, which was supported by an AHRC grant. My thesis examined the ways in which Orientalism shaped English and German Decadent writing between 1880 – 1920.
Previously, I trained and worked as a theatre director in Germany before embarking on a BA in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, followed by an MSt in English Literature (1830 – 1914) at Oxford. In 2017, I was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, where I became a member of the international research network ‘Writing 1900’ led by Prof. Gesa Stedman and Dr. Stefano Evangelista. Since September 2017 I have been Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, where I teach English and Comparative Literature.Undergraduate Teaching Areas
Victorian, Modern and Contemporary Literature in English (1830 – present).
Research InterestsMy research interests focus on Literature and the Arts at the European Fin de siècle, specifically Aestheticism and Decadence; Victorian, Modern and Contemporary Drama and Performance; Literary Orientalism; Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.
Publications
Book chapters:
‘Socio-aesthetic Histories: Vienna 1900 and Weimar Berlin’, in Decadence and Literature, ed. by Jane Desmarais and David Weir (Cambridge University Press, 2019), forthcoming.
‘"Against civilisation": Symons, the Gypsy Lore and politicised Aestheticism', in Arthur Symons: Poet, Critic, Vagabond, ed. by Elisa Bizzotto and Stefano Evangelista (Legenda, 2018).
‘Dancing the Image – Sensoriality and kinaesthetics in the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and Arthur Symons’, in Decadence and the Senses, ed. by Jane Desmarais and Alice Condé (Legenda, 2017).
Book reviews:
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion, ed. by Kenneth Womack and James M. Decker, English Literature in Transition, 1880 – 1920, 61 (2018).
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Victorian Network, 7:1 (2016).
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