Katrin Dettmer

Graduate Student, German Studies
Katrin_Dettmer@brown.edu

Entered Brown Fall 2006.

Before coming to Brown, Katrin Dettmer studied English and German literature at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Humboldt University Berlin, where she received her M.A. in English literature. Her research now focuses on German literatures after World War II and the Holocaust, which deal with issues of memory and remembrance and in particular the works of W. G. Sebald and Alexander Kluge. Katrin also continues to nourish an interest in British and German Modernist Fiction, especially the literature of Neue Sachlichkeit and the interrelation of literature with other media. Of a recent interest to her are German emigrant literatures from the 19th century onward.

Degrees

2005 M.A. in English Literature, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Thesis Title: " The Negotiation of History in Evelyn Waugh’s Early Novels"

Conference Papers

2006 "No place in reality: The autonomy of reflection and the diminution of the subject in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz" at Mirrorings: Reflections on Reflection (Harvard Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference)

2007 “Suicide & Biopower: Elias Canetti’s Auto-Da-fé” at In the Flesh (Harvard University Department of German Studies Graduate Conference)