Dr Carolin Duttlinger
Carolin Duttlinger, M.A. (M.Phil., Ph.D. Cambridge )
University Lecturer in German, Fellow of Wadham College
Address: Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PN
Email: carolin.duttlinger@wadh.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 277962
Research
Carolin Duttlinger's main research interests are in the field of twentieth-century German literature and thought, with particular reference to the relationship between literature and visual culture. A previous project explored the role of photography in the works of Franz Kafka, and she is currently working on a study into conceptions attention and distraction in twentieth-century German literature, thought and culture. She is a member of the Oxford-Princeton Research Project on Walter Benjamin, 'Benjamin Encounters', and co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre.
Teaching
German language and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, in particular modernist and contemporary literature.
Publications
'Sebald, Austerlitz', in Landmarks in the German Novel (2), ed. Peter Hutchinson and Michael Minden (Berne: Lang, 2010), 111-27
'The Ethics of Curiosity: Ruth Klüger, weiter leben ', Oxford German Studies, 38 (2009), http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
'W. G. Sebald: The Pleasure and Pain of Beauty', German Life and Letters, 62 (2009), 327-42
Editor, with Johannes Birgfeld, Curiosity in German Literature and Culture from 1700 to the Present, Oxford German Studies, 38 (, 2009)
'Benjamin's Literary History of Attention: Between Reception and Production', Paragraph, special issue on Walter Benjamin, ed. Andrew Webber, 32:3 (2009), 273-91
With Johannes Birgfeld, 'Introduction', Curiosity in German Literature and Culture after 1700, Oxford German Studies, 38 (2009)
'Muttersprache - Vatersprache: Elias Canettis Familiengeschichte(n) im Zeitalter Freuds', in Familie und Identität in der deutschen Literatur, ed. Thomas Martinec and Claudia Nitschke, Regensburger Beiträge zur deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2009), 197-217
'Film und Photographie', in Kafka-Handbuch, ed. Bernd Auerochs, Manfred Engel (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008)
'"Den visionären Blick habe ich nur bei Blitzlicht": Franz Kafka und die Fotografie', literaturkritik.de, 7 (2008), , 
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'Walter Benjamin: The Aura of Photography', Poetics Today, 29:1 (2008), 79-101
Kafka and Photography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Read review
'Franz Kafka, Der Proceß', in Landmarks in the German Novel, ed. ed. Peter Hutchinson (Oxford: Lang, 2007), 135-50
'New Perspectives on Walter Benjamin', Paragraph, 30:2 (2007), 98-108
'A lineage of destruction? Rethinking photography in Luftkrieg und Literatur', in W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, ed. J. J. Long, Anne Fuchs (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007), 163-77
'Between Contemplation and Distraction: Configurations of Attention in Walter Benjamin', German Studies Review, 30 (2007), 33-54
'Snapshots from the Hereafter: Benjamin, Adorno and the Critic as Photographer', in In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism, ed. ed. Gillian Beer, Malcolm Bowie, Beate Perrey (Oxford: Legenda, 2007), 162-73
'Mörike’s Fossils: The Poetics of Palaeontology', Oxford German Studies, 36 (2007), 60-75, Article Weblink
'Snapshots of History: Franz Kafka’s “Blumfeld ein älterer Junggeselle” and the First World War', Modern Austrian Literature, 39 (2006), 29-43
'‘Modernismus’, ‘Realismus’, ‘Symbolismus’, ‘Moderne/Modern’', in Lexikon Ästhetik, ed. Achim Trebeß (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2006)
'Visions of the New World: Photography in Kafka’s Der Verschollene', German Life and Letters, 59 (2006), 423-45, Article Weblink
'Madness and Method: Freud, Paranoia and the Performativity of the Cure', in Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture, ed. Holger Briel, Carol Fehringer, CUTG Proceedings 5 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005), 157-75
'“Grobkörnige Mnemosyne”: Picturing the First World War in the Poetry of Thomas Kling', Oxford German Studies, 34 (2005), 103-19, Article Weblink
'Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz', in W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, ed. J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead (Edinburgh/Edinburgh University Press, 2004), 155-71
'“Die Ruhe des Blickes”: Kafka, Brod, Benjamin and the Kaiserpanorama', in Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination, ed. Christian Emden, David Midgley (Oxford: Lang, 2004), 231-55
With Lucia Ruprecht, 'Introduction', in Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies, ed. Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), 9-19
'Traumatic Metamorphoses: The Concept of the Animal in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialektik der Aufklärung', Focus on German Studies, 10 (2003), 66-83
Editor, with Lucia Ruprecht, Andrew Webber, Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies (Oxford, Lang, 2003)