Professor Katrin M. Kohl
Katrin M. Kohl, M.A. (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. London)
Faculty Lecturer in German, Fellow of Jesus College
Address: Jesus College, Oxford, OX1 3DW
Email: katrin.kohl@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Research
Katrin Kohl's current research is focused on the theory of metaphor and role of 'poetological metaphors' in German literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Further ongoing research interests are the work of F.G. Klopstock, poetic form, and the relationship between rhetoric and literature.
Teaching
German language and literature. She teaches across the whole range of German literature since the 18th century and is interested in exploring cultural connections between different periods of German history.
Publications
'Dialogische Verwandlungen: Der poetische Briefwechsel zwischen Erika Mitterer und Rainer Maria Rilke', in Nach Duino. Studien zu Rainer Maria Rilkes späten Gedichten, ed. Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain (Göttingen, 2009), 70-92
'No Escape? Goethe's Strategies of Self-Projection and Their Role in German Literary Historiography.', Goethe Yearbook, 16 (2008)
'Kulturstiftung durch Sprache. Rede und Schrift in der “Deutschen Gelehrtenrepublik”', in: Wort und Schrift - Das Werk von Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, ed. Kevin Hilliard and Katrin Kohl (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008), 145-171
'No Escape? Goethe’s Strategies of Self-Projection and their Role in German Literary Historiography', Goethe Yearbook, 16 (2008), 173-191
Metapher, Sammlung Metzler 352 (Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler, 2007)
Poetologische Metaphern. Formen und Funktionen in der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 2007)
'Festival, Performance, Wettstreit: Deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur als Ereignis', in: Literarische Wertung und Kanonbildung, ed. Nicholas Saul and Ricarda Schmidt (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007), 173-190
Editor, with Ritchie Robertson, A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture (Rochester/NY: Camden House, 2006)
With Martin Durrell and Gudrun Loftus, Essential German Grammar (London: Arnold, 2002)
' 'Ruf-Stufen hinan':Rilkes Auseinandersetzung mit dem Erhabenen im Kontext der deutschen Moderne', in: Rilke und die Moderne, ed. A.Stevens/F.Wagner (London/Munich: Institute of Germanic Studies/iudicium, 2000), 165-180
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Sammlung Metzler (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000)
' 'Diesmal wollte man ihn gern anders' - Peter Rühmkorf und die Gruppe 47', in: The Gruppe 47 Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal of its Literary and Political Significance, ed. S.Parkes/J.J.White, German Monitor, Special Issue (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), 159-178