Profile:
Katrin Pahl received her Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and taught at the University of Southern California before she joined the faculty of the German department at Hopkins in 2005. Professor Pahl approaches literary and philosophical texts from a feminist and queer-feminist perspective. She is currently working on a book that examines the poetics of emotionality in Hegel's philosophy. Focusing mainly on The Phenomenology of Spirit, and reading it in dialogue with a selection of literary texts contemporary to us or to Hegel, Pahl argues that love, fear, despair, and grief organize the narrative, logical and quasi-existential development of the Hegelian text by transporting the consciousness across its various shapes of self-reflection. Her next project will explore theories of queer female, cross-cultural and parahuman sociability from the eighteenth century to the present. Selected Publications:
“Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering,” TRANSIT, 2:1 (2006), Article 61213.
“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: spring).
"I Shudder to Think in Transition: Between Cixous and Hegel," Oxford Literary Review 24 (2003): Reading Cixous Writing. Curriculum Vitae |
