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Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell is Senior Research and Teaching Associate for English Literature. She studied in Berlin, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and Melbourne (Australia), and earned her doctorate jointly from Monash University Melbourne and Goethe University Frankfurt in 2021. Before joining Uni Zürich, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher (Walter Benjamin fellow) at Goethe University Frankfurt, as a research assistant and academic writing teacher at Monash University, and as a student research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin (see research project on Shakespeare’s figure Shylock). Before embarking on a career in academia, she worked and volunteered at cultural and civic society organisations such as Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg, German Cultural Centre Cluj-Napoca, and Politikfabrik.
Her first monograph, Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge 2024), was published as an Open Access title (download it here) and received the inaugural prize of the Scientific Association of Goethe University for interdisciplinarity. Based on her dissertation, this book aims to widen the scope of what is conventionally understood as an ‘environmental text’ by developing a ‘cosmological’ reading strategy. Kathrin remains an active member of national and international associations of Environmental Studies, Australian Studies, and Postcolonial/Transcultural Studies.
Kathrin is currently writing her second book with the working title “Reading Intergenerational Justice Transculturally: 100 Years of Generational Solidarity in World Anglophone Literature,” which aims to compare different generational crises across cultures, in order to illuminate alternatives to our current generational planetary dilemma.
Next to teaching, she co-convened (with Clara Hebel) the Environmental Humanities Reading Group “Read the Room,” which follows the principle of slow, emergent and collective academia; a project intended to continue (stay tuned). In 2023, Kathrin led a research colloquium at the Harvard Institute of World Literature. In 2022, she co-organized (with Pavan Malreddy and Frank Schulze-Engler) the International GAPS Conference “Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literature and Cultures” (Goethe University Frankfurt).
Recent publications include
2023."Review of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene", edited by John Parham. Ecozon@ Vol. 14 No.1.
2022. “Apocalyptic Climate Fiction in the Third Media Revolution: Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink.” Australian Literary Studies Vol. 37, No.2
| “Intergenerational Justice Now! Theorising a Structural Tension across Cultures, Species, Technologies” | M.A. colloquium, Fall 2024 |
| “Climate Change Down Under: Australian Fiction at the End of Nature” | Lecture, Fall 2024 |
| “‘The force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth’: Energy in Transcultural Anglophone Texts” (co-taught with Michelle Stork) |
B.A. Seminar, Summer 2024 |
| “‘Unable to Perceive the Shape of You, I Find You all Around Me’: The Blue Humanities & Transcultural Readings of Water” | M.A. Seminar, Fall 2023 |
| “Transcultural Ecocriticism: Moving Cultures in Times of Ecological Crisis” | M.A. Seminar, Summer 2023 |
| “‘Running from both the Living and the Dead’: Imagining Environmental and Mobility Justice in Transcultural Anglophone Texts” (co-taught with Michelle Stork) | B.A. Seminar, Summer 2022 |
Kathrin is available for supervision of BA and MA theses.
Past (co-)supervised theses:
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