Katrin Pahl received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to her work in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, she has served for many years as co-director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. The arc of her research is situated in the field of affect and emotion studies with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.<\/p>\r\n
Her first book, Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion<\/em> (Northwestern UP, 2012) demonstrates that a fresh analysis of Hegel\u2019s thought offers an important resource for the theory of emotionality. It addresses emotions as transformational forces, which carry one out of oneself and to a different self, while introducing impersonal transports, such as release, juggle, acknowledging, tremble, and broken.<\/p>\r\n Sex Changes with Kleist <\/em>(Northwestern UP, 2019) shows that Kleist responded to <\/em>the historical sex change (the emergence of the second sex and ensuing condemnation of same-sex desire) by multiplying the sex changes. Focusing on his theater \u2013 on the theatricality of his interventions and on the way his dramatic texts unhinge major tenets of classical European theater \u2013 Pahl probes Kleist\u2019s appreciation for incoherence, his experimentation with alternative symbolic orders, his provocative understanding of emotion, and his camp humor. She proposes that sex might change again if we learn, with Kleist, to see what has long remained invisible and to speak to what could otherwise continue to remain unintelligible: queer female desire.<\/p>\r\n Pahl currently pursues two research projects, one on queer procreation and one on patterns of (sexualized) violence. <\/em>Under the heading of procreation, rather than reproduction, the first inquiry develops the sensorium for new, unseen, and unheard-of forms of queer life. This involves <\/em>thinking kinship beyond the apotheosis of the human. In the other study, Pahl analyzes contemporary political theater, narrative, and multimedia art in order to trace the interrelation of sexualized and ecological violence, war, migration, and psychic life.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Pahl was awarded the Best Article in Feminist Scholarship Prize from the Coalition of Women in German for \u201cTransformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering\u201d and has given the Kenneth Weisinger Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Fellow of the Cluster of Excellence \u201cLanguages of Emotion\u201d at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and a Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM), Weimar.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":[" Selected Courses<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Graduate <\/strong><\/p>\r\n Haitian Revolution, German Responses<\/p>\r\n Contemporary Theater: Gender\/Violence<\/p>\r\n German Theater: Drama, Performance, Theory<\/p>\r\n Kleist im Kontext<\/p>\r\n Hegel\u2019s Phenomenology of Spirit<\/p>\r\n Impossible Intimacy: on Bachmann and Jelinek<\/p>\r\n Break and Continuity: German Thought around the French Revolution<\/p>\r\n Psychoanalytic Theory<\/p>\r\n Beautiful Soul and Romantic Irony: Feeling, Gender, Theory<\/p>\r\n Undergraduate<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Wege aus der Krise: Politisches Theater Heute<\/p>\r\n Flucht und Migration: Literarische Erkundungen<\/p>\r\n Sex und Macht<\/p>\r\n Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality<\/p>\r\n Making Modern Gender<\/p>\r\n Bodies and Pleasures<\/p>\r\n Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\r\n Classic German Theater<\/p>\r\n Berlin Ost-Ost-West<\/p>\r\n The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism<\/p>\r\n Wasserm\u00e4nner und Meerjungfrauen<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":[" Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \u201cImprobable Intimacy: Otobong Nkanga\u2019s Grafts and Aggregates,\u201d THEORY AND EVENT, special issue \u201cMatterphorical,\u201d eds. Zulaikha Ayub and Daniela Gandorfer, 24.1 (Jan. 2021).<\/p>\r\n \u201cRaging with Care: The Poet\u2019s Liquid Fire,\u201d H\u00f6lderlin\u2019s Philosophy of Nature<\/em>, ed. Rochelle Tobias, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 44-57.<\/p>\r\n \u201cQueer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise,\u201d QUI PARLE: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 28:1 (2019): 137-166.<\/p>\r\n \u201cKoboldartig beieinander: M\u00e4rchenhaftes Geschlecht im Lustpiel Amphitryon<\/em>,\u201d Unarten. Kleist und das Gesetz der Gattung<\/em>, eds. Andrea Allerkamp, Matthias Preuss and Sebastian Sch\u00f6nbeck, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2019, pp. 155-167.<\/p>\r\n \u201cTrommelschl\u00e4ger: Kleists Camp und Shakespeares Puns,\u201d KLEIST-JAHRBUCH 2017:135-49.<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe Logic of Emotionality,\u201d PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, special issue Emotions<\/em>, eds. Katharine Ann Jensen and Miriam L. Wallace, 130.5 (2015): 1457-66.<\/p>\r\n \u201cWhat A Mess,\u201d MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES (MLN), dossier Complexity and Simplicity: Twenty-first century perspectives<\/em>, eds. Claudia Breger and Benjamin Robinson, 130:3 (2015): 528-53.<\/p>\r\n \u201cVon hinten,\u201d Kleist revisited<\/em>, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Friederike Kn\u00fcpling, M\u00fcnchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2014, pp. 269-78.<\/p>\r\n \u201cNicht ganz so menschliche Geselligkeit und der Kaffeter,\u201d Kollektivit\u00e4t nach der Subjektkritik. Geschlechtertheoretische Positionen<\/em>, ed. Gabriele J\u00e4hnert, Karin Aleksander, and Marianne Kriszio, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013.<\/p>\r\n \u201cMourning Kafka\u201d DISCOURSE: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture<\/em>, 33.3 (2011): 342-366.<\/p>\r\n \u201cDoublings and Couplings: the Feeling Thing in Val\u00e9ry and Kleist,\u201d ZEITSCHRIFT F\u00dcR MEDIEN- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG, 2011\/1: 177-84.<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe Way of Despair,\u201d Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic<\/em>, ed. Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, pp. 141-58.<\/p>\r\n \u201c\u2018Geliebte, sprich!\u2019\u2014wenn Frauen sich haben,\u201d Penthesileas Versprechen: Exemplarische Studien \u00fcber die literarische Referenz<\/em>, ed. R\u00fcdiger Campe, Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2008.<\/p>\r\n \u201cTransformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering,\u201d TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World, 2:1 (2006).<\/p>\r\n \u201cSpeculative Rhythm,\u201d Hegel and Language<\/em>, ed. Jere O\u2019Neill Surber, Albany: SUNY Press, 2006, pp. 233-48.<\/p>\r\n \u201cA Reading of Love in H\u00f6lderlin\u2019s Andenken,\u201d The German Quarterly, 78:2 (2005).<\/p>\r\n \u00a0\u201cI Shudder to Think in Transition: Between Cixous and Hegel,\u201d OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW, 24 (2003): 131-46.<\/p>"],"_thumbnail_id":["280"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"ecpt_hours":["T 3:30-4:30"],"_wp_old_date":["2013-10-29","2018-08-13"],"_searchwp_last_index":["1552649507"],"ecpt_cv":[""],"_ecpt_cv":["field_61e0871dac8e2"],"cv_file":[""],"_cv_file":["field_61e088d12999e"],"ecpt_job_abstract":[""],"_ecpt_job_abstract":["field_61e0873bac8e3"],"abstract_file":[""],"_abstract_file":["field_61e088f52999f"],"ecpt_leave":["Academic Year 2023-24"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/230\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/role?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"filter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}