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Katharina von Hammerstein
Professor of German
 Education
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 1991
Areas of Expertise
Nineteenth-century German literature and culture, cultural studies, women's literature, German film
Chair, General Education Oversight
Organizer of Sophie Mereau Conference
Contact Information
Office/Hours: Arjona 118
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: von.hammerstein@uconn.edu
Website
Bio:
Katharina von Hammerstein received her Ph.D. in German at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds a degree in Math, German, and Education from Goettingen University, Germany. Her scholarly area of expertise is German literature and culture of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Her publications focus on German Romanticism (including extensive work on Sophie Mereau-Brentano); autobiographical writings / self-(re)presentations as political practice in nineteenth-century public discourses; the ways women have inscribed themselves into literary, social and political discourses in the nineteenth century; and colonial constructions of Self and Other as represented in the ways Black men and women have been represented in German and Austrian literature, ethnology, and visual arts around 1900. She has also published in the area of teaching German and interdisciplinary curriculum development, i.e., on approaches to linking language learning to the learning in other disciplines, such as history, art history, political science, geography, film, etc. Her scholarly background comes to bear in her graduate courses on German Romanticism, Self-Writings and Writing Yourself, Gender and Literature, Love in Literature, the 1848 Revolution, Colonial Literature and Postcolonial Approaches, and various other topics of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Since von Hammerstein is also very interested in film, she includes film and other artistic representations (e.g., UConn's extensive and precious Kaethe Kollwitz collection) whenever possible. Her research projects regularly take her back to Germany and Austria and she has presented papers at national and international conferences ranging from all over the U.S., Canada and Germany to Russia, England, Spain, Italy, France, South Africa, and Namibia. For fun, she loves movies, inspiring discussions, roller-blading, skiing, and travel!
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