Carolin Duttlinger
Professor in German and Ockenden Fellow and Tutor in German
Biography
Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in German at Wadham. Having studied as an undergraduate at the University of Freiburg (Germany), she completed her MPhil and PhD at Cambridge before joining Wadham in 2003.
Her research ranges across German literature, thought and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. She is particularly interested in modernism and contemporary literature; in the history of psychology; and in music and visual media. A recurring focus of Carolin’s research is the writer Franz Kafka, on which she has published four books. She is a co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre and is currently leading a major research project, ‘Kafka’s Transformative Communities’, which brings together academics and artists working on new responses to the Prague writer. She has spoken on radio and TV in the UK and internationally; see the BBC Radio Four series Orwell vs Kafka and an episode of In Our Time on the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin.
She is the General Editor of the book series Visual Culture for Legenda and co-editor of the Oxford Modern Languages and Literature series for Oxford University Press. In 2008, Carolin was awarded the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Humanities, and in 2021 she received the Essay Prize of the English Goethe Society.
Selected publications
Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) – see here for a podcast about the book on the New Books Network
Editor, Franz Kafka in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Editor, with Silke Horstkotte, Weimar Photography in Context, special issue of Monatshefte, 109:2 (July 2017)
Editor, Franz Kafkas “Betrachtung”: Neue Lektüren, Rombach Litterae (Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2014)
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Editor, with Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan, Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, 2012)
Editor, with Johannes Birgfeld, Curiosity in German Literature and Culture after 1700, Oxford German Studies, 38 (2009)
Kafka and Photography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Click below for a short film about Kafka's novel Amerika.Having studied as an undergraduate at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and for her Mphil and PhD at Cambridge, Carolin Duttlinger joined Wadham College in 2003.