Dr. Katharina Pink
Senior lecturer
Institute of English Philology
English Literature
Senior lecturer
Institute of English Philology
English Literature
English and German Romanticism
Victorian Women Writers
Travel Writing
Contemporary Short Fiction and Popular Fiction
2022/2023 Elternzeit
2018 Ernennung zur Akademischen Rätin
2017 Elternzeit
2009-2013 Promotion bei Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode, Thema der Dissertation: Identitas Oriens - Konstruktionen der Identität und Alterität in britischer Orientreiseliteratur (Ergon, 2014)
Seit April 2009 - 2017: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
2008-2009 Lektorin bei LangenMüller Herbig (nymphenburger)
2008 Abschluss Magister Artium der Neueren deutschen Literatur: „Das Groteske in der Romantik“
2003-2008 Studium der Neueren deutschen Literatur, englischen Literaturwissenschaft und Jura (Medienrecht) an der LMU München
2002 Auslandsjahr (FSJ in Northampton, UK)
2001 Abitur
Monographs
Identitas Oriens ˗ Diskursive Konstruktionen von Identität und Alterität in britischer Orient-Reiseliteratur. Würzburg: ERGON, 2014 (Reihe „Literatur-Kultur-Theorie“).
Charlotte Brontë. Zwischen Anpassung und Rebellion. Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider/WBG, 2016.
Edited Collections
Mit Stefanie Fricke und Felicitas Meifert-Menhard: Romanticism and Knowledge: Selected Papers from the Joint Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Trier: wvt, 2015.
Mit Christoph Bode: Travel Writing (Special Issue). Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. Vol. 26 No. 51, 2016.
Articles
"Alternative Notions of Belonging: (European) Community and Citizenship in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet." Europe in Law and Literature - Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation. Eds. Laura Zander/Nicola Kramp-Seidel. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2023. 313-338.
"The Centers Cannot Hold: Cross-Cultural Narratives of Travel in the Age of Globalization." East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities. Eds. Christoph Bode, Michael O’Sullivan, Lukas Schepp, Eli Park Sorensen. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 97-123.
"Romantic Discontent and its Discontents." Romanticism and the Forms of Discontent. Ed. Christoph Bode. Trier: wvt, 2017. 121-136.
"Monsters in the Drawing Room: Mashing up Victorian Classics." Anglistentag 2016 Hamburg: Proceedings. Eds. Ute Berns, Jolene Mathieson. Trier: wvt, 2017. 33-44.
Mit Christoph Bode: "Introduction". Travel Writing (Special Issue). Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. 26:51 (2016). 1-4.
"Projecting the Self, Merging with the Other: T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom". Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture. 26:51 (2016). 65-77.
Mit Stefanie Fricke und Felicitas Meifert-Menhard: "Introduction: The Forms and Formations of Romantic Knowledge". Romanticism and Knowledge. Eds. Stefanie Fricke, Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, Katharina Pink. Trier: wvt, 2015. 9-21.
Lexicon Articles
"Anna Burns". Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG). München: edition text + kritik. 89. Nachlieferung, März 2024.
"Sally Rooney". Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG). München: edition text + kritik. 88. Nachlieferung, März 2025.
Talks and Conference Papers
2024: "Die Geschwister Brontë - Viktorianische Bestseller". Interview mit Bayern 2/radioWissen. https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/radiowissen/die-geschwister-bronte-viktorianische-bestseller/bayern-2/13051659/
2019: "Loss of Translation? – English Travel Writing and its Dealings with Foreign Languages". LMU-ChAN Scientific Forum, Peking University.
2018: "The Centres Will Not Hold: Narratives of Travel in the Age of Globalization". CUHK-LMU Conference on Narrative and Cross-Cultural Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2016: "Undermining Cant and Commonsense: Mashing Up Victorian Classics". Anglistentag 2016. Universität Hamburg.
2016: "Romantic Discontent and its Discontents". Tagung Romanticism and its Discontents der North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. University of California, Berkeley.
2014: "Romantic Orientalism". Vorlesung am Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures der Karls-Universität Prag (invited speaker).
2013: "'Neither the Desert nor the Sown': Gertrude Bell’s Traces in the No Man’s Land between the Binaries of Representation". Tagung Navigating Networks: Women, Travel, and Female Communities Conference. Wolfson College, Oxford.
2012: "Discursive Strategies of Self-Construction in Gertrude Bell’s The Desert and the Sown and T. E. Lawrence’s The Seven Pillars of Wisdom". Gastvortrag im Workshop Travel Cultures. Wolfson College, Oxford.
2011: "Konstruktionen einer räumlich und zeitlich entrückten Fremde in Charles Doughtys Travels in Arabia Deserta". Gastvortrag im Kolloquium des TOPOI-Exzellenzclusters. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
2011: "The Construction of a Spatially and Temporally Remote Other in Charles Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta". Tagung Travel in the 19th Century: Narratives, Histories and Collections. University of Lincoln, UK.
2010: "The Hero is a Myth in Action: Superheroes and Mythology". Ringvorlesung Superheroes: Power and Identity. LMU München.
Introduction into Literary Studies
Exam Prep Course English Poetry
BA Kolloquium
Seminars (selection):
„The Grotesque in English Romanticism“
„Early Stuart Tragedies“
„Gender and/as Performance in Shakespeare’s Comedies“
„Literatur und Karneval“
„Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience“
„The British Short Story”
„Romantic Orientalism“
„’Blood will come of Blood’: Shakespeare’s Revenge Tragedies”
„The Modernist Novel: Experiments in Narration”
„Mythologie und Ideologie in Fantasy Literatur”
„Postmodern Theory and Fiction“
„Consuming Passions: Gothic Romance and the Brontë Sisters”
„Englische Lyrik von der Romantik bis in die Moderne”
„Reading Frankenstein”
„Ian McEwan: Novels & Short Fiction”
„Unreliable Narration”
“Lyrikanalyse vs. Lyrics-Analyse”
“Reading Frankenstein”
„Don’t Bet on the Prince: Feminist Revisionist Mythology”
English Language Skills/Sprachpraxis:
„Analysing Grammar“
„Sprachmittlung 1 & 2“
„Übersetzung“ (Examensvorbereitung)
Lecture
SoSe 2010: “The Hero is a Myth in Action: Superheroes and Mythology” (Ringvorlesung Superheroes: Power and Identity, LMU München)