Professor Carolin Duttlinger FBA

Carolin Duttlinger's interests are in German literature and thought from the eighteenth century to the present; interdisciplinary modernism; the history of psychology; photography and visual culture; memory and trauma; Weimar journalism; and collective narration.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2026
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College Oxford. Having studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, she completed her MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge.

She is Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre, where she is currently leading the AHRC-funded research project ‘Kafka’s Transformative Communities’, and editor of the Legenda book series Visual Culture.

Current posts

University of Oxford Professor of German Literature and Culture

Wadham College Oxford Ockenden Fellow in German

Previous posts

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies External Senior Fellow

2019 - 2020

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies External Senior Fellow

2016 - 2016

University of Oxford Associate Professor in German

2006 - 2020

Wadham College Oxford Fellow and Tutor in German

2003 - 2006

Major publications

Scenes of Close Reading: For Andrew J. Webber, special issue of German Life and Letters, 79

Carolin Duttlinger, Dora Osborne and Lucia Ruprecht - Published in 2026

The Journalist as Producer: Walter Benjamin and the Interwar Media Landscape, special issue of Monatshefte, 115:2

Carolin Duttlinger, Daniel Weidner - Published in 2023

Attention and Distraction in German Literature, Thought, and Culture

Carolin Duttlinger - Published in 2022 by Oxford University Press

From the Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature

Carolin Duttlinger, Charlie Louth and Kevin Hilliard - Published in 2021 by Legenda

Franz Kafka in Context

Carolin Duttlinger - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

Weimar Photography in Context, special issue of Monatshefte, 109:2

Carolin Duttlinger, Silke Horstkotte - Published in 2017

The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka

Carolin Duttlinger - Published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press

Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken

Carolin Duttlinger, Ben Morgan and Anthony Phelan - Published in 2012 by Freiburg/Br.: Rombach Litterae

Curiosity in German Literature and Culture after 1700, special issue of Oxford German Studies, 38

Carolin Duttlinger, Johannes Birgfeld - Published in 2009

Kafka and Photography

Carolin Duttlinger - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press

Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies

Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht and Andrew J. Webber - Published in 2004 by Peter Lang

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Eagleton FBA

English Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - English Language and Literature Literature in relation to other Arts Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Aesthetics Irish Literature in English

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Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

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