Dr Karolina Watroba
BA, MSt, DPhil
Quondam Fellow from 2024
Photo credit: Dan Paton
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2019 to 2024)
- DPhil in Modern Languages, Merton College, University of Oxford (2019)
- MSt in Modern Languages (German and Comparative Literature), Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2016)
- BA in Modern Languages (German), Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2015)
- History and theory of modern literature, film, and culture, with a focus on material in German, English, and Polish
- Book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka (London: Profile, 2024)
- Book Mann's Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading (Oxford: OUP, 2022)
- Journal special issue 'The White Rose and the Uses of Culture', co-edited with Alexandra Lloyd, Oxford German Studies, 52.1 (2023)
- Article ‘Kurban Said’s The Girl from the Golden Horn (1938): Play with Orientalism in Interwar Berlin and Vienna’, Modern Language Review, 119.2 (2024), 222-243
- Article 'Culture in Times of Crisis: Auerbach, Czapski, Nafisi', Oxford German Studies, 52.1 (2023), 120-129
- Article 'Guy Maddin's Careful and the Mountain Film: A Transnational Approach to German Film History', New German Critique, 49.2 (2022), 133-160
- Article 'Navid Kermani's Entlang den Gräben and Its Readers: Remapping Europe's East', Edinburgh German Yearbook, 15 (2022), 262-284
- Article 'Blind Spots on the Magic Mountain: Zofia Nałkowska's Choucas (1926)', The Slavonic and East European Review, 99.4 (2021), 676-698
- Article 'Reluctant Readers on Mann's Magic Mountain (Ida Herz Lecture 2020)', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 90.2 (2021), 146-162
- Article 'World Literature and Literary Value: Is "Global" The New "Lowbrow"?', The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 5.1 (2018), 53-68