Dr Karolina Watroba
BA, MSt, DPhil
Modern Languages
Quondam Fellow from 2024
Karolina was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Modern Languages at All Souls from 2019 to 2024.
Research Areas
History and Theory of Modern Literature, Film, and Culture, With a Focus on Material in German, English, and Polish
Selected Publications
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
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