Prof. Dr. phil. Katrin Horn
Professor for Anglophone Gender Studies
Room 1.42
Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
17489 Greifswald
Phone +49 3834 420 3369
katrin.hornuni-greifswaldde
Short CV
| Born in Werneck | |
| 2003-2008 | M.A. in Theater and Media Studies, American Cultural Studies and English Literature at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2009-2015 | PhD studies supported by scholarships from, amongst others, Universität Bayern e.V., Bavarian American Academy, Fulbright and „Frauen in Forschung und Lehre; Freelancer for film festivals; Lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg; Research Assistant at the DFG-Project Voice and Singing in US-American Popular Music, 1900–1960, Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT, Weimar |
| 2015 | PhD at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2015-2023 | Assistant Professor of American Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, as well as of American Studies, especially Literature Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg; Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth |
| 2019-2022 | Project Leader for the DFG-Project The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture; Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress and at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA |
| since 2023 | Professor of Gender Studies at the department of British and North American Studies of the University of Greifswald |
Fields of work
- Gender Studies
- Shakespeare Studies
- Visual Culture
- Literature and Science
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Medical Humanities
- Material Cultures
Current projects
ArchivalGossip.com (DFG Project and database)
The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure (DFG network)
Publications
Monograph
- Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Co-edited collections
- with Martin Pfleiderer, Tilo Hähnel, and Christian Bielefeldt. Stimme, Kultur, Identität: Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA (1900-1960). Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.
- with Katharina Motyl,Intimate Knowledge in American Realism and Naturalism, special issues of Studies in American Naturalism, 16:1 (2021).
- with Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink. American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Traces, Commons, Skills. New York: Routledge, 2021.
(reviewed in Text and Performance Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2096252)
Contributions to journals and edited volumes
- “On Laughter and Survival: A Conversation between Barbara Jane Brickman and Katrin Horn on Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture.” New Review of Film & Television Studies-Blog (Nov 2023).
- with Selina Foltinek. "ArchivalGossip and the Digital Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Tattle Tales."Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 40.1-2 (2023): 245-254.
- “A Look Back to Queer Histor(iograph)y.” Contribution to the forum edited by Kathleen Lock and Ruth Mayer: "Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change." Amerikastudien/American Studies. 68.3 (2023): 295-327, 307-308.
- with Regina Schober. “Introduction: Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies.” Introduction to the co-edited forum: „Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies.“ Amerikastudien/American Studies. 68.1 (2023): 5-26. 6-8.
- “Methods and Manuscripts: On Pursuing American Studies in the Archive.” Contribution to the forum edited by Ilka Brasch and Alexander Starre: „Method as Practice.“ Amerikastudien/American Studies. 67.1 (2022): 5-34. 4
- “‘every one knew.’ Epistemologies of the City in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.”Edith Wharton Review 36.2 (2021): 148-164.
- with Katharina Motyl, “Intimate Knowledge in American Realism and Naturalism.”Studies in American Naturalism, 16:1 (2021). vii – xxiii.
- “#god im so glad i got to go: The Monster Ball Tour, Transnational Performances, and Digital Traces.” American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Traces, Commons, Skills. eds. Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink. New York: Routledge, 2021. 147–160.
- with Birgit Bauridl, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink. “Introduction.” American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Traces, Commons, Skills. 1–20
- “Right or Obligation? Privacy in Henry James’ The Bostonians.” We the People? The United States and the Question of Rights. Eds. Irina Brittner, Sabine N. Meyer, and Peter Schneck. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020. 137-156.
- “The Public Gossip of Town Topics: The Journal of Society (1885-1937).”European Journal of American Studies (4/2020).
- “Of Gaps and Gossip: Intimacy in the Archive.” Anglia 138.3 (2020): 428-448.
- “Bewegte Bilder / Bewegte Vergangenheit: Queeres Kino der USA.” Zuordnungen in Bewegung: Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung quer durch die Disziplinen. Eds. Doris Feldmann, Annette Keilhauer, and Renate Liebold. Erlangen: FAU University Press, 2020: 151–172.
- “Dangerous Domesticity: Gossip and Gothic Homes in Edith Wharton’s Fiction.” Edith Wharton Review 35.1 (2019): 22-46.
- “‘Period Sex’: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Feminist Politics of Offence.” Offensive Media. Ed. Anne Graefer. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019: 127–145.
- with Carmen Dexl. “‘Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown’: The Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”On Uses of Black Camp, Special issue of Open Cultural Studies (Dec 2017). 442–453.
- “USA 1900-1960: Populäre Musik im/als Spiegel ihrer Zeit.” Stimme, Kultur, Identität: Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA (1900-1960). Eds. Martin Pfleiderer, Tilo Hähnel, Katrin Horn, and Christian Bielefeldt. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015: 23–52.
- “‘Sometimes I Live in the Country, Sometimes I Live in Town’: Von folklore zu Folk.”Stimme, Kultur, Identität: Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA (1900-1960). 271–302.
- “‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels:’ Geschlecht und Klasse in Country Music, 1927–1963.” Stimme, Kultur, Identität: Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA (1900-1960). 303–332.
- “30 Rock: Complexity, Metareferentiality, and the Contemporary Quality Sitcom.” Amerikanische Fernsehserien der Gegenwart: Perspektiven der American Studies und der Media Studies. Eds. Heike Paul and Christoph Ernst. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015: 153–183.
- “Follow the Glitter Way: Lady Gaga and Camp.” Performance and Identity: The Music of Lady Gaga. Ed. Richard Gray. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012: 85–106.
- “Gaga, Fans und Weiblichkeit im Wandel.” kjl&m - Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Medien 4 (2012): 38–45.
- “Camping with the Stars: Queer Performativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga.” COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 11 (2011).
A selection of my publications is available in open access-format at the repository of the Library of Anglo-American Culture & History, The Stacks