Katharina Röder
Professur Faisst
Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften | American Studies
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
Room: 0.415
Mail: katharina.roeder@tu-dortmund.de
Office Hours SoSe 2025: Tudesdays, 11 am to 1 pm or with an appointment via e-mail

- Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
- Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction
- Popular Culture
- Visual Culture and Media
- Ecocriticism
- Since 2025 | PhD Candidate in American Studies at TU Dortmund University
- 2022-2024 | Lecturer and Research Assistant, University of Regensburg
- 2021 | Master of Arts in Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University
- 2019 | Bachelor of Arts in Applied Literary and Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University
- 2016-2017 | Institute of English and American Studies University of Debrecen, Study Abroad
- With Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, and Jiann-Chyng Tu. "Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. The 2022 Postgraduate Forum." Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. Special issue of Current Objectives of American Studies [COPAS], vol. 24, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-8. Online.
- With Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Lena Gotteswinter, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, and Jiann-Chyng Tu (eds). Remembering: Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies. Special issue of Current Objectives of American Studies [COPAS], vol. 24, no. 1, 2023. Online.
Conference Organization
- "Remembering - Transnational Memory Cultures and American Studies" 32nd Annual Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS). Regensburg, 10-12 November 2022. (Co-organized with Verena Baier, Markus Diepold, Tamara Heger, Bill Henderson, Christian Knittl, Jon-Wyatt Matlack, Thalia Prokopiou, Katharina Röder, and Jiann-Chyng Tu). PGF 2022 - Universität Regensburg.
Conference Talks
- “’I am a Dirty Computer’ – Contemporary Queer Dystopias in the US” | AISNA Graduate Conference, Rome, 30 Sep. 2022
- “Memories as Identity in Janelle Monáe‘s Dirty Computer” | 32nd Annual Conference of the Post Graduate Forum (PGF) of the DGfA, University of Regensburg, 10 Nov. 2022
Since 2022: DGfA/GAAS - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien/ German Association for American Studies