• Since 15 September 2024: Professor of English Literature at TU Dortmund

• 1/11/ 2020 – 14/4/2022 and 1/3/2023 – 14/9/2024: Academic staff member at Humboldt University Berlin (Eigene Stelle) and Principal Researcher of the DFG project “Shame as a Performative Narrative Affect in Automedial Art by Female British Authors with Disabilities”

• 15/4/2022 – 28/2/2023 Interim Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Bamberg

• 1/3/2019 – 30/6/2019: Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna 

• 1/10/2018 – 28/2/2019: Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

• 1/3/2018 – 30/6/2018 Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna

• 1/4/2017 – 30/9/2017 Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

• 1/4/2016 – 30/9/2016 Research Assistant, Department of English and American Studies, University of Paderborn

• 1/04/2015 – 31/3/2016 Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

• 1/4/2014 – 30/9/2014 Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, University of Würzburg

• 1/10/2013 – 31/3/2014 Guest Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

• 1/10/2012 – 31/3/2013 Research Assistant, Department of English and American Studies, University of Paderborn

• 1/11/2011 – 30/09/2012 Research Assistant, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam

• 1/4/2008 – 31/3/2009 Parental Leave

• 1/2/2003 – 14/12/2009 Research Assistant, Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam

Venia Legendi:

• 14/12/2011 University of Potsdam

PhD:

• 12/12/2003 Humboldt University Berlin (“Die Werke Fulke Grevilles aus der Perspektive einer Hermeneutik der Überwachung”)

Scholarships:                                  

• 1/10/2013 – 31/3/2014 FONTE Stiftung Grant for a Guest Professorship at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

• 1/5/1997 – 30/4/1998 Dissertation Grant FAZIT-Stiftung

• 6/1/1995 – 31/12/1996 Dissertation Grant Hochschulerneuerungsprogramms (HEP)

Graduation:

• 6/10/1994 Magistra Artium Anglistik / Amerikanistik & Germanistische Linguistik, Humboldt University Berlin

Memberships:

• Deutscher Anglistikverband, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik
• Editorial Board Member for the book series “Narratives and Mental Health” (De Gruyter Brill) 

• Literary Disability, Gender, and Affect Studies
• Narrative Literature, History of Emotions and Ethical Literary Criticism: conceptions of happiness and the British novel, 18th – 20th century
• Literary Modernism: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot
• Early Modern Literature and Culture: censorship, authorship, and subjectivity, Fulke Greville, Sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Daniel, Protestantism / Calvinism, representations of the Ottoman Empire and Islam in English drama, history, and travel literature between 1580 und 1620

• “Shame as a Performative Narrative Affect in Automedial Art by Female British Authors with ‘Disabilities’ and ‘Mental Distress’” (Research Project funded by DFG, 2020-2022 and 2023-2024) Link: gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/447802653

Monographs

• Röder, Katrin: Narrating Shame and Shaming. Autobiographical Storytelling at the Intersection of Disability, Femininity, Chronic Illness and Mental Distress (Bielefeld: transcript, to be published in 2026)
• Röder, Katrin: Entwürfe des Glücks und des guten Lebens in englischen Romanen vom 18. zum 20. Jahrhundert (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015).
• Röder, Katrin: Macht und Imagination: Fulke Grevilles Konstruktion diskreter Autorschaft (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006).

Edited Volumes and Journal Issues

• Röder, Katrin and Cornelia Wächter (Eds.): The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present (Leiden: De Gruyter Brill, forthcoming).
• Röder, Katrin and Christoph Singer (Guest eds.): “Fortune, Felicity, and Happiness Between 1500 and 1750”. Critical Survey 32.3 (2020)
• Katrin Röder and Christine Vogt-William (Guest eds.): “Shame and Shamelessness in Anglophone Literature and Media”. European Journal of English Studies 23.3 (2019).
• Russ Leo, Katrin Röder and Freya Sierhuis (Eds.): Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• Röder, Katrin and Ilse Wischer (Eds.): Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam Proceedings (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013).

Articles and Chapters

• Röder, Katrin: “Materiality, Affectivity and the Female Disabled Body in Contemporary Automedial Art”, Literary Materialisations: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage and Screen. Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke and Christoph Reinfandt (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
• Röder, Katrin: “Madhouses, Female ‘Madness’ and Forms of Caring in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher”, The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. Katrin Röder and Cornelia Wächter (De Gruyter Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
• Röder, Katrin: “Disability-Aktivismus und Social Media“. Dis-/Abilities – Nicht-/Behinderung und Medien im Kontext der Digitalisierung. Ed. Robert Stock, Christian Meier zu Verl, Melike Sahinol, Andreas Wagner and Anna Wiechern (Wiesbaden: Springer, forthcoming).
• Röder, Katrin: “(Früh-)Neuzeitliche Ausdifferenzierungen bis 1800: Englischsprachiger Raumˮ [Early modern differentiations of the British epic until 1800], Handbuch Versepik: Paradigmen – Poetiken – Geschichte. Ed. Stefan Elit, Kai Bremer and Katerina Kroucheva (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2023) 275-293.
• Röder, Katrin: “Narrating Shame in Contemporary Mental Distress Memoirs by Female British Authors”, Jarmila Mildorf, Elisabeth Punzi and Christoph Singer (Eds.): Narratives and Mental Health: Reimagining Theory and Practice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023) 231-256.
• Röder, Katrin: “Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Trilogy” (1719-1720), Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Katrin Berndt and Alessa Johns (Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2022) 157-174.
• Röder, Katrin: “Intercultural Migration and Border-Crossing in Early Modern English ‘Turk’ Plays, Pamphlets, Ballads and Travel Writing”, Transcending Boundaries. Migrations, Dislocations and Literary Transformations. SECL 26. Ed. Igor Maver und Wolfgang Zach (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2020) 337-354.
• Röder, Katrin and Christoph Singer: “Introduction”, Fortune, Felicity, and Happiness Between 1500 and 1750. Guest ed. Katrin Röder and Christoph Singer. Critical Survey 32.3 (2020): 1-7.
• Röder, Katrin and Christine Vogt-William: “Introduction”, “Shame and Shamelessness in Anglophone Literature and Media”, Guest ed. Katrin Röder and Christine Vogt-William. European Journal of English Studies 23.3 (2019): 239-248.
• Röder, Katrin: “Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’”, Timescapes of Waiting. Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral. Ed. Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth, and Olaf Berwald (Leiden & Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2019) 214-232.
• Röder, Katrin: “Hospitality as a Precarious Ethico-Political Practice in Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher (1798)”, Pascal Fischer and Christoph Houswitschka (Ed.): The Politics of Romanticism. Selected Papers from the Bamberg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism (Trier: WVT, 2019) 41-54.
• Röder, Katrin and Elisabeth Punzi: “Challenging Complicity with Mentalism: Mental Distress Memoirs and Performance Art”, Complicity and the Politics of Representation. Ed. Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth (London / New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) 195-215.
• Röder, Katrin: “The Reformation and the Ottomans: On Religious Anxiety, Imperial Envy and Moral Diversity in Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Drama,” Anglistentag 2017 Regensburg. Proceedings. Ed. Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Jochen Petzold (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2018) 281-291.
• Röder, Katrin, Russ Leo and Freya Sierhuis: “Introduction”, Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance. Ed. Russ Leo, Katrin Röder and Freya Sierhuis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 1-25.
• Röder, Katrin: “Ottoman Kingship and Resistance Against Tyranny in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha”, Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance. Ed. Russ Leo, Katrin Röder and Freya Sierhuis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 245-259.
• Röder, Katrin: “Heterotopias as Spaces of Resistance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”, Resistance and the City: Negotiating Urban Identities: Race, Class, and Gender. Ed. Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer (Leiden: Brill, 2018) 55-70.
• Röder, Katrin: “Emplotting Happiness: Charlotte Smith’s Celestina and Desmond”, Narratives of Romanticism. Selected Papers from the Wuppertal Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Ed. Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak (Trier: WVT, 2017) 53-66.
• Röder, Katrin: “Acknowledging Anger, Problematising Shame: Affirming New Identities in British Women’s Disability Autobiographies”, British Autobiography in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Ed. Sarah Herbe and Gabriele Linke. Anglistik und Englischunterricht Vol. 85 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2017) 137-162.
• Röder, Katrin: “Engaging with T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets as a Multimedia Performance”, Poetry and Performance, Ed. Pascal Fischer and Julia Latja-Novak. ZAA 64.3 (2016): 281-300.
• Röder, Katrin: “Intercultural ʻtraffique’ in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha”, Literature Compass 11/8 (2014): 560-572.
• Röder, Katrin: “Reparative Reading, Post-Structuralist Hermeneutics and T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets”, Anglia 132.1 (2014): 58-77.
• Röder, Katrin: “Intercultural ‘traffique’ and political change in Samuel Daniel’s Philotas (1596-1604) and Fulke Greville’s Mustapha (1587-1610),” Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz. Proceedings. Ed. Silvia Mergenthal and Reingard M. Nischik (WVT Trier, 2014) 171-181.
• Röder, Katrin: “Narratives of Happiness in the Context of a Reparative Hermeneutics”, Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg. Proceedings. Ed. Monika Fludernik, Benjamin Kohlmann (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012) 365-383.
• Röder, Katrin: “Mobiles Glück in den englischen Romanen des 18. Jahrhunderts” [Mobile happiness in English novels of the 18th century], Potsdamer Studien zur Mobilitätsforschung. Ed. Norbert Franz and Rüdiger Kunow (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2010) 91-133.
• Röder, Katrin: “The ‘Hermeneutics of Otherness’ and the Cryptic Text: The Example of Fulke Greville”, Making Sense of Self and Other. Essays Presented to Günter Walch. Ed. Jana Gohrisch, Isolde Neubert-Köpsel, Stephan Lieske (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999) 27-50.

• “Autobiographical Writing and the Gestalt of Shame. Disability, Chronic Illness and Mental Distress in Contemporary Intersectional Life Storying”. Workshop at Humboldt University Berlin, 23/6/2023 – 24/6/2023. Funded by DFG.
• “The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations” with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter. Workshop at Technical University Dresden, 28/10/2021 – 29/10/2021.
• “Women writing about mental health” together with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi. Panel at the Symposium “Current Discourses and Global Challenges”, Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 7/11/2019 – 8/11/2019.
• “Fortune, Felicity, and Happiness Between 1500 and 1750”, with Dr. Christoph Singer. Conference at the University of Paderborn, Germany, 25/5/2018 – 26/5/2018.
• “Poetry, Drama, and Poetics: Fulke Greville and Sir Philip Sidney”, with Dr. Freya Sierhuis and Prof. Dr. Robert E. Stillman. Panel at the Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 26/3/2015 – 28/3/2015.
• “Epic Knowledge”. Conference with Dr. Galena Hashhozheva at the Ludwig-Maxilimians-Universität Munich, Germany, Center for Advanced Studies, 6/11/2014. – 7/11/2014.
• “Beyond Paranoia: Reparative Reading als neue Methode in den Geisteswissenschaften”. Workshop with Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann at the University of Würzburg, Germany, 10/9/2014 – 12/9/2014.
• “The Measure of the Mind – Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the Renaissance”, with Dr. Freya Sierhuis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, Center for Advanced Studies, 28/4/2013 – 29/4/2013.
• Anglistentag Conference 2012, University of Potsdam, Germany, with Prof. Dr. Ilse Wischer, 19/9/2012 – 22/9/2012.

• Since 2020 editorial board member of the book series “Narratives and Mental Health” at De Gruyter Brill