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January 26, 2007|Volume 35, Number 15


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Katherine (Katie) Trumpener



Katie Trumpener is appointed
as Emily Sanford Professor

Katherine (Katie) Trumpener, the newly designated Emily Sanford Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is a scholar of the history of the anglophone and European novel (including Scotland, Ireland and the British empire), the modernist novel and 20th-century social history, British and European cinema, the history of children's literature, visual culture, Canadian literature, Marxist theory and cultural traditions, and the literature and culture of Germany and Central Europe.

Focusing on the late 18th century through the present, she is particularly interested in the relationship of literature to social and cultural history, visual culture and music, as well as in nationalism, regionalism and traditionalism. She is currently researching the history of children's literature, Jane Austen's colonial reception and the institutionalization of Marxist aesthetics in postwar Central Europe.

Trumpener is the author of "Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire," which was awarded the 1998 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book and the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She is the co-editor, with Richard Maxwell, of the forthcoming "Cambridge Companion to Romantic Fiction." Another book, "The Divided Screen: The Cinemas of Postwar Germany," is under contract. She has written numerous essays in edited collections as well as journals articles, review essays and translations.

A graduate of the University of Alberta in Canada, Trumpener earned her M.A. in English and American literature at Harvard University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stanford University. She also studied at the Universität Freiburg and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1990 and taught there until coming to Yale in 2002 as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English and in the Film Studies Program. She was director of graduate studies in comparative literature 2004-2006 and acting director of the Whitney Humanities Center in 2004.

Trumpener has earned numerous honors for her scholarship, including, most recently, an American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, the Ann Marie Kellen Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

She has been an invited lecturer at universities throughout the United States, in Canada and in Europe. In addition to her teaching duties, she has given Yale gallery talks, organized film festivals and helped curate a recent exhibition on illustrated children's books at the Sterling Memorial Library.

Trumpener is the co-founder of the Scholars at Risk Network, which comprises more than 70 institutions in the United States and abroad that have pledged to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. She serves as an adviser to the American Comparative Literature Association and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.


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