PD Dr. Katrin Trüstedt
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing, ZfL ombudsperson
CV
- since 2021 Head of the Program Area History of Theory at the ZfL
- since 2021 Head of the Project Politics of Appearing at the ZfL
- 2017–2021 Assistant Professor of German, Yale University
- 2009–2017 Juniorprofessorin, Comparative Literature, University of Erfurt
- 2016 Acting Full Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Erfurt
- 2005–2009 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Western European Literature, European University Viadrina
- 2005–2008 Academic Coordinator of the graduate research program Forms of Life & Knowledge of Life, (DFG), University of Potsdam and European University Viadrina
Fellowships
- 2020–2021 Senior Research Fellow, The MacMillan Center, Yale
- 2018–2019 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
- 2012–2014, 2015 Visiting Humboldt Fellow, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Yale
- 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
Jury, Council, and Board Memberships
- since 2014 General Editor of the Journal Law and Literature
Research Interests
- Modern English and German Literature
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- Law and Literature
- Asthetics, Poetics & Rhetoric
- Tragedy and Comedy
- Literature and Biopoetics
- Figures of Representation
- Politics of Appearance
- Migration and Externalization
Publications
Monographs
- Stellvertretung. Zur Szene der Person. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2022
- Die Komödie der Tragödie: Shakespeares Sturm am Umschlagplatz von Mythos und Moderne, Rache und Recht, Tragik und Spiel. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2011
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
- ed.: Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber. Toronto: Toronto University Press 2022 (with Peter Goodrich)
- ed.: Law and Literature 32.2 (2020) = Representing Agency (with Rüdiger Campe and Friedrich Balke)
- ed.: Brecht Yearbook 44 (2019) = Pure Joke: The Comedy of Theater Since Brecht (with Christian Kirchmeier)
- ed.: Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. München: Fink 2009 (with Kathrin Thiele)
Articles and Book Chapters
- Stateless, on Stage: Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Schutzbefohlenen, in: Ivana Perica, Catriona Corke et al. (ed.): The Literary Acts of Agency. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)
- The Sea-Change of Comedy: Hegelian Dialectics and Shakespearean Play, in: Ramona Mosse, Anna Street (ed.): Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy. New York: Routledge 2024 (forthcoming)
- Stellvertretung, in: Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Peter Schneck et al. (ed.): Handbuch Literatur und Recht. Berlin: De Gruyter 2024 (forthcoming)
- Standing In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution, in: DS Mayfield (ed.): Blumenberg’s Rhetoric. Berlin: De Gruyter 2023, 139–152
- Schreber’s Double Process: Legal and Literary Transformations in the Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, in: Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt (ed.): Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber. Toronto: Toronto University Press 2022, 68–105
- Introduction, in: Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt (ed.): Laws of Transgression: The Return of Judge Schreber. Toronto: Toronto University Press 2022, 1-20 (with Peter Goodrich)
- Externalization on Stage: The Exil Ensemble’s Hamletmaschine, in: Karin Nissen-Rizvani, Martin Jörg Schäfer (ed.): TogetherText: Prozessual erzeugte Texte im Gegenwartstheater. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2020, 142–155
- Representing Agency: An Introduction, in: Law and Literature 32:2 (2020) = Representing Agency, 195–206
- The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka’s Metamorphosis, in: Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer et al. (ed.): Cultural Techniques. New York: de Gruyter 2020, 288–308
- Alienation and Affirmation: The Comedy of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmaschine, in: Brecht Yearbook 44 (2019) = Pure Joke: The Comedy of Theater Since Brecht, 102–121
- Derrida’s Shylock: The Letter and the Life of Law, in: Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld (ed.): Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law. New York: Fordham University Press 2019, 168–185
- Tiefere Blicke in des Menschen-Herz: Schillers Pitaval, der Code Napoléon und die (Un-) Mittelbarkeit theatraler Innenschau, in: Athenäum. Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft, Sonderheft: Das Politische des romantischen Dramas, ed. by Christian Kirchmeier. Paderborn: Schöningh 2019, 49–75
- Pure Joke: An Introduction, in: Brecht Yearbook 44 (2019)= Pure Joke: The Comedy of Theater Since Brecht, 81–84 (with Christian Kirchmeier)
- “How came that widow in?” Entzogene Fluchtgeschichten auf der Bühne, in: Bettine Menke, Joseph Vogel (ed.): Flucht und Szene: Perspektiven und Formen eines Theaters der Fliehenden. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2018, 167–187
- Alienation und Affirmation. Die Komödie der Negativität in Heiner Müllers Hamletmaschine, in: Thomas Khurana et al.: Negativität: Kunst – Recht – Politik. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2018, 65–79
- Vorstellen und Verstellen. Zum Doppelpunkt in Joyces Ulysses, in: Helga Lutz, Nils Plath, Dietmar Schmidt (ed.): Satzzeichen. Szenen der Schrift. Berlin: Kadmos 2017, 40–47
- Fluch des Verfahrens: Karl Kraus und die Akten zum Fall Kerr, in: Modern Language Notes 131:3 (2016), 701–23
- “[A] thing that was nothing had happened”: Hamlets (Un-)Dinge in Samuel Becketts Watt, in: Armin Schäfer, Karin Kröger (ed.): Null, Nichts und Negation. Becketts No-Thing, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016, 75–93
- Execution Without Verdict: Kafka’s (Non-)Person, in: Law and Critique 26:1 (2015), 135–154
- Das Nach-leben auf der Bühne des Geistes, in: Alexandra Heimes, Alexandra Blumenberg et al. ((ed.): Suspensionen. Epistemologien des Untoten. München: Fink 2014, 161–167
- Die Person als Stellvertreter, in: Jörg Dünne, Martin Jörg Schäfer (ed.): Unübersetzbarkeiten/Les Intraduisibles. Paris: Collection du CéP, Editions des Archives contemporaines 2013, 321–330
- Verlegenheit, in: Eva Horn, Michèle Lowrie (ed.): Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought. Berlin: August 2013, 187–190
- Der Buchstabe und das Leben des Gesetzes in Shakespeares Kaufmann von Venedig, in: Karl-Heinz Ladeur, InoAugsberg (ed.): Talmudische Tradition und moderne Rechtstheorie. Kontexte und Perspektiven einer Begegnung. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013, 59–82
- Nomos and Narrative: Zu den Verfahren der Orestie, in: Ino Augsberg et al. (Hg.): Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt des Rechts. München: Fink 2012, 59–77
- Novelle der Stellvertretung: Kleists Michael Kohlhaas, in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 130:4 (2011), 545–568
- Hecuba against Hamlet: Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and the Stake of Modern Tragedy, in: Telos 153 (2010), 94–112
- Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer: Schmitt, Blumenberg und das Theater der Moderne, in: Shakespeare Jahrbuch 146 (2010), 97–112
- Anselm Haverkamp: Geschichte und Latenz, in: Stephan Moebius, Dirk Quadflieg (ed.): Kultur. Theorien der Gegenwart. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010, 530–540
- Lebenswissen nach Cavell: Eine Einleitung, in: Karin Thiele, Katrin Trüstedt (ed.): Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. München: Fink 2009, 9–16 (with Kathrin Thiele)
- Cavell, King Lear und das Theater der Konvention, in: Karin Thiele, Katrin Trüstedt (ed.): Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. München: Fink 2009, 107–130
- The Tragedy of Law in Shakespearean Romance, in: Law and Humanities 2 (2007), 167–182, reprint in: Paul Raffield, Gary Watt (ed.): Shakespeare and the Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing 2008, 101–118
- The Decomposition of Sound in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in: Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft 5 (2007), 11–18, reprint in: Shakespearean Criticism 133, 280–284
- Double Plot. Zum latenten Mechanismus eines 'coming to know what we cannot just not know', in: Stefanie Diekmann, Thomas Khurana (ed.): Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff. Berlin: Kadmos 2007, 56–61
- Secondary Satire and the Sea-Change of Romance, in: Law and Literature 17:3 (2005), 345–364, reprint in: Shakespearean Criticism 104, 319–329
Essays and Reviews
- Prozess des Erscheinens. Vom Rande des NSU-Verfahrens, ZfL Blog, 23.03.2022
- The Figure Of The Migrant, in: 3QuarksDaily, March 25 2019
- Terror On Trial 3: 357%, in: 3QuarksDaily, August 13 2018
- Fortress Europe, in: 3QuarksDaily, June 18 2018
- Making it up at Moma, in: 3QuarksDaily, February 26 2018
- Gender Trouble 2017, Comedy Edition, in: 3QuarksDaily, January 1 2018
- (Don’t) Kill Your Darlings: Volksbühne, Berlin, in: 3QuarksDaily, Ocotber 2 2017
- Perpetuating Externalization, in: 3QuarksDaily, June 12 2017
- Comedy of Reading, in: Starship 16 (2017), 90-91
- Terror on Trial, Pt. 2: Counter Forensics, in: 3QuarksDaily, April 17 2017
- Review of: Achim Geisenhanslüke: Die Sprache der Infamie, in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 135:1 (2016), 310-316
- Taking Offense, in: 3QuarksDaily, November 28 2016
- Terror on Trial, Pt. 1: (In)visibilities, in: 3QuarksDaily, October 31 2016
- The Political Machine and the Making of an Author-Sovereign: Notes on The West Wing, in: 3QuarksDaily, September 5 2016
- Thumos, Terror and Houellebecqian Temperatures, in: 3QuarksDaily, August 8 2016
- The Church, the Mosque, the Installation, and the Tennis Court, in: 3QuarksDaily, June 13 2016
- The Destruction of the Gray Zone, in: 3QuarksDaily, May 16 2016
- obituary for Cornelia Vismann (1961-2010), in: Texte zur Kunst 80 (2010)
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