Prof. Dr. Kate Rigby

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEuropean and American Literature,German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
Keywordsreligion and ecology, decolonial studies, environmental humanities, multispecies studies, disaster studies
Honours and awards

2022: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityKöln
InstitutionUniversität zu Köln

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gisela EckerFachbereich 3 - Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Evi ZemanekDeutsches Seminar - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Joybrato MukherjeeUniversität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/1994

Programme(s)

1993Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2021Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Publications (partial selection)

2012Catherine E. Rigby: Das Erdbeben in Chili and the Romantic Reframing of >Natural Disaster<. In: Yixu Lü, Anthony Stephens, Alison Lewis, Wilhelm Voßkamp, Wissensfiguren im Werk Heinrich von Kleists. Rombach Verlag KG, 2012. 137-150
2009Catherine E. Rigby: Topographies of the Sacred. University of Virginia Press, 2009