Prof. Dr. Kate Rigby

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEuropean and American Literature,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. Dr. h.c. Axel FreimuthUniversität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/1994

Program(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