Faculty
Arens, Katherine
Professor
Office: BUR 320
Phone:512-232-6363
k.arens@mail.utexas.edu
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Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research interests:
German Idealism, European Novel since the 18th Century, European Romanticism, Intellectual and history (18th-20th century, Germany and Austria), literary and cultural theory, history of science and history of the philosophy of science (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), history of psychology, history and theory of the humanities, women's and gender studies, eighteenth- through twentieth century germanophone literatures, Austrian studies
Current research:
I have just completed two manuscripts, one on Austria's two-hundred-year-old traditions of "thinking Europe" rather than nationalistically (Vienna Dreaming: Austria's Once and Future Europe), and one on Neo-Kantian inheritances in contemporary theory (tentatively entitled Thereographies).A book project in progress (and hopefully on-track for completion in 07-08) is on the graduate curriculum in the humanities. I have several essay-length projects near completion in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural history and twentieth century theory and intellectual history, including work on Hannah Arendt, Deleuze,Lacan, Zizek, Kristeva,Herder, Paul Feyerabend, the posthuman debate, and performativity. My big project in progress is on the history of science in society, tentatively entitled Squaring the Vienna Circle: Empiricism,Historicism, and the Epistemology of Science. For the graduate curriculum, I am working on the "Texas Theory Wiki" as a way of integrating teaching and research in a collaborative mode.
Courses taught:
Please see http://www.utexas.edu/courses/arens
Awards/Honors:
HONORS (selection):
2007-08 Vice President, Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (president 2008-2010)
2008 Who's Who in American Education, 8th ed.
2007 Who's Who in America, 62nd edition (published 10/07 for 2008)
2006-7 Who's Who in American Education, 7th edition
2005 Who's Who of American Women, 25th Silver Anniversary edition
2004 Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award in Women's and Gender Studies, Center for WGS, UT Austin
2003 Who's Who in American Education, 6th edition
MAJOR GRANTS (selection):
University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas), Spring, 2008
Dean's Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Spring, 2007
Summer, 2006: SCMLA/Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Research Grant, OVP Research, U of Texas at Austin, 2005- 06
Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin (one semester single-course release), Spring, 2003
University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas), Spring, 2002
Dean's Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Spring, 2001
University Cooperative Society Subvention Grant, awarded November, 1999
University Research Institute Faculty Research Assignment (University of Texas), Spring, 1996
Recent Publications:
BOOKS
2005 Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Multi- Literacies Approach. J. Swaffar and K. Arens. New York: Modern Language Association
2001 Empire in Decline: Fritz Mauthner's Critique of Wilhelminian Germany. New York: Peter Lang
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:
"Stadtwollen: Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Problem of Method." Special Issue on Cities, PMLA, 122, #1 (January 2007): 43-60.
"'Das Schiff ist das Urbild einer sehr besonderen und strengen Regierungsform': Herder's Journey to Hermeneutic Conversion." Herder Jahrbuch/Herder Yearbook, 8 (2006): 43-59.
"When Comparative Literature Becomes Cultural Studies: Teaching Cultures through Genre." Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature, 29 (May 2005): 123-47.
"Globalizing Information: Accountability and Disciplinarity." German Quarterly, 78, #3 (Summer 2005): 374-78
"Said's Colonial Fantasies: How Orientalism Marginalizes Eighteenth-Century Germany." Herder Jahrbuch, 7 (2004): 11-29
Norma Fowler, Katherine Arens, Lucia A. Gilbert, Shelley M. Payne, Linda E. Reichl, and Janet Staiger. "Graphic Stories: Representing the Status of Female Faculty." Feminist Studies, 30, # 3 (Fall 2004): 689-701
"Why Austrian Studies Isn't German Studies: Germanophone Culture(s) -- A Once and Future Tale." Modern Austrian Literature, 36, # 1/2 (2003): 53-68 (appeared May, 2004)
"Hanswurst redux: Staberl, Titus, and Annina." Modern Austrian Literature, 35, #3/4, 2002: 1-26 (appeared March, 2004).
John R. J. Eyck and K.A. "The Court of Public Opinion: Lessing, Goethe, and Werther's Emilia Galotti" Monatshefte, 96, #1 (Spring 2004): 40-61
"Castrati and the Masquerade of the Eighteenth Century: Farinelli and Sitwell." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 9 (2003): 237-268 "Jefferson in Paris: Imperious History, Un-Domesticated." Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 27, #1 (2003): 76-84
"Geister der Zeit: The Allies' Enlightenment and German Literary History." JEGP, 102 # 3 (July 2003): 336- 361
"Teaching and the MLA International Bibliography." Profession (2002): 158-163
"Canons, Generations, Bridges: Rethinking Our Gardens." ADFL Bulletin, 34, #1 (Fall 2002): 21-25