Katrin Becker
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Katrin Becker holds a Master of Education in English and French from the University of Hamburg (2015), which included a year abroad at the University of Manchester. Before beginning her PhD at the University of Hamburg (ongoing), she taught German as a foreign language at a secondary school in Nantes, France. From 2018 to 2024, she worked as a teaching and research associate in the English Department at the University of Siegen, focusing on English literature and academic writing. In 2024, she completed her Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) at the University of Sheffield before joining the University of Hamburg as an instructor in English language practice. Her language teaching is informed by the British tradition of Cultural Studies, her multilingual background, and her experience in academic publishing.
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Edited special issues
(with Alessandra Boller and Sara Strauß) Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives, special issue of Anglistik, vol. 36, no. 1, 2025.
(with Felix Sprang and Benjamin Kohlmann) British Fictions of Class since 1945: Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, special issue of Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 1, 2023.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Book Chapters
“Voyage Out, Voyage Up? Subjectivities of Post-Migration and Cruel Optimism in the (Un)Making of the Black-British Bildungsroman.” Genres, Poetics, and Subjectivities of Migration, special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, 2025, pp. 442-59. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2023.2290561.
“Narrating Class and Classlessness in Contemporary British Novels of Black Women’s Social Climbing.” Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture, edited by Liesbeth François and Michiel Rys, Leuven University Press, 2024, pp. 181-200. DOI: 10.11116/9789461665690.
(with Felix Sprang and Benjamin Kohlmann) “British Fictions of Class since 1945: Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century.” Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 1, 2023, pp. 7-21. DOI: 10.33675/ANGL/2023/1/4.
“‘tiny parts / of a bigger constellation:’ The Aesthetics and Politics of Kae Tempest’s Poetic Realism.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 29, no. 2, 2022, pp. 209-25.
(with Phillip Becher) “Antifaschismus, Demokratie und Gemeineigentum in Großbritannien: Richard Acland und die Vor- und Nachgeschichte des ‘Spirit of ‘45.’” Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte, vol. 21, no. 2, 2022, pp. 95-116.
(with Phillip Becher, Kevin Rösch, and Laura Seelig) “Ordoliberal White Democracy, Elitism, and the Demos: The Case of Wilhelm Röpke.” Democratic Theory, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021, pp. 70-96. DOI: 10.3167/dt.2021.080204.
“Intersections of Class and Narrative Discourse: Forms at Work in Zadie Smith's NW.” Forms at Work: New Formalist Approaches in the Study of Literature, Culture, and Media, edited by Elizabeth Kovach, Imke Polland, and Ansgar Nünning, wvt, 2021, pp. 167-84.
Miscellanea
(with Felix Sprang) “Shakespeare sehr frei, sehr freizügig und ein abruptes Ende: Shakespeare an Rhein/Main und in Heidelberg.” Theaterschau – Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol. 161, 2025, pp. 189-202.
(with Lina Maxeiner, Felix Sprang, and Chiara Weiss) “Liebe, Macputin und Faszinationstheater: Shakespeare im Südwesten.” Theaterschau – Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol. 160, 2024, pp. 253-58.
(with Lina Maxeiner and Felix Sprang) “Lampshading und Generation-Erbe-Schelte in Darmstadt: Viel meta im Südwesten.” Theaterschau – Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol. 159, 2023, pp. 157-64.
(with Sophie Mucenieks and Felix Sprang) “Von Schwergewicht zu Leichtigkeit: Shakespeare post-Corona-Lockdown im Südwesten.” Theaterschau – Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol. 158, 2022, pp. 190-96.