Kata Gellen
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor
My main areas of research are German literary modernism, German-Jewish culture, Weimar cinema, and Austrian literature. My manuscript, Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism
, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press. In this intermedial study I demonstrate that the role of noise in Kafka's writings is best understood through the theory and practice of film sound. In my next project I will examine the twentieth-century East European German-Jewish novel, or Galizienroman
, as a modernist form. I will explore the relationship of tradition and modernity, as well as questions of modernist form and style, in authors such as Joseph Roth, Soma Morgenstern, and H. W. Katz. Recent courses I have taught include German film (undergraduate), Surveillance & Society (first-year seminar), and "'Mensch ohne Welt': Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Literature" (graduate).
Office Hours
Fall 2017 office hours
Wed 11:30am-1:30pm
Wed 11:30am-1:30pm
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2018
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
- Director of Graduate Studies of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Contact Information
- 116B Old Chemistry Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708-0256
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kata.gellen@duke.edu
(919) 660-3168
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Academia
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Kata Gellen CV
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