Katrin Pahl

Katrin Pahl is a Professor of German at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures. She has co-directed the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality for many years. Her research focuses on affect and emotion studies, gender/sexuality, and contemporary theater, with key engagements in Hegel and Kleist.

Education: PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests include the theory of emotionality, queer procreation, and patterns of sexualized violence. Her work interrogates kinship beyond human-centric frameworks and explores intersections of ecological violence, migration, and psychic life.

Awards include the Best Article in Feminist Scholarship Prize and the Kenneth Weisinger Lecture. She has held fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin (Cluster of Excellence ‘Languages of Emotion’) and the IKKM in Weimar.

Her current projects address queer procreation and the analysis of political theater/multimedia art. No specific grants or advising details are listed.