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Carolin Duttlinger is a Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Wadham College. She holds the Ockenden Fellowship in German at Wadham College. Her research focuses on modern German literature, thought, and visual culture, particularly modernist and contemporary works. Key areas include Weimar photography, perception theory, and literary engagements with memory and trauma. She has published extensively on authors such as Kafka, Benjamin, Adorno, and Sebald.
Her current research explores attention and distraction in 20th-century German culture. She co-directs the Oxford Kafka Research Centre and serves on the Executive Board of the International Walter Benjamin Society. Teaching includes leading Modern German Literature courses and supervising graduate students in German studies.
Publications include Attention and Distraction (2022), Kafka and Photography (2007), and edited volumes on Kafka, Benjamin, and modernist themes. Her articles span Kafka's narrative ethics, Benjamin's theoretical frameworks, and Sebald's intermedial aesthetics. She contributes regularly to the Times Literary Supplement and appears in BBC podcasts on Kafka and Benjamin.
