Katharina Fackler

Katharina Fackler is a Lecturer in the Department of English, American Studies and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on (Postcolonial) Ecocriticism, Life Writing, Visual Culture Studies, and Poverty Studies. She explores topics such as early American maritime literature, social photography history, and Black Feminism within civil rights movements.

Her current projects investigate transoceanic life writing, the materiality of photography from analog to digital formats, and the visual legacies of social protests. She has published extensively on topics ranging from 19th-century Pacific narratives to Cold War famine iconographies.

Her academic profile includes work on the intersections of class, space, and visual activism, particularly in contexts like the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. She holds office hours Thursdays 1–2:30 PM at Genscherallee 3, room 3.022 during term time, with appointments required during breaks.