Katharina Karcher

Katharina Karcher is an Associate Professor in German at the University of Birmingham's Department of Modern Languages. She holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, alongside degrees from Bauhaus University Weimar and Utrecht University. Her research focuses on protest movements and political violence in the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on gender, race, class, and dis/ability. She has published extensively on militant feminisms in Germany and is currently studying the exile of student leader Rudi Dutschke in the UK. Karcher organizes interdisciplinary conferences on topics like feminist theory and political extremism. Her work bridges feminist theory, cultural studies, and critical security studies.

Education: BA (Bauhaus University Weimar), MA (Utrecht University), PhD (University of Warwick).

Key awards include the MHRA Research Scholarship. She has collaborated with media outlets like BBC and SPIEGEL, producing documentaries on protest movements.