Katherine Calvert
پژوهشگر ارشد · Nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature
University of Leedsمعرفی
Dr. Katherine Calvert is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in German Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, under the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Her research centers on emotional discourse in German political writing from 1871 to 1933, with a focus on how mass movements used emotional rhetoric to legitimize ideological claims. She also explores intersections between psychological well-being and political activism in feminist writing from the 1970s to the present.
Her research interests include:
- Nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature
- History of emotions
- German political cultural production
- History of German social and political movements
- Feminist and socialist women’s writing
- Print media and narrative strategies
Her recent publications examine emotional regimes in reproductive rights activism, anti-fascist political essays, and representations of motherhood and class in Weimar literature. The articles reveal a consistent focus on how emotional narratives are strategically deployed in political discourse across historical periods.
She has received significant recognition for her scholarship, including:
- 2023 Forum for Modern Language Studies Prize
- 2020 Women in German Studies Essay Prize
Katherine Calvert has taught German language, history, and culture at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University. She currently delivers guest seminars on 20th-century German history and German-speaking cultures at Leeds. She is an active member of the academic community through her involvement with the Association for German Studies (AGS) and Women in German Studies (W+IGS), where she contributes to career development initiatives for early-career academics.
She is currently leading the research project Mobilising the Masses: Appeals to Emotion in German Political Writing, 1871–1933, which investigates emotional appeals in colonial, feminist, pacifist, and communist movements in Imperial and Weimar Germany.
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