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Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, where she has taught since 2002. She specializes in European literature, film, and visual culture, with particular focus on transnational narratives, modernism, and the cultural history of the novel. Her research spans British, German, and Central European literatures, childhood studies, and the Cold War's impact on art and media.
Trained at the University of Alberta (B.A.), Harvard University (A.M.), and Stanford University (Ph.D.), she previously taught at the University of Chicago (1990–2002). Her landmark work Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (1997) earned major academic prizes and remains foundational in postcolonial literary studies. She co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period (2008) and authored critical editions of 19th-century novels. Current projects include two books on German cinema and a comparative study of European modernists’ representations of childhood.
Trumpener’s interdisciplinary work bridges literature, film, and visual arts, with recent publications addressing panorama paintings’ influence on modern media, Cold War-era photobooks, and East German cinematic experiments. She serves on editorial boards for journals like German Quarterly and has held fellowships from institutions including the Humboldt Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Her awards include Yale’s Graduate Mentoring Award and the British Academy’s prestigious Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Ongoing research explores the transnational history of the novel, postwar German cinema, and the intersections of visual culture with literary traditions.
