Katie Trumpener
· Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of EnglishYale University · Comparative Literature
Active 1987–2024
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About
Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, where she has taught since 2002. Her work and teaching focus on the long history of the European novel, 20th-century German cinema, European cinema (particularly Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe), post-Enlightenment British literature and culture, Anglophone colonial and postcolonial literature, children’s literature, and visual culture. Her first book, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, received the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book and the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, and used a comparative approach to explore how literary forms developed in Ireland and Scotland influenced early literary life in Canada and other British settler colonies. Her scholarly contributions include editing the Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Period, producing the first critical edition of John Galt’s 1831 Bogle Corbet, and writing essays on Austen, the Romantic novel in Europe, and the influence of the Arabian Nights on European fiction. Currently, she is completing two books on German cinema, one on the occupation of Europe from 1930-1950 and another on postwar German cinemas, as well as working on projects related to European modernists’ representations of childhood, children’s literature, and the lineages of the European novel. Her academic background includes degrees from the University of Alberta,…
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Law
- History
- Art
- Gender studies
- Philosophy
- Communication
- Literature
Selected publications
Annals of Ice: Formations of Empire, Place and History in John Galt and Alice Munro
Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2011-06-13 · 6 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Yearbook of English Studies · 2011-01-01 · 6 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorRichard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener, The Romance of the Outlands: The Fin-de-sièècle Adventure Story between History and Geography, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2, Victorian World Literatures (2011), pp. 106-124
In the Grid: Period and Experience
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · 2012-03-01 · 3 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingWhen we read (analytically or in search of pleasure), we read in the present tense. indeed, the text seems not only present to us but electrically charged. It can seem to envelop us or to be ingested and internalized by us; it can get under our skin, startle us, make us cry, inhibit sleep (Miller, ch. 5 [146–91]). In memory the text may retain much of this experienced vividness and presence, even if our circumstances of reading can only be reconstructed laboriously. The context generally remains…
Picture-book worlds and ways of seeing
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2009-12-10 · 3 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWhen adults look back on their lives, Virginia Woolf argues in The Waves (1931), they 'turn over these scenes as children turn over the pages of a picturebook'. Memories of childhood may become indelibly linked to early memories - visual, tactile, spatial - of reading picture books, whose 'picture worlds' may permanently shape readers' worldview. Since the Enlightenment, illustrated books have aimed to teach children how to read, apprehend and make sense of the world. This chapter describes how…
11. The Politics of Conversation
New York University Press eBooks · 2020 · 2 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 80 shared
Reed Way Dasenbrock
- 76 shared
Rosemarie Scullion
- 76 shared
Judith Butler
- 74 shared
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
- 72 shared
Thomas Keenan
- 72 shared
Daniel P. Deneau
Minnesota State University Moorhead
- 72 shared
Sherry Zivley
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- 72 shared
David E. E. Sloane
University of New Haven
Awards & honors
- Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book
- British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
- Yale’s Graduate Mentoring Award
- Humboldt Fellowship
- Mellon Fellowship
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