Prof. Dr. Katharina Boehm
Katharina Boehm is Professor of English Literature and Culture. Her research focuses on British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a focus on interfaces between literary production and the history of science and media. Particular interests include the relationship between literary expression and practices of knowledge production in other fields (antiquarianism, historiography, natural history, and medicine); the history of the book and cultures of print; literature and the visual arts; literature and ecology.
Visiting Positions
- Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (2024-25)
- Visiting Scholar, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (2024-25)
- Elected Research Associate, Darwin College, University of Cambridge
(2016-17, 6 months) - Junior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) (2013-14)
- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, English Department, Rutgers (2012-13)
Fellowships and Prizes
- Habilitation Award, Universität Regensburg (2019)
- Award for Excellence in Teaching, Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Regensburg (2015)
- Elected Junior Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften & Elected Member of the Junges Kolleg (2014)
- Elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (2014)
- Elected Member of the International Association of University Professors of English (2014)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Volkswagen Stiftung (2012-13)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, DAAD (2012-13, declined)
- PhD Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation (2007-2009)
- Robert's Grant, King's College London (2009)
- Student-led Initiative Award, British Arts and Humanities Research Council (2008-2009)
- Postgraduate Scholarship, School of European Languages and Cultures, University of Kent (2005-2006)
- Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) (2003-2007)
Professional Service
- Elected Member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Professors of English (2018-)
- Elected Chair of the Junges Kolleg, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2017-19)
- Referee for Cambridge University Press; Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Victorian Review, Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Textus, Entertext, Gaskell Journal, Victorian Network
Prof. Dr. Katharina Boehm
Office: PHIL 170
Tel.: +49 (0)851-509-2790
katharina.boehm@uni-passau.de
I'm currently on research leave, based at the University of Cambridge as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of English and as a Visiting Scholar at Jesus College. I'll be on leave until April 2025.
If you’re a student and need to get in touch with me, please direct your inquiry to: lehrstuhl.boehm@uni-passau.de
Office Hours
By appointment. Please email lehrstuhl.boehm@uni-passau.de.