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Gabi R Kathoefer

Associate Professor, German

gabi.kathoefer@du.edu

303-871-2178 (Office)

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

What I do

19th-Century German Literary and Cultural Studies
Transcultural Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Life Writing
Travel Literature
Inclusive Pedagogies

Professional Biography

Gabi Kathöfer's research centers on politics of identity and interconnections between presumably unrelated cultural spaces and issues. Her first monograph titled Auszug in die Heimat: Zum Alteritäts(t)raum Märchen (Olms, 2008) examines the multiplicity of identity constructions and spaces of alterity presented in nineteenth-century fairy tales. She is co-editor of the essay collection titled KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Interculturalities (DeGruyter, 2015). KulturConfusão contains articles written by international scholars from a variety of disciplines, including German studies, Brazilian and Lusophone Studies, art history, and literature, and calls into question the boundaries by which we understand cultures, their products, practices and perspectives. She also served as co-editor (with Beverly Weber) for a special theme issue of Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies on "Heimatlosigkeit/ Precarity" (2018). Gabi's current book project titled "Devouring Others: German Settler Colonialism in Brazil" undertakes a fresh appraisal of German polycentric history.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., U of Connecticut, 2005

Featured Publications

Kathoefer, G. R. (2008). Auszug in die Heimat: Zum Alteritäts(t)raum Märchen. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag.
Kathoefer, G. R., Finger, A., & Larkosh, C. (2015). "KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Hybridities and Intercultural Hermeneutics". In KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Interculturalities.. DeGruyter.
Kathoefer, G. R., & Weber, B. (Eds.). (2018). Heimatlosigkeit/Precarity. Seminar.
Kathoefer, G. R. (2024). Frauen-Geschichte(n) in Brasilien: Identitätsdiskurse an der Schnittstelle von Geschlecht, Kultur und Rasse. Staden Jahrbuch, 65.
Kathoefer, G. R. (2024). Work, Disability, Race: Toward an Intersectional, "Unsettling" Analysis of German Settler Colonialism . In Health Humanities in German Studies. Bloomsbury.