Gabi R Kathoefer

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 also co-editor of the essay collection titled KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Interculturalities provides (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 project titled "Devouring Others: German Settler Colonialism in Brazil" undertakes a fresh appraisal of German polycentric history.