Department of German Language and Literature

Katerina Karakassi holds the position of Full Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Department of German Language and Literature of the University of Athens (Greece). She completed her PhD with a scholarship of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Between 2000 and 2005 she worked at the Department of General and Comparative Literature of the University of Essen-Duisburg (Germany) as a researcher. Since 2005 she has been teaching at the University of Athens and since 2006 she is teaching “History of European Literature” as a scientific collaborator at the Open University of Greece. She was Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz (Germany) by Prof. Dr. Koschorke from 2009 to 2012 and in 2017. Her research interests include the German literature of the 18th and the 20th century, comparative literature and literary theory. Between 2018 and 2020 she was director of the Masterprogramm German Philology. Theory and Applications. Since 2022 she is head of the Department of German Language and Literatureof the University of Athens-NKUA (Greece).

Additional Information: http://scholar.uoa.gr/kkarakassi