Prof. Dr. Katharina Rennhak

Short CV

Katharina Rennhak (*Nov. 1970) studied English and German at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, Ireland. From 1997 to 2009 she taught English Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität where she also received her Dr. phil. (2001) and completed her Habilitation (2007). She was a Visiting Assistant Pro­fessor at the English Department of the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Since 2009 she is professor for English Literature at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Katharina Rennhak is the current Director of the Center for Narrative Research (ZEF). She is general secretary of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) and a member of the IASIL htt/typo3/#_msocom_3Executive 2016-19 (European Representative).