JProf. Dr. Katharina Fürholzer

 

Universitätsstraße 1 | D-56070 Koblenz Post: P.O. Box 20 16 02 | D-56016 Koblenz
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Consultation hours: Mondays, 10-12 a.m. via Zoom (after prior registration by e-mail)
Vita
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Publications
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Vita

Career

Professional Career

  • 2024–: Professor (W1) of Interdisciplinarity Studies, Institute of German Studies (Literary Studies/Literary Didactics), University of Koblenz, DE
  • 2022–2024: Scientific Coordinator & Postdoctoral Researcher, Department “Aging of Individuals and Society” (AGIS), University of Rostock, DE
  • 2019–2022: Postdoctoral visiting scholar, Department of Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, US
  • 2017–2019: Research Associate (Wiss. Mitarbeiterin), Institute of the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, University of Ulm, DE
  • 2016–2017: Lecturer, Institute of German Studies, University of Münster (WWU), DE
  • 2011–2014: Research Assistant, Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine (MLU Halle), The Junge Akademie (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities / National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina), Institute of Scandinavian Studies (LMU Munich), Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine (LMU Munich)

Education

  • 2024: Habilitation (Dr. phil. habil.), Venia Legendi “General and Comparative Literature,” University of Innsbruck, AT
  • 2017: Ph.D. (Joint Doctorate), University of Münster, DE & Ghent University, BE
  • 2013–2017: Doctoral Studies at the Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” University of Münster & Ghent University
  • 2013: Magistra Artium, LMU Munich, DE
  • 2007–2013: Magister Studies in Scandinavian Studies, Comparative Literature & American Literary History, LMU Munich, DE & King’s College London, UK
  • 2005: State-Certified Translator (Spanish), Sprachen & Dolmetscher Institut Munich, DE

Grants & Awards

Grants

  • Personnel funding through the program “NaWi – Research with Student Assistants,” University of Koblenz, for employing a student assistant (2025–2026)
  • Start-up funding from the Career Fund (IFGPZ), University of Koblenz, for the research project “World and Value. European Humanitarianism as Narration and Construction” (2025–2026)
  • Personnel funding from the Professorinnenprogramm III, University of Rostock, for employing a student assistant (2023 and 2024)
  • Start-up funding from the Department “Knowledge–Culture–Transformation” (WKT), University of Rostock, for the research project “Literature at the End of Life”
  • Research funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the project “Femme aphasique. Language Disorders as Poetic Practice in the Work of U.S. American Women Poets” (Program of Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, 2019–2020)
  • Publication and event funding from the OA Book Funds of the University of Rostock and FU Berlin, Department AGIS, University of Innsbruck, Land Vorarlberg, Ulm University Society, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, DFG Research Group “Literary Form,” Equal Opportunities Office WWU Münster, and Smartnetwork WWU Münster (2015–)
  • Travel, workshop, and conference grants from BMBF, ELSA, Volkswagen Foundation, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Max Weber Program, Protestant Academy Berlin, German Literature Archive Marbach, University of Rostock (2008–2022)
  • Translation grants from the German Translators’ Fund (2020) and the Danish Arts Foundation (2020)

Scholarships

  • Doctoral scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2014–2017)
  • Study scholarship of the Max Weber Program Bavaria for highly talented students (2007–2013)
  • Study abroad scholarships of the Erasmus Program and the Max Weber Program Bavaria (King’s College London, 2010–2011)
  • Language course scholarships of the Max Weber Program Bavaria and the Swedish Institute (2008, 2010, 2011)

Prizes & Distinctions

  • Early Career Award of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM) (2023)
  • Fellow of the GSO Leadership Academy (2022–2023)
  • Mentee of the MuT Program Baden-Württemberg (2018–2019)
  • Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures, LMU Munich, for the Magister degree “with distinction”
  • Valedictorian

Functions

Editorial, Peer Review & Advisory Activities

  • Founding member and Co-Editor of the journal Re:visit. Humanities & Medicine in Dialogue (with Julia Pröll & Maria Heidegger) (2022–)
  • Scientific Advisory Board of the series Medical Humanities, Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Scientific Committee of the research group Cognition in Comparative Poetics (COPOS), University of Salamanca
  • Reviewer and committee activities (institutions): Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) • Volkswagen Foundation • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) • German Academic Scholarship Foundation • Max Weber Program Bavaria (Elitenetzwerk Bayern) • German Society for Hospital History (Research Prize) • Graduate School “Practices of Literature” (GSPoL), University of Münster (Doctoral and DAAD fellowship selection; 2015–2016)
  • Reviewing activities (journals & publishers): World Literature Studies • Textpraxis. Digital Journal for Philology • Sudhoffs Archiv • Journal of Science Education • Research Ethics • NanoEthics • Ethik in der Medizin • Science and Engineering Ethics • GMS Journal for Medical Education • Medical Science Monitor • transcript Verlag • Bloomsbury Publishing

Committee & Leadership Roles

  • Co-Head of the Working Group “Language & Ethics,” Academy for Ethics in Medicine (Co-Head: 2023÷, Member: 2013–)
  • Founding member and steering committee member of the “German Network for Narrative Medicine” (2019–)
  • Committee member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Max Weber Program Bavaria (each since 2015)
  • Board member and doctoral representatives’ spokesperson at the Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” University of Münster (2015–2016)
  • Committee member of the doctoral and DAAD fellowship selection at the Graduate School “Practices of Literature,” University of Münster (2014–2015)