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Marie Kolkenbrock

Dr Marie Kolkenbrock

Branco Weiss Fellow

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Biography

Marie Kolkenbrock holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2014) and is a Branco Weiss Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at KCL. Marie’s academic work is informed by an interest in the ways psyche, society, and culture are inextricably linked and mutually constitutive to one another. Her current project is concerned with ideals of cultivated interpersonal and emotional distance in twentieth and twenty-first centuries conceptualizations of the public sphere. She is co-editor of the German Life and Letters Special Number 'The Politics and Poetics of Refusal: Towards a Theory of Primary Rejection' (2021). Her first monograph Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose was published with Bloomsbury in 2018. 

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Cultural & Intellectual History of ‘Distance’ in the 20th & 21st century 
  • Therapy Culture
  • Viennese Modernism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Sociology of Literature
  • Feminist Ethics

Teaching

Marie has taught German language, German & comparative literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present.

Expertise and public engagement

Selected publications

  • Kolkenbrock, M.: ‘The Ethos of Distance in Emotional Culture Critiques: Helmuth Plessner, Richard Sennett, Frank Furedi’, in New German Critique 149 (2023): 183-210.
  • Kolkenbrock, M.: ‚Statt einer Biographie: Arthur Schnitzlers Haltung der Distanz‘, in Schnitzler Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. by Christoph Jürgensen, Wolfgang Lukas and Michael Scheffel (Metzler: Stuttgart 2022), 3-17.
  • Kolkenbrock, M.: ‘Dora and her Sisters: Female Troublemakers and the Cultural Politics of Detachment’, in The Politics and Poetics of Refusal: Towards A Theory of Primary Rejection, ed. by A. Gehrlach and M. Kolkenbrock, a Special Number of German Life and Letters 74.1 (2021): 145-159.
  • Kolkenbrock, M.: ‘Saved Face, Defended Place: Arthur Schnitzler and the Codes of Cool Conduct’, in Placing Schnitzler, ed. by Judith Beniston and Andrew Webber, Special Issue Austrian Studies 27 (2019), 13-28.
  • Kolkenbrock, M.: Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose: Five Psycho-Sociological Readings (New York, London: Bloomsbury, 2018) (= New Directions in German Studies).

    Research

    42564057_presentation-wide
    The Centre for the Humanities and Health

    A multidisciplinary forum interfacing the humanities, health, science & society.

    Eco, Soc, Pol, Theory
    Critical Economic and Political Thought

    The group approaches the study of politics and economics from critical cultural perspectives including, but not limited to, history, literature, visual culture, performance and social activism.

    Events

    19OctCHH

    ‘Work in Progress’ Seminars: Semester 1 2022-23

    In his eminent study The Fall of the Public Man (1977), the sociologist Richard Sennett expressed his concern about a problematically increasing preoccupation...

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      Research

      42564057_presentation-wide
      The Centre for the Humanities and Health

      A multidisciplinary forum interfacing the humanities, health, science & society.

      Eco, Soc, Pol, Theory
      Critical Economic and Political Thought

      The group approaches the study of politics and economics from critical cultural perspectives including, but not limited to, history, literature, visual culture, performance and social activism.

      Events

      19OctCHH

      ‘Work in Progress’ Seminars: Semester 1 2022-23

      In his eminent study The Fall of the Public Man (1977), the sociologist Richard Sennett expressed his concern about a problematically increasing preoccupation...

      Please note: this event has passed.