{"id":10417,"date":"2022-04-04T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=10417"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:05:46","slug":"dr-kathrin-yacavone","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-kathrin-yacavone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kathrin Yacavone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>since April 2022 \u2013 Thyssen@KWI International Fellow at the KWI Essen<\/p>\n<p>2019 \u2013 2022 \u2013 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universities of Constance and Cologne<\/p>\n<p>2011 \u2013 2019 \u2013 tenured Asistant Professor in French Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 2010 \u2013 Lecturer in History of Art and French Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u2013 2008 \u2013 PhD in French Studies\/Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n<p>2006 \u2013 2007 \u2013 Doctoral Research at the \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9riere, Paris, France<\/p>\n<p>2000-2005 \u2013 Magister Artium, Free University of Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n<p>2003 \u2013 2004 \u2013 MSc in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History and Theory of Photography<\/li>\n<li>History of Collecting Photographs (\u2018Sammlungsgeschichte\u2019)<\/li>\n<li>French Literature and Culture (19<sup>th<\/sup>\u201321<sup>st<\/sup> centuries)<\/li>\n<li>European Literary and Cultural History and Theory<\/li>\n<li>Intermediality and Mediahistory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monographs<\/p>\n<p><em>Photography, Portraiture, and Intermedial Authorship in Nineteenth-Century France <\/em>(under contract with Amsterdam University Press; forthcoming 2022\/23)<\/p>\n<p><em>Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography<\/em> (New York and London: Continuum, 2012). [2013: revised paperback reprint; 2015:<em> Benjamin, Barthes ve Foto\u011frafin Tekilli\u011fi<\/em>, Istanbul: Hayalperest publisher (Turkish translation; 2017: <em>Benjamin, Barthes y la Singularidad de la Fotograf\u00eda<\/em>, Barcelona: Alpha Decay publisher (Spanish translation)].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edited volumes<\/p>\n<p><em>Erinnerung, Erz\u00e4hlung, Erkundung:<\/em> <em>Fotoalben im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert<\/em>, ed. with Bernd Stiegler, guest-edited issue of <em>Fotogeschichte. Beitr\u00e4ge zur Geschichte und \u00c4sthetik der Fotografie<\/em>, vol. 42.165 (2022) (in press).<\/p>\n<p><em>K\u00fcnstlerische Kollaborationen. Zu Praxis und \u00c4sthetik der Zusammenarbeit \/ Artistic Collaborations: The Practice and Aesthetics of Working Together<\/em>, ed. with Ines Barner and Anja Sch\u00fcrmann, guest-edited issue of <em>Journal of Literary Theory<\/em>, vol. 16.1 (2022).<\/p>\n<p><em>Norm und Form: Fotoalben im 19. Jahrhundert<\/em>, ed. with Bernd Stiegler, guest-edited issue of <em>Fotogeschichte. Beitr\u00e4ge zur Geschichte und \u00c4sthetik der Fotografie<\/em>, vol. 41.161 (2021).<\/p>\n<p><em>La Portraitomanie: Intermediality and the Portrait in 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century France<\/em>, ed. with \u00c9rika Wicky, guest-edited issue of <em>L\u2019Esprit cr\u00e9ateur<\/em>, vol. 59.1, Johns Hopkins University Press (March 2019).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures<\/em>, special issue of <em>Nottingham French Studies<\/em>, vol. 53.2, Edinburgh University Press (July 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":9890,"template":"","person_category":[288,640,437],"class_list":["post-10417","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-4-en","person_category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}