Dr Karolina Watroba
Lecturer in German Studies
- German Section
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: karolina.watroba@ed.ac.uk
Background
I joined the University of Edinburgh in 2025. Previously I was a Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford (2019-2024) and a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala (2024-2025).
Qualifications
I went to school in Krakow, Poland. I then moved to the UK and studied at the University of Oxford, where I completed a BA in German (2015), MSt in German and Comparative Literature (2016), and DPhil (PhD) in Modern Languages (2019). During my Year Abroad, I studied Swedish and Spanish at the Humboldt-Universität, as well as European Studies at the Studienkolleg zu Berlin.
Research summary
I research modern literature, film, and culture, specialising in European modernism and its global reception and continuing relevance today. I work across several languages, including German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Korean.