My research looks at Kafka from the perspective of Literary Disability Studies. My primary focus has been on “Die Verwandlung” (“The Metamorphosis”): both the text itself as well as its reception in disability culture. Kafka’s texts can be connected to the topic of disability in many ways, and Literary Disability Studies offer a new, yet largely underutilized perspective on his work.
This research is part of a larger project on German Modernist literature up to 1933. Other texts I look at from the perspective of Literary Disability Studies come from authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Veza Canetti, Alfred Döblin, Max Herrmann-Neiße, Thomas Mann, Joseph Roth and Ernst Toller.
