Karolina Watroba

Dr Karolina Watroba is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Modern Languages at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She works on modern literature, film, and culture across several languages, with a focus on German, English, Polish, and more recently Korean. She is the author of Mann’s Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading (Oxford: OUP, 2022). Her new book Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka (London: Profile, 2024) is an unconventional biography which tells Kafka’s story through the stories of his readers around the world, focusing on Oxford, Berlin, Prague, Jerusalem, and Seoul. She developed one strand of this project, ‘Kafka in Korea: A Case Study for Diversifying Modern Languages’, as a recipient of a British Academy Talent Development Award 2022-23 (TDA22\220037).