£1m AHRC Award to OKRC’s Kafka Project

The Arts & Humanities Research Council has awarded over one million pounds to our project entitled ‘Kafka’s Transformative Communities.’ It is a collaboration between Profs. Carolin Duttlinger (PI, Oxford), Katrin Kohl (Co-I, Oxford), Barry Murnane (Co-I, Oxford), and Lucia Ruprecht (Co-I, Free University Berlin).

Excerpt from Attention and Distraction

Recently, the OKRC’s Carolin Duttlinger published a new book called Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture with Oxford University Press. More information about the book can be found in our news section. What follows here is an exclusive excerpt from the chapter on Kafka. The basic pattern [of a single moment…

New Book: Attention and Distraction

The OKRC’s own Carolin Duttlinger has recently published a book called Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture with Oxford University Press. It is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study which explores the dynamic relation between attention and distraction from the Enlightenment to the present day. And it includes an entire chapter on Kafka:…

Interview

For the first issue of Tablecloth Magazine over at Goldsmiths, Oxford’s Professor Carolin Duttlinger and Dr Karolina Watroba were interviewed by Tania Arenas about Kafka’s unlikely appeal to ‘Gen Z’. Kafka is finding a new life on TikTok and Twitter with young, mostly female, fans. An excerpt from the interview: “Kafka was clearly a point…