Katharina Rennhak

Katharina Rennhak is professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Wuppertal. She has published on British and Irish Romanticism and contemporary fiction and is the author of two monographs, the more recent one dealing with the narrative construction of masculinities in British and Irish women writers’ novels around 1800 (WVT, 2013). Among her edited collections are Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750–2000 (with S. Frantz; 2010), Narrating Ireland in Different Genres and Media (2016); Postfaktisches Erzählen? Post-Truth, Fake News, Narration (with T. Weixler et al. 2021) and Walter Macken: Critical Perspectives (2022). She is president of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), and a member of the IASIL Executive (European Representative). In 2023 she received the Ambassador of Ireland – St. Patrick’s Day Award.