Curriculum Vitae

Sigrid G. Köhler is a professor at the German Department at the University of Tübingen with a focus in ‘Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries’ since 2018. Her main areas of research include ‘Law and Literature,’ ‘Postcolonial and Critical Race Studies’ as well as Mediality and Aesthetics with a focus on genre theory pertaining to the poetics of drama.

She studied German Studies, Romance Studies and Ethnology in Bochum, Brussels and Münster. After earning her doctoral degree from the University of Münster, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the German Department in Münster. She then remained in Münster as a Dilthey Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation. 

From 2010-2011 she was a Feodor Lynen scholarship holder of the Humboldt-Foundation at the Yale University in New Haven, CT. In 2016, she worked as the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the German Department of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. 

In Tübingen she works in numerous interdisciplinary and international partnerships. She the co-speaker of the interdisciplinary platform ‘Global Encounter‘ and a member of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research. She is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies.

In addition to her academic activities, she worked as a dramaturge in the cultural and theater sector in Münster.