Katrin Pahl, Associate Professor of German, Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a Public Lecture on "Kleist's Queer Humor" that explores Heinrich von Kleist's "Anekdote aus dem letzten Kriege" ["Anecdote from the Recent War"](1810).  The lecture is in English.  Copies of the anecdote in German and English will be provided.The German Department, Humanities Center, Programs in Cultural Studies and Women's Studies, and the European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center.   For more information, contact Holly Yanacek.

Katrin Pahl is associate professor of German and co-director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University.  In 2008, she was a visiting professor at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" of the Freie Universität Berlin.  Pahl approaches the German literary and philosophical canon from a queer-feminist perspective, with the arc of her research situated in affect and emotion studies.  Her first book, Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion (Northwestern UP, 2012), demonstrates that a fresh analysis of Hegel's thought offers an important resource for the theory of emotionality.  It addresses emotions as transformational forces that carry one out of oneself and to a different self, while introducing impersonal transports, such as release, juggle, acknowledging,
tremble, and broken.  Pahl edited the Modern Language Notes 2009 issue on Emotionality, and she was awarded the Best Article in Feminist Scholarship Prize from the Coalition of Women in German for "Transformative Translations: Cyrillizing and Queering."