We are happy to welcome Katharina Karcher from the University of Birmingham as a TraCe Visiting Fellow this November. Katharina Karcher is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages. Her research explores how violent acts are categorized as accidents, crimes, or terrorist attacks, and the role of non-human actors and processes in shaping these classifications. Drawing on Material Cultural Studies and New Feminist Materialism, she conceptualizes agency as relational, more-than-human, distributed and dynamic.
On November 11, 2026, she will present her upcoming book “The Terror of Things” at a Brown Bag Lecture at TU Darmstadt.