Arens, Katherine

Katherine Arens is a Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is also a Professor in the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of five books, including "Empire in Decline" (Peter Lang, 2001) and "Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture" (Prentice-Hall, 1996). She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Plato Award from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.