faculty

Katrin Sieg

Associate Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1991

Professor Sieg joined the Center in the fall of 2002 as Associate Professor of German. Prior to her appointment at Georgetown, Professor Sieg was a faculty member of the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. She holds a Ph.D. in Drama from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has received several awards and grants: most recently she received a Humboldt Fellowship, which she used to pursue research in Berlin during the 2001-2002 academic year.

Professor Sieg is the author of two books: Exiles, Eccentrics, Activists: Women in Contemporary German Theater (1994), and Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany (2002). Ethnic Drag received the Research Award for Outstanding Book by the Association of Theatre in Higher Education in 2003. She is currently working on a book about contemporary German culture, gender, and globalization. It examines the process of postcommunist transformation as it is reflected in popular culture and performance.

As a member of the core faculty Professor Sieg teaches the MAGES core course on Theorizing Culture.