Katrin Fischer

Degrees
University of Paderborn, Ph.D.Babson College, M.B.A.
Chemnitz University of Technology, M.A.
Expertise
science and nature writing | business writing | intersections between business and the liberal arts | pedagogyProfile
Katrin Fischer specializes in science and nature writing, and in business writing. She focuses on the intersections between business and the liberal arts, and on the transferability of writing skills across disciplines and to professional contexts.Before joining Brandeis, she taught at Babson College, at Bentley University, and at universities in Germany. She worked as Director of Marketing for the US subsidiary of a German company, and as trainer and facilitator for a professional development company in Germany.
Katrin Fischer is the author or editor of three books and has published articles on diverse topics, from crime fiction to the pedagogy of teaching to marketing.
Courses Taught
UWS | 17b | Bodies of Evidence: Forensic Science in Fact and Fiction |
UWS | 32a | True or Truthiness? |
UWS | 43a | Storytelling in Business |
UWS | 52b | Environmental Justice |
Scholarship
Balachandra, Lakshmi, Katrin Fischer, and Candida Brush. "Do (women’s) words matter? The influence of gendered language in entrepreneurial pitching." Journal of Business Venturing Insights 15. (2021).
Fischer, Katrin, and Fritz Fleischmann. "Powered by Magic: The Romance of Essex Farm." Harvard Business Publishing (2018)
Balachandra, Lakshmi, Katrin Fischer, and Candida Brush. "Words Matter: Men, Women, and the Power of the Spoken Word in Entrepreneurial Pitching." Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2016).
Fischer, Katrin. Reclams Lexikon der Shakespeare-Zitate. Reclam, 2014.
Berthon, Pierre, Philip DesAutels, and Katrin Fischer. "From Mummers to New Media: Captivity, Liberation, and the Church of Life After Shopping." Journal of Public Affairs (2011).
Fischer, Katrin. "Harriet Prescott Spofford." The Literary Encyclopedia. 2010.
Fischer, Katrin. "Harriet Prescott Spofford." The Wadsworth Anthology of American Literature. Cengage, 2010
Fischer, Katrin. "Indian Captivity Narratives." An Encyclopedia of Infanticide. Ed. Brigitte H. Bechthold and Donna Cooper Graves. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010
Fischer, Katrin. "Review." Rev. of The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature, by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. Amerikastudien - American Studies vol. 55:3 2010
Fischer, Katrin (with Martin Christadler). "Charles Brockden Brown"; "Wieland"; "Ormond"; "Arthur Mervyn"; "Edgar Huntly." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Metzler, 2009
Fischer, Katrin. "Detective Fiction." Writing African American Women. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Greenwood, 2006
Fischer, Katrin, ed. I Am Regina. Langenscheidt-Longman, 2005.
Fischer, Katrin. "Indian Captivity." Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Ed. Thomas Adam. ABC Clio, 2005
Fischer, Katrin. "Introduction." I Am Regina. Ed. Katrin Fischer. Langenscheidt-Longman, 2005. 7-13.
Fischer, Katrin. ""Not Just Making the Faces Black": The Representation of African Americans in Contemporary Crime and Detective Fiction." Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Africa. Ed. Anne Schroeder. LIT, 2004. 197-214.
Fischer, Katrin. "Dashiell Hammett." Englischsprachige Autoren: 113 Portraets. Ed. Bernd Engler et al. Metzler, 2004
Fischer, Katrin. "Detecting from the Borderlands: Aimee and David Thurlo's Ella Clah Novels." Sleuthing Ethnicities: The Detective in Multi-Ethnic Crime Fiction. Ed. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Monika Mueller. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. 187-203.
Fischer, Katrin. "Raymond Chandler." Englischsprachige Autoren: 113 Portraets. Ed. Bernd Engler et al. Metzler, 2004
Fischer, Katrin. "Review." Rev. of Frauen auf der Spur: Kriminalautorinnen aus Grossbritannien und den USA, by Carmen Birkle et al. Amerikastudien - American Studies vol. 48:3 2003
Fischer, Katrin. "Time to Tear Down Bariers": The Representation of Native Americans in Contemporary Crime Fiction. Blaue Eule, 2003.
Fischer, Katrin. "Review." Rev. of Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage, by Dympna Callaghan. Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 2002
Fischer, Katrin. "Review." Rev. of Shakespeare and Masculinity, by Bruce R. Smith. Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 2002
Fischer, Katrin. Reclams Lexikon der Shakespeare-Zitate. Reclam, 2002.
Fischer, Katrin. "Detective Stories in Teaching English as a Foreign Language." Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen 16. (2001): 29-40.
Fischer, Katrin. "Detective Stories in Teaching English as a Foreign Language." Englisch: Zeitschrift fuer Englishlehrerinnen und Englischlehrer 4. (2000): 133-142.
Fischer, Katrin. "Raymond Chandler"; "Zane Grey"; "Dashiell Hammett"; "Tony Hillerman"; "Louis L'Amour"; "Owen Wister." Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Ed. Bernd Engler and Kurt Mueller. Metzler, 2000