Katrin Fischer

Lecturer in University Writing

Departments/Programs

Writing Program

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 | pedagogy

Profile

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