A Place in the Country

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

DR. JO CATLING studied Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and in Germany at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen. Following a research fellowship at the University of Durham, she returned to Norwich in November 1993 to take up a post in German literature and language at the University of East Anglia, where she taught alongside W. G. [Max] Sebald until 2001 and where she is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing. As well as on the work of W. G. Sebald, she has also published extensively on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. She is editor (with Richard Hibbitt) of Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald — a Handbook (Oxford: Legenda, 2011). She is also translating W. G. Sebald’s essays on Austrian literature (Die Beschreibung des Unglücks and Unheimliche Heimat) for Hamish Hamilton and Random House.