Katharina Pilaski

Staatsexamen, Cologne (Germany) (equivalent to Master and diploma of teaching)
DAAD Language Assistant
Room 521, Level 5, Brennan MacCallum Building


I am employed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to teach German as a foreign language and support the DAAD lecturer at the University of Sydney, Dr. Andreas Jäger.

I graduated from the University of Cologne in 2007 (Languages) and from the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn in 2006 (German as a Foreign Language). Before I came to Australia I lived and studied in Germany and France. In 2005, I came to Australia for a 3-months practical training in the department of Germanic Studies, University of Sydney. Amongst others, I worked in a private language school in Cologne and taught German to international students.

I wrote my M.A. thesis on “David Malouf's Blood Relations as a post-colonial replique to William Shakespeare's The Tempest” in which I discussed Malouf's Australian canonical counter-discourse.

I have an interest in post-colonial literatures from French and English speaking countries and in French and English-based Creole and Pidgin languages.