Karin Sanders is Professor at the Scandinavian Department of the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Sanders's research centers on questions of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Scandinavian Literature, with an emphasis on Danish Literature (especially H.C. Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, and Isak Dinesen).

Karin Sanders is visiting CAS in May 2017 as part of the CAS Research Focus "Writing Prose" following an invitation from Prof. Dr. Annegret Heitmann. Furthermore, she is going to attend the conference "Prosaische Wirklichkeiten" on 20 and 21 July 2017.