Katie Trumpener (born 1961) is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University.
She is currently researching and teaching on the history of children's literature, Jane Austen and British colonialism, and the institutionalization of Marxist aesthetics in postwar Central Europe.
Trumpener's first book, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, published by Princeton University Press in 1997 was awarded the 1998 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book[1] and the British Academy's 1998 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
She also co-edited with Richard Maxwell The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period, published in 2008.
Her forthcoming The Divided Screen: The Cinemas of Postwar Germany will be published by Princeton University Press.