Katrin Rupp works as a chargée de cours (senior lecturer) of medieval English language and literature at the University of Neuchâtel. She received a Master’s degree in modern English literature and a PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Berne. She has taught at the universities of Berne, Lausanne and Geneva. She also teaches English as a foreign language at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Berne.

Her research interests include representations of the body in medieval literature, the afterlives of medieval texts and teaching methods.