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1 Catriona Macleod (Office) Department of Germanic Catriona MacLeod (Office) Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Pennsylvania 745 Williams Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Tel: (215) 898-7107 Fax: (215) 573-7794 e-mail: [email protected] DEGREES 1992 Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. 1986 M.A. University of Glasgow, U.K., honours French and German (First Class). ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2014-19 Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German, University of Pennsylvania 2012- Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. 2001-12 Associate Professor (with tenure), Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. 1999-01 Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. 1998-99 Visiting Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. 1993-99 Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University. Promotion to Associate Professor (without tenure), Spring 1999. 1992-93 Randall McIver Fellow, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Literature, Aesthetics, and Culture; Literature and the Visual Arts; Cinema Studies; Narrative Theory; Ekphrasis and Description; Material Culture; Gender Theory. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2017 Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring award. 2015 NEH summer stipend for book project Romantic Scraps. 2015 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for best book of 2014 in Romanticism Studies, International Conference on Romanticism. Awarded for Fugitive Objects. 2011 Ira H. Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching, School of Arts and 1 Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. 2011 Ben Franklin Seminar course design grant, University of Pennsylvania. 2010-11 Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Faculty Fellow. 2011 DAAD Grant (for conference “Un/Translatables: Across Germanic Languages and Cultures”). 2011 University Research Fund grant, University of Pennsylvania (for conference “Un/Translatables: Across Germanic Languages and Cultures”). 2011 Mellon Cross-Cultural grant, University of Pennsylvania (for conference “Un/Translatables: Across Germanic Languages and Cultures”). 2007 Penn Humanities Forum Award for course related to “Origins” (graduate seminar on Winckelmann). 2004 University Research Foundation award for conference “Elective Affinities” (International Association of Word and Image Studies, Seventh International Conference). 2000 Finalist, German Studies Association Book Award, for Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller, (Detroit: Wayne State U P, 1998). 2000 Penn Humanities Forum, Faculty Fellow. 1997 Two awards from Griswold Research Fund, Yale University. 1996 Award from Hilles Publications Fund, Yale University. 1996 Poorvu Family Prize for Teaching in Yale College. Awarded for outstanding interdisciplinary teaching. (Introduction to German Culture and Thought). 1996 Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University. 1991 Whiting Fellowship. 1990 Honorable Mention, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies prize for best graduate student paper. 1992 Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellowship, Oxford University. 1989 Esther Sellholm Walz Essay Prize, German Department, Harvard University. 1989 Harvard University Teaching Awards. 1989 Jack Stein Teaching Prize, German Department, Harvard University. 1988 Westengard Award for summer study at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. 1987 Bernhard Blume Prize for graduate work, German Department, Harvard University. PUBLICATIONS Books Monographs: Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013.) 252pp. 2 Fugitive Objects examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. It focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture’s vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues’ migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture’s dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Through original readings of Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Adalbert Stifter, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and others, the book reveals that if sculpture has disappeared from much of nineteenth-century German literature and aesthetics, it is a vanishing act that paradoxically relocates the statue back onto another cultural pedestal, attesting to the powerful force of the medium. Reviewed in: Goethe Yearbook 23 (2106): 310-12; Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 53.1 (2017): 85-87. Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998). 302pp. Taking as its starting point the hermaphroditic ideal that dominates Winckelmann's writings on art, the book traces the androgyne as a key figure in both Classical and Romantic aesthetic theory (von Humboldt, Schiller, Schlegel), and explores its implications for male Bildung in such novels as Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Schlegel's Lucinde, Eichendorff's Ahnung und Gegenwart and Stifter's Der Nachsommer. Reviewed in: “The Year’s Work in Romanticism Studies,” Prisms: Essays in Romanticism 6 (1998): 107-17; Colloquia Germanica 32.4 (1999): 367-68; Germanic Review 75.4 (2000): 317-20; Monatshefte 92.3 (2000): 362-64; The Modern Language Review 96.1 (2001): 256-57; Seminar 38.3 (2002): 296-97. Edited Volumes: Co-Editor (with Bethany Wiggin), Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016). 324pp. Co-Editor (with Jan Baetens and Véronique Plesch), Éfficacité/Efficacity: How to Do Things with Words and Images?, (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2011). 320 pp. Co-Editor (with Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass), and introduction, Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships, (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2009). 422 pp. Articles “Flirting with Sculptural Indecency: Theodor Storm’s Realist Psyche.” In Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, ed. Jana Funke and Jen Grove. In press, Palgrave Macmillan. 3 “Blind Spots of Narration? Ekphrasis and Laocoön Digressions in the Novel.” In Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. Richard Meek and David Kennedy. In press, Manchester University Press. “Invisible Sculpture and Latent Violence in Mädchen in Uniform (1931).” Under review in special issue of Seminar, Revisiting Mädchen in Uniform: Media, Texts, Contexts, 1930-2015, ed. Ilinca Iurascu and Gaby Pailer. “Displaced Vernaculars: Edwin and Willa Muir, Kafka, and the Languages of Modernism,” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 93.1 (2018): 48-57. “Word & Image à 32” (with Michèle Hannoosh and John Dixon Hunt), La Part de l’Oeil 31 (2017-18): 179-82. “The Living Past: Folklore and Fairy Tales in Literature and Art.” In The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, ed. John Ittmann (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017), 208-27. “The Reading Public: Taschenbücher and Other Illustrated Books.” In The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, ed. John Ittmann (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017), 198-207. “Lost and Found in Translation: The Itinerant Kafka Translations of Edwin and Willa Muir,” in Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures, ed. Bethany Wiggin and Catriona MacLeod (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016), 177-90. “Brentano’s Remains: Visual and Verbal Bricolage in Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (1838),” The Goethe Yearbook 23 (2016): 221-43. “Cutting up the Salon: Adele Schopenhauer’s ‘Zwergenhochzeit’ and Goethe’s ‘Hochzeitlied.’” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (March, 2015): 70-87. “Sculptural Blockages: Wilhelm Heinse’s Ardinghello, Clemens Brentano’s Godwi, and the Early Romantic Novel.” Seminar 49.2 (2013): 232-47. (Special issue: The Eighteenth-Century Novel as Media Event.) “Talk Talk: Using Discussion Boards to Promote Student Conversations.” “Talk About Teaching and Learning” series, University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 54.18, 22 January 2008: 8. “Still Alive: Tableau Vivant and Narrative Suspension in Sacher-Masoch’s Venus im Pelz.” In Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 80.4 (2006): 640-65. “Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures in Classical Weimar.” In The 4 Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Eighteenth Century Culture, ed. Patricia A. Simpson and Evelyn Moore, (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006): 41-72 “Skulptur als Ware: Gottlieb Martin Klauer und das Journal des Luxus und der Moden.” In Das Journal des Luxus und der Moden: Kultur um 1800, ed. Angela Borchert and Ralf Dressel, (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2004): 261-80. “Floating Heads: Portrait Busts in Classical Weimar.” In Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge, ed. Burkhard Henke, Susanne Kord and Simon Richter, (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000): 65-96. “Sculpture and the Wounds of Language in Clemens Brentano's Godwi.” In The Germanic Review 74.3 (1999): 178-94. Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, ed. Russel Whitaker, (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008). “Performing Thirdness: Goethe on the Roman Stage.” In The Clothes that Wear Us: Essays in Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture, ed. Jessica Munns and Penny
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