Catriona MacLeod

Catriona MacLeod studied at the University of Glasgow, Scotland (M.A.) and at Harvard (Ph.D.). Her research, which focuses on late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century literature and culture, has the following emphases: gender studies, in particular literary and aesthetic figurations of androgyny; the intersections between high art and popular culture in Weimar Classicism; the relationship between verbal and visual arts. She has published on figures such as Winckelmann, Goethe, Bertuch, Kleist, Brentano, and Stifter. The author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller, MacLeod has completed another book project, All that is Solid Melts into Air: Literature and Sculpture in the German Nineteenth Century, forthcoming in 2012 from Northwestern U P.  Other recent publications include articles on Sacher-Masoch and the tableau vivant and on porcelain sculpture and miniaturization in the late eighteenth century. Among her other current projects are articles on women silhouettists, and on self-reflexivity in Nazi cinema (with Simon Richter), as well as a study of Clemens Brentano and the visual arts.

Secretary of the International Association of Word and Image Studies, MacLeod was conference chair for “Elective Affinities”: 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies, which took place at Penn in 2005. The collected volume Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships, which she co-edited, appeared in 2009. She is also co-editor of the recent volume Efficacité/Efficacy: How to Do Things with Words and Images? (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011). MacLeod is book review editor for the Goethe Yearbook and senior editor of the journal Word & Image.

Macleod is the 2011 recipient of the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences. In the spring of 2012 MacLeod is teaching undergraduate courses on Nazi Cinema and on The Doll.

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