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 is currently completing another book project that explores relations among verbal and sculptural representations in nineteenth century German literature. 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 an article on self-reflexivity in Nazi cinema (with Simon Richter) and a study of Clemens Brentano and the visual arts.

A member of the advisory board 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 conference proceedings, which she is co-editing, will appear in 2008. MacLeod is also book review editor for the Goethe Yearbook.

In the fall of 2007 MacLeod will teach Metropolis: Culture of the City (GRMN 244 / COML 254 / URBS 244) and a seminar on Winckelmann (GRMN 574 / ARTH 584 / COML 579).

updated August 2007