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Catherine
Grimm
Assistant
Professor of German
Catherine (Cathie) Grimm was
born in Sydney, Australia and moved to Germany when she was twelve. She
came to the United States in 1987 on a German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) scholarship to study at the University of Massachusetts in
Amherst. She received a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature at
UMass with a concentration in English, American and
German Literature, German Romanticism and
Poststructuralist Theory. She completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern
University in Evanston, in 1998 in the Department of
German Literature and Critical Thought. After teaching at the
University of Notre Dame and Wabash College in Indiana she joined the Foreign
Languages faculty at
Albion College in 2003 first as a visiting assistant professor and then
in 2004 as a tenure-track
assistant professor.
Her scholarly interests
center mainly on issues of identity and representation in
literary and philosophical texts. Her dissertation analyzed these issues
in the works of the Early German Romantic writer Novalis
(Friedrich von Hardenberg). Her current research interests include how
19th century German woman writer Bettine Brentano-von Arnim uses the act of writing to
construct uniquely individual forms of identity that were meant to be
perceived as childlike (a- or pre-sexual) and therefore non-threatening.
The intentional blurring of fact and fiction in her first three
epistolary novels outlines a complex set of textual 'self-inventions,'
which allow von Arnim to maintain a degree of autonomy in a society still
dominated by patriarchal structures.
Cathie is also interested in
Pietist (especially Moravian) influences on German Romanticism.
In her free time Cathie likes
to watch movies and TV shows on Netflix DVD's (no commercials!) with her
husband Bill and their four cats, post pictures to her
flickr account or update her
homepage or
blog.
Publications:
Articles
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“ ‘Wie ist Natur so hold und gut, die mich am Busen hält’:Nature Philosophy and Feminine Subjectivity in the Epistolary Memoirs of Bettine von
Arnim,” Schwellenueberschreitungen. Politik in der Literatur von Frauen,
1780-1918. Ed. Elisa Müller-Adams, Caroline Bland. Bielefeld:
Aisthesis Verlag, 2007. (forthcoming)
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“Von Kopf bis Fuß auf
Liebe eingestellt: Exploring Feminine Subjectivity in Bettine von Arnim’s
Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” Internationales Jahrbuch der
Bettina-von-Arnim Gesellschaft. Ed. Wolfgang Bunzel, Uwe Lemm, Walter
Schmitz. Berlin: Saint Albin Verlag, 2002: 89-98.
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“On Good Behavior: The Reciprocal Relationship of the Monarchy
to the Self-Representation of the Subject in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s
Glauben und Liebe,”
Die Goethezeit: Werke -Wirkung - Wechselbeziehungen. Festschrift für Wilfried Malsch. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin,
2001: 174-201.
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“Getting Nowhere: Images of Self and the Act of Writing in
Franz Kafka’s Der Dorfschullehrer,” New German Review: A Journal for Germanic Studies. Volume 10, 1994: 119-132.
Book Reviews
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Review of Theodore Ziolkowski,
Clio, The Romantic Muse:
Historicizing the Faculties in Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2004. The German Quarterly, Volume
78, 2 (Spring 2005) 252-253.
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Review of David Aram Kaiser,
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism. Cambridge Studies in
Romanticism 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Volume 29, Number 1 (Winter 2005).
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Review of Anke Gilleir,
Johanna
von Schopenhauer und die Weimarer Klassik: Betrachtungen über die
Selbstpositionierung weiblichen Schreibens. Hildesheim: Georg Olms
Verlag AG, 2000. Colloquia Germanica, Band 35, Heft 3/4 (2002): 351-352.
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Review of Margaretmary Daley, Women of Letters: A Study of
Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel
Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden
House Press, 1998. Colloquia Germanica, Band 33, Heft 3 (2000): 302-304.
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Review of David E. Wellbery, The Specular Moment: Goethe’s
Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1996. German Studies Review 22, 1 (February 1999): 114-115.
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