Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DF, United Kingdom.
Charlotte's primary focus is German literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular emphasis on poetry. She is currently working on a study of the relationship between poetry and movement. This project looks at poetry in German, English and French, and works at the intersection between literature and cognitive science. Click here to listen to a podcast about this research.
Her publications include The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing (Legenda 2014), and she is also the editor of Goethe in Context (CUP 2024).
She is an Honorary Secretary to the English Goethe Society and co-editor of Publications of the English Goethe Society.
Charlotte welcomes enquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.
Podcasts / radio appearances
Language and rhythm (podcast)
Language and rhythm (taster video)
Great Lives on Goethe (BBC Radio 4)
'We are what we read' (podcast)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (BBC Radio 3; introduction to an English-language dramatization of Goethe's novel)
Charlotte lectures and supervises on literature of the 18th century to the present day.
18th and 19th-century German literature
Poetry and versification
Cognitive approaches to literature
Ageing / cultural gerontology
Monograph
The Very Late Goethe: Self-Consciousness and the Art of Ageing (Oxford: Legenda, 2014).
Edited volumes
Goethe in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
German Life and Letters, vol. 70.4 (2017), special number: ‘Embodied Cognition around 1800’, co-edited with Katharina Engler-Coldren and Lore Knapp.
Edited Anthology
German Romantic Poetry. Everyman's Library, Pocket Poets Series (New York: Knopf, 2024).
Essays and articles
'Heine's Nordsee cycles and the Workings of the Imagination', in The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present. Essays for Joachim Whaley, ed. by Charlotte Woodford, Anita Bunyan and Margarete Tiessen (forthcoming).
Daikoku, T., Lee, C., and Goswami, U., 'Amplitude Modulation Structure in French and German Poetry: Universal Acoustic Physical Structures Underpin Different Poetic Rhythm Structures', Royal Society Open Science 11.9 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.232005.
'Goethe und Arthur Hugh Clough', in Goethe-Jahrbuch 140 (2023), 33-43.
'Rhythmus (Rhythm)', in Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts, vol. 1, no. 2, Nov. 2021, doi:10.5195/glpc.2021.42.
‘Agency and embodiment in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship’, in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), ed. by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and C. Allen Speight, pp. 164-85
‘The delicate flux of world and spirit: Barthold Heinrich Brockes and distributed cognition’, in Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, ed. by Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau and Michael Wheeler; vol. 3 of The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 40-52.
‘A meeting of minds? The dialogue between voices female and male in the poems of the West-östlicher Divan’, in Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850, ed. by Laura Deiulio and John Lyon (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 209-226.
‘Cognition in Action: Goethe’s Märchen’, Publications of the English Goethe Society 87.3 (2018), 121-130.
‘Movement and embodiment in Klopstock and Goethe’, German Life and Letters 70.4 (2017), 508-17.
‘Johann Peter Hebel and the dynamics of hope’, German Life and Letters 68.4 (2015), 517-28.
‘Sie ist so ferne ihm, und doch so nah: reciprocity and exchange in the lyric poetry of Sophie Mereau’, Publications of the English Goethe Society 84 (2015), 63-75.
‘Home and homelessness in works by Novalis, Dorothea Schlegel, and Tieck’, Modern Language Review 109.4 (2014), 1030-47.
‘Im flüßgen Element hin und wieder schweifen: development and return in Goethe’s poetry and Hegel’s philosophy’, Goethe Yearbook 20 (2013), 167-77.
‘Mignon and the idea of the secret’, chapter in The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature. Essays in honour of Nicholas Boyle, ed. by John Walker (Oxford: Legenda, 2013), pp. 61-69.
‘Durch Wunderkraft erschienen: affinities between Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s The Tempest’, Modern Language Review 107.1 (2012), 198-210, reprinted in German in British-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832, ed. by Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 193-200.
‘Wenn ich leben soll, so sei es mit dir! The relationship between father and son in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre’, German Life and Letters 64.4 (2011), 489-500.
‘Fausts Credo in wechselnder Beleuchtung’, Jahrburch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts (2011), 8-22.
Book reviews for the Modern Language Review and the Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies.
