Selwyn College
Grange Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DQ
United Kingdom
Charlotte Woodford is Fellow in German and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Selwyn College. Her current research focuses on fin de siècle and Weimar women’s writing and its publication context. She teaches on a wide range of modern German literature papers and the comparative paper The Body (CS5).
Dr Woodford welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to her interests.
Early modern, nineteenth-century and twentieth-century German literature, history and thought
Women’s writing
The German Reformation
MPhil in European Literature & Culture
German women’s writing, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
History of gender and sexuality
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Protest Fiction by Women in German, 1871-1914 (British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2011-12).
The Feminine in German Culture, 1500-present (MHRA conference grant, 2013)
Protest and Reform in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1918 (ed. with Godela Weiss-Sussex) Munich: Iudicium, 2015
Women, Emancipation and the German Novel, 1871-1910: Protest Fiction in its Cultural Context, Oxford: Legenda, 2014
The Feminine in German Culture (ed. with Sarah Colvin), special issue of German Life and Letters, 67 (2014)
The Late Nineteenth-Century German Bestseller (ed. with Benedict Schofield), Rochester NY: Camden House, 2012
Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany, Oxford: OUP, 2002
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