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 ofEmbodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller, MacLeod her most recent book project, Fugitive Objects: Literature and Sculpture in the German Nineteenth Century, is appearing this year with 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 is the co-editor of two volumes in the area of interarts scholarship: Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009) and Efficacité/Efficacy: How to Do Things with Words and Images? (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011). Since 2011, she has been 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.
Coursework
2018 spring
2017 spring
2016 fall
2012 spring
2006 spring
2004 fall
Cinema Studies Program
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