Catherine Grimm                 

    Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998).

    Department of Modern Languages and Cultures,

    Albion College, Albion, MI 49224

    Tel: tba (new phone) Office: Vulgamore 107

    email: cgrimm@albion.edu

    Fall 08 Office hours: tba

   

 

 

 News and Updates: Summer 2008

  • July 9, 2008: I have started working on the Fall08 Ger301 webpage

  • June 9, 2008: I have updated the alumni page of the German section website, with info about this year's German major, minor and GLCP graduates. 

  • May 31, 2008: I finished and submitted a book review to German Quarterly.

  • May 8, 2008: News from the German section has been updated.

  • April 2008: My article "'Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee’: The Meaning and Function of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode" has just been been posted at Sophie, an online journal focusing on the work of early German-speaking women.

  • February 2008: My Fall classes will be German 306: German Cultural History, I: From 'Germania' to Nation State:9 A.D.-1871, German 301: Advanced German and a First Year Seminar: Happily Ever After? The Cultural Impact of European Fairy Tales.

  • October 2007: My article “‘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,” has appeared in: Schwellenüberschreitungen: Politik in der Literatur von Frauen, 1780-1918  Aisthesis Verlag.

  • June 2007: I presented a revised version of "Placing the Self in Harm's Way: Theories of Mind and Body in Bettine von Arnim's Epistolary Memoirs" at the 2007 British Association of Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference in Bristol, UK.

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Fall 2008 Classes: (The syllabi will be updated some time this summer).

  • German 301: Advanced German: German Composition and Conversation (see previous syllabus here) MWF 1-2

  • German 306: German Cultural History, I: From 'Germania' to Nation State:9 A.D.-1871 (see previous syllabus here) MWF 10-11

  • LA 101: Happily Ever After? The Cultural Impact of German & European Fairy Tales (see previous syllabus here MWF 8-9

Spring 2008 Classes: