Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998).
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures,
Albion College, Albion, MI 49224
Tel: 517 629 0269 Office: Vulgamore 107
email: cgrimm@albion.edu
Fall 08 Office hours: MWF 2-3:00pm and by appointment
News and Updates: Summer 2008
August 9: I have started on the page for German 306: From Germania to Nation State
August 4: I have begun work on the Fall08 LA101 Happily Ever After? webpage
July 23: I submitted a book review that will appear in the Modern European Studies Journal.
July 9: I have started working on the Fall08 Ger301 webpage
June 9: I updated the alumni page of the German section website, with info about this year's German major, minor and GLCP graduates.
May 31: I submitted a book review that will appear in German Quarterly.
May 8: News from the German section has been updated.
April: 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.
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.
Fall 2008 Classes:
German 301: Advanced German: German Composition and Conversation MWF 1:10-2:00pm (+ 1 hr tutorial, 1x a week)
German 306: German Cultural History, I: From 'Germania' to Nation State: 9 A.D.-1871 MWF 10:10-11:00am
LA 101: Happily Ever After? The Cultural Impact of German & European Fairy Tales MWF 8:10-9:00am
Spring 2008 Classes:
German 102: Elementary German, continued MWF 10:10-11:00
German 202: Intermediate German, continued MWF 1:10-2:00
Honors 135H: Great Issues in the Humanities: European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism MWF 8:10-9:00
Click here to see my entry about Novalis' Christenheit oder Europa on the Literary Encyclopedia website. (From March 2007).
