Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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Charlotte Woodford teaches German literature and history after 1500. Her areas of particular interest are the long nineteenth century and the early modern period (1500-1700). Her research focuses in particular on women’s writing. Her first book, Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany, was published in 2002, and she continues to be interested in early modern women’s writing. Her edited volume, The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century (with Benedict Schofield), appeared in 2012. For 2011-12 she was awarded a British Academy Mid-career Fellowship to work on protest fiction, which will result in the book ‘Protest Fiction by Women in German (1880-1910)’, planned for publication in 2014.

Link to publications

Link to 'Protest Fiction by Women in German 1871-1914'

Charlotte Woodford has been awarded a Conference Grant from the Modern Humanities Research Association for the international conference 'The Feminine in German Culture’, which she is organising together with Professor Sarah Colvin. This conference addresses iterations of the idea of the feminine as well as the interventions of individual women in German culture from the early modern period to the present. Programme, Registration form.