Curriculum vitae

Catherine Grimm

• curriculum vitae

• 6151 Vereker Drive

• Oxford, OH 45056

catgrimm@gmail.com

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Education

• PhD. German Literature and Critical Thought, Northwestern University, 1998

• M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, 1992

• B.A.-equivalent- English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988

• Three years of undergraduate study at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany 1984-1987

Dissertation

• Der Mensch -- Metapher: Temporality, Identity, and the Concept of Language in the Works of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). (1998)

• Committee: Géza von Molnár and Peter Fenves (Co-chairs), Helmut Müller-Sievers

Employment

• Assistant Teaching Professor of German, Miami University                  2013-present

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University                                         2011-2013

• Assistant Professor of German, Albion College                                       2004-2010

• Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Albion College                         2003-2004

• Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Wabash College                     1999-2002

• Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of Notre Dame     1998-1999

Awards, Scholarships and Grants

• Faculty Development Grant, Albion College (Spring 2006)

• Received funding to participate in a German Script workshop at the Moravian archives in Bethlehem, PA. (June 2006)

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) travel grant

• Received funding ($6,165.60) that subsidized taking Albion College students to Berlin and Dresden, Spring Break, 2004. (December 2003)

• Wabash College Faculty Development Award 

• Received funding to attend and present research at the “Women who Dared” Conference at Mt. Holyoke College (June 2001)

• University Fellowship, Northwestern University (Summer 1995)

• Research Assistantship, Universität Mannheim, (March-July 1995)

• Quadrille Ball Scholarship for Graduate Study in the U.S.($2000)

• Awarded by the Quadrille Ball Committee of the Germanistic Society of America in association with the Institute of International Education to German nationals in American PhD. programs (1993-1994)

• University Fellowship, Northwestern University (1992-1993)

• Research Assistantship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, (1989-1990)

• German Academic Exchange Service Full Scholarship (DAAD) for one year of non-degree study at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (1987-1988).

 Teaching Experience

I.       Miami University

• GER 101 & 102

• GER 111 

• GER 201 & 202

• GER 231 (Fairytales)

• GER 261 (Introduction to German Film)

• GER 301

• GER 311 (Passionate Friendships in German Literature)

• GER 322

II.       Albion College

• GER 101 & 102: Elementary German

• GER 201 & 202: Intermediate German

• GER 289: Introduction to German Film

• GER 301 & 302: Advanced German, Composition & Conversation, I & II

• GER 306: From Germania to Nation State: German Cultural History from 9 - 1871

• GER 307: German Civilization

• GER 310: Germany and the Environment: Cultural and Social Perspectives

• GER 312: The Invention of Self 1700-1848/Die Erfindung des Ichs:1700-1848

• GER 350: German Women Writers/Deutschsprachige Dichterinnen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

• GER 402: Seminar: Charisma, Controversy and Commitment: The Influential Role of Women in German Film

• GER 402: Seminar: German Writers in Exile

• GER 411: Berlin Today: Prep. Course for student trip to Berlin

• Honors 135H: Great Issues in the Humanities: European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism

• Honors 135H: Great Issues in the Humanities: Moving Pictures: German History through German Film

• LA 101:    First Year Seminar: Happily Ever After? The Cultural Impact of German Fairy Tales

• Honors Thesis Committees: Diana Lancaster, 2006 (Biology), Lauren Duthie, 2007 (Chair, German), Neil Forster, 2007 (Chemistry), Sarah Julian, 2009 (Chair, German), Margaret Leiby, 2009 (Chair, German), Emily Pieper, 2009 (Interdepartmental)

III.    Wabash College

• Ger 101 & 102: Elementary German 

• Ger 201: Intermediate German (Fall 2001)

• C&T 201: Cultures and Traditions, Section G (Fall 2001)

• Ger 301: Conversation & Composition (Fall 1999 & 2000)

• Ger 302: Introduction to German Literature and Culture

• Ger 303: German Literary Studies: Stimmungsbilder: Landscape and Psyche in 19th Century German Literature

• Ger 387: Introduction to German Film (Fall 2001)

• Ger 401: Advanced German Language: Weimarer Klassik

• Ger 478: Special Topics: Individuum und Gesellschaft: Kafka, Hesse und Thomas Mann

IV. University of Notre Dame

• GE 102: Beginning German

• GE 107: Intermediate German

• GE180J: “Soul Mates and Confidantes: The Portrayal of Friendship in German Literature” (First Year Seminar)

• GE 310: Literary Forms and Composition

• GE 472/572: Modern German Short Story: 1945-1990

Scholarship

Published Articles:

• “‘Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee’: The Meaning and Function of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” The Sophie Journal: Articles and Resources about German-Speaking Women. Volume 1, 2008. (19 pages)

• “‘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,” Schwellenüberschreitungen. Politik in der Literatur von Frauen, 1780-1918. Ed. Elisa Müller-Adams, Caroline Bland. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2007 151-168.

• "Die Christenheit oder Europa"  www.litencyc.com 12 Mar. 2007. The Literary Dictionary Company. 13 March 2007.

• “Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt: Exploring Feminine Subjectivity in Bettine von Arnim’s Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” Internationales Jahrbuch der Bettina-von-Arnim Gesellschaft. Ed. Wolfgang Bunzel, Uwe Lemm, Walter Schmitz. Berlin: Saint Albin Verlag, 2002: 89-98.

• “On Good Behavior: The Reciprocal Relationship of the Monarchy to the Self-Representation of the Subject in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Glauben und Liebe,” Die Goethezeit: Werke -Wirkung - Wechselbeziehungen. Festschrift für Wilfried Malsch. Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin, 2001: 174-201.

• “Getting Nowhere: Images of Self and the Act of Writing in Franz Kafka’s Der Dorfschullehrer,” New German Review: A Journal for Germanic Studies. Volume 10, 1994: 119-132.

Book Reviews

• Review of Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Keats-Shelley Journal, Volume 58, (2009) 174-176.

• Review of Becker-Cantarino, Barbara Meine Liebe zu Büchern. Sophie von La Roche als professionelle Schriftstellerin. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. Women in German Newsletter (online), Spring 2009.

• Review of Hodkinson, James R. Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis: Transformation Beyond Measure? Rochester: Camden House, 2007. The German Quarterly, Volume 82, 1 (Winter 2009) 124-125.

• Review of Gillespie, Michel and Robert Beachy (Eds.) Pious Pursuits. German Moravians in the Atlantic World, European Expansion & Global Interaction Volume 7. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3 December 2008, 463-464.

• Review of Theodore Ziolkowski, Clio, The Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. The German Quarterly, Volume 78, 2 (Spring 2005) 252-253.

• Review of David Aram Kaiser, Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Volume 29, Number 1 (Winter 2005).

• Review of Anke Gilleir, Johanna von Schopenhauer und die Weimarer Klassik: Betrachtungen über die Selbstpositionierung weiblichen Schreibens. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2000. Colloquia Germanica, Band 35, Heft 3/4 (2002): 351-352.

• Review of Margaretmary Daley, Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House Press, 1998. Colloquia Germanica, Band 33, Heft 3 (2000): 302-304.

• Review of David E. Wellbery, The Specular Moment: Goethe’s Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. German Studies Review 22, 1 (February 1999): 114-115.

  Conference Presentations

• “Going Out on a Limb: Eccentric Self-Representation in Bettine von Arnim’s Epistolary Memoirs”, Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference, February 26-March 1, 2009.

• “Placing the Self in Harm's Way: Theories of Mind and Body in Bettine von Arnim's Epistolary Memoirs”, 2007 British Association of Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Bristol, UK  June 26-29, 2007.

•  “‘Wie ist Natur so hold und gut, die mich am Busen hält ’: Nature Philosophy and Feminine Subjectivity in the Letter-Novels of Bettine von Arnim,” Crossing the Boundaries: Writing by German-speaking Women 1780-1918, Sheffield, UK, April 2006.

• “Entzweiung mit sich selber: Madness and Creativity in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, September, 2005.

• "Telling Stories: Self-Representation and Narrative Structure in the Early Works of Bettine von Arnim" Narrative Conference, Louisville, KY, April, 2005.

•  "Growing Pains: The Evolution of the Historical Subject in Novalis’ Christianity or Europe.” Literature and Philosophy after Kant Conference, June 2004.

• “Nature as (anti)-Nation : The Construction of Autonomous Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Early Works,” ‘Woman and the Nation’: 18th &19th Century German Women Writers: The University of Notre Dame, May 2004.

• “Expressive Acts: Language and Identity in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2004.

• “ ‘Die Seele sehnte sich hinaus in den Schnee ’: The Meaning and Function of Outside Space in Bettine von Arnim’s Die Günderode,” Time - Space – Gender: 18th & 19th Century German Women Writers: Georgetown University, May 2003.

• “Growing Pains: The Evolution of the Historical Subject in Novalis’ Christianity or Europe,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Western Ontario, August 2002.

• “The Art of Life: The Evolution of Identity in Novalis’ Das Allgemeine Brouillon (The General Outline),” Inventing the Individual: American Conference on Romanticism, Miami University, Ohio, November 2001.

• “Nature as the Mirror of Spirit: Images of Self and Other in Bettina von Arnim’s Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” Women who Dared Conference: German Women Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Mt Holyoke College, June 2001.

• “Melancholy Utopia: Literary Responses to German Reunification,” European Studies Workshop, Wabash College, August 2000.

• “Theory and Genesis of Romantic Art and Art-Criticism,” Invited Guest Lecture in Professor M. Mackenzie’s Art Class: “Neoclassicism to Realism 1750-1860”, Wabash College, March 2000.

• “Von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt: The Construction of Feminine Subjectivity in Bettine von Arnim’s Goethe’s Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde,” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, October 1999.

• “What’s love got to do with it? Exploring Feminine Subjectivity in Bettina von Arnim’s Goethe Correspondence with a Child,” Wabash Humanities Colloquium, Wabash College, October 1999.

• “Representation and Subjectivity in Early German Romanticism,” Wabash College, April 1999.

• “Untimely Subjects: The Formation of Individual Identity in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Christianity or Europe,” University of Notre Dame, January 1998.

• “Treading on Goethe’s Toes: Bettine von Arnim’s Goethe Monument and the Construction of Female Subjectivity,” German Studies Association Conference, Bethesda, September 1997.

• “Looking Back to the Future: Exploring the Limits of Representation in Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Christenheit oder Europa,” MMLA Conference, Minneapolis, November 1996.

• “Igellogik: Friedrich von Hardenberg’s Vermischte Bemerkungen and Romantic Theories of the Fragment,” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute, Chicago May 1996.

• “Constructing Infinity: The Concept of ‘Unendlichkeit’ in Benjamin’s Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, July, 1995.

• “A Never-ending Story: The Concept of Reflection in Novalis’ Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs,” Graduate Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, October, 1994.

• “Multiple Voices: Herder’s Style and Its Relation to Content in Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Sprache,” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies. Goethe Institute, Chicago May 1994.

• “The Cognizant Moment: Reflection and ‘Darstellung’ in Walter Benjamin’s Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik,“ Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992. Duke University, February 1992.

Conference Panel Organizing

• Co-organizer with Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos (Northern Michigan University): “Selective Affinities: Romantics reading Romantics (trans-nationally)” Session 2011 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Vancouver, BC, CA, March 31-April 3, 2011

• Moderator: “Urban Reform and Literature in the Nineteenth Century” German Studies Association (GSA): Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference,Oakland, CA, October 7-10, 2010

• Chief Organizer and Moderator: “Fashioning the Body: Bodies, Fashion and Self-Presentation” Women in German Conference, Snowbird, Utah, October 24, 2008

Service

Miami University:

•         University Senator for the Dept's of GRAMELAC & Philosophy 

•         University Studies Advisor

•         Faculty Coordinator of the German Culture & Language Living Learning Community

•         Faculty Organizer of the week German coffee hour: Kaffee im King

Albion College:

• Member, Off Campus Studies Committee                                                   2009-

• Member, Course Change Subcommittee of the CRC                                   2008-2010                 

• Member, Faculty Salary & Compensation Research Team                           2008-2009        

• Member, Budget, Salary & Benefits Committee                                           2005-2008

• Member, Ethnic Studies Committee                                                           2004-2006

• Member, Common Reading Experience Selection Committee                      2004, 2008, 2009

• Faculty Judge for the Distinguished Albion Scholars Program (DASP)          2004

• Member of the DASP Selection Committee                                                2004, 2009

• SOAR Faculty Advisor                                                                             2004, 2007, 2009

• Off-campus program advisor for programs to Heidelberg, Tübingen

• &  Vienna                                                                                                2003-2010

• Academic Advisor for LA101 students and German majors and minors        2004-2010

• Advised students applying for Fulbright scholarships                                  2003-2010                                                  

Departmental:

• Modern Language's Department Web page Management                            2004-2007

• Principle Organizer of the Albion College International Film Series               2004-2008

Professional Development

• Participant in Academic Leadership and Innovation Institute (GALI) Workshop, Ann Arbor, October 10-12, 2008.

• Participant in German Script Seminar at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, June 2006.

• Participant in Albion College Micro-teaching Workshop, February 2004.

• Participant in the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Workshop on

• Course Design and Teaching. Hope College, Holland Michigan, June 2000.

Languages

• English Native Speaker

• German: More than near native, less than native speaker

• Reading ability in French

• Smatterings of Norwegian mainly via duolingo. 

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• Goethe Society of North America (GSNA)