Catriona MacLeod

Catriona MacLeod is a professor in the Germanic Department Of the University of Pennsylvania. She studied at the University of Glasgow, Scotland (M.A.) and at Harvard University (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; and the relationship between verbal and visual arts. She has published on figures such as Winckelmann, Goethe, Bertuch, Kleist, Brentano and Stifter. The author of Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller, MacLeod is currently completing another book that explores relations among verbal and sculptural representations in nineteenth century German literature. 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 an article on self-reflexivity in [...] cinema (with Simon Richter), and a study of Clemens Brentano and the visual arts.

Published works

• Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (1998)