Katherine R Goodman
Katherine R Goodman
Professor Emerita of German Studies
Overview
Katherine Goodman has studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. She has published continuously in the field of women's literature in Germany, primarily that of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Currently she focuses on the life and work of Luise Gottsched and the life of Charlotte Sophie Countess Bentinck.
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Research
Research Overview
Research Statement
Katherine Goodman has been studying the 18th- century poet Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), as an exemplary figure of the German Enlightenment. Kulmus, born in Danzig, married Johann Christoph Gottsched, an important figure in the German enlightenment who was influenced primarily by French culture and reflected its style and ideas. To help counter this image of the German Enlightenment, Goodman will present Kulmus, who grew up in Danzig which was a major seaport with strong trading and intellectual ties to England and Holland. Luise Kulmus had access and was open to ideas from England much earlier than many in the interior of Germany. The advent of German interest in English literature is routinely dated at around 1750, but Luise Kulmus brought her interest into her marriage with Gottsched in 1735. Throughout the remainder of her life (until 1762) she worked full-time at his side and introduced works of the English Enlightenment (Addison, Steele, Pope) to German audiences (by translating them and reviewing them in her husband's periodicals).
This project will look at the young Kulmus through her and her husband's writing. It will contain short essays and notes by Goodman herself as well as images from the period. The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) is developing data structures for the text documents, and devising a hypertextual structure that will guide readers along Goodman's arguments, as well as allow them to explore the information on their own.
Funded Research
1979-80 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship
1982-83 Lilly Post-Doctoral Teaching Award
1983, 84 (Summer) Visiting Research Scholar/Wellesley Center for Research on Women
1984 (Summer) Travel Grant/American Council of Learned Societies
1984-85 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
1990 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (six months)
1993 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (three months)
1998 Small Max Kade Grant for the Deutsches Schriftstellerinnen Projekt
1998 Small University Grant for the Deutsches Schriftstellerinnen Projekt
2000 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (one month)
2001 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (two months)
Scholarly Work
"The Concept of the Republic in early Texts of Luise Kulmus-Gottsched" 15 (2004) in Das literarische und kulturelle Erbe von Danzig und Gdansk, ed. Andrzej Katny (=Danziger Beitraege zur Germanistik 15) 2004, pp. 149-161.
"Learning as Guildwork. Luise Gottsched as 'Gehülfin'" Frauen und Gelehrsamkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Gabriele Jancke and Michaela Hohkamp. Königstein/Ts: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2004. 83-108.
"Of Gifts, Gallantries, and Horace: Luise Kulmus (Gottsched) in Her Early Letters" Women in German Yearbook 17 (2001) 77-102.
"Bettina von Arnim," "Luise Gottsched," "Rahel Varnhagen" Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. I, 54-55; I, 397-398; II, 909-910.
"'Ich bin die deutsche Redlichkeit.' Christiane Mariane von Ziegler's letters to Johann Ernst Philippi" Daphnis 29/1-2 (2000), 307-354.
Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999.
"Weibliche Autobiographien" in Frauen-Literatur-Geschichte. Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Hiltrud Gnüg and Renate Möhrmann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998. (= revision of 1985 article)
"Johanna Schopenhauer" in Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries. ed. Elke Frederiksen and Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 434-441.
"A Passion for Learning. Luise Gottsched's Apprenticeship" in Das Frausein als Komponente des eigenen Lebens. Studien zu Autobiographien von Schrifstellerinnen deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache. ed.Heidy Margrit Müller. Aarau: Sauerlaender, 1998. 40-56.
"Klein-Paris and Women's Writing. Luise Gottsched's Unknown Complaints" Daphnis. 25/4 (1996) 695-711.
Bettina Brentano-von Arnim. Politics and Gender. Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Edited with Elke Frederiksen.
"Introduction" Bettina Brentano-von Arnim. Politics and Gender. Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Co-author
"Through a Different Lens. Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's Views on Gender" in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim. Politics and Gender. Detroit, MI.: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 115-140. [Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, ed. Lynn M. Zott. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2003, Vol 123, pp. 30-41.]
"The Sign Speaks. Charlotte von Stein's Matinees" in In the Shadow of Olympus. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992. 71-93.
"Rahel Varnhagen" (Introduction and Translation of letters) in Bitter Healing. ed. Jeanine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop. Lincoln, NE.: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 403-416.
"In the Shadow of Olympus" (= Introduction to In the Shadow of Olympus. Women Authors in Germany. 1790-1810) Co-author. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992. 1-27.
"Preface" to the first English translation of The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie von la Roche. tr. Christa Baguss Britt. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1991. ix-xii.
"Bettina von Arnim. The Butterfly and the Kiss" (Introduction and Translation of letters) in Women in German Yearbook 7. Lincoln, NE.: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. 65-78.
In the Shadow of Olympus. Women Authors in Germany 1790-1810. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. Edited with Edith Waldstein.
"Johanna Schopenhauer, or Pride and Resignation" in Nineteenth Century Women Authors. ed. Marianne Burkhard and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. 187-209.
"Poetry and Truth. Elise von der Recke's Sentimental Journey" in Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. ed. Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, et. al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. 118-128.
"Elisabeth to Meta. Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self" in Life/Lines: Theoretical Essays on Women's Autobigraphy. ed. Celeste Schenck and Bella Brodzki. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. 306-319.
"Motherhood and Work. The Debate on Women's Misused Energy, 1895-1905." in Condition and Consciousness. ed. Ruth Ellen Boetcher-Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 110-127.
Dis/Closures. Women's Autobiography in Germany 1790-1914. New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 1986.
"Gabriele Reuter" in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Twentieth Century German and Austrian Prose Fiction to 1945 and After 1945. Vol. 66/2. ed. James Harden, Wolfgang Elfe and Donald Daviau. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1989. 411-417.
"Weibliche Autobiographien." in Frauen-Literatur-Geschichte. Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. ed. Hiltrud Gnüg and Renate Möhmann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1985. 289-299.
The article above was selected to appear in German in Frauen in der Geschichte. Vol. VI. ed. Annette Kuhn and Ruth Elllen Boetcher-Joeres. Düsseldorf: Schwann-Bagel Verlag, 1985. 14-34.
"A Bibliography of Women Writers in English Translation." (Co-editor of German section) in Women Writers in Translation. An annotated Bibliography. 1945-1982. ed. Margery Resnick and Isabelle de Courtivron. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 125-153.
"Autobiographie und deutsche Nation. Goethe und Herder." in Goethe im Kontext. ed. Wolfgang Wittkowski. München: Niemeyer, 1984. 260-282.
Beyond the Eternal Feminine. Critical Essays on Women and German Literature. Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 1982. Edited with Susan Cocalis
"Poesis and Praxis in the Letters of Rahel Varnhagen" New German Critique 27 (1982) 123-139.
"Women in German Language and Literature" in Women in Print I. Opportunities for Women's Studies Research in Languages and Literatures. ed. Joan Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1982. 135-148. Co-author.
"The Impact of Rahel Varnhagen on Women in the Nineteenth Century" in Gestaltet und Gestaltend. Frauen in der deutschen Literatur. ed. Marianne Burkhard. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980. 125-53.
"' Die grosse Kunst nach innen zu weinen.' Autobiographien deutscher Frauen im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert" in Die Frau als Heldin und Autorin. Neue kritische Ansätze zur deutschen Literatur. ed. Wolfgang Paulsen. München: Francke, 1979. 125-35.
"Der 'anarchische' Utopismus der westdeutschen Studentenbewegung" in Deutsches utopisches Denken im 20. Jahrhundert. ed. Reinhold Grim, Jost Hermand. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1974. 120-144. Co-author.
Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched STG supported Webproject at http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/Gottsched/
"Luise Kulmus' Danzig" (to appear in Diskurse der Aufklärung)
"Luise Gottsched, Pietism, and Frau Ehrlichin" (to appear Daphnis)
"French Neo-Classicism and New Beginnings in German Literature" The Camden House History of German Literature. Vol. 5: The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Sentimentality, ed. Barbara Becker-Cantarino. Camden House. 55-76.
"'Die Tugend zittert nie!'. Emotions in the Poetry and Tragedies of Johann Christoph and Luise Gottsched" (to appear in Diskurse der Aufklärung)
"From Salon to Kaffeekranz. Gender Wars and the Coffee Cantata in Bach's Leipzig" in Bach's Changing World. Ed. Carol Baron. Rochester, N.Y.: U Rochester P.
"The Eternal Feminine is Leading Us On: A Forschungsbericht on Recent Secondary Literature Dealing with Women and German Literature" (=Introduction to Beyond the Eternal Feminine, ed. Cocalis and Goodman) 1-45. Co-author.
Background
Education and Training
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | PhD | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 1967 | BA | University of Wisconsin at Madison |
Honors and Awards
1972-3 National Teachers Seminary Fellowship -- U. of Wisconsin/Madison
1979 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
1979-80 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship
1982-83 Lilly Post-Doctoral Teaching Award
1983, 84 (Summer) Visiting Research Scholar/Wellesley Center for Research on Women
1984 (Summer) Travel Grant/American Council of Learned Societies
1984-85 Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
1990 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (six months)
1993 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (three months)
1998 Small Max Kade Grant for the Deutsches Schriftstellerinnen Projekt
1998 Small University Grant for the Deutsches Schriftstellerinnen Projekt
2000 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (one month)
2001 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship extension (two months)
Affiliations
Affiliations
American Association of Teachers of German
Women in German