Katherine R. Goodman
Professor Emeritus:
German Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 2650
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2596
Katherine_Goodman@Brown.EDU
Katherine Goodman works in the areas of eighteenth and nineteenth- century German literature and specializes in women's literature. She has published books on women's autobiography in Germany and on women writers in early eighteenth-century Leipzig (Amazons and Apprentices). She has published work on authors such as Rahel Varnhagen, Bettina von Arnim, Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, Johanna Schopenhauer. Several recent articles are aimed at rehabilitating Luise Gottsched. She has been the recipient of an Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium.
Biography
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.
Interests
The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) project:
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.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Awards
1971 Vilas Fellowship - University of Wisconsin/Madison
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
Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of German
Women in German
Funded Research
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)
Curriculum Vitae
Download Katherine R. Goodman's Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format
