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    I began with a dissertation on Goethe’s last novel (‘Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre’ und der Roman des Nebeneinander [Goethe’s last novel and the panoramic novel or Zeitroman of the nineteenth Century; Aisthesis, 1990]) and teaching 18th-and 19th-century German literature as well as language at all levels, of course, and cultural history. My research and teaching areas have grown over the years and can be grouped in the areas of Classicism and its reception including in art and film, creative women of the 18th and 19th centuries, history and fiction, ego-documents / biography / biographical fiction; representations of historical women including persecutions. My publications include three monographs, six critical editions of primary sources, three editions volumes of scholarly articles, a textbook anthology with teaching materials for introductory German literature courses (Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750–2000),  three edited volumes of fictional works in English translation with notes and introductions plus several sections of edited books, and about 90 research articles and chapters in journals and collective volumes as well as about 90 book reviews. My main research interests over the last decade have been dedicated to representations of health and human rights issues in German (and World) fiction and film and book illustrations in the eras of German Classicism and Romanticism.

    Education

    1988      Dr. phil. (equivalent to Ph. D.), German and Philosophy, University of Regensburg, Germany

    1988 (“Summa cum laude”). Dissertation: “‘Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre und der Roman des Nebeneinander’;” Supervisor: Hans Joachim Kreutzer.

    1985      M.A. German (Literature and Linguistics), Philosophy.

    1981      “Zwischenprüfung” (B. A. Equivalence) University of Regensburg, Germany; German (Literature and Linguistics), Philosophy.

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    Most recent articles and book chapters:

    “Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-language Fiction and Film,” The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature. Edited by Beth Widmaier Capo and Laura Lazzari. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 107 – 128.

    “Dystopias of Family Planning in the Novels Corpus Delicti by Juli Zeh and Das weiße Schloss by Christian Dittloff.” Prospero: A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures/ Prospero: Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (University of Triest, Italy) 27 (2023), Open access, click on the PDF-symbol by the title page on https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/6091.

    “Fernsehserien spielen Inklusion vor – Erfolgreiche Frauen mit Behinderungen in Dr. Klein und Die Heiland – Wir sind Anwalt.”  Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), hg. Laura Auteri, et al. Bd. 5. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik. Beihefte 5). Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2022. 589-605.

    Open access at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60730

    2022  “Ottilie von Goethe als literarische Agentin der englischen Welt.”  Ottilie von Goethe: Mut zum Chaos, hg. Francesca Müller-Fabbri. (Schätze aus dem Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv 6). Wiesbaden: Verlagshaus Römerweg, 2022, 75-85. ISBN 978-3-7374-0O93-4.

    “Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-language Fiction and Film,” The Palgrave handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature. Edited by Beth Widmaier Capo and Laura Lazzari. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 107 – 128.

    Putting the Souvereignty of Motherhood to the Test: Late-Term Abortion in Anna Zorah Berrached’s 24 Wochen. Feminist German Studies, 37.2 (2021), 53-83. DOI: 10.1353/fgs.2021.0011. Project Muse https://muse.jhu.edu/article/839976

    2022 “Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser’s Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia Paradis.” Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture. Edited by Tanja Nusser, Linda Leskau, and Katherine Sorrels. Rochester: Camden House. 219-239          

    „Ein defektes Kind“. Entscheidungsprozesse in neueren (auto-)biografischen und fiktionalen Werken zu Pränataldiagnose, genetischen Defekten und Abtreibung.” Kann das weg? Literarisierungen des Defekten und Defizitären. Edited by Dennis Borghardt (Germany). Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2022.  247-274.

    “Breaking the Abortion Taboo: Anne Zorah Berrached’s Film 24 Weeks,” Maifeminism: Feminism and Visual Culture (Sweden) 14 June 2021, https://maifeminism.com/breaking-the-abortion-taboo-anne-zohra-berracheds-film-24-weeks/

    2021 “Abortion in Sweden and in Henning Mankell’s Before the Frost.” Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2021, online first https://www.tandfonine.com/doi/full/10.1080/08038740.2021,1876164.

    2021 „Illustrations for the Divan in editions of Goethe’s works during his lifetime.“  Publications of the English Goethe Society, (2021): 133-156.

    2020 “Johann Heinrich Ramberg als interkultureller Buchillustrator der Goethezeit: Ein digitaler, vernetzter Werkkatalog (Projektvorstellung rambergillustrations).” Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik LII.1 (2020): 99-114.

    2019 Indian womb – German baby? International surrogacy and citizenship in the film Monsoon Baby (2014). Asian Journal of German and European Studies 4.8 (2019), n. p. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s4085; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40856-019-0045-1

    2019  “Human Trafficking in the Vienna Tatort Episodes ‘Angezählt’ and ‘Falsch verpackt’.”  Austrian Studies Journal 53.3 (2019): 61-85.

    2019  “Die Titelkupfer der Leipziger und Dresdner Künstler Peter Carl Geissler und Gustav Heinrich Naeke sowie Johannes Thomas und Friedrich Wagner Geissler und Naeke zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand.“ Publications of the English Goethe Society 88.2 (2019): 75-107. Jstor via https://doi-org.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/10.1080/09593683.2019.1639912

     

    Books: Monographs

    2005

    Hexen – Huren – Heldenweiber. Bilder des Weiblichen in Erzähltexten über den Dreißigjährigen Krieg.(Literatur – Kultur – Geschlecht.) Köln: Böhlau, 2005. 462 pp. Peer-reviewed.

    [Representations of historical women and images of femininity in German narrative fiction on the Thirty Years’ War from Grimmelshausen to the Present]. Run: 450.

    The chapter on the illustrations in Schiller’s History of the Thirty Years’ War (“Weiblichkeit in den Titelkupfern und Monatskupfern der Erstveröffentlichung von Schillers Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges im Historischen Kalender für Damen”) is republished with permission on Goethezeitportal.de. Goethezeitportal: Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge. Munich, 2010. Web.

    1997, 2nd ed. 1999, 3rd ed. 2001, 5th ed. 2019

    Angelika Kauffmann (Rowohlts Monographien 50554). Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch

    Verlag, 1997. 158 pp. [Introduction to the Life and Works of the Painter Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807). In German.]

    – 1990

    ”Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre” und der Roman des Nebeneinander [Goethe’s Last Novel and the German Panoramic Novel/Zeitroman of the Nineteenth Century. In German].

    Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1990. 328 pp. 96 color illustrations. Run: 300. Includes commentary and introduction by editor. Revised dissertation. University Press.

    Books: Critical Editions of Primary Sources (6)

     

    2019 Karikatur in der Goethezeit. Die Bildergeschichte “Leben Strunks des Emporkömmlings” von Johann Heinrich Ramberg. 25 Originalzeichnungen mit Kommentar hg. von Waltraud Maierhofer. Series Nahsichten, edited by Katja Lembke. Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner. 32 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-7954-3392-5.

     

    2016   Johann Heinrich Ramberg (artist), Dietrich Wilhelm Soltau (author). Reineke Fuchs. 31 Originalzeichnungen und neu kolorierte Radierungen mit Ausschnitten aus der Übersetzung des Epos von D. W. Soltau in Knittelversen / Reynard the Fox. 31 original drawings and newly colored etchings with excerpts from the English translation of the burlesque poem by Soltau. Parallel edition. Ed. Waltraud Maierhofer and Landesmuseum Hannover. Colorist Emanuella Israel. Weimar: VDG, 2016.  174 pp. Print run: 500 + print on demand. With introduction (10 pages) and commentary (15 pages) by editor. ISBN  978-3897398542.

    “Nachwort: Reineke Fuchs in Bild und Text,” 149-158.

    2007    Adele Schopenhauer. Florenz. Ein Reiseführer mit Anekdoten und Erzählungen (1847/48). Sowie weitere Aufzeichnung über         Italien. Nach den handschriftlichen Fragmenten. Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. Weimar: VDG, 2007. Pp 264; 31 illustrations b/w.

     

    2007  Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian August Vulpius. Circe. Oper mit der Musik von Pasquale Anfossi. Übersetzung und Bearbeitung des italienischen Librettos für das Weimarer Theater, edited with and introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer. (Theatertexte 12.) Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007. Pp. 80, 6 illustrations b/w, 1 color.

    [Introduction] “Ein ‘immer thätiger Theaterdichter’: Zur Zusammenarbeit von Goethe und Christian August Vulpius als Übersetzer.” 5-27.

    [The translation by Goethe and Vulpius of the Italian opera Circe (music by Pasquale

    Anfossi) into German with an introduction on the collaboration of Goethe and Vulpius.]

     

    2001  Angelica Kauffmann. “Mir träumte vor ein paar Nächten ich hätte Briefe von Ihnen

    empfangen”. Gesammelte Briefe in den Originalsprachen herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit einem Nachwort versehen, edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. Lengwil, Switzerland: Libelle Verlag, 2001.

    Includes introduction, “Nachwort”. 283-304.

    [Critical edition of extant letters by Kauffmann in the original languages––German, English, Italian, and French; with extensive commentary and an introduction.] 546 p.

    1999

    Angelika Kauffmann. Briefe einer Malerin, edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. (Excerpta

    Classica 17.) Mainz: Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1999. 290 pp. Run: 2000

    [Selection of letters in German, English, and Italian by the painter Angelica Kauffmann with

    introduction and commentary in German.]

    “Angelika Kauffmann: Briefschreiberin zwischen Freundschaft, Selbstdarstellung und Kalkül.” 7-56.

     

    Books: Textbook, 1

     

    2008. 2nd. ed. 2016

    Maierhofer*, Waltraud, and Astrid Klocke**. Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750–2000. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2009 [recte 2008]. Introductory textbook for students of German literature. Introductory texts and selection of primary texts by Maierhofer, exercises by Klocke. Pp. 321.

    Books: Edited Translation of Fiction. Print and e-book 

     

    2015   Feuchtwanger, Lion. The Devil in Boston: A Play about the Salem Witchcraft Trials in Three Acts (1948). Trans. J. Barrows Mussey, edited with an introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer. Amazon Direct Publishing, 2015. 134p. 3 illustrations. ASIN: B015WN68FA. E-book. Paperback edition 2021.

     

    2013         Hasler, Eveline. Anna Goeldin—The Last Witch. Translated from the German by Mary Bryant (MFA 09, UI Translation Program), ed. with Historical Background by Waltraud Maierhofer. Savage, MN: Lighthouse Christian Publishing, 2013. Orig. Title Anna Göldin—Die letzte Hexe. Roman (Zurich: Benziger, 1982). “Historical Background: Anna Goeldi, the Trial, and its Reception.” 256-269.

     

    Co-edited Publications: Scholarly Books and Periodicals Special Volumes, Journals

    2018  Waltraud Maierhofer, Ulrike Gleixner, Gabriele Kaemper, Xiaoqiao Wu, eds. “Vernetzte Autorinnen,” section with introduction by Ulrike Gleixner in Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Akten des XIII. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), Shanghai, 23.-30.8. 2015. Hg. von Jianhua Zhu, Jin Zhao, Michael Szurawitzki. Band 8: Innovation – Wiederkehr des Vergessenen in Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft – Mediävistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation – Mittlere Deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (1400 bis 1750) – Vernetzte Autorinnen (17. bis 19. Jahrhundert) – Geschichte und Mythos – Der Vater-Sohn- Konflikt in der Weltliteratur. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2018 (= Publikationen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik 27), 149-210.

     

    2017     Reproductive Right Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives. Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Beth Widmaier Capo. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2017.  12 articles, index. 227 p. Articles partly extended from the conference “Pill and Pen: Contraception and Unwanted Pregnancy,” University of Iowa, 2012, partly new invitations.

     

    2012      Waltraud Maierhofer, Ulrike Gleixner, Marianne Henn, Gabriele Kaemper, eds., “Erzählte Geschichte – Erinnerte Literatur,” section with introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer in Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit. XII. Kongress derInternationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG). Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 2012. 15-134. Introduction 15-17.

    2007 Women Against Napoleon: Historical and Fictional Responses To His Rise and Legacy, edited by Waltraud Maierhofer*, Gertrud Roesch**, and Caroline Bland**. Frankfurt: Campus, 2007. 303 pp. Run 200.

    Introduction and chapter by Maierhofer, chapters by D. Kennedy (English women), D. Potter

    (Desiree Clary), D. Davidson (French Women), G. M. Roesch (Rahel Varnhagen), K. Lokke

    (Friederike Brun), H. J. Jensen and B. Guenther (De Staël), S. Arnold-de Simine (C. de la

    Motte Fouqué), C. Bland (L. Von François), J. Sammons (F. Spielhagen), J. Askey (fiction for

    Girls), B. Besslich (G. Kolmar). Setting these materials together, this volume forges new links

    between literary, historical, and gender scholarship.

    2004      Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 27.3 (2004). Special issue “Life Writing by and about German-Speaking Women in the Long 18th Century,” edited by Ruth Dawson* with Waltraud Maierhofer****. Co-authored introduction; articles by H. Dreier (Duchess Sophie of Hannover), R. Dawson (Catherine II), C. Heipcke and H. Meise (Landgräfin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt), W. Maierhofer (Wilhelmine Encke-Ritz-Lichtenau).

    – 2000 Resonanzen, Festschrift for Hans Joachim Kreutzer, edited by Sabine Doering***,

    Waltraud Maierhofer***, and Peter Philip Riedl***. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. 504 pp. Run: 500.

    Articles in German and interdisciplinary German/Classics/Romanticism./Mozart as well as

    Literature/Music Studies by E. Heitsch, H. Tiefenbach, A. Greule, S. Doering, K. Hurlebusch,

    A-M. Lohmeier, H. Holler, A. Meier, W. Rehm, W. Maierhofer, T. Namowicz, N. Kimura, D.

    Hölscher-Lohmeyer, K. Lipinski, D. Altenburg, U. Japp, J. Schmidt, G. Kurz, M. Mayer, J.

    Bohnert, W. Frick, G. Blamberger, H. M. Brown, M. Kohlhäufl, W. Dürr, W. Hinderer, R.

    Paulin, J. Sammons, E de Angelis, K. S. Guthke, G. Schulz, P. P. Riedl, S. Bauschinger, Y.

    Lü, E. Osterkamp, S. P. Scher, M. Swales, W. Hinck, H. Maier, H. Friedrich, J. Knape, K.

    Lüdersen.

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      Public Humanities Project

      J. H. Ramberg as Illustrator of Books and Almanacs / Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Almanach- und Buchillustrator, compiled and edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. Interactive catalogue of works. University of Iowa Libraries, 2017-present. http://rambergillustrations.lib.uiowa.edu

       

      (In German) Aufsatzsammlung: Johann Heinrich Ramberg als interkultureller  Illustrator der Goethezeit – (Shakespeare, Übersetzungen, Sach-, Kinder-  und Jugendliteratur).

      Books and Edited Volumes 

       

      Johann Heinrich Ramberg als interkultureller Illustator der Goethezeit – (Shakespeare, Übersetzungen, Sach-, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur). Edited with Sandro Jung. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag.

       

      Edited translation forthcoming

      [2022]  Hasler, Eveline. The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau. A Novel. Translated by Waltraud Maierhofer and Jennifer Vanderbeek, edited with an introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer. Lehigh University Press. Orig. Title Die Vogelmacherin: Die Geschichte von Hexenkindern: Roman (1997).

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