Waltraud Maierhofer The University of Iowa German Department ...

Waltraud Maierhofer
The University of Iowa
German Department
IOWA CITY, IA 52 242-1323
(319) 335 2246 or (866) 465 1607 (mobile)
waltraud-maierhofer@uiowa.edu
RÉSUMÉ
2009
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION: Professor of German with tenure, The Univ. of Iowa, since 2007 (at the
UI since 1990). Nominated 0 % appointment Honors Program (pending).
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: German literature, mainly narrative prose of the 18th and 19th
centuries (novel, historical novel, autobiography and biography, women writers), interrelations of literature and
art, German cultural history, correspondence.
EDUCATION: Dr. phil. (equivalent to Ph. D.), University of Regensburg, Germany, July 1988 ("Summa cum
laude").
PUBLICATIONS :
Book projects in progress: Scholarly edition and translation
Feuchtwanger, Lion. Devil in Boston / Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston. Bilingual edition. Trans. Barrows
Mussey, ed. Waltraud Maierhofer and Mary Bryant. Proposal (introduction, sample pages) submitted to Margit
Longbrake, Associate Acquisitions editor, the MLA series Texts and Translations. Submitted and resubmitted
with revisions.
Hasler, Eveline. Anna Goeldi—The Last Witch. Translated by Mary Bryant (MFA candidate in UI Translation
Program), ed. Waltraud Maierhofer. Proposal submitted to several literary agents.
Textbook in print: Introduction to German Literature for Undergraduate Students of German
Maierhofer*, Waltraud, and Astrid Klocke**. Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750–2000. Newburyport, MA:
Focus Publishing, 2009 [recte 2008]. 321 pp.
Monographs in print
Hexen - Huren - Heldenweiber. Historische Frauen und Bilder des Weiblichen in Erzähltexten über den
Dreißigjährigen Krieg. (Series "Literatur - Kultur - Geschlecht".) Cologne: Böhlau, 2005. Cc. 450pp.
[Representations of historical women and images of femininity in German narrative fiction on the Thirty
Years' War from Grimmelshausen to the Present]. (Theoretical introduction; representations in art and in
historiography; three main parts: 18th-century [Naubert, Schiller], 19th-century historicism [women
authors of the restoration era, Droste-Hülshoff, ‘witch' novels, Freytag and Laube, C. F. Meyer],
modernism [R. Huch, Döblin], contemporary literature [feminist approaches, youth literature, crime
fiction and historical fantasy, Grass, Umminger].)
Angelika Kauffmann. Mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten [Introduction to the life and works of the painter
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A. Kauffmann]. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1997. 3 Edition 2002.
'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' und der Roman des Nebeneinander [Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters
Wanderjahre and the contemporary panoramic novel]. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1990.
Critical editions of primary sources in print
Adele Schopenhauer, Florenz. Ein Reiseführer mit Anekdoten und Erzählungen (1847/48). Sowie weitere
Aufzeichnung über Italien. Nach den handschriftlichen Fragmenten. [Florence: A Travel Guide with Anecdotes
and Stories.] Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. Weimar: VDG, 2007. Pp 264; 31 illustrations b/w. Run 300+ on
demand.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian August Vulpius. Circe. Oper mit der Musik von Pasquale Anfossi.

Übersetzung und Bearbeitung des italienischen Librettos für das Weimarer Theater. Ed. Waltraud Maierhofer.
Theatertexte 12. Hannover, Germany: Wehrhahn-Verlag, 2006]. Pp. 80; 6 illustrations b/w, 1 color. [The
translation by Goethe and Vulpius of the Italian opera Circe into German with an introduction on the
collaboration of Goethe and Vulpius.]
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, ed. by Waltraud
Maierhofer. Lengwil, Switzerland: Libelle Verlag, 2001. [Critical edition of extant letters by Kauffmann in the
original languages--German, English, Italian, and French; with an introduction highlighting the importance of the
letters for epistolary research and extensive commentary.]
Angelika Kauffmann. Briefe einer Malerin, ed. by Waltraud Maierhofer. Mainz: Dieterich'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung. Mainz: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1999. [Selection of letters in German,
English, and Italian by the painter Angelica Kauffman(n) with introduction and commentary in German.]
Edited books: Collections of essays
Waltraud Maierhofer, Gertrud Roesch, Caroline Bland, eds. Women against Napoleon: Historical and Fictional
Responses. Frankfurt: Campus, 2007.
Resonanzen, Festschrift for Hans Joachim Kreutzer, ed. by Sabine Doering, Waltraud Maierhofer, and Peter
Philipp Riedl. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. [A collection of essays in interdisciplinary German
Studies.]
Articles and chapters (cc. 35+) on works by Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Karl Immermann, Ricarda Huch,
concordances, Alfred Döblin, Julian Schutting, Goethe reception, Angelica Kauffmann, Adele Schopenhauer,
Benedikte Naubert, etc.
Most recent:
2009 “‘Another Play On Salem Witch Trials:’ Lion Feuchtwanger, Communists, and Nazis,” Comparative Drama
(2009): 355–78.
2009 “Die Ausgeschlossenen: Drei Fälle von Fremdinszenierung und Kanonausschluss im Umfeld Goethes,”
Kanonbildung: Protagonisten und Prozesse der Herstellung kultureller Identität. Ed. Robert Charlier and
Günther Lottes. (Aufklärung und Moderne 20.) Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2009. 99–120.
2008 “The Death of the Immortal Hero: The Original Illustrations of Schiller’s History of the Thirty Years’ War,”
Word And Image in the Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, edited by Renata Schellenberg and
Christina Ionescu. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 268-91.
2008 “Lion Feuchtwangers Theaterstück Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston – Ein Beitrag zur deutschen
Vergangenheitsbewältigung?” Exil 1933 - 1945: Forschung, Erkenntnisse, Ergebnisse. (2008): 98-115.
2008 “‘Brennet und schlachtet noch eine Stunde!’ Zum Verhältnis von Text und Bild in der Erstveröffentlichung von
Schillers Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges,” Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen. Akten des Xi.
Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005, edited by Jean-Marie Valentin. 12 volumes. Volume 7.
Bild, Rede Schrift—Kleriker, Adel, Stadt und außerchristliche Kulturen in der Vormoderne—Wissenschaften
und Literatur seit der Renaissance. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik A 83.) Bern etc.: Peter Lang,
2008. 71–80.
2008 “ Interessenbringendes Wohlgefallen: Angelika Kauffmann und die Malerei als Geschäft,” Das Achtzehnte
Jahrhundert 32 (2008): 198–211. Special issue: Kultur und Ökonomie. Edited by Dirk Hempel, Hamburg.
2008 “Briefwerk,” Wieland-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, edited by Jutta Heinz. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008.
446–56.
2008 “Circe. Übertragung der Gesänge aus der Oper ‘La Maga Circe’ von Pasquale Anfossi (1788),” Musik und Tanz
in den Bühnenwerken, edited by Gabriele Busch-Salmen. (Goethe Handbuch Supplemente 1.) Stuttgart: Metzler,
2008. 382-91.
2008 With Kirsten Kumpf**. “‘Vielgeliebter Vetter.’ Angelika Kauffmanns Briefe in die Heimat.” Angelika
Kauffmann: In Liebe ans Vaterland. Edited by Förderverein “Freunde Angelika Kauffmann Museum
Schwarzenberg.”. Schwarzenberg; Hohenems: Bucher, 2008. 10-29.
2007 “Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The Devil’s Grandmother Fights Napoleon,” Women Against Napoleon [see
books above]. 57–78.
2007 “Art, Fame, Sentiment, and Self: Constructions of Identity in Text and Image,” Angelica Kauffman: A Woman
of Immense Talent. Edited by Tobias G. Natter, translations by Paul Aston et al.. Ostfildern: Hatje, 2007. 18–31.

2006 “Transformations: Circe in Weimar,” Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries in
Musical Drama, edited by Roberta Marvin, Downing Thomas. Hants, UK: Ashgate, 2006. 85–98.
RECENT OFFICES AND AWARDS
2008, 2009 Summer fellowship Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
2007 ongoing elected advisory editor of periodical Eighteenth-Century Studies.
2007 ongoing Treasurer for the Coalition of Women in German.
2006 Exile Studies Research Grant
2006 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Fellow.
Since 2004 Field-editor for Foreign Languages and Literatures of ECCB–The Eighteenth-Century Current
Bibliography.