Dr. Charlotte Woodford

Biography

Charlotte Woodford is a Senior Research Associate in the German Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a College Associate Professor at Selwyn College. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2000 after spending a year at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität Munich. Her research focuses on the literary production of women, with a recent emphasis on German women's writing at the turn of the century and during the Weimar period. Currently, she is engaged as a co-investigator in a Horizon EU/UKRI-funded project led by Professor Sarah Colvin, exploring the contributions of political novels in Europe. Woodford teaches a variety of modern German literature papers, including comparative studies in literature. Her teaching interests encompass early modern, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century German literature, along with history and women’s writing in the context of the German Reformation.

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