Charlotte Woodford

Caponeu Team Member

Charlotte Woodford is Associate Professor and Fellow in German at Selwyn College and part of the team working on 'Travelling knowledge & Global Epistemologies in the Political Novel in Europe’ at the University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on women’s cultural production and narrative innovation around the start of the twentieth century. Her research contribution to the CAPONEU project is on women and travelling knowledge, casting between light on the relationship between travel and notions of modernity in the political novel and travel writing. 

 

Affiliation

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dr-charlotte-woodford

 

Publications

 

Books

• Women, Emancipation and the German Novel, 1871-1910: Protest Fiction in its Cultural Context, Oxford: Legenda, 2014
• Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany, Oxford: OUP, 2002

 

Edited Books

• The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present (ed. with Anita Bunyan and Margarete Tiessen), Oxford: Legenda, 2025
• Protest and Reform in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1918 (ed. with Godela Weiss-Sussex) Munich: Iudicium, 2015
• The Feminine in German Culture (ed. with Sarah Colvin), special issue of German Life and Letters, 67 (2014)
• The Late Nineteenth-Century German Bestseller (ed. with Benedict Schofield), Rochester NY: Camden House, 2012