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LYNNE TATLOCK

Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Phone 314.935.5163, Fax 314.935.7255

ltatlock@wustl.edu

Lynne Tatlock (Indiana University), is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities.

She has published widely on German literature and culture from 1650 to the 1990s with a concentration in the late seventeenth century and the nineteenth century. She has maintained an abiding interest in the novel and its origins, the construction and representation of gender, reading communities and reading habits, nineteenth-century regionalism and nationalism, the intersection between fiction and other social and cultural discourses. Some of her recent publications include articles on Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, film adaptations of Das doppelte Lottchen, the American translator of E. Marlitt, and Gustav Freytag's alternative address to national community, as well as a co-edited volume, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.

She has undertaken two literary translations of novels by women, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s Their Pavel (Das Gemeindekind) and Gabriele Reuter’s From a Good Family. She has completed two translations for The Other Voice (University of Chicago Press): Justine Siegemund's The Court Midwife (2005) and selections from Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's meditations on the incarnation, passion, and death of Jesus Christ (forthcoming 2009). Her activity as literary translator has kindled her interest in translation and cultural mediation and has led her to undertake an extended project on women as translators, the publishing industry, and transatlantic culture. As former president of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär she is currently preparing a volume with select papers from the interdisciplinary conference "Enduring Loss in Early Modern German" that she organized (March 2008).

Her teaching interests at present focus on questions of regionalism and nationalism and reader communities, nationalism and French-German relations, the construction and representation of community, literature and medicine, nineteenth-century women writers, bourgeois literature and reading habits, and book history.

Office Ridgley Hall 327	Mailing Address Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Campus Box 1104 Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Mailbox Ridgley Hall 319

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