I am a professor of German literature and culture and also of Global Health Studies at the University of Iowa. I love to get students excited about another culture, learn what we have in common and what differentiates us, and explore human nature through narratives of human striving and accomplishments in its diverse forms. My research and teaching interests include German literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. I am especially interested in representations of health and Human Rights issues (contraception, abortion, disabilities), in intersections of historiography and fiction, ego-documents and biography, but also book illustrations and text–image relations, and I have edited several historical documents and translations.

I came to the University of Iowa in 1990 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. I earned my Dr. phil. (PhD) in German and Philosophy at the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 1988.

Publications

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 text anthology with teaching materials for introductory German literature course (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. My most popular book is an introduction to the life and works of the painter Angelika Kauffmann (Rowohlt, 1997, 5th edition 2019). I have also edited her correspondence.

My most recent books are critical editions of artworks by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, a nineteenth-century painter and prolific book illustrator: I investigate text and image relations in commentary and introduction in Karikatur in der Goethezeit. Die Bildergeschichte “Leben Strunks des Emporkömmlings” (Caricature in the Age of Goethe. The Picture Story “Life of Strunk the Upstart”; Schnell und Steiner, 2019) and in 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 (VDG 2016). Join me in the related Public Humanities project, a database of Ramberg’s illustrations and the corresponding publications, rambergillustrations.

Hexen – Huren – Heldenweiber. Bilder des Weiblichen in Erzähltexten über den Dreißigjährigen Krieg (Böhlau, 2005) examines representations of historical women and images of femininity in German narrative fiction about the Thirty Years’ War from Grimmelshausen to the Present.

I have worked with several students on translation and editing projects, such as Eveline Hasler’s Anna Goeldin: The Last Witch (Lighthouse Publishing, 2018). A translation of Hasler’s novel The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau with introduction and notes has been published with Roman & Littlefield. I use these translations in my class on witch hunts.

My interest in health and rights issues has taken me in a new direction. For example. I have contributed two chapters to the book coedited with Beth Widmaier Capo, Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (McFarland, 2017). I have contributed chapters to Disability in German-Speaking Europe (Camden House, 2022) and The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature (Palgrave, 2022).

For a more comprehensive view of my work, please see my list of publications (most updated) or see the list below under "Comprehensive List of Publications."

Courses

• Many first-year seminars and seminars in the Honors program.
• GHS/WLLC/GWSS:1100 - Contraception across Time and Cultures
• GHS/GRMN/WLLC/DST:1200 - Disabilities in Global Writing and Film
• GRMN:2600 - Witch Hunts in Fact and Fiction
• GRMN/CL:2666 - Pact with the Devil
• GRMN:3010 - Stories in German
• GRMN:3104 - Composition and Conversation
• GRMN:3405 - German Cultural History
• GRMN:3501 - Introduction to Literature
• GRMN:4540 - Literature in Film
• GRMN:4730 - Beautiful Souls and Scandalous Writings

Dissertations directed (selection)

• Kirsten Kumpf Baele, “Thinking Outside of the Cardboard Box: The Conditions, Meanings and Myths of ‘Obdachlosigkeit’ in German Fiction and Film” (2012), Lecturer, The University of Iowa
• Regina Range, Positioning Gina Kaus: a transnational career from Vienna novelist and playwright to Hollywood scriptwriter (2012), Associate Professor of German, University of Alabama.
• Anne Schreiber, “The Theatrical Construction of Identity in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Die Wahlverwandtschaften” (2003), placement Assistant Professor of German, Wheaton College

MA thesis director (selection)

• Casey Wilmesmeier (2008), World Language Teacher, City High School, Iowa City
• Kim Harpole (2007), German teacher, Millard South High School, Omaha, Nebraska
• Amber Wozniak (2010), German teacher, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Honors thesis mentor (latest)

• Roman Ebert (2021), "The Hootenannies of East Berlin: The North American Roots of an East German Singing Movement."
• Brandon Pahl (2020), "'Humane Anxieties': Expressionism and Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus'."
• Maggie Fischer (2020)
• Emma Jewell (2022), "Representations of Abortion in 21st-Century Film, Literature, and Television Across Germany and America."

Awards and service

• 2020-2025 International Association for Germanic Studies/Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG): Elected Vice President: conference preparation for the 2025 conference in Graz, Austria
• 2021-2022 Interim DEO for the Department of German
• Main organizer of 2022 "Provost's Global Forum: Teaching Anne Frank"
• For the department and DWLLC: UI International Programs Major Project Award (2021)
• For the department: UI International Programs Global Research Partnership Award (2020)
• Advisory board International Association for Germanic Studies (IVG) (2010-2021)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship (several)
• Co-editor Feminist German Studies (2015-2018)
• Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel short-term fellowship (2013)
• University of Iowa May Brodbeck Award (2009)
• Humboldtians on Campus liaison for prospective applicants
• Eighteenth-Century Studies: advisory editor
• Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography: field editor and book review editor (2004-2012)
• 2010-2021 International Association for Germanic Studies/Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG): Elected member of the international advisory board and conference preparation for the 2015 conference in Shanghai, China and 2021 (postponed from 2020) in Palermo, Italy
• 2019 CLAS DSHB Faculty Scholar Award
• 2018 Interim faculty director of the Global Health Studies Program
• 2018-2021 Coalition of Women in German, an affiliated organization of the Modern Languages Association of America: Member editorial board, Feminist German Studies
• 2015-2018 Co-editor for Women-in-German Yearbook; 2018 new title, Feminist German Studies
• 2006-2015 Coalition of Women in German elected treasurer and endowment fund administrator

Comprehensive List of Publications

Forthcoming and New

One chapter in the edited book, Narrative psychischer Krisen (in press 2025, in German): “Schwangerschaftsabbruch im Jugendroman: Krise und Trauma oder selbstbestimmte Entscheidung?”

Introduction and two chapters in the edited book, Ramberg als Illustrator (2025, in German): 

• “Grafik in der Goethezeit – Illustration und Reproduktion,” 7-12.
• “Porträts und Bilder von Berühmtheiten und Royals für den Buch- und Ausstellungsmarkt: Original, Kopie, Variation und Reproduktion,” 101-160
• “Bilder vom amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg: Rambergs Variationen zu Illustrationen von Daniel Chodowiecki,”  161-202 

2025 “Zwangsabtreibung in Mo Yans Roman Frösche,” Literatur und Abtreibung. Von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart, hg. Veronika Hofeneder, Carolin Slickers. (Literaturwissenschaft 116.) Berlin: Frank & Timme,

2025, 141-156, DOI: 10.26530/20.500.12657/99162, open access, https://www.frank-timme.de/de/programm/produkt/literatur_und_abtreibung

2024 “More Hidden Children. The Korean Film Silenced and/as Disability Rights Activism,” Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories (see books), 130-147. Open access, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781032645315-13/hidden-children-waltraud-maierhofer?context=ubx&refId=7791475b-5479-47bc-9bf7-e22d4b344183 . DOI: 10.4324/9781032645315-13.

Articles in Professional Journals (Some are titled Yearbooks); for Books, see Section below 

2024 “‘Der Todtenkopf soll mir zu Ehren wegbleiben’: Ottilie Goethes Zuarbeiten für Anna Jameson,” Publications of the English Goethe Society, 93:3, 210-228, DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2024.2401328.    

2023 „Ottilie von Goethe.  Kulturvermittlung zwischen Vorurteilen gegen schreibende Frauen und Emanzipation,“ Deutsch-britischer Kulturtransfer im Vormärz, ed. Andrew Cusack (University of St. Andrews, UK). Forum Vormärz Forschung Jahrbuch 29 (2023 [recte 2024]), 151-68, http://www.vormaerz.de/jahrbuecher.html#Jahrbuch%20FVF%2029

2023 “Zu Ländergrenzen und Standesgrenzen in Goethes Italienischer Reise,” Menschen und Handeln im Zeichen transkulturellen Denkens. Festschrift für Laura Auteri. (Special volume Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik A – 148). Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2023, https://books.google.com/books/about/Menschen_und_Handeln_Im_Zeichen_Transkul.html?id=wfbPzwEACAAJ 

2023 “A Pro-American Perspective on the American Revolution: Johann Heinrich Ramberg’s Adaptations of Illustrations by Chodowiecki.” Word and Image (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2023.2219594

2023 “Maria Theresia Paradis and Disability as Opportunity,” part of cluster, “The female Wunderkind in the Eighteenth Century,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (ECS) 52 (2023), 281–287, Project Muse, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.2023.0022       

2021 “Putting the Sovereignty 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.

2021 “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, 29.1 (2021), 63-78. 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, https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2020.1829156 

2020 “Johann Heinrich Ramberg als interkultureller Buchillustrator der Goethezeit: Ein digitaler, vernetzter Werkkatalog (Projektvorstellung rambergillustrations).” Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik LII.1 (2020): 99-114, open access https://doi.org/10.3726/JA521_99

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, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745616 

2019 “Die Titelkupfer der Leipziger und Dresdner Künstler Peter Carl Geissler und Gustav Heinrich Naeke sowie Johannes Thomas und Friedrich Wagner 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

2018 “Können die Gesundheitswissenschaften die (amerikanische) Germanistik retten?” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik L, Heft 2 (2018): 71-81, preview https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331501646_Konnen_die_Gesundheitswissenschaften_die_
amerikanische_Germanistik_retten_Jahrbuch_fur_Internationale_Germanistik_L_Heft_2_2018_71-81

2018 “Die Titelkupfer von Moritz von Schwind, Vincenz Grüner und weiteren Wiener Künstlern zu zwei Goethe-Werkausgaben.” Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte (edited by Prof. Michael Victor Schwarz, Vienna) LXV (2018), 105-31. 11 illustrations. V & R online, https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/downloads/productPreviewFiles/LP_978-3-205-20022-2.pdf

2017 “Abortion Democracy: Sarah Diehl’s advocacy documentary film for women’s rights in Poland and South Africa,” Sexual Health Issues, 1 (2017). 1-7. doi: 10.15761/SHI.1000106. http://www.oatext.com/abortion-democracy-sarah-diehls-advocacy-documentary-film-for-womens-rights-in-poland-and-south-africa.php.

2017 Kimberly Harpole [first author], Waltraud Maierhofer [contributing author]. “Women Performing the American ‘Other’ in Erika and Klaus Mann’s Rundherum (1929).” The Sophie Journal 4 (2017): 1-32. https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/sophiejournal/article/view/3155 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15173/sj.v4i1.3149. 

2016 With Emanuella Israel**. “Fifty Shades: Ambivalence about Birth Control in an Erotic Bestseller and Its Cultural Implications.” Culture, Health, and Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention, and Care 18.11(2016). Online limited open access. Tandfonline, https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1239275, Pubmed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27760506/ Incorporated Honors research project. 

2016 “Die Titelvignetten und -kupfer von Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld zu zwei Goethe-Werkausgaben.” Zeitschrift für Germanistik XXVI (2016): 18-39, https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/zfg/2016/00000026/00000001/art00002?crawler=true , https://www.jstor.org/stable/43922983

2014 “Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand,” Goethe Yearbook XXI (2014): 219-45, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/546382

2013 “Vom bestraften Amor zum Triumph der Liebe. Angelika Kauffmanns Grazien-Zyklus und Amor und die Grazien in Lyrik, Oper und Buchillustration des 18. Jahrhunderts.”  Lessing Yearbook XL (2013): 99-122, 

2013 “Die Kupferstichsammlungen zur Ausgabe letzter Hand und die ‘Gallerie zu Göthe’s Werken’ von Johann Heinrich Ramberg,” Goethe-Jahrbuch 129 (2012): 122-138. 

2012 “Angelica Kauffmann Reads Goethe: Illustrations in the Goeschen Edition," The Sophie Journal 2 (2012), open access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15173/sj.v2i1.73, https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/sophiejournal/article/view/73.

2012 Waltraud Maierhofer*, Virginia McCalmont** [contributing author]. “Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti (2009): Health Care, Terrorists, and the Return of the Political Message,” Monatshefte 104 (2012): 375-92, Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/article/486211 

2009 “Vergifterin — Verderberin, und was noch um Gottes Willen?” The Fictionality of Historical Records in the Film Anna Göldin — Letzte Hexe,” Colloquium Helveticum 40 (2009): 201-226, ResearchGate, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331482068_2009_Vergifterin_-_Verderberin_und_was_noch_um_Gottes_Willen_The_Fictionality_of_Historical_Records_in_the_Film_
Anna_Goldin_-_Letzte_Hexe_Colloquium_Helveticum_40_2009_201-226 

2009 “‘Another Play on the Salem Witch Trials:’ Lion Feuchtwanger, Communists, and             Nazis,” Comparative Drama (2009): 355–78, Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/75/article/361666/summary

2008 “Lion Feuchtwangers Theaterstück Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston – Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Vergangenheitsbewältigung?” Exil 1933 – 1945: Forschungen, Erkenntnisse, Ergebnisse (2008): 98-115, ResearchGate, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331481911_Lion_Feuchtwangers_Theaterstuck_
Wahn_oder_Der_Teufel_in_Boston_-_Ein_Beitrag_zur_deutschen_Vergangenheitsbewaltigung_In_Exil_1933-1945

2008 “‘Brennet und schlachtet noch eine Stunde!’ Zum Verhältnis von Text und Bild in derErstveröffentlichung 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: Peter Lang, 2008. 71–80. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=uhImTzP_k84C&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=Maierhofer+Brennet+und+schlachtet+noch+eine+STunde&
source=bl&ots=euXhwpFNip&sig=ACfU3U0hoTOHsOchhhlrmyk5D0gDpncq-Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIic_Q8PSFAxUc5ckDHcWvBRwQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=
Maierhofer%20Brennet%20und%20schlachtet%20noch%20eine%20STunde&f=false 

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.

2006 “‘Too Large for our Northern Homes: Self-Image and Portrait in Goethe’s Italian Journey,” 1650–1850. Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, edited by Kevin L. Cope. New York: AMS, 2006. 120–56, LSU Scholarly Repository, https://repository.lsu.edu/sixteenfifty/vol11/iss1/7/ 

2005 “’Von jedem öffentlichen Wirken in Deutschland ausgeschloßen’: Ein Brief Ottilie von Goethes an Sarah Austin (4. Aug. 1840),” Goethe Yearbook: Yearbook of the North American Goethe Society (2005): 181–87, Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/377115/summary

2004 “Wilhelmine Encke-Ritz-Lichtenau: Writing and Reading the Life of a Prussian Royal Mistress.” Biography 27.3 (2004): 575-96, Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/175325/pdf  

2002 “Benedikte Nauberts Thekla von Thurn: Empfindsames Weiblichkeitsideal mit subversivem Potential?, “Zeitenwende – Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert.” Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Wien 2000. Vol. 6. Epochenbegriffe: Grenzen und Möglichkeiten. Aufklärung – Klassik – Romantik. Die Wiener Moderne, edited by John A. McCarty, Albert Berger, and Friedrich Vollhardt. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik A 58.) Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 2002. 177–82.

2000 “Angelika Kauffmann entziffern,” Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsvereins (Bregenz, Austria) (2000): 199–204.

1999 “Goethe on Emma Hamilton’s ‘Attitudes’: Can Classicist Art Be Fun?” Goethe Yearbook 9 (1999): 222–52, Project Muse, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/377141/summary 

1997 “Vetter Grüne. Goetherezeption in Julian Schuttings Zuhörerbehelligungen und Leserbelästigungen” [Cousin Green. Julian Schutting’s Reception of Goethe texts in his Lectures on Poetics], Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 116 (1997): 603–20, zfdphdigital, https://zfdphdigital.de/ce/zeitschrift-fuer-deutsche-philologie-ausgabe-04-2013/ausgabe.html 

1997 “Krieg und Frieden in Gemälden und Briefen Angelika Kauffmanns” [War and Peace in Paintings and Letters by Angelica Kauffmann], Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsvereins (Bregenz, Austria) (1997): 87–107.

1995 “Perspektivenwechsel. Zu Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren und dem amerikanischen Reisetagebuch Bernhards von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach” [A Change of Perspectives. Goethes Novel Wilhelm Meisters Traveling Years and the American Journal of Duke Bernhard of Weimar], Zeitschrift für Germanistik NF 5 (1995): 508–22, Jstor, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23975994 

 1994 “Wahrheit und Dichtung. Historiographie und Fiktion im Erzählwerk Ricarda Huchs” [Truth and Literature. Historiography and Fiction in the Narrative Prose by Ricarda Huch], Euphorion 88 (1994): 139–55. Reprint Ricarda Huch: Studien zu ihrem Leben und Werk, edited by Hans Werner Peter. Vol. 6. Braunschweig: PP-Verlag, 1995. 52–72.

1992 “Konkordanzen und Elektronische Bibliothek als Hilfsmittel der Goetheforschung” [Using Concordances and Electronic Publishing in Goethe Scholarship], Wirkendes Wort 3 (1992): 420–30.

1992 “’Die Sprödigkeit des Stoffes.’ Heinrich Heine als Erzähler” [Brittle Subjects. Reconsidering Heinrich Heine as Narrator], Heine-Jahrbuch 31 (1992): 92–105, Academia, https://www.academia.edu/30267518/_Die_Spr%C3%B6digkeit_des_Stoffes._Heinrich_
Heine_als_Erz%C3%A4hler._Heine-Jahrbuch_31_1992_92_105 

1990 “Einfühlen, Einvernahme und Mißverstehen. Rilke und Bettina von Arnim” [Empathy, Alliance, and Misunderstanding. Rilke on Bettina von Arnim], Internationales Jahrbuch der Bettina-von-Arnim-Gesellschaft 4 (1990): 125–50.

Articles and Chapters in Books (peer-reviewed or invited)

2022 “Fernsehserien spielen Inklusion vor – Erfolgreiche Frauen mit Behinderungen in Dr. Klein und 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 [recte 2023]. 589-605. ISBN (PDF); 9783034345736; ISBN (ePUB) 9783034345743; ISBN (MOBI) 9783034345750; ISBN (Softcover)9783034336598; DOI 10.3726/b19951; Open access at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60730  [Successful women with a disability in the German TV series “Dr. Klein” and “Defense Attorney Heiland.” German academic publisher. Selection of expanded IVG congress presentations.]

2022 “Introduction: Children and Witchcraft Trials and Eveline Hasler’s Outsiders. Hasler, Eveline. The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau. A Novel. Trans. and edited by W. Maierhofer et al.  Lehigh University Press/Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 1-30. 

2022 “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. ISBN 978-3-030-99529-4; ISBN 978-3-030-99530-0 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99530-0, Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=vYiIEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Palgrave+Handbook+of+Reproductive+Justice&hl
=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0p5aa-fSFAxVehYkEHc85CpEQuwV6BAgHEAY#v=onepage&q=The%20Palgrave%20Handbook%20of%20
Reproductive%20Justice&f=false 

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.  https://www.verlagshaus-roemerweg.de/Weimarer_Verlagsgesellschaft/Francesca_Fabbri_(Hrsg.)-Ottilie_von_Goethe_-EAN:9783737402934.html. 

2022 „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. 

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, 2022. 219–239, jstor, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv25m8dbt 

2018  “‘Emotionale Annäherung’ statt Zeitreise. Sabine Weigands Die Seelen im Feuer.” Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Akten des XIII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Shanghai 2015.  Edited by Jianhua Zhu, Jin Zhao, and Michael Szurawitzki. Vol. 12. Edited by Stephan Jaeger et al. (Publikationen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik.) Bern: Peter Lang, 2018. 83-88. 

2017  “When Abortion Was Illegal: Remembrance and Advocacy in Recent Films from Romania and Mexico – And ‘I Had an Abortion’ Storytelling on the Web.” See edited book above, Reproductive Right Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives. 2017. 156-73.

2017  “Finding Humor in Birth Control: Fiction and Film from Hugh Mills to Matthias Schweighöfer.” See edited book above, Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives. 2017. 136-55.

2017 “Aufsteigerinnen: Zwischen Skandal und schöner Seele.“ Ich sehe mich. Frauenporträts von Angelika Kauffmann. [Ausstellungskatalog.] Schwarzenberg, Austria: Angelika Kauffmann Museum, 2017.  50-60.

2017 “Devilishly good”: Rudolf Volz’s Rock Opera Faust and “Event Culture.” Music in Goethe’s ‘Faust’: Goethe’s ‘Faust’ in Music. Edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2017. 289-304. 2 ill. 

2016 “Imagining Faust in Recent Historical Fiction,” Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland. (Comparative cultural studies). Ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2016. 154-170.

2016 “The Other Witch Craze: The Early Modern Persecutions in Recent Historical Fiction.” The German Historical Novel Since the Eighteenth Century: More than a Bestseller. Ed. Daniela Richter. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016. 217-44. 

2015 “Angelika Kauffmanns Allegorien für die Royal Academy of Arts im Licht heutiger psychologischer Kreativitätstheorien,” Women’s Creativity around 1800/ Weibliche Kreativität um 1800, ed. Linda Dietrick (U of Toronto), Birte Giesler (U Bielefeld), et. al. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2015. 257-78. 4 illustrations.  

2015 “Hexenjagd in Ost und West. Zu zwei Fernsehfassungen von Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston in der DDR und BRD.” Feuchtwanger und Berlin, ed. Geoffrey V. Davies. Berne, Switzerland: Lang, 2015. 403-38. 

2015 “Brüder, Ritter, Betrüger: Beschädigte Männlichkeit in Terry Gilliams Brothers Grimm,” “Märchen, Mythen und Moderne”.  200 Jahre Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. 2 Parts. Ed. Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, Holger Ehrhardt, and Hans-Heino Ewers. (MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik.) Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015. 535-45.

2014 “Die Reineke-Fuchs-Radierungen von Johann Heinrich Ramberg. Zu einer Neuausgabe.” Vielfalt und Interkulturalität der germanistischen Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, ed. Hans-Rüdiger Fluck and Zhu Jianhua. Stuttgart: Narr, 2014. 303-13.

2014 With Angelica Fenner (contributing author, U Toronto), “Clearing out Family History in Thomas Haemmerli’s Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche,” The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film, edited by Angelica Fenner (Toronto) and Robin Curtis (Berlin). Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 210-31. 

 2014 “Mit Dr. Who gegen Außerirdische – und die Konventionen von Zeitreisen,” Die Zeitreise. Ein Motiv in Literatur und Film für Kinder und Jugendliche, ed. Sabine Planka. (Kinder- und Jugendliteratur intermedial 3.) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 285-99. 

2013 “‘Angelicamad’ — Then and Now,” Celebrity—The Idiom of a Modern Era, edited with an introduction and afterword by Baerbel Czennia. (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century  70).  New York:  AMS Press, 2013. 107-30.

2013 “Goethe light. Rambergs ‘Goethe-Gallerie’,” Literatur – Bilder: Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Buchillustrator der Goethezeit, ed. Alexander Kosenina. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2013. 29-48. 

2013 Regina Range, Mary Bryant, and W. Maierhofer, “J. Barrows Mussey and his Translation of Feuchtwanger's Wahn oder Der Teufel in Boston,” Feuchtwanger and Remigration. (Feuchtwanger Studies 3.) Oxford, UK: Lang, 2013. 67-81. 

2013 With Ambika Athreya**[contributing author]: “‘Ich will nichts wissen’: Wissen und Verleugnung von sexualisierter Gewalt in Die Marquise von O... und Christoph Starks Film Julietta (2001),” Heinrich von Kleist—Style and Concept: Explorations in Literary Dissonance, edited by Christoph Zeller. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 363-378.

2012. “Goethe and Forestry,” Invaluable Trees: Cultures of Nature 1660 – 1830, edited by Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, and Giulia Pacini. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012. 265-80.

2012 "’... groß in Mode’: Johanna von Orleans und das populäre Erzählen im Umkreis von Schiller und heute,” in: Geschichte des Reisens – Reisen zur Geschichte. Studien zu Felicitas Hoppe, edited Esbjörn  Nyström and Thomas Homscheid. (Schwedische Studien zur deutschsprachigen Literatur 1). Uelvesbüll, 
Sweden: Der Andere Verlag, 2012. 83-107.

2012 “Anmutige Frauen und freche Knaben: Angelika Kauffmann und das Motiv vom bestraften Amor,” Angelika Kauffmann. Malerei und Mythos. [Exhibition catalogue], edited by Georg Schmidt-von Rhein. Wiesbaden, 2012. 63-74.

2011 “Angelica Kauffmann’s War Heroes: (Not) Painting War in a Culture of Sensibility,” Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz. Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. 192-218.

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 “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, Austria: Bucher, 2008. 10-29.

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.

2007 “Women’s Writings About Napoleon,” Introduction to Women Against Napoleon [see books above]. 11–33.

2007 “Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples: The Devil’s Grandmother Fights Napoleon,” Women Against Napoleon [see books above]. 57–78.

2007 “Starke Schwestern: Benedikte Nauberts Ahnfrauen,” Zerreissproben / Double Bind. Familie und Geschlecht in der deutschen Literatur des 18. und des 19. Jahrhunderts, edited byChristine Kanz. Berne, Switzerland: eFeF, 2007. 135–57.

2007 “Kunst, Ruhm, Gefühl und Ego: Identitätssetzungen in Text und Bild,” Angelika Kauffmann: Ein Weib von ungeheurem Talent. [Exhibition catalogue for the 200th anniversary of her death at the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum Bregenz], edited by Tobias Natter. Ostfildern: Hatje, 2007. 18–31. Also in English translation in the English-language edition of the exhibition catalogue: “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.

2007 “Theaterdichter: Zur Zusammenarbeit von Goethe und Christian August Vulpius als Übersetzer,” Goethe, Circe. Oper mit der Musik von Pasquale Anfossi, edited by Waltraud Maierhofer (see scholarly editions above). 5–27.

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.

2005 “Benedikte Nauberts Barbara Blomberg (1790) – Ein historischer Roman zum Thema Kindermörderinnen?” Geschichte(n) – Erzählen: Konstruktionen von Vergangenheit in literarischen Werken deutschsprachiger Autorinnen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Marianne Henn, Irmela von der Lühe, and Anita Runge. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005. 231–48.

2002 “‘... denn meine Wünsche streifen an das Unmögliche’: Adele Schopenhauer,” Vom Salon zur Barrikade: Frauen der Heine-Zeit. Biographien, Probleme, Texte, edited by Irina Hundt. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002. 157–66.

2000 “Zu Goethes Übersetzung der Gesänge aus der Oper La Maga Circe,” in Resonanzen. Festschrift for Hans Joachim Kreutzer, edited by Sabine Doering, Waltraud Maierhofer, and Peter Philipp Riedl. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. 119–30.

2000 “Leidenschaftslose Liebe lernen. Julian Schuttings Hundegeschichte – eine Absage an den Bildungsroman?,” Towards the Millennium: Interpreting the Austrian Novel 1971 – 1996. Interpretation des österreichischen Romans, 1970–95, edited by Gerald Chapple. (Studies in Contemporary German Literature 10.) Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. 169–84.

2000 “Hundegeschichte: Dogs, Love, and the Art of Describing,” Critical Essays on Jutta/Julian Schutting, edited by Harriet Murphy, Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2000. 138–57.

1998 “Italia und Germania. Zum Frauen- und Deutschlandbild in Heines italienischen Reisebildern” [Italia and Germania. Exploring Images of Women and of Germany in Heine’s Italian Travelogues], Aufklärung und Skepsis. Internationaler Heine-Kongreß 1997 zum 200. Geburtstag [Enlightenment and Scepticism], edited by Joseph A. Kruse, Bernd Witte, Karin Füllner. Stuttgart, Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 1998. 153–78.

1997 “’Heilsamer Stachel’. Goethe und Immermann” [Immermann’s Ambivalent Ties to Goethe], Epigonentum und Originalität: Immermann und seine Zeit – Immermann und die Folgen [Imitation and Originality: Immermann and his Times—Immermann and the Future], edited by Peter Hasubek. Frankfurt / Main; Berlin; Bern; New York; Paris; Wien: Lang, 1997. 35–58.

1997 “Zur Repräsentation der Frau und des Weiblichen in Döblins Wallenstein” [Representations of Femininity in Döblin’s Novel Wallenstein], Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium. Leiden 1995, edited by Gabriele Sander. (Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik A 43.) Bern etc.: Lang, 1997. 95–114.

1995  “Vier Bilder und vielfältige Bezüge. Die sogenannte ‘Väterliche Ermahnung’ und die Figuren in den `Wahlverwandtschaften’” [Image in Text: The Painting Paternal Admonition in the Context of Goethe’s Novel Elective Affinities], Ethik und Ästhetik. Werke und Werte in der Literatur vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wittkowski zum 70. Geburtstag [Ethics and Aesthetics: Works and Values in German Literature from the 18^th Century to the 20th Century], edited by Richard Fisher. (Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte 52.) Frankfurt a. M. etc.: Peter Lang, 1995. 363–82.

1993 “Die Frauen sind die Leidtragenden, für die Männer ist der Krieg `ein großes Raubgeschäft in Ehren’: Ricarda Huchs Der große Krieg in Deutschland (1912–1914)” [The Roles of Women in Ricarda Huch’s Description of the Thirty Years’ War], Ricarda Huch: Studien zu ihrem Leben und Werk, edited by Hans-Werner Peter. Vol. 4. Braunschweig: PP-Verlag, 1993. 29–36.

1990 “Immermann als ‘Poet und Kriminaljurist.’ Zu den frühen Erzählungen (‘Der neue Pygmalion’ und ‘Der Karnaval und die Somnambüle’)” [A Study of Two Early Stories by Immermann], “Widerspruch, du Herr der Welt!”: Neue Studien zu Karl Immermann, edited by Peter Hasubek. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1990. 68–99.

Entries in Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc. (12; refereed by editors only)

2013    “Clothes Make the Man,” “Spring Symphony,” Directory of World Cinema: Germany. 2, edited by Michelle Langford [University of New South Wales, Australia]. Chicago, IL, and Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2013.135-36, 189-91. 

2013 Entries on the illustrations of “Löhr, Märchen,” “Goethe, Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern,” “Goethe, Gedichte,” “Witte, Lilli in zehn Liedern.”  Literatur – Bilder: Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Buchillustrator der Goethezeit, ed. Alexander Kosenina. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2013. 174-75, 184-85, 260-63, 416-17.

2004 “Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,” The Dictionary of Early Modern Europe. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. 76–8.

1997 “Beautiful Soul,” “Bildungsroman,” “Educational Novel,” “Female Narcissism,” “Historical Novel,” The Feminist Companion to German Literature, edited by Friederike Eigler, Susanne Kord. Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Publishing, 1997. 41–2, 44–7, 348–9, 369–70, 370–72.

Books: Monographs (3)

Hexen – Huren – Heldenweiber. Bilder des Weiblichen in Erzähltexten über den Dreißigjährigen Krieg. (Literatur – Kultur – Geschlecht.) Köln: Böhlau, 2005. 462 pp. Available on Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/hexenhurenhelden0000maie [Representations of historical women and images of femininity in German narrative fiction on the Thirty Years’ War from Grimmelshausen to the Present].

Angelika Kauffmann (Rowohlts Monographien 50554). Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997; Ebook 2021. 158 pp. [Introduction to the Life and Works of the Painter Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807). In German.] Trade/ General audience

”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. Revised dissertation. Academic Press. Available on Humanitie Commons, https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:49585

Books: Translations and Edited Translations of Fiction (6). Print and E-book 

Research Area: Historical Fiction, Human Rights in Fiction

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/Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. Orig. translation of Die Vogelmacherin: Die Geschichte von Hexenkindern: Roman (1997).

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.

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. 

Books: Critical Editions of Primary Sources (6)

Research Area: German 18^th and 19^th-century literature, book illustration, word – image studies

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. [Edition of a satirical picture story with descriptions by the artist with commentary and introduction. In series of eminent works in the Hanover State Museum, edited by the directors.

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 bilingual edition. Ed. Waltraud Maierhofer. Colorist Emanuella Israel. Weimar: VDG, 2016.  174 pp. With introduction (10 pages) and commentary (15 pages) by editor. ISBN  978-3897398542.

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. [Florence: A Travel Guide with Anecdotes and Stories.] With extensive introduction. “Ein Reiseführer für Effi Briest? Adele Schopenhauers Florenzmanuskript.” 5-37.

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.]

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. Preview on Researchgate, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331481821_Angelica_Kauffmann_Mir_
traumte_vor_ein_paar_Nachten_ich_hatte_Briefe_von_Ihnen_empfangen_Gesammelte_Briefe_in_
den_Originalsprachen_herausgegeben_kommentiert_und_mit_einem_Nachwort_versehen_edited_by_W 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 pp. 

Angelika Kauffmann. Briefe einer Malerin, edited by Waltraud Maierhofer. (Excerpta Classica 17.) Mainz: Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1999. 290 pp. [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 co-authored (refereed)

Maierhofer*, Waltraud, and Astrid Klocke**. Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750–2000. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2009, 2ⁿ revised ed. Hackett Publishing 2016. Introductory textbook for students of German literature. Introductory texts and selection of primary texts by Maierhofer, exercises by Klocke. Pp. 321. Run 1000.

Edited and Co-edited Publications: Journals, Scholarly Books (3), Book Sections 

Research and Teaching Area: German Literature, Representation of Health Issues

Narrative psychischer Krisen. Co-edited by Ella Karnatz (Oldenburg, Germany), Waltraud Maierhofer, Federica La Manna (Milano, Italy), Misa Fujiwara (Kyota, Japan). Bielefeld: transcript, [in press Fall 2025]. [In German: German Narratives of Mental Health Crisis]

Research area: Book illustration

Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Illustrator. Shakespeare, Amerika, Erotika, Berühmtheiten und Royals der Goethezeit. Hg. Waltraud Maierhofer und Peter Haischer. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2025 [with introduction and 2 chapters by WM on portraits and the American Independence War] 

Research area: Diversity and Inclusion in Literary and Cultural Studies

Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories. Edited by Kirsten Kumpf Baele (UI, German), WM (corresponding author), and Doyle Stevick (USC). New York and London: Routledge. 242p.  ISBN 9781032645148; ebook ISBN 9781032645315. 15 chapters by the editors, Amal Kassir, Ronald Leopold, Mark Gudgel, Rachel Conrad, Oren Baruch Stier, Naomi Yavneh Klos, Lorely French, Sofie Decock, Jo-Ann Archibald/Q’UM Q’UM XIIEM, Wilhelm Schwendemann, Mallory Hellman, Theodore Rosengarten. Contributions from speakers at the “Provost’s Global Forum: Teaching Anne Frank”, March 2022, plus additional chapters by invitation.

Waltraud Maierhofer, Federica La Manna, Erika Berroth, eds. “Behinderungen und Herausforderungen. Disability Studies in der Germanistik,” section in Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des IX. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG). (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik. Beihefte 5). Vol. 5. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2022 [recte 2023), 463-605. Open access, https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60730. https://new.peterlang.com/book/isbn/9783034345750 [Section title: Disabilities and Challenges: Disability Studies in Germanistik. 8 articles in German by Sarah Neelsen (Paris), Erika Berroth (Georgetown, TX), Miso Fujiwara (Kyoto, Japan), Francesca Ottavio (Rende, Italy), Silvia Ulrich (Turin, Italy), Nicole Coleman (Detroit), and myself.

Feminist German Studies (formerly Women in German Yearbook), vol. 34 (2018). Edited by Alexandra Hill and Waltraud Maierhofer. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2018.

Women in German Yearbook: Feminist and Gender Studies in German Literature and Culture, vol. 33 (2017). Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Carrie Smith-Prei.  Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Women in German Yearbook: Feminist and Gender Studies in German Literature and Culture, vol. 32 (2016). Edited by Waltraud Maierhofer and Carrie Smith-Prei.  Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska Press, 2017, https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35705 204p. Editors’ Introduction. Articles by Renata Fuchs, Anja Wieden, Katharina Karcher, Alexandra Kurmann, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Maureen O. Gallagher, Jamele Watkins, Bradley Boovy, Vanessa D. Plumly, Beverly Weber. 

Waltraud Maierhofer, Ulrike Gleixner, Gabriele Kaemper, Xiaoqiao Wu, eds. “Vernetzte Autorinnen,” 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. 

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. 

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 der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG). Bd. 8. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 2012. 15-134. Introduction 15-17. 

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 on English women, D. Potter on Desiree Clary), D. Davidson on French Women), G. M. Roesch on Rahel Varnhagen), K. Lokke on Friederike Brun, H. J. Jensen and B. Guenther on De Staël), S. Arnold-de Simine on C. de la Motte Fouqué, C. Bland on L. Von François, J. Sammons on F. Spielhagen), J. Askey on fiction for Girls, B. Besslich on G. Kolmar. Preview Google books, https://books.google.com/books/about/Women_Against_Napoleon.html?id=c_4gco3b9SwC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=
0#v=onepage&q&f=false 

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).

Resonanzen, Festschrift for Hans Joachim Kreutzer, edited by Sabine Doering***, Waltraud Maierhofer***, and Peter Philip Riedl***. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. 504 pp. 

Articles in the field of German Literature 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.