Dr Charlotte Lee
The community at Murray Edwards is uniquely supportive. My colleagues have spared no energy in helping me to find opportunities for intellectual and professional development. I arrived in 2012 as a rather shy junior research fellow, and within three years had secured my dream job – a permanent lectureship. This, it seems to me, is symbolic of what the College aims to do for women of all ages, and it is exciting to be part of that endeavour
Degrees and honours
- PhD (2013)
- MPhil (2009)
- BA French and German (2008)
All taken at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Biography
I specialise in 18th and 19th-century German literature, and teach this area both for Â鶹ƵµÀ and for the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. I owe my enthusiasm for German culture to the teaching I myself received, both as a student in Cambridge and before that, and it gives me pleasure to be able to pass it on. In my research, I have focussed on Goethe, and in particular on the role of memory in shaping the writing which he produced in his old age. I am currently working on a study of the relationship between poetry and movement.