Catriona MacLeod is a specialist in German 18th- and 19th-century literature, aesthetics, and the visual arts. Her recent publications have focused on various aspects of intermediality, including narrative theory, ekphrasis, and description; the materiality of texts; and “minor” and “miniature” genres. MacLeod is the author of Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (1998), and Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century (Northwestern, 2014), and has just completed a book on Romanticism and paper scraps. In addition to co-editing several volumes on word and image topics and translation theory, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Word & Image. MacLeod is the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.