Catherine J. Minter

Head, Arts & Humanities
Associate Librarian
Librarian for English and American Literature, Germanic Studies, French and Italian, Classical Studies, and History and Philosophy of Science
Affiliation:
Arts & Humanities
Subject specialist in:
Classical Studies,
French,
Germanic Studies,
Italian,
English and American Language and Literature,
Comparative Literature,
Theatre and Drama,
History and Philosophy of Science
Office Location:
Herman B Wells Library E560
1320 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Office Phone:
(812) 855-1702
Email:
cjminter@iu.edu

About

Catherine J. Minter currently serves as librarian for Germanic Studies, French and Italian, History and Philosophy of Science, Classical Studies, and Linguistics and as Head of the Arts & Humanities department..

Catherine holds a PhD in German from the University of Oxford. She is the author of several articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and thought as well as a book, The mind-body problem in German literature, 1770-1830 : Wezel, Moritz, and Jean Paul. More recently, she has developed research interests in library and information history, and is currently exploring the relationship between European and North American ideas on libraries and librarianship in the nineteenth century. Her professional memberships include the American Library Association and the German Studies Association. She currently teaches a graduate course in collection development and management for the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University Bloomington.

Prior to joining IU, she worked at the Modern and Medieval Languages Faculty Library at the University of Cambridge, and at the library of the Warburg Institute in London. Catherine was awarded an MSc in Library and Information Studies by the University of Aberystwyth in 2007.

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