Her publications include Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009), The Nazarenes. Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept (Penn State, 2015), Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862). Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (Michael Imhof, 2017), and, forthcoming, The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (Routledge). Her current work focuses respectively on modern theo-aesthetics (Ingres/Michael Triegel) and the intersection of portraiture, performance, and the living picture. Grewe has held numerous grants from, among other institutions, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.