Ann Marie Rasmussen CV

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ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 amrasmus@uwaterloo.ca

Education 1985 1976

PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures, YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT BA in German, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, OR

Employment History Jan 2015 Fall, 2014 Spring, 2010 2009 –2015 Jan.2006-Dec.07 Spring, 2003 1998-99 1995 1988-95 1986-88

Full Professor with tenure, Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Co-Director, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, Duke University.

Promotion to Full Professor, German Dept., Duke University.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chair, German Dept., Duke University Acting Chair, German Dept., Duke University Acting Chair, German Dept., Duke University Promotion to Associate Professor, German Dept., Duke University Assistant Professor, German Dept., Duke University Assistentin, University of Berne, Deutsches Seminar, Abteilung für Ältere Philologie, Berne, Switzerland

Awards 2019-2020 Spring, 2014 Spring, 2011 Spring quarter, 2009

Stanley Kelley, Jr, Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, German Department.

Duke University Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Mellon Distinguished Scholar, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR. Visiting Distinguished Professor, German, University of CaliforniaIrvine

Publications Books 2021

Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and their Worlds. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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2019

Rivalrous Masculinities: New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies, ed. Ann Marie Rasmussen. University of Notre Dame Press.

2012

Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde, eds. Jutta Eming, Ann Marie Rasmussen and Kathryn Starkey. University of Notre Dame Press.

2010

Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany, with Introductory Essays, eds. and trans. by Ann Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl. Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, MI.

2002

(ed). Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, eds. Anne L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.

1997

Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press.

Editor, Journal Volumes 2019

“Medieval Badges,” Special Issue of The Mediaeval Journal 8.1, co-edited with Hanneke von Asperen.

2016

“Medieval Media,” Seminar 52.2, co-edited with Markus Stock.

2000

“Gender and Secrecy,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30.1 (January).

1997

“Medievalism and Gender,” Medieval Feminist Newsletter, vol. 23 (Spring).

1996

"Medievalism and Gender," Medieval Feminist Newsletter vol. 22 (Fall).

Articles 2021

with Christine Neufeld, ”Arthurian Cosmopoiesis: Wolfram’s Parzival,”in Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Romance, ed. Dorsey Armstrong. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming.

2021

with Olga Trokhimenko, “Die Halbe Birne,” in Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch, ed. Markus Stock. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming.

2021

with Jason Qu, “Re-Conceptualizing Transgressive Love in Gottfried’s Tristan und Isolde for Online University Teaching,” Mediävistische Perspektiven im 21.

Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Ingrid Bennewitz zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Andrea Schindler with assistance from Detlef Goller und Sabrina Hufnagel. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 2021, 343-353.

2020

”Das Porträt von Herzog Heinrich V. von Mecklenburg in North Carolina (USA),“ in Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch 135 (2020): 349-352.

2019

with Hanneke van Asperen, “Introduction,” special issue on Medieval Badges,

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The Mediæval Journal 8.1 (2018): 1-10.

2019

“Medieval Symbols of Virtue and Mutual Devotion: Noble Dogs in Images, Badges and in Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier and Meliur,” in Animals in Text and Textile: Storytelling in the Medieval World, eds. Kathryn Starkey and Evelin Wetter. Riggisberg: Abegg Stiftung, 227-244.

2017

“Badges: Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte,” in Stimme und Performanz in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, ed. Monika Unzeitig, Angela Schrott, Nine Miedema. Berlin: deGruyter, pp. 469-491.

2016

with Markus Stock “Introduction to Special Issue on Medieval Media,” Seminar 52.2.

2016

“Materiality and Meaning: What a Medieval Badge Can Tell Us about Translation,” in Un/Translatables. New Maps for German Literatures, eds. Catriona McLoed and Bethany Wiggin. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, pp. 215-228.

2016

“Babies and Books: The Holy Kinship as a Way of Thinking About Women’s Power in Late Medieval Northern Europe,” Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies. Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns, eds. Laine E. Doggett and Daniel E. O’Sullivan. Woodbridge: D.S.Brewer, pp. 205-218.

2016

with Heidi Madden, “Embedded Librarianship: Einbindung von Wissenschafts- und Informationskompetenz in Schreibkurse / Ein US-Amerikanisches Konzept,” BuB (Forum Bibliothek und Information) 68.04: 202-205.

2015

“Problematizing Medieval Misogyny: Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition,” in Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, eds. Mathias Meyer and Alexander Sager. Göttingen: V & R unipress, pp. 195-220.

2013

Reprint of “Moving beyond Sexuality in Medieval Sexual Badges,” in Nahrung, Notdurft, Obszönität, ed. Andrea Grafetstätter. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press.

2013

“Moving beyond Sexuality in Medieval Sexual Badges,” in From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, eds. E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken.

Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, pp. 296-335.

2013

“Hiding in Plain Sight: Print Literary Histories in the Digital Age”, with Heidi Madden, in College and Research Library News March 2013: pp. 140-143. http://crln.acrl.org/content/current

2012

“Reading in Nuremberg’s Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays,” in Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading, eds. Richard Benson, Eric Downing, and Jonathan Hess. Rochester, NY.: Camden House, pp. 68-83.

2012

“Wanderlust: Gift Exchange, Sex, and the Meanings of Mobility,” in Liebesgaben: Kommunikative, performative und poetologische Dimensionen in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, eds. Margreth Egidi, Ludger Lieb and Marielle Schnyder. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, pp. 219-229.

2011

“Siegfried the Dragonslayer Meets the Web: Using Digital Media for Developing

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Historical Awareness and Advanced Language and Critical Thinking Skills,” Die Unterrichtspraxis 44.1: 105-114.

2009

Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity, King's College London Medieval Studies, Occasional Series 2 (London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London).

30 pp.

2009

“War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 63.7: 627-33. http://www.online-merkur.de/seiten/lp200907b.php

2009

“The Winsbecke Father-Son and Mother-Daughter Poems (Der Winsbecke and Die Winsbeckin), with a Medieval Parody,” eds., trans. and intro. by Ann Marie Rasmussen and Olga V. Trokhimenko, in Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behaviour for Youths, with English Translations, ed. Mark D. Johnston. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Medieval Academy of America, pp. 61-125.

2006

"Masculinity and the Minnerede in Berlin mgo 186," in Triviale Minne? Konventionalität und Trivialisierung in spätmittelalterlichen Minnereden, eds. Ludger Lieb and Otto Neudeck. Berlin: de Gruyter Verlag, pp. 119-38.

2006

“Visible and Invisible Landscapes: Medieval Monasticism as a Cultural Resource in the Pacific Northwest,” in A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes, eds. Clare A. Lees and Gillian Overing. College Park: Pennsylvania State University, pp. 239-59.

2005

“Subjektivität und Gender in der Märe Die zwei beichten (A und B),” in Inszenierungen von Subjektivität in der Literatur des Mittelalters, eds. Martin Baisch, Jutta Eming, Hendrikje Haufe, and Andrea Sieber. Berlin: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, pp. 271-88.

2004

"Preserving the Pre-Modern: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Curtailed Memory," German Studies Newsletter 29.2: 29-39.

2003

“Emotions, Gender, and Lordship in Medieval Literature: Clovis’s Grief, Tristan’s Anger, and Kriemhild’s Restless Corpse,” in Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages, eds. C. Stephen Jaeger and Ingrid Kasten.

New York: de Gruyter, pp. 174-91.

2003

“The Female Figures in Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde,” in A Companion to Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde, ed. Will Hasty. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, pp. 143-63.

2002

“Gendered Knowledge and Eavesdropping in the Late Medieval German Minnerede,” Speculum 77.4: 1168-94.

2002

“Thinking through Gender in Late Medieval German Literature,” in Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, eds. Thelma Fenster and Clare A. Lees. New York: St. Martin’s Press, pp. 97-111.

2002

"Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide’s Poetry," in Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, pp. 168-86.

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2001

"Fathers to Think Back Through: The Medieval German Mother-Daughter and FatherSon Conduct Poems Known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke," in Medieval Conduct, eds. Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 106-34. R

2000

“The Crisis in the Humanities: Feminism, Medieval Studies, and the Academy,” in Medieval Feminist Forum 29 (Spring 2000): 25-32. Reprinted in Women’s Studies at Duke University Newsletter (Fall 2000): 2; 4-5; Faculty Forum for Duke University 12.4 (19. January 2001): 1-2.

2000

“Introduction, Special Issue on Gender and Secrecy,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30.1: 1-4.

2000

"Medieval German Romance," in Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed.

Roberta Krueger. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 183-202.

1999

“Good Counsel for a Young Lady: A Low German Mother-Daughter Poem,” in Medieval Feminist Forum 28: 28-31.

1997

""Ich trug auch ledig siben child": Zur sozialen Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit in der Minnerede "Stiefmutter und Tochter,"" in fremdes Wahrnehmen - Fremdes wahrnehmen. eds. Wolfgang Harms and C. Stephen Jaeger together with Alexandra Stein. Stuttgart: Hirzel, pp. 193-204.

1996

"Zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse von Müttern und Töchtern im Mittelalter: Margaret von Courtenay und Yolande von Vianden," in Frauen: Weibliche Beziehungsgeflechte im Mittelalter. eds. Hedwig Röckelein and Hans-Werner Goetz. Das Mittelalter 1.2: 27-37.

1996

""ez ist ir g'artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried's Tristan und Isolde," in Arthurian Women: A Casebook. ed. Thelma Fenster. New York: Garland, 1996, pp. 41-58. Reprint New York: Routledge, 2001.

1995

"Gender studies als Konzept disziplinärer Öffnung," in Germanistik: Disziplinäre Identität und kulturelle Leistung, Vorträge des deutschen Germanistentags 1994.

Frankfurt a.M.: Beltz/Athenäum, pp. 185-193.

1994

"Woman as Audience and Audience as Woman in the Medieval German Courtly Lyric."

Exemplaria 6.2: 367-384.

1993

"Bist du begehrt, so bist du wert: Magische und höfische Mitgift fîr die Töchter," in: Mütter-Töchter-Frauen: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Literatur. eds. Helga Kraft and Elke Liebs. Stuttgart: Metzler, pp. 7-34.

1992

"Feminismus in der Mediävistik in Nordamerika," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 39 (Sept): 19-27. Cited by Ursula Peters, “Neue Wege der älteren Germanistik,” DVjs 71.3 (1997): 363-96n. 53.

1991

"Representing Woman's Desire: Walther's Woman's Stanzas in 'ich hoere iu sô vil tugende jehen' (L43,9), 'under der linden' (L39,11) and 'Frô Welt' (L100,24)," in Women as

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Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature. GAG 528. ed. Albrecht Classen.

Göppingen: Kümmerle, pp. 69-85.

1991

18 entries for Continental Women Writers. 2 vols. ed. Katharina M. Wilson. New York: Garland Press. SWITZERLAND (French-speaking): S. Corinna Bille (128-30), Anne Lise Grobêty (492-3), Ella K. Maillart (755-6), Yvette Z'Graggen (1377-80).

SWITZERLAND (German-speaking): Cécile Ines Loos (739-41), Erica Pedretti (978-9), Vera Piller (989-9), Margrit Schriber (1125-6), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1134-5), Regina Ullmann (1262-3). GERMANY: Katja Lange-Müller (695), Marianne Langewiesche (696), Herta Müller (886-7), Ilse Stach (1179). DDR: Renate Feyl (408), Rosemarie Fret (427), Monika Helmecke (544-5), Christa Müller (885-6).

UPDATED Maillart, Piller, and Schwarzenbach for second edition, 1996.

1991

Co-authored with Marilyn Migiel. "Francesco Petrarca, [Uber die Grisel. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1474 or 1475], Rosenwald Collection 50; Goff P-404," in Visions of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Washington,.D.C.: The Library of Congress, pp.

68-70.

1989

"Women and Literature in German-Speaking Switzerland: Tendencies in the 1980s," in Frauen-Fragen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1945. eds. Mona Knapp and Gerd Labroisse. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 29: 159-182.

1988

"Fredrik Böök and Georg Lukacs: Two Twentieth Century Claimants to the Goethe Legacy," Orbis Litterarum 43.2: 167-183.

Op-Ed Writing 2012

“Female Archetypes in Game of Thrones,” Huffington Post, 10. September.

2009

“Falsche Freunde,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 12. August (Nr. 185): N5.

Encyclopedia Articles 2019

“Minnesang,” revised for Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia online (forthcoming).

2019

“Romance (German),” revised for Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia online (forthcoming).

2019

“Woman’s Song,” revised for Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia online (forthcoming).

2010

“Hadamar von Laber,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010

“Konrad von Ammenhausen,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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2010

“Das Liederbuch der Klara Hätzlerin,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed.

Robert Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010

“Mai und Beaflor,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010

“Die Minneburg,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010

“Der Winsbecke,” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2006

“Minnesang,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, pp. 564-66.

2006

“Romance (German),” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed.

Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, pp. 718-19.

2006

“Woman’s Song,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed.

Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, pp. 845-46.

Translations 2002

Ingrid Kasten, "The Conception of Female Roles in the Poems of Reinmar der Alte and the Comtessa de Dia,” in Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, pp. 152167.

1997

Neidhart, Sommer Songs, Appendix to Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature.

Book Reviews 2018

Review of Will Hasty, The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages (Ohio State University Press, 2016), in Arthuriana 28.4: 97-98.

2017

Review of Satu Heiland,Visualisierung und Rhetorisierung von Geschlecht. Strategien zur Inszenierung weiblicher Sexualität im Märe (Bonn 2015), in German Quarterly 90.3.

2015

Review of Sarah Bowden, Bridal-Quest Epics in Medieval Germany: A Revisionary Approach (London 2012), in Monatshefte 107.2: 319-320.

2014

Review of Dorothea Klein, ed. Das mittelalterliche Tanzlied (Würzburg 2012), in Speculum 89.3: 792-3.

2013

Review of Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds. Die ‘Jenaer Liederhandschrift’: Codex - Geschichte - Umfeld (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010), in Speculum 88.2: 521-23.

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2009

Review of Elke Koch, Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006), in Speculum 84: 462-64.

2009

Review of Barbara Newman, Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and his Masterpiece (State College, PA: Penn State Univ. Press, 2006), JEGP 108.2: 281-84.

2003

Review of John M. Klassen, ed, with Eva Doležalová and Lynn Szabo. The Letters of the Rožmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia, translated from Czech and German with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay. The Library of Medieval Women. Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2001, in Medieval Feminist Forum 35 (Spring 2003): 48-50.

1999

Review of James A. Schultz, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 (U. of Pennsylvania, 1995), in Speculum 74.2 (1999): 500-503.

1993

Review of Jerold R. Frakes, Brides and Doom: Gender, Power and Property in Medieval German Women's Epics (U. of Pennsylvania, 1994), in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 69.3 (1997): 406-408.

Lectures and Conference Papers (since 2007) Invited 2021 „Ein Gespräch über Pilgerzeichen.“ Stade Museum (Germany), Virtual, 11. May.

2021 “Bawdy Medieval Badges,” with visual artist Melanie Jackson, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, Virtual presentation and discussion, 13. April 2021.

2020

”Developing and Teaching Undergraduate Courses on Content Beyond Your Research Expertise,“ online seminar for graduate students at Princeton University, German Department, 9. April.

2020

“Online Teaching at Universities: Challenges, Opportunities, Strategies,“ organized workshop and gave presentation at Princeton University, German Department, 28.

February.

2019

“Storyworlds: Open-Ended Story Universes across Time, Cultures, and Media,“ Organized workshop and gave lecture at Princeton University, German Department, 15.-16. November.

2019

“Eine mit Zeichen aufgeladene Welt: Zur Funktion der Zeichen im Spätmittelalter,” Keynote address at conference, Pilgerfahrten und Wallfahrtskirchen zwischen Weser und Elbe, Lüneburg, Germany, 4. April.

2019

“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, 27. March.

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2018

“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges,” Medieval Studies and English, Western University, London, Ontario, 20. November.

2018

“Vikings! Online: Authoring an Online Course,” History Department, Duke University, 4.

April.

2017

“The Other Half of the Pear: Gender and Obscenity in Die halbe Birne (Konrad von Würzburg?), Stanford University, 5. December.

2017

Presentation, “Basel to Danzig,” Roundtable on David Wallace, ed., Europe: A Literary History: 1348-1418, German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, 5-8. October.

2017

Commentary on panel, Gender, Sexuality, and Performative Identity in the Middle Ages, University of Notre Dame, 21. April.

2016

“Rivalrous Masculinities,” Intersektionalität: Gender Studies/Queer Studies: Eine Zwischenbilanz aus mediavisticher Perspektive,” Free University of Berlin, 17.-19.

November.

2016

“Noble Dogs,” Animals in Text and Textile: Storytelling in the Medieval World, Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg, Switzerland, 15.-16. September.

2016

“The Living Middle Ages: The Arthurian Storyworld across Time, Space, and Media,” Keynote address at Society for Medievalism Conference, “Europäische Mythen neu erzählt.Tradition or Myth? The Reception of Medieval European Topics in the AngloAmerican and European Spheres.” University of Bamberg, 19. July.

2016

“Die Polyfunktionalität der Schrift auf Pilgerzeichen (Abzeichen)”, Universität Münster (Germany), 12. July.

2016

“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges.” Princeton University, 14. April

2016

“Shaping the Community: Badges as Media of Knowledge in Medieval Cities,” Knowledge in Motion: Constructing Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern, Washington University in St. Louis, 1. April.

2016

“Medieval Badges: Connect and Communicate in the Blink of an Eye,” Design Studio, HERE Berlin, 18. March.

2016

“Storyworlds,” University of Greifswald, 25. January.

2016

“Storyworlds,” University of Hamburg, 18. January.

2015

“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 3. December.

2015

“Die Polyfunktionalität der Schrift auf mittelalterlichen Tragezeichen,“ University of Bamberg, Germany, 14. July.

2015

“Humanities Collaboration Between Universities,” New Directions for Humanities

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Graduate Education, Jackman Humanities Institute and School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 17. April.

2015

“Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in Medieval German Culture,” Inaugural Lecture, Diefenbaker Chair, University of Waterloo, Canada, 15. April.

2015

“The Stories behind Medieval Badges,“ Tenth Annual Distinguished Visiting Speaker in Medieval Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, 11. March.

2014

“How I Write,” Duke University, Thompson Writing Program, 1. December.

2014

“Pilgerzeichen als sprechende Objekte,” Stimme und Performanz in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, University of Greifswald, Germany, 8. October.

2014

“Fishy Women.” Duke University Alumni Travel, Holland and Belgium, 3 May and Duke University Alumni Travel, France, 6. September.

2014

“Waterways.” Duke University Alumni Travel, Holland and Belgium, 1. May and Duke University Alumni Travel, France, 5. September.

2014

“Wandering Genitalia,” Moving Body Parts: Their Transcendence of Time and Space in Pre-Modern Europe, Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Keynote Address, 11-12. April.

2014

“Medieval Badges and Sexuality,” Rice University, Seminar Presentation, 19. March.

2014

“Why Do Medieval Badges Matter?“ Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada, 6. March.

2014

"Christ on a Donkey: Performance and Spectacle in late Medieval Cities,” OLLI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Delve Deeper: Travelling into the Past via Medieval Art, 12. February.

2014

“Medieval Studies for Everybody: Ideas and Resources for Teaching the Digital Generation,” Medieval Studies and the Humanities Institute, Wake Forest University, 11.

February.

2014

“Medieval Badges as Media,” Medieval Studies Institute, University of IndianaBloomington, 23. January.

2013

“Rivalrous Masculinities: Aristotle and Phyllis in the Medieval German Tradition,” Presentation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University German Departments Work in Progress Series, September 18.

2012

“Language and Identity: A Linguistic Journey on the Rhine,” Duke University Alumni Travel, The Great Journey, Amsterdam to the Alps, 2. July.

2012

“Siegfried the Dragonslayer: Hero, Villain, or Icon?,” Duke University Alumni Travel, The Great Journey, Amsterdam to the Alps, 30. June.

2011

“Sex, Gender, and Food in the Medieval Sexual Badges,” Department of Germanic

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Languages and Literatures, Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 11.

November.

2011

“The Once and Future King,“ lecture one of “The Once and Future King: Arthur through the Ages,” Adventures in Ideas, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9.-10. September.

2011

“Le Roi Artu,” lecture two of “The Once and Future King: Arthur through the Ages,” Adventures in Ideas, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9.-10. September.

2011

“The Many Faces of Arthur,“ lecture three of “The Once and Future King: Arthur through the Ages,” Adventures in Ideas, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9.-10. September.

2011

“Sex, Gender, and Nourishment in the Medieval Sexual Badges,” Nahrung Notdurft Obzönität in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, University of Bamberg, 15.-16. July.

2011

“Fifteenth-Century Plays in the German Tradition,” University of Bamberg, Lehrstuhl für deustche Philologie des Mittelalters, 5. July.

2011

“Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition,” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 20. April.

2011

“'Stelzen, Stolzen': Linguistic Metaphors and Puns in the Medieval Sex Badges,” Un/Translatables across Germanic Languages and Cultures, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, 7-9. April.

2011

"Philology and Feminism: Translating Medieval German Texts about Prostitution."

Workshop, M@P, University of Pennsylvania, 5. April.

2011

“Family as a Way of Thinking through the Middle Ages,” Keynote Address, Mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters, Medievalists@Penn, Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 1-2 April.

2011

“Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition,” Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 8. March.

2011

“In this World He Changed his Life: The Medieval Faces of King Arthur,” Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 22. February.

2011

“Presentation on the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies,” Symposium on Graduate German Studies in Southern California, University of California at Irvine, 17-20. February.

2010

“King Arthur: The Once and Future King,” Duke University Alumni Travel, Paris to Normandy, 4. October.

2010

“Knowledge in the Service of Deceit: Fun and Games with Aristotle,” ZEMAS (Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien), University of Bamberg, Germany, 13. July.

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2010

“Wanderlust: Sexual Badges and the Meanings of Mobility,” Renaissance Societyof America, Venice, Italy, 8.-10. April.

2010

“"We Must Make a New World”: Die Reflexion der Gegenwart im US-amerikanischen Historienfilm seit 1990,” Colloquium Frühe Neuzeit-Späte Neuzeit, University of Hamburg and Warburg-Haus, 22-23 January.

2009

“Sex als Gabe,” Colloquium ‚Liebe schenken‘: Liebesgaben in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, University of Kiel, 10.-12. December.

2009

“Knowledge in the Service of Deceit: Fun and Games with Aristotle,” Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, Workshop, Institut für Germanistik, University of Vienna 18-21. June.

2009

“Wanderlust: Sex and the Body in Late Medieval Northern European Culture,” Medievalists without Borders: New Directions in Medieval Studies, University of California at Irvine, 22. May.

2009

“Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in Late Medieval Northern European Culture,” Stanford University, 20. April.

2009

“Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in Late Medieval Northern European Culture,” University of Oregon, 11. March.

2009

“Wanderlust: Obscenity and the Meanings of Mobility,” Workshop on Medieval Sexualities, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 6. and 7. March.

2007

“Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity,” Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King’s College London, 22. November.

2007

“Were the Damsels in Distress and Why Does it Matter?,” German Department, King’s College London, 21. November.

2007

“Wandering Genitalia in Late Medieval German Literature and Culture,” Symposium Vampires, Cannibals, and Other Horrific Creatures: Artistic and Political Monstrosities in Literature and Cinema, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 18. March.

2007

“Wandering Genitalia in Late Medieval German Literature and Culture,” Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, Norman,Oklahoma,1. March.

2007

“Free Spirits in the Middle Ages? The Problem of Translating “frî” in Der Winsbecke and Die Winsbeckin,“ Presentation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University German Departments Work in Progress Series, 6. January.

Conference Sessions, Papers and Presentations (since 2008)

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2021 “Response,” Intertextual Dialogue in Medieval German Literature, Session at the German Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 30. September-2. October.

2021

“What’s Cooking? How to Understand a Penis in a Pan (Bruges, Bruggenmuseum 25­2/3),” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, MI, 10-15.

May.

2020

“Why do Badges Disappear? A Historical Case Study,” German Studies Association Conference, Virtual Conference, 29. September–4. October.

2019

“Two Portraits of Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, The Peaceful (1479-1552): Visual Communication in Northern Europe in the first decades of the Sixteenth Century,” Seminar presentation at the German Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, 3-6. October.

2019

“The Polyfunctionality of Script in the Medieval Badge Corpus,“ International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK, 1-5. July.

2019

“Who and What Do You Pin It On? Badges and Belonging in Late Medieval Europe,” at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, MI, 9-12. May.

2018

Organized special session, “Visual Communication and Community Formation in the Middle Ages: Medieval Badges.” 53rd International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 10-13 May.

2018

“The Semiotics of Badges,” 53rd International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 10-13 May.

2016

with Markus Stock, special session on Storyworlds organized for the Germanistentag, Bayreuth, Germany, September.

2015

“The Polyfunctionality of Script in the Medieval Badge Corpus,” Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, Ottawa, Canada, 2. June.

2015

Five sessions organized as Discipline Representative for Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany, March.

2014

Commentary for session on Medieval German Literature at the 38th German Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, MO, Sept 18-21.

2014

Five special sessions organized as Discipline Representative for Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Renaissance Society of America, Conference New York City, March 24-27.

2013

„Rivalrous Masculinities,“ Two Special Sessions organized with Prof. Ingrid Bennewitz (Bamberg), 48th International Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.

2013

„Configurations of Gender and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Culture, “Session organized for „Abrahams Erbe – Konkurrenz, Konflikt, Koexistenz im

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Mittelalter,“ 15. Symposium of the Mediävistenverbands, Heidelberg, Germany, 3-6.

March. 2013.

2013

„Demonstration Job Interviews,“ ADFL-sponsored session, Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, MA, 5.-8. January.

2013

„Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committee Members,“ ADFL-sponsored session, Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, MA, , 5.-8. January.

2012

„Medieval Badges and Stories,“ 37th German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukie, WI, 4-7. October.

2012

Commentary for Session „Mothers and Daughters in Medieval and Early Modern Literature,“ 36th German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukie, WI, 4-7. October.

2012

“Recovering Saint Anne and the Holy Kinship,” A Room of its Own: Middle Low German between Colonialism, Cultural Transfer, and Bilingualism,” Kungliga Vitterhets Akademie, Stockholm, Sweden, 16. – 19. September.

2012

“The Future of Graduate Education,” ADFL Summer Seminar West, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 7-10. June.

2012

“Conducting Faculty Searches,” ADFL Summer Seminar West, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 7-10. June.

2012

„Demonstration Job Interviews,“ ADFL-sponsored session, Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.

2012

„Reading in the Nuremberg Carnival Plays,“ Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.

2012

„Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committee Members,“ ADFL-sponsored session, Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.

2012

Roundtable speaker, „German Graduate Education 2020: Strategies for the Future, “AATG-sponsored session, Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, 5.8-January.

2011

Session Commentator, “Transformation in Medieval German Literature,” German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, KY, 22.-25. September.

2011

“Workshop for New Chairs,” Joint ADE-ADFL Summer Seminar East, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 9-12. June.

2011

„Gender Norms in Conflict: Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women,” 46th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 12-15. May.

2011

“Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committees,” ADFL-sponsored session, Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 6-9. January.

2010

„Workshop for Program Reviewers,“ ADFL Summer Seminar West, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 17-20. June.

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2009

Response, Session 49, German Studies Association, Washington, DC, 8-11. October.

2008

„Backlash: Creative Obscenity and the History of Sexuality,“ 43rd International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 8-11. May.

Professional Activities Academic Service, University of Waterloo 

Advisory Committee, Arts First Program, 2016; 2017; 2018.

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Tenure and Promotion Committees; departmental search committee.

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Steering Committee, Waterloo Centre for German Studies.

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Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee, Arts, 2018.

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Graduate Officer, Germanic & Slavic Studies, 2020-2022

Editorial Boards 

PMLA Advisory Committee (1. July 2013-30. June 2016).

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Transatlantic Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture (Monograph Series) (2003-present).

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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (1997 to present).

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Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions (TEAMS) (1997 to present).

Professional Activities    

External Review, Montclair State University, Department of Classics and General Humanities, January 2021.

Member, First Book in German Studies Prize Committee, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, 2018; 2019; 2020.

External Evaluator, Appointment to Tenure (six dossiers), German Department, University of Vienna, Austria, 2018.

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External Evaluator, American Academy in Berlin, 2018.

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External Review, University of Minnesota, German, Scandinavia, and Dutch, 2015.

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External Evaluator, German Department, University of Vienna, Austria, 2015.

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Nominating Committee, Modern Language Association 2014-2015 (chair, 2015).

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External Review, Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, Tuscon, AZ, 19-21. February 2014. Chair of review committee.

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External Reviewer, Appointment with Tenure, University of Frankfurt, Germany, 2013.

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External Reviewer, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland-College Park, 19-20. February 2013.

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Discipline Representative, Renaissance Society of America, 2012-2015.

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Executive Committee, Division for German Literature to 1700, Modern Language Association of America 2000-2005; 2013-2018.

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Discussion Group Executive Committee, Arthurian Literature, Modern Languages Association, 2011-2016.

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Executive Committee, ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages), 20102013.

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ACLS External Evaluator, 2011; 2012; 2015; 2016; 2017.

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Award Committee, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association of America (2002; 2004; 2014).

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Book Review Editor for Germanic Languages and Literatures, Speculum (2000-03; 20032006)

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Advisory Board, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (1998-2006).

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Organizer, North Carolina Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Symposium (1998-2009).

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President, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (1999-2001).

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Vice-President, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (1997-99).

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Editor, Medieval Feminist Newsletter (1993-97).

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Convenor, North Carolina Research Group on Medieval and Early Modern Women (1995-96).

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Reviewer for Colloquia Germanica; Exemplaria; PMLA; German Quarterly; Women in German Yearbook; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Manuscript reviews, most recently for deGruyter; Ohio State University Press, and Camden House Press.

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External Evaluator for tenure and promotion.

Duke University, Faculty Working Group 

“Narrative in Action,” 2010-2011, competitively funded by the Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University, Co-organizer Fritz Mayer (PPS).

Duke University, Conference Organizer 

“Mobile Markers of Personhood in Medieval Urban Spaces,” Duke University, November 20-21, 2015 (with Prof Jehangir Malegam).

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“New Directions in Medieval Masculinities,” Duke University, September 20-21, 2013 (with graduate student Christian Straubhaar).

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“New Directions in German Studies,” Princeton University, Princeton Institute for Regional and International Studies, November 17-19, 2009 (with Prof. Sally Poor, Princeton).

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“German’s 1968: A Cultural Revolution?” North Carolina German Studies Workshop, 11.-12. April 2008, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (with Prof. Dick Langston, UNC-CH).

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“Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde,” Transcoop, Duke and UNC-CH, at Duke University, 29. March – 1. April 2007 (with Prof Jutta Eming, FUBerlin and Prof Kathryn Starkey, UNC-CH).

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“Beginnings and Endings of Modernity in German-Speaking Lands,” UNC-CH and Duke, German Departments, April 2004 (with Prof Tom Robisheaux, Duke).

Duke University, Academic Service (2007-2014) 

Envisioned, Initiated, and Led the Planning and Adoption of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies (2004-2008).

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Steering Committee, Humanities Writ Large (2013-14; Fall 2014).

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University Priorities Committee (2013-16).

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Harassment Grievance Board (2013-16).

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Faculty Advisory Committee, Graduate Liberal Studies (2012-15).

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Search Committee Member, Academic Advisor for the Humanities (2014).

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Search Committee member, Assistant Dean for Professional Development, Duke University Graduate School (fall 2012).

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Chair, Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty (2010-13).

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Chair, Implementation Committee, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies (Fall semester 2008).

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Baldwin Scholars Program Review Committee (Fall semester 2008).

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DAAD Selection Committee (2006; 2007; 2008; 2009).

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Executive Committee, Graduate School (2007-2010).

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QEP (Fall 2007).

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Academic Council (1999-2001; 2007-2008; 2013-15).

Duke University, Departmental Service 

Director of Graduate Studies, Carolina-Duke German PhD Program (2013-15).

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Chair of German (calendar years 2006 and 2007).

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Interim Director of Graduate Studies German (Fall 1998; Spring 2000).

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Acting Chair, German (1998-99; Spring, 2003).

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Chair or member of many search, tenure and reappointment committees.

Grants 2019

Co-applicant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant “ENVIRONMENTS OF CHANGE,” 2019-2026 (Co-applicant share CAD

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192,308).

2017

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant “VISUAL Communication and Community Formation in the Middle Ages: Medieval Badges,” 2017-2023 (CAD 279,845).

2017

University of Waterloo, International Research Partnership Grant-European Union, “Storyworlds: An International Research Partnership,” (CAD 20,000).

2016

University of Waterloo, Claxton/Harding Seed Grant, “Storyworlds,” (CAD 10,000).

2016

DAAD Short Stay Fellowship (January-March 2016).

2013

“Rivalrous Masculinities: Changing Images of the Male Body over Time,” Emerging Humanities Faculty Network, Humanities Writ Large, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Duke University (with CDG graduate students C. Straubhaar and S. Kaupp).

2013

Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (conference support).

2012

Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (research trip).

2012

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

2012

“Rivalrous Masculinities: Changing Images of the Male Body over Time,” Emerging Humanities Faculty Network, Humanities Writ Large, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Duke University (with CDG graduate students C. Straubhaar and S. Kaupp).

2011

Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (visit by Prof. James A. Schultz).

2011

DAAD Short Stay Fellowship.

2008

Max Kade Foundation (Support for Carolina-Duke Visiting Professorship).Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

2007

Max Kade Foundation (Support for Carolina-Duke Visiting Professorship and conference support for NCGS).

2006

Course development grant, Dean Robert Thompson, for MED 114 (with Prof. Kristen Neuschel); Max Kade Foundation (Support for Carolina-Duke Visiting Professorship and Tristan conference); Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation (Tristan conference); Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

2005

TransCoop Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, research cooperation between UNC-CH, DU, and Free University of Berlin (with Profs. Kathryn Starkey and Jutta Eming); Josiah Charles Trent Foundation (research exchange support).

2004

Max Kade Foundation (Support for Carolina-Duke Visiting Professorship);Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

2003

Max Kade Foundation (Support for Carolina-Duke Visiting Professorship; conference support); DAAD (conference support); Josiah Charles Trent Foundation (conference support); Robertson Collaboration Fund (conference support).

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2002

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.Josiah Charles Trent Foundation (speaker series).

2001

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

2000

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

1997

Provost, Duke University, International Studies Grant.

1997

DAAD (German Academic Exchange) Summer Grant.

1996

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

1995

Arts & Science Faculty Research Council, Duke University.

1994

Oregon Humanities Center Summer Research Fellowship.

Advising and Teaching Bold type indicates students to whom I was first advisor.

Completed Degrees 2018. Jana Koepcke, “The Fifteenth-Century Middle High German Story “The Queen of France”: An Edition and Annotated Translation of Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Heid. Hs. 1012, f. 249-254, MA, German & Slavic, University of Waterloo.

2016. Melanie Ungar, “Gender and Humor in German Literature of the Fin de Siécle,” PhD, Caroline-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

2016. Janice Elizabeth Hansen, “Redeeming Faustus: Tracing the Pacts of Mariken and Faust from the 1500s to the Present,” PhD, Caroline-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

2016. Steffen Kaupp, “Transcultural Satire in German Fiction of Turkish Migrantion: SelfDeprecation, Ethnic Personation, Intertextuality,“ PhD, Caroline-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

2015. J. Christian Straubhaar-Jones, “Understanding the Visuality of a Medieval Visionary: Fourteenth-Century Dominican Henry Suso’s Interwoven Concepts of Divine Image, Gendered Identity, and Epistemology,” PhD, Caroline-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

2015. Sabrina Hufnagel, “Nibelungen Memoria: Zur Erinnerungsfunktion von Emotionalität und Geschlect,” PhD, Lehrstuhl für deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, German.

2014. Holly Eades, MA, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

2013. Erin Merritt, "’Ein Fremder, aus einer deutschen Fremde’: Language and National

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Identity in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Drei Wege zum See, MA, CDG, December.

2012. Michelle Eley, “Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counterdiscourses in German Film After 1950,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Dr. Eley is an Assistant Professor of German at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

2012. Gabriele Wurmitzer, "Postmodernity, Performance, and the Body in 1950s and 1960s Austrian Literature,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University.

2012. Johanna Schuster-Craig, “The Rhetoric of Integration Politics in Contemporary Germany,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Dr. Schuster-Craig is an Assistant Professor of German at Michigan State University.

2012. Karen Colleen McCall, “Worship in the Wild: Confessions of a Biophiliac,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University (December).

2011. Nicolay Ostrau, “Locating Feeling: Emotion, Space, and Place in Middle High German Courtly Literature around 1200,” PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ostrau is a Lecturer in German (full time) at Dartmouth College.

2010. Chunjie Zhang, “Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany around 1800,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Dr. Zhang is an associate professor of German at the University of California-Davis.

2010. Blair Jordan Deans, “The Complexities and Paradoxes of Medieval Prostitution,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University.

2009. Jennifer Welsh, “Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750," PhD, History, Duke University.

2008. April Henry, “The Female Lament: Gender and Emotion in Medieval German Literature,” PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2007. Deborah Fowlkes, “Andre Gide and Greek Myth: Le Promethee Mal Enchaine, Oedipe and Thesee,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University.

2007. Rick Bueker, “Reading and Writing Between the Lines: Identity and Language in Hawaiian Literature,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University.

2006. Olga V. Trokhimenko, "Keeping up Appearances: Women's Laughter and the Performance of Virtue in Medieval German Discourse,“ PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Winner of the 2006 Women in German Dissertation Prize.

Dr. Trokhimenko is a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

2006. Barbara E. Lechleitner, “Constructions of Community and Femininity in German Revue Films of the 1930s and 1940s,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University.

2006. Jenny Koortbojian, “Poems,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University.

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2006. James H. Brown, “Imagining the Text: Ekphrasis and Envisioning Courtly Identity in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois,” PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2005. Dr. Mary Covington, “The Representation of Femininity and Virtue in Selected Hollywood Movies of the 1930s,” MA, Graduate Liberal Studies, Duke University.

2004. Sumie L. Song, “Places of Interest: The Rhetoric of Space in High-Medieval Courtly Romance and Late-Medieval Love Discourse,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University.

2004. Sandra Lindemann Summers, “Frouwen Schouwen: The Female Gaze in Middle High German Texts,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University.

2003. Katja Altpeter-Jones, “Trafficking in Goods and Women: Love and Economics in Konrad Fleck’s Flore and Blanscheflur,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Winner of the 2003 Women in German Dissertation Prize. Dr. Altpeter-Jones is an Associate Professor of German at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR).

2003. Brooke Heidenreich Findlay, “Discourses of Sincerity: Gender, Authority and Signification in Selected French Courtly Texts, ” PhD, Romance Studies, Duke University. Dr. Findlay is an Assistant Professor of French and Women’s Studies at Penn State Altoona.

2001. Katrin Voelkner, “Books for a Better Life: Publishers and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture in Wilhelmine Germany,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University. Dr. Voelkner is a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. 1999. Mauro Daniel DeCillis, “The Pre-modern Narratologist: Narrator/author Separation in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes (France),” PhD, Romance Studies, Duke University.

1998. Barbara Shumannfang, “Envisioning Empire: Jewishness, Blackness and Gender in German Colonial Discourse from Frieda von Buelow to the Nazi 'Kolonie und Heimat,” PhD, German Studies, Duke University.

1997. Patricia A. Demarco, "Chivalry in Crisis: The Representation of the Subject of Violence in Late Medieval Literature," PhD, English, Duke University. Dr. Demarco is a Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delware, OH. 1997. Laine E. Doggett, "Magic and Healing: Representations of Female Folk Knowledge in Old French Romance," PhD, Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Doggett is an Associate Professor of French at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1996. Lisa Renée Perfetti, “The Laughter of Ladies, The Wit of Women: Finding a Place for the Female Reader in Medieval Comic Literature,” PhD, Curriculum of Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Perfetti is an Associate Professor of French at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

1994. Mark Addison Amos, “William Caxton's Corpus and the Forging of London's Urban Self (England),” PhD, English, Duke University. Dr. Amos is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. 1994. Sara Suzanne (Sally) Poor, “Medieval Incarnations of Self: Subjectivity and Authority

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in the Writings of Mechthild von Magdeburg,” PhD, Program in Theory, Duke University.

Sally is an Associate Professor in German Studies at Princeton University.

Undergraduate Senior Theses 

2012, Chris Kizer, “Parody in Medieval English Arthurian Romance.”

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2012, Taylor Sites Grothe, “Norse Medievalism in Victorian England.”

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2012, Sophie Greene, “The Nibelungenlied for the House.”

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2008, Norman Underwood, “Contra Judaeos: Rethinking Isidore of Seville's Attitudes toward Judaism and Contemporary Visigothic Policy.

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2007, Meg Bourdillon, “Mass Piety or Piety for the Masses: Building Stone Churches in Medieval Denmark.”

Program II Advisor 2009-2012. Taylor Sites Grothe

Courses Developed and Taught Undergraduate Courses Developed and Taught Medieval Studies 

Infamous Lovers. With Jason Qu. Authored as an online course featuring intensive practice in reading and writing, with the Center for Extended Learning (CEL), University of Waterloo, taught fall semester 2021.

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GER 398, Medieval Badges, international research study course.

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Vikings! Developed and taught as a face-to-face seminar.

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Vikings! Authored as an online course featuring intensive practice in reading and writing, with the Center for Extended Learning (CEL), University of Waterloo, taught winter semester 2018 and fall semester 2018.

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Legend of King Arthur in Literature and Film.

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Living Middle Ages: Aspects of Medieval Culture (team-taught with Professor Kristen Neuschel, Duke University and with Professor Ron Witt, Duke University).

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Identity and Nationhood: The Myth of Siegfried in German History and Culture (undergraduate course, taught in German).

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Medieval German Literature in English Translation.

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General Education 

Storyworlds. Seminar in new Cultural Identities (CI) minor, University of Waterloo.

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Images that Shock. First year writing seminar.

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Rivalrous Masculinities. Learning about Gender by Building an Art Exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (co-developed and co-taught with graduate students Steffen Kaupp and J. Christian Straubhaar-Jones).

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Imagining the Good Life (First year course).

German Studies 

History of the German Language.

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German Women Writers.

Other Undergraduate Teaching and Advising  German Language Instruction at all levels. 

Fairy Tales (developed by Professor Paul Malone, University of Waterloo).

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Co-director, with Stephen Bednarski, D.R.A.G.E.N Lab, Saint Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Canada (2016-present).

Graduate Courses Developed and Taught.

Medieval Studies 

Theories of Orality and Literacy.

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Introduction to Middle High German.

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Sex, Gender, and Love in Medieval German Literature.

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Legend of King Arthur.

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Adaptation: Theory and Practice.

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Medieval Poetry (with Kathryn Starkey).

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Foundations of German Literature (with Jonathan Hess).

General Education 

Happy Endings: Melodrama, Farce, and Romance (Graduate Liberal Studies).

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Attending to Literature (Graduate Liberal Studies).

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Research Methods in Literary Scholarship.

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Introduction to Medieval German Literature and Culture.

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Adaptation: Theory and Practice.

German Studies  Gender Studies and German Studies.

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German for Reading Knowledge.

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