CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate Professor of German
Department of German
University of Wisconsin-Madison
848 Van Hise Hall
Madison, WI 53706 USA
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Late medieval German and Latin hagiographic texts and collective manuscripts
Marian literature and its reception in hagiographic texts
Depictions of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in prose legendaries
Post-classical narrative (prose and verse) in medieval German literature
Faustbuch and its reception in music
Medieval hymns and their reworkings (presently G. Mahler)
Hans Sachs
Dietrichepik.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Books/texts:
Forthcoming edition with extensive commentary and translation of Swan Knight legend in late medieval German prose
Translation and editing of libretto to the opera Die drei Pintos, ( by G. Mahler, C.M. von Weber), ed. James L. Zychowicz (Middleton: A. R. Editions, 2000)
Articles on:
"König Rother" and Pfaffe Konrad
Forthcoming in Naturlaut: article on reception of the Carolingian hymn "Veni creator spiritus" in G. Mahler's 8th Symphony.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
As can be seen in my list of research areas above, I work extensively with manuscripts (13th- through 16th-century evidence) as well as the reception or modification of texts in differing formats. Much of my research consists of editing manuscripts accompanied by formal descriptions in the context of the medieval book; I have also conducted graduate seminars on Medieval German Palaeography and its relation to Latin up through the 16th century.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
I have worked primarily with chronicles of the Crusades especially in my research and book-length study on the Swan Knight legend. I have also dealt with late medieval (municipal and also larger- context) chronicles as a source for historical and hagiographic collections in the 15th and 16th centuries, and also use by Hans Sachs.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
James L. Frankki, dissertation on Ulrich von Liechtenstein's ‘Venusfahrt' in his Frauendienst (in progress, completion expected during 2004)
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MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Survey of German Literature to 1750
Introduction to Middle High German
Readings in Middle High German
Doctoral Level:
Medieval Literary Dialects, 1200-1450
Medieval German Literature 1050-1400
Seminar on Narrative Forms: Wolfram, Gottfried and post-Classical generations
Seminar on Medieval German Palaeography
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