Conferences and Papers


Conference Organizer:

Medieval Court Culture: A Symposium. Washington University in St. Louis, April 2011.

Klang, Geräusch, Stille und Echo: Zur Akustik des deutschen Mittelalters. Universität Bamberg, July 2008. 

Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe. Washington University in St. Louis, April 2008. (with Gerhild Williams).


Invited Lectures and Papers (selection)

“Eufemia, Fiction, and Flores och Blanzeflor.” Keynote for the international symposium “Eufemiavisor and Courtly Culture: Time, Texts and Cultural Transfer.” Stockholm University, Sweden, October 2012.

“Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe.” Keynote for the Society for Medieval Germanic Studies, 46th annual International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2011.

“Ein wunderliche und erschrockenliche hystori: Printing Dracula in 15th-Century Germany.” University of Illinois, September 2008.

“Man – Savage – Monstrous Beast. Humanizing the Other in the Early Modern.” Graduate Workshop at the University of Illinois, Rare Book Library, October 2008.

“Der aventiuren klang: Sound als sinntragendes Element im ‘Laurin’ des Spätmittelalters.” Universität München, July 2008.

“Dicitur quod Crimhilt omnino mala fuit, sed nichil est: Zur Kritik der bösen Kriemhild in einer Predigt des 13. Jahrhunderts.” Deutsches Seminar / Tübinger Kolloquium Vormoderne, Universität Tübingen, June 2008.

“Heldenrelikte im Spätmittelalter. Zur Poetik des entschwundenen Körpers.” Graduiertenschule für die Geisteswissenschaften / Mittelalterkreis, Universität Würzburg, May 2008.

“vom touf unz an sin ende geschach im nie so wê:  Über Schmerzauffassung im Mittelalter und die (Un)verwundbarkeit von Leib und Seele in der deutschen Heldenepik. [‘Nibelungenlied’ – ‘Sigenôt’ – ‘Eckenlied’].” Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (ZEMAS), Universität Bamberg, November 2007.

“Speaking Like a Bat: Voice, Oblivion and Darkness in Death and the Plowman,” Symposium on Medieval Court Culture, Washington University, April 2011.

"Whispers, Murmurs, Silence: Strategies of ‘Acoustic Control’ in the Courtly Love Lyric," Reading Group in Medieval Court Culture, Washington University, April 2011.

“Sight, Surveillance and the Control of Courtly Women,” Reading Group in Medieval Court Culture, Washington University, March 2011.

“Over the Line: Laughing about Vlad Dracula in Late-Medieval Germany.”  126th MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.

“Starkathr als Nationalheld im mittelalterlichen Norden: Spiel – Wettkampf – Konkurrenz um eine umstrittene Figur.” International Conference on “Spiele und Sport im mittelalterlichen Nordeuropa.” Universität Göttingen, October 2010.

“Urrâ burrâ: Punchline and Performance in Neidhart’s ‘Ich erwinde niemer’.” 45th annual International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2010.