Curriculum Vitae - University of Utah

Curriculum Vitae
Name: Maria Dobozy
Address: 850 Donner Way, #201, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
Telephone: home: 801-582-8937 office: 801-581-4608
email: [email protected]
Educational Background
1976-1979 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1974-1976 University of Tübingen, Germany
1972-1974 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1970-1972 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1968-1969 University of Freiburg/Br., Germany
(Wayne State Univ. Junior Year)
1966-1970 Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
Ph.D.
ABD
M.A.
B.A.
Doctoral Dissertation:
"The Role of the King in Selected Medieval Epics"
Undergraduate Major: German
Undergraduate Minors: Philosophy, French
Areas of concentration:
medieval German literature
philology
linguistics (MA coursework completed 1979, Univ. of Kansas)
Languages:
Hungarian (native), German (near-native), French (reading), several early German
dialects, Latin
Teaching Experience
1986-- University of Utah, Department of Languages
Professor (promotion to Professor 1998)
2002 Guest Professor, Summer Reading Session (May-June, 2002) Central European
University, Budapest.
2000 Faculty: Summer Institute on Medieval Central Europe (Central European
University, Budapest--Cracow--Prag, 17 July -- 10 August, 2000
1997 Guest Professor, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary (Fall)
1995
Guest Professor, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary (Spring)
1979-1986
University of Illinois at Chicago, German Dept.
Assistant Professor of German
1977-1979
1976-1978
1970-1974
Awards and Grants:
2005
University of Kansas, Applied English Center, Assistant Instr., ESL
University of Kansas, Assistant Instructor of German
University of Kansas Assistant Instructor of German
International Travel Grant, College of Humanities, for travel to
Conference at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institut fur
Realienkunde in Krems, Austria (Invited presentation, see below)
2004
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et
Artium senior research fellowship, 3 months awarded, accepted 2 months
(July and August, 2004; $8000) for research on Tinodi Sebestyen’s poetic
mission: Songs and Chronicles in Peformative Context in 16th century
Hungary.
2001
Faculty Fellow Award, Winter semester manuscript research in Vienna
2000
Residence Research Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Medieval
Institute Seminar on "Urban Space, Urban Culture"
1993
Faculty Fellow Award, University of Utah, Autum quarter, 1993
1991
NEH Travel to Collections Grant to Münster, Germany
Univ. of Utah Research Grant for library research in Germany
College of Humanities Faculty Development Leave, University of Utah,
Sachenspiegel
1991
Spring, for work on
1990
Goethe Institute Summer Grant: Influence of unification on education
system in East and West Germany
1989
Univ. of Utah Faculty Development Leave, Spring
1987
Univ. of Utah Research Grant for archival work in Germany
1987
Univ. of Utah Teaching Committee grant for curriculum
development
1986
Fulbright Summer Grant
1982-83
Melon Post-doctoral fellowship at Boston University,
awarded by the University Professors Program
1981
NEH Summer Institute for Teacher and Curriculum
Development on the Teaching of Medieval Civilization, Mount Holyoke College, 1981
1975-76
Fulbright Study Grant and Graduate Fellowship, University of
Tübingen
1974-75
University of Kansas Direct Exchange Scholarship for
study at the University of Tübingen
1971
University of Kansas Travel Grant for Summer Study
in Germany
Books
Full Circle: Kingship in the German Epic. "Alexanderlied, Rolandslied,
'Spielmannsepen.'" Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 399.
Göppingen: Kümmerle 1985.
The Saxon Mirror. A Sachsenspiegel of the Fourteenth Century (includes Introduction,
Translation, Glossary and Commentary to Eike von Repgow's “Sachsenspiegel”)
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Re-Membering the Present: The Medieval German Minstrel in Cultural Context. (Disputatio, 6),
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005.
Articles, chapters in books
"Vowel Harmony and Code-Mixing: A Description of Phonemic Substitution in an
American-Hungarian Text," Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 3 (1978), 5367.
"Transformational Study of Predicative and Non-predicative Adjectives in German,"
Papers from the 1979 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. Robert S. Haller,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1980, pp. 384-94.
"The Mutually Exclusive Referents of Middle High German rîche," Papers from the 1980
Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. Michael M.T. Henderson, 1981,
pp. 111-121.
"The Structure of the Crusade Epic and the Function of the King," Neophilologus, 67
(1983), 90-108.
"The Function of Knowledge in Salman und Morolf," in The Dark Figure in Medieval
German and Germanic Literature, ed. Edward R. Haymes and Stephanie Cain Van
D'Elden, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 448 (Göppingen: Kümmerle
Verlag, 1986) pp. 27-41.
"The Theme of the Holy War in German Literature, 1152-1190: Symptom of the
Controversy between Empire and Papacy?" Euphorion, 80 (1986), 341-362.
"Minstrel Books: The Legacy of Thomas Wright in German Research."
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 87 (1986), 523-36.
"The Meaning of Virtus: Heroic Vocabulary in Konrad's 'Rolandslied.'" Archiv für das
Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 224 (1987), 241-253.
"Der alte und der neue Bund in Konrads von Würzburg 'Heinrich von Kempten,'"
Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 107 (1988), 384-398.
"Das Bild der Heidin in der deutschen Kreuzzugsdichtung," in La Croisade: Réalités et
Fictions. Actes du Colloque d'Amiens, 1987," Danielle Buschinger, ed.,
Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989, pp. 111-118.
"The Many Faces of the Medieval Court Minstrel in England and Imperial Germany," 'in
hôhem prîse.' A Festschrift in Honor of Ernst S. Dick, Winder McConnell, ed.,
Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989, pp. 31-44.
"Sumptuary Laws and the Reception of the Münchener Oswald in the City," Medieval
German Literature. Proceedings from the 23rd International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 5-9, 1988, Albrecht Classen, ed.
Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989, pp. 197-210.
"The Role of the Chronicler, the Poet and the Minstrel in Heinrich von Veldekes Eneide,"
Mediaevistik. Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung.
2 (1989), 81-96.
"Beschenkungspolitik und die Erschaffung von Ruhm am Beispiel der fahrenden Sänger,"
Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 26 (1992). 353-367.
"Spielmannsepen," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 148: German Writers and
Works of the Early Middle Ages, 800-1170. James Hardin and Will Hasty, eds.,
NY, Washington, Cinncinati: Gale Research Inc. 1994, pp. 268-278.
"Eine Braut aus dem Orient. Traditionelles und Fremdes in der Kreuzzugsdichtung," in:
Festschrift für Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand, W. Schild, H. Höffinghof, W. Peters, T.
Sodmann, eds. Essen: Item Verlag, 1996, pp. 45-51.
"Poetry and Penury in Konrad von Würzburg and Guiraut Riquier," Romance Languages
Annual 1995 (1996) vol. 7, 39-43.
"The Brothers Grimm" Dictionary of Medieval Scholarship, ed. Helen Damico, NY: Garland,
1998, pp. 93-108.
"Creating Credibility and Truth through Performance: Kelin's Encomium," The Stranger
in Medieval Society. F.R.P. Akehurst, Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds.,
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998, pp. 92-103.
"Exeat aula? Rulership in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan" in: The man of Many
Devices who Wandered full many Ways. Festschrift in Honor of János M. Bak.
Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999, pp. 167-175.
"From Oral Custom to Written Law: The Sachsenspiegel." Consolatio Philologiae.
Festschrift for E. S. Firchow, Anton Schwob, Anna Grotans, eds., Göppingen:
Kümmerle, 2000, pp. 31-40.
"From Oral Custom to Written law: The German 'Sachsenspiegel,'" in: Oral History of the Middle
Ages.The Spoken Word in Context. Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter, eds., Krems/ Budapest:
2001. Medium Aevum Quotidianum Vol. XII, 154–65. (rpt from Consolatio Philologiae)
3 articles: “Eike von Repgow,” “Law and Lawbooks,” “Spielmannsepen,” in: Medieval Germany. An
Encyclopedia. John M. Jeep, ed., NY: Garland, 2001.
“Vernacular Chronicles,” In: A Companion to Middle High German Literature to the 14th Century.
Francis G. Gentry, ed., Boston/ Leiden: Brill, 2002, 379–396.
“Hartmann von Aue” The Literary Encyclopedia www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm 2003
“Konrad von Würzburg” The Literary Encyclopedia www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm 2003
“Thomas Mann’s The Holy Sinner: A Translation for Modern Times?” Literature and Belief, 24 (2004)
253–266.
“Gregorius” The Literary Encyclopedia www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm 2005.
“German Law” in: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia. Margaret Schaus,
ed . NY: Routledge: 2006, pp. 457–8.
“Der Erwählte” The Literary Encyclopedia www.litencyc.com/LitEncycFrame.htm October,
2006.
“Eike von Repgow,” Key Figures in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia. Richard K. Emmerson,
ed., NY: Routledge, 2006, p. 194.
“The Wayfaring Singer’s Penury: Use of a Literary Commonplace” in: The Sign Languages of
Poverty, ed. Gerhard Jaritz (Forschungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der
frühen Neuzeit. Diskussionen und Materialien 8) Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften, 2007, pp. 149-164.
“Hugh of St. Victor: The Performing Body and Moral Conduct in the Middle Ages” in:
Procession, Performance, Ritual and Liturgy: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Process and
Progress. ed. Nancy van Deusen, (Musicological Studies, 62), Ottawa: Institute of Medieval
Music, 2007, pp 33–43. (chapter in book)
“Historical Narrative and Dialogue: The Serious and the Burlesque in Jans der Enikel” in:
Current Topics in Medieval German Literature: Texts and Analyses (Kalamazoo Papers
2000-2006). Sibylle Jefferis, ed. Göppingen, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 748.
Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 2008, pp. 151-169.
“Performance and Self-reflexivity in diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin” for a collection,
“Er ist ein wol gevriunder man” Essays in Honor of Ernst S. Dick on the Occasion of His
Eightieth Birthday, Karen McConnell, Winder McConnell, eds. (Hildesheim: Olms Verlag,
2009) pp. 93–111.
“Jans der Enikel’s Prolog as a Guide to Textual Multiplicity” in Romance and Rhetoric: Essays
in Honor of Dhira B. Mahoney. Georgiana Donavin and Anita Obermeier, eds., Turnhout:
Brepols, 2010. pp. 33–50.
Encyclopedia article: “Cronica des koninks Sigmundus zu Ungern, (Chronicle of King
Sigismund of Hungary)” Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles. Leiden: Brill, October 2010.
“The battle of Szabacs,” Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. edited by
David Thomas, Leiden: Brill, 2009–11, 4 vols.
“The Crown: A Tale of Sir Gawain and King Arthur’s Court” (“Heinrich von dem Türlin”) rpt.
in: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ed. Jelena O Krstovic; Serial publication
(Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 2011) 123 vols. (reprinted from German Studies Review vol 14,
issue 3, 605-607.)
Edited Works
Editor, Encomia. Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society,
Vol. XII (1990), Vol. XIII (1991), Vol. XIV (1992), vol. XV (1993), vol. XVI
(1994), vol. XVII (1995), XVIII-XIX (1996-97).
Reviews
Wolfgang Hartung, Die Spielleute: Eine Randgruppe in der Gesellschaft des
Mittelalters. Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Beihefte
72. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1982, in Speculum, 59 (1984), 156-57.
Walter Salmen, Der Spielmann im Mittelalter. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur
Musikwissenschaft, 8. Innsbruck: Helbling, 1983, in Speculum, 60 (1985), 72325.
Theodor Nolte, Das Kudrunepos--ein Frauenroman? Untersuchungen zur deutschen
Literaturgeschichte, 38. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985, in Monatshefte, 79 (1987),
513.
Edward R. Haymes, The Nibelungenlied. History and Interpretation. Illinois Medieval
Monographs, 2. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1986, in Olifant, 12 (1987).
Constance Bullock-Davies, A Register of Royal Baronial and Domestic Minstrels 12721327. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1986, in Encomia, X (1988).
Edward R. Haymes, trans. The Saga of Thidrek of Bern. Garland Library of Medieval
Literature 56, Series B. New York: Garland, 1988, in Olifant, 15, no. 2, (1990),
196-199.
Heinrich von dem Türlin. The Crown: A Tale of Sir Gawein and King Arthur's Court.
Trans. J.W. Thomas, Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1989,in: German Studies
Review,XIV (1991),605-7.
John Southworth. The English Medieval Minstrel. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Wolfeboro,
NH: Boydell & Brewer, 1989, in Encomia, XIII (1991), 27-30.
William C. McDonald. The Tristan Story in German Literature of the Late Middle Ages
and Early Renaissance: Tradition and Innovation. (Studies in German Language
and Literature, 5) Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press,, 1990, in
German Studies Review XV (1992), 570-572.
Gert Kaiser, ed. An den Grenzen höfischer Kultur: Anfechtungen der Lebensordnung in
der deutschen Erzähldichtung des hohen Mittelalters. (Forschungen zur
Geschichte der älteren Literatur, 12), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1991, rev.in
German Studies Review XVI (1993), 342-343.
Friedrich Scheele, 'di sal man alle radebrechen' Todeswürdige Delikte und ihre
Bestrafung in Text und Bild der Codices Picturati des Sachsenspiegels. 2 Vols.,
Oldenburg: Isensee Verlag, 1992, rev. in German Studies Review, (17) 1994, 3789.
Dietrich Huschenbett and John Margetts, eds., Reisen und Welterfahrung in der
deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Vorträge des XI. Anglo-deutschen
Colloquiums 11.-15 September 1989 Universität Liverpool (Würzburger Beiträge
zur deutschen Philologie, 7.) Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1991, rev.
in German Studies Review (18) 1995, 320-321.
Rasmussen, Anne Marie. Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. 253 pages. Rev. in: Monatshefte, vol
93 (2001) 115-117.
Wolf, Jürgen, Die Sächsische Weltchronik im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften. Überlieferung,
Textentwicklung, Rezeption. (Münsterische Mittelalterschriften, 75) Munich: Wilhelm Fink,
1997. Pp xv, 495 plus 60--page appendix; 12 maps, 11 tables, and 3 diagrams. DM 118. Rev. in:
Speculum. 76 (2001), 818–9.
The Trotula. A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine. Edited and Transl. By Monica H.
Green. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xvii + 328 pages. $55.00.
Monatshefte 94 (2002), 390–1.
The Oral Epic: Performance and Music. Karl Reichl, ed., (Intercultural Music Studies, 12)
Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000, Speculum 78 (2003), 250–1.
Tarantul, Evgen. Elfen, Zwerge und Riesen, Untersuchung zur Vorstellungswelt germanischer
Völker im Mittelalter. Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 1, Deutsche Sprache und
Literatur, Bd.l791.Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001. pp. 468 Rev. in: Seminar. A Journal of
Germanic Studies, 39 (2003), 350–1.
Lisa M. Bitel. Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks),
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp.xv, 296. Hardback $60.00. In German
Studies Review, 27 (2004), 39–40.
Medieval Concepts of the Past. Ritual, Memory, Historiography. Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried,
and Patrick J. Geary, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Washington,
D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2002. Pp. xi, 341, 14 b&w illustrations. Cloth $60.00.
In German Studies Review, 27 (2004), 40–1.
Böse Frauen — Gute Frauen. Darstellungskoventionen in Texten un Bildern des Mittelalters und der
Frühen Neuzeit. Gaebel, Ulrike and Erika Kartschoke, eds., Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag
Trier, 2001. In Monatshefte 96 (2004), 119–21.
Walther Salmen, Spielfrauen im Mittelalter. Zürich/ NY: Georg Olms, 2000.Pp 124; 50 black-and-white
figures.
In Speculum. 79 (2004), 835–37.
Kaufmann, Frank-Michael, ed. Glossen zum Sachsenspiegel–Landrecht, Buch’sche Glosse.
(MGH Fontes iuris germanici antiqui, nova series, VII), 3 vols., Hannover: Hahnsche
Buchhandlung, 2002. In: Speculum 80 (2005) 601–2.
Kathryn Starkey, Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram von
Eschenbach’s Willehalm. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. In: The
Medieval Review (online journal), Fall 2005.
Jan-Dirk Müller, Das Nibelungenlied Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2005 in German Quarterly,
vol 79 (2006) 529–30.
Vickie L. Ziegler. Trial by Fire and Battle in Medieval Literature (Studies in German Literature,
Linguistics, and Culture) Woodbridge, NY: Camden House, 2004 in: German Studies Review 29
(2006), 154–55.
Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature. By Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre,
Montshefte Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004 in Monatshefte, vol 98 (2006), pp.133-4.
Horst Wenzel, Höfische Repräsentation. Symbolische Kommunikation und Literatur im
Mittelalter. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005. Pp. 308. German Studies
Review 30 (2007), 19–20.
The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification., edited by
Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jeremy Llewellyn, and Eyolf Østrem, (Disputatio,
3), Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols, 2004, in: The Medieval Review (online journal), Jan 2008.
Der mittelalterliche und der neuzeitliche Walther. Beiträge zu Motivik, Poetik,
Überlieferungsgeschichte und Rezeption. Edited by Thomas Bein (Walther-Studien, 5), NY:
Peter Lang, 2007, in: JEGP, January 2009, pp. 90-92.
Sangspruchdichtung. Gattungskonstitution und Gattungsinterferenzen im europaischen Kontext.
eds. Dorothea Klein, Trude Ehlert, Elisabeth Schmid, reviewed in Speculum. vol 85 (2010),
696–698.
Das Feindbild der Kreuzzugslyrik. Das Aufeinandertreffen von Christen und Muslimen. By
Ingrid Hartl. New York: Peter Lang, 2009 Pp. 219; 2 illustrations, for Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, vol. 110 (2011), 269–271.
Invited lectures
Boston University, University Professors Program, April 1983: "Literature and Pageantry: The
End of the Tunnel"
Ancient and Medieval Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985: "The German Crusade
and the Epic."
"Die Darstellung der Frau in der deutschen Kreuzzugsdichtung," International Symposium, "The
Crusades: Fiction and Reality," in Amiens, France, March, 1986.
University of Utah Humanities Center Forum, April, 1990: with Sheila Muller, "The 'Merry
Fiddler' and the Wayfaring Poet: Approaches to the Social and Political Functions of Art."
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October, 1990: "Itinerant Minstrels as Creators and
Purveyors of Fama."
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, May 1991: "Beschenkunspolitik und die
Erschaffung von Ruhm am Beispiel der fahrenden Sänger."
Universität Konstanz, Germany, June 1991: "'guot umb êre nemen:' Die Subvention des
Herrscherruhms. Zur politischen Spruchdichtung des 13. Jahrhunderts."
University of Utrecht, Netherlands, June 11, 1992: "The Rewards of Purveying Fama: Relations
between the Wandering Poets and their Patrons."
University of Florida, Gainesville, November 30, 1992: "Purveying Fama: Relations between the
Wandering Singers and their Hosts"
University of Utah, Feb. 25, 1995: Panel Discussion of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistable Rise of
Arturo Ui"
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary June 22, 1995: "Re-membering the Present:
The German Didactic Poets Establish Authority"
Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, June 8, 1999: "A Szokásjogtól a jogkönyvig: a Szász
Tükör" ("From Oral to Written Custom: The Case of the Saxon Mirror")
Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, March 9, 2000: "Entertainers and the St. Nicholas
Brotherhood in Medieval Vienna"
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, April 17, 2000:
On the Oral Nature of a Written Custumal"
"The Saxon Mirror:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of German and Medieval Studies Program, April 25,
2000: "The Saxon Mirror: On the Oral Nature of a Written Custumal"
University of Vienna, Arbeitskreis Wiener Altgermanistik, Vienna, Austria, March 15, 2001:
“Die Wiener Spielleute vor dem Herrn: Am Hofe, in der Stadt und vor der Kirche”
Symposium in Honor of Ernst S. Dick, Oct. 26, 2002, Univ of Kansas , Lawrence, KS, “Singen
unde Sagen: A Historical Approach to Medieval Literature”
Plenary Speaker at Fifth Literature and Belief Symposium, Brigham Young University, March
18–20, 2004. “Thomas Manns’s The Holy Sinner: A Translation for Modern Times?
Department of German Studies, Ohio State University, May 2, 2006, “Die historische
Perspektive: Was heisst mittelalterliche Literatur historisch zu betrachten?”
University of Leiden, Netherlands, Dept. of Dutch and Medieval Literature, May 18, 2006:
“Performance and Self-reflexivity in diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin”
Utah State University, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, March 20, 2007 “ When is
a Text not a Text? A Historical Approach to Medieval Literature”
CEU Summer public lecture series and interdisciplinary Workshop: From Holy War to Peaceful
Co-habitation. Diversity of Crusading and the Military Orders, July 14–25, 2008 organized by
Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies.
Lecture: Crusades: A general introduction to literary representations and justifications of
crusades”
Panel discussion: “Confrontation or Co-habitation. Past and Present in the Near East”
participated together with international group of scholars.
Invited speaker for CARA plenary session: Medieval Academy, March 2009, “Sebastian Tinodi's
Poetic Mission: Shaping Hungary during the Turkish Wars”
Current Research Projects
Book-length study of Sebestyen Tinodi’s poetic mission; his compositions and performance of
historical narratives describing the Turkish incursions into Hungary 1541-1563.
The Saxon Mirror: a second edition of my translation of the German Sachsenspiegel but this time
together with a new edition of the text.
“The Poem of the “Battle of Sabacs’”, encyclopedia article
Papers read at Conferences
Medieval, Patristic and Renaissance Conference, Villanova, Fall, 1979: "The Literary
Image of the King and his Dual Military and Sacral Role"
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conf., Fall, 1979: "Epic Structure and Power
Structure: Defining the Characteristics of the 12th Century Pre-courtly German
Epic"
1979 Mid-America Linguistics Conf.: "A Transformational Study of Predicative and
Non-predicative Adjectives in German"
Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, 1980: "Battle Terminology in the
'Rolandslied'"
1980 Mid-America Linguistics Conf.: "The Mutually Exclusive Referents of Middle High
German rîche"
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, 1981: "Salman und Morolf: 'Das mortgrimme wîp' versus 'der listige
man'"
Third New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Univ. of South
Florida, Sarasota, 1982: "The Structure of the Crusade Epic and the Function of
the King"
International Conf. on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1982: "The
Problem of Genre: 'Orendel'"
International Courtly Literature Society, 4th Triennial Congress, University of Toronto,
1983: "Thirteenth Century Courtly Dance: Origins and Influence"
Sixth Annual Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, N.H., 1985: "The
Papacy and Crusade Literature"
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, 1985: "Minstrel Books: The Influence of Thomas Wright on
German Research"
Fifth New College Conf. on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Univ. of South Florida,
Sarasota, 1986: "The Social Context of the Minstrel's Performance in the
'Karlmeinet'"
Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ. Oct., 1986: "The
Meaning of Virtus: Heroic Vocabulary in Konrad's 'Rolandslied.'"
Midwest Modern Language Assoc. Annual Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 1986: "Out of Order
Chaos Comes."
MLA Annual Meeting, NY, Dec. 1986: "Ritual Aspects of Giving Gifts to Entertainers:
Implications for Performance."
“Konrad von Würzburg--seine Zeit, sein Werk, seine Wirkung,” conference in city of Würzburg, Sept.
1987: "Altes und neues Testament in Konrads von Würzburg 'Heinrich von Kempten.'" Plenary
talk.
Northeast Modern Language Assoc. Convention, 1988, Providence R.I.: "The Heathen
Woman in Middle High German Literature."
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, May 1988: "Sumptuary Laws in the Imperial German Cities."
Thirteenth International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies,
Villanova, September 1988: "Feasts and Entertainments in German Courtly
Literature: Implications for Performance."
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, May 1989: The Chronicler, the Poet and the Minstrel: Heinrich von
Veldekes Eneide."
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May
1989, for Majestas: "The Patron as Performer: The Ritual Aspects of Giving Gifts to
Entertainers."
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May
1990, "The Role of the Minstrel in Literature."
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May
1993, "Seeking a Bride in the East: Transformed Tradition in the German Crusade
Narratives."
University of Minnesota Conference on Strangers in Medieval Society, Feb. 1994 "The
Minstrel Performs: Truth, Credibility, Political Poetry and the Outsider" (invited
participants only)
International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalmazoo, MI, May 1994: "Appealing to
the Audience: Kelin's Strategy for Encomia"
Purdue Romance Languages, Literature and Film Conference, Oct. 1995 "Poetry and Penury in
Konrad von Würzburg and Guiraut Riquier"
MLA, Chicago, 1995: "The Magic of Reading in Konrad von Würzburg's "Der Welt Lohn"
International Courtly Society Triennial International Conference, Belfast, July, 1995: "Remembering the Present: Historical Events Filtered Through Courtly Romance"
International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1995 Panel: Theory from
the Source. "What can Account Books tell us about Poetry?"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI May 1996 "Kingship in
Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan"
Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Hawaii, March 1997: "Reflexivity and
Performance in "Diu Crone" by Heinrich von dem Türlin"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1997:
"Sachsenspiegel: Law and the Use of the Vernacular in 13th- and 14th- Century
Germany"
International Interdisciplinary Workshop, "Aspects of Courtly Culture in Late Medieval
Europe," Central European University, Budapest, April 2-6, 1998: "Expectations
and Reflexivity in Courtly Narratives"
Medieval Association of the Pacific, Claremont Graduate Colleges, March 12-14, 1999:
"Maxims, Customs and Vernacular German Lawbooks: The Case of the Saxon
Mirror"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1999: "Love in an
Ironic Mode: 'Herzmaere' by Konrad von Würzburg"
The Medieval Chronicle (Second International Conference), Utrecht July 16-21, 1999:
"German World Chronicles and Histories"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2000:
“Translating the Saxon Mirror: The Simple Words”
Claremont Graduate University: Symposium on Poverty, (participation by invitation) Nov. 9-11
2000, “The Penury of Poets and the Value of Art: Die Klage der Kunst.”
International Workshop on Traditional Cultures, New Research Methods and Results”
Pedagogical Academy, Kirovograd, Ukraine, January 3-7, 2001; Plenary Presentation:
“The Feast of the Pheasant: Adventure, Performance, and the Making of a Custom”
Central European University, Workshop on Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages (by
invitation), Budapest, Hungary Feb. 24-28, 2001: “Evidence of Orality in a Written
Custumal: The Saxon Mirror, c. 1240
International Courtly Literature Society, Triennial International Congress, Tübingen, Germany,
July 28–Aug.3, 2001: “The Habsburg Court Minstrels and the Parish of St. Michael’s in
Vienna”
Claremont Graduate University, Symposium on Procession, Performance, Liturgy, and Ritual., Nov. 810, 2001: “Hugh of St Victor: Theater Anthropology and Moral Conduct in the Middle Ages” (by
invitation)
German Studies Association, Oct. 3–6, 2002, “Viennese Views of Emperor Frederick I and Frederick II
in Jans Enikel’s World Chronicle”
38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8–11 May, 2003: “Narrative and
Dialog : The Serious and the Burlesque in Jans Enikel”
39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6–9, 2004, Kalamazoo, MI. “Moritz von Craun in
Performance”
40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5-8 May, 2005 “The Severed
Head in the Crone by Heinrich von dem Türlin”
Krems, Austria: October, 10-12, 2005 (Invited participant: Symposium on The Signs of Poverty,
organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institut fur Realienkunde in Krems, Austria)
“The Wayfaring Singer’s Penury: The Uses of a Literary Commonplace”
Medieval Assoc. of the Pacific, March 3-4, 2006, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT,
“Singing of Poverty: From the Archpoet to Johann von Nûrnberg”
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 2006
“Jans der Enikel’s Prologs as Guides to Text”
Fordham University, New York, Center for Medieval Studies, March 29-30, 2008,
Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity; Paper: “Sebastian Tinodi’s Songs of the
Turkish Wars in Hungary”
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, May 2009
Session on Oral Tradition: “Sebastian Tinódi as Singer of Deeds during the Turkish wars in
Hungary”
Panel presentation: CARA plenary session: Medieval Academy, March 2009
“Sebastian Tinodi's Poetic Mission: Shaping Hungary during the Turkish Wars”
Claremont Consortium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: October 24, 2009, "Symbolic
Geographies: North-South as the Great Divide" paper presented: “The Question of Europe and
Regional Poetry”
Medieval Academy of America, session on Borders: “Defining the Self and Territorial Boundaries: The
Gate of Christendom” held at Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, March, 2011.
Courses taught
German language: third year courses, grammar and writing courses, translation courses,
introduction to literature; King Arthur and Magic, Culture of the German speaking
countries, The Germanic myth in Tolkien’s works.
Linguistics/Philology: History of the German language, Historical and comparative linguistics,
Middle High German, Old High German, Germanic linguistics, sociolinguistics
(graduate and undergrad. level), Old Saxon, Dialectology.
Early Literature: Heroic Poetry and Oral Formulaic Theory (comp. lit), Medieval romance,
Survey of medieval literature, The Medieval Epic and the Advent of Literacy (grad.,
comp. lit.), The German Renaissance and Reformation (graduate), Performing Hans
Sachs Plays; The Old Saxon Heliand and the Process of Christianization (graduate);
Medieval Literature as Performance Art (graduate); Crusade Experience in Literature
(grad. comp lit), Medieval German Political Poetry (graduate); Germanic Mythology
behind Tolkien.
General literature and culture: Portrayal of gender in modern German literature, Love Poetry
through the Ages, Germanic Mythology and its Modern Analogs, Western intellectual
tradition from the Church Fathers through the Renaissance (undergrad, honors), Survey
of German literature from the beginnings to the present (for undergraduate majors); The
German Novelle; Family values in the Middle Ages , Seminar on Metaphor (graduate);
The German Radio Play, The Austrian Short Story. Literature as Performance (graduate);
Crusade Poetry and Ideology (graduate); Concepts of the hero and heroine from
Gilgamesh to Thomas Mann; International Encounters in medieval and early modern
literature (Europe, Americas, Asia).
Honors College: Intellectual Traditions, all sections from the Classical period to the modern.
Professional Service; professional evaluations
Reader for NEH, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2005
Grant evaluations:
Member of Fulbright National Screening Committee: grants to Germany (2008)
Grant Evaluator for American Council of Learned Societies, Fall 2010
Grant Evaluator for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011)
Board of Regents Review of Utah Valley Univ. proposal for a minor in German (sent Nov. 3 2011)
Advisory Board: Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions (Teams) Medieval Institute Publications,
Western Michigan University (since 2003)
We produced 5 volumes by 2010.
Book Review Editor for Speculum, the Journal of the Medieval Academy of America, (responsible for
German, Dutch and Scandinavian publications) since 2006; renewed for a second term in 2009
Executive Committee, International Courtly Literature Society (1990–1999)
President 1988-89, Vice-President, 1987-88: American Association of University Supervisors and
Coordinators (AAUSC), (executive committee 1980-1991)
Organized Conferences:
1989: Annual AAUSC/Goethe Institute Conference, Univ. of Utah
2001: Co-organizer of Conference: Along with Pavlo Bosyy, Vice-President of the Pedagogical
Academy,
“International Workshop on Traditional Cultures, New Research Methods and Results”
Pedagogical Academy, Kirovograd, Ukraine, January 3-7, 2001
2008: organized and hosted Medieval Studies lecture: Prof. Alexa Sand, Art History, Utah State
University. She spoke on: "Sexing Up Ruth: An Episode from the Pictorial Imagination of
Late-Capetian France" October 2008
2006: Program committee for Medieval Association of the Pacific’s annual conference held in
Salt Lake.
Evaluations for promotion (only recent evaluations listed)
Full professor for Anne Winston-Allen, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Summer
2006
Jutta Eming for Promotion and Tenure at the University of British Columbia, Department of
Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (May, 2009)
Evaluation of Markus Stock for promotion and tenure, University of Toronto, Dept of German
(December, 2009)
Reader for
Book manuscript for Medieval Academy of America, Conduct Books for Boys and Girls, ed. Mark
Johnston. Fall, 2006
Article submitted to Modern Philology, “Money, Power, Poverty, and Social Criticism in the Work of
Heinrich der Teichner.” Fall, 2006
Reviewed for publication for The Ohio State University Press: A Courtier’s Mirror: Word, Image, and
Reflections of Elite Identity in a Medieval Book. The Welscher Gast of Thomasin von Zerclaere
(Zirclaria) by Kathryn Starkey. (Summer 2010)
Administrative experience
Associate Chair of Department of Languages and Literature (1990-1993)
Co-Director of Graduate Programs (1990-92)
Chair, Search Committee (1989, 1990); numerous search committees (1987-92, 1995-6)
Supervisor of basic language program in German (1986-1990)
Numerous MA and PhD Committees, including Theater, Art History departments and Environmental
Studies
University Service
University:
Committee on Foreign Language across the Curriculum (1987-89)
Dean of Humanities Search Committee (1990-1)
Faculty Affirmative Action Committee (1996--)
Liberal Education/ Undergraduate Council (1996-)
Library Policy Advisory Committee (1996-; chair 1998-99)
Outside reviewer for Tenure and Promotion and Review of tenured faculty in other departments of the
university: Art History (1996, 1998), History (1998, 2009, 2011)
College:
College Curriculum Committee (1994-6)
Career Development Committee (1996–7; 2003–05; chair, 03–04)
College Charter Revision Committee (2003–4)
College Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2004–06, chair 06)
Career Development Committee (2003–05; chair, 03–04)
Dean’s Committee on the College By-laws 2004 (1 semester committee)
Environmental Humanities Supervisory committee, 2005 – 2009
Outside reviewer for Tenure and Promotion and Review of tenured faculty in other departments of the
university: Art History (1996, 1998), History (1998, 2009, 2011)
Department:
Executive Committee (1991-94) (2010–11)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1994-6)
Chair of two Ad hoc committees for tenure review process (1992, 1996)
Committees for reviewing tenured faculty (2 in 1997, 2 in 2009)
numerous search committees (1987–09)
In the last 4 years: 1 Spanish, 2 Arabic searches; including chair of search committee for position in
Arabic Literature (2009-10); 1 search for outside dept. chair (2006-7)
scholarship committee (2003–07)
Merit committee 2008–10
Undergraduate committee 2005
Committee on Departmental Restructuring, constituted April 2006 by Dean Newman
Chair of Isabel Dulfano’s Ad hoc committee for her formal pre-tenure review (2007)
Graduate Committee 2009–11
RPT chair 2011
CLCS committee 2011
Workshops on Teaching attended
1980: Goethe Institute, Chicago: Workshop on the Training and Supervision of Teaching Assistants in
the U.S. Sponsored by the Goethe Institute. (Participation by invitation)
1982: Third Annual Conference for Supervisors and Coordinators of Teaching Assistants (AAUSC),
held at the Univ. of Houston in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, U of Houston, and the AAUSC:
"Second Language Proficiencies and Proficiency Testing"
1984: Fifth Annual AAUSC Conference at the Univ. of Iowa, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute
and the AAUSC: "The Role of Instructional Technology (esp CAI) in Foreign Language Teaching"
1986: Seventh Annual AAUSC Conference at the Univ. of Wisconsin, in cooperation with the Goethe
Institute and the AAUSC: "Methods for Teaching Reading in the Foreign Language."
1987: Eighth Annual AAUSC Conference at the Univ. of Missouri, in cooperation with the Goethe
Institute and the AAUSC: "Proficiency and Achievement testing"
1988: Ninth Annual AAUSC Conference at the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana in cooperation with the Goethe
Institute and the AAUSC: "Landeskunde"
Host of 1989 Tenth Annual AAUSC Conference held at the Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City in cooperation
with the Goethe Institute and the AAUSC: "Articulation Across the Foreign Language Curriculum"

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