• PHD Medieval and Early Modern German Literature, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2005
World Area Of Focus:
• Russia/Eastern Europe Less than 10% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 75%-99%
Languages:
• French (professional proficiency) • German (native/bilingual proficiency) • Russian (limited working proficiency) • Yiddish (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Early modern German Literature and Culture, Old Yiddish Literature, Folly Literature, Disability Studies
Relevant Experience:
• 2014-2017 Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill • 2013-2017 Director, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill • 2008-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, UNC-Chapel Hill
Distinctions:
• 2013-2013 Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowship, Greifswald, Germany • 2012-2012 Jewish Studies Research and Travel Grant, UNC
Relevant Courses Taught:
• GERM 500 History of German Language • GERM 502 Middle High German • GERM 825 Reformation Literature • GERM 896 Independent Readings: Old Yiddish Literature
Recent Publications:
• 2016 “Neros Missetaten: Ein Einbandfragment aus der Sammlung Jantz als unbekannter Text-zeuge der Harburger Legenda Aurea I” (with Janice Hansen), Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 144 (2015): 346-358.
• 2016 “Das jischev fun Nar-husen: Jiddische Narrenliteratur und jüdische Narrenkultur,” Aschkenas 25 (2015): 133-144.
• 2015 “Andreas Hondorff,” in Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620: Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, vol. 3, eds. Jan-Dirk Müller, Wilhelm Kühlman, Michael Schilling, Johann Anselm Steiger, and Friedrich Vollhardt (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014), 397-401.
• 2015 “Baron Jakob Paul von Gundling et le Collège du Tabac,” in Savoir ludique: Pratiques de divertissement et émergence des institutions littéraires dans l’Europe moderne, eds. Katja Gvozdeva and Alexandre Stroev (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014), 177-204.
• 2015 “Folly, and Fools Christianity,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception,vol. 9, eds. Dale C. Allison, Christine Helmer, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, and Eric Ziolkowski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014), 359-362.
• 2015 “Bartholomäus Krüger,” in Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620: Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, vol. 3, eds. Jan-Dirk Müller, Wilhelm Kühlman, Michael Schilling, Johann Anselm Steiger, and Friedrich Vollhardt (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014), 604-608.
• 2015 “Zu Gast bei Nikolaus Selnecker: Der jüdische Konvertit Paulus von Prag in Leipzig,” Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 13 (2014): 15-36.
• 2014 “Baron Jakob Paul von Gundling et le Collège du Tabac,” in Savoir ludique: Pratiques de divertissement et émergence des institutions littéraires dans l’Europe moderne, eds. Katja Gvozdeva and Alexandre Stroev (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014), 177-204.
• 2014 “Bartholomäus Krüger,” in Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620: Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, vol. 3, eds. Jan-Dirk Müller, Wilhelm Kühlman, Michael Schilling, Johann
• 2014 “Andreas Hondorff,” in Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520-1620: Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, vol. 3, eds. Jan-Dirk Müller, Wilhelm Kühlman, Michael Schilling, Johann
• 2014 Anselm Steiger, and Friedrich Vollhardt
• 2014 “‘My love for rare books and fine bindings’: Die Jantz-Sammlung der Duke University Libraries” (with Janice Hansen), Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 142 (2013): 228-237.
• 2014 Anselm Steiger, and Friedrich Vollhardt (Berlin: de Gruyter)
• 2009 Ruth von Bernuth, ‘Dem dot zu drucz und dracz’: Zum Tod im Fastnachtspiel, Narren—Masken—Karneval: Meisterwerke von Dürer bis Kubin aus der Düsseldorfer Graphiksammlung “Mensch und Tod,” ed. Stefanie Knöll, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2009, p. 80-85.
• 2009 Ruth von Bernuth, Wunder, Spott und Prophetie: Natürliche Narrheit in den “Historien von Claus Narren.”, Frühe Neuzeit 133, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2009.
• 2009 Ruth von Bernuth, ‘Wer jm guots thett dem rödet er vbel’: Natürliche Narren im Gebetbuch des Matthäus Schwarz”, Homo debilis: Behinderte—Kranke—Versehrte in der Gesellschaft des Mittelalters, ed. Cordula Nolte, Korb, Remstal: didymos 2009, p. 411-430.
• 2006 Ruth von Bernuth, Über Zwerge, rachitische Ungeheuer und blödsinnige Leute lacht man nicht: Zu Karl Friedrich Flögels Geschichte der Hofnarren von 1789, In: traverse 13 (2006), p. 61-72.
• 2006 Ruth von Bernuth, From Marvels of Nature to Inmates of Asylums: Imaginations of Natural Folly, Disability Studies Quarterly 26:2 (2006), URL: http://www.dsq-sds.org/article/view/697/874
• 2004 Ruth von Bernuth, Glaube am Narrenseil: Claus Narr am ernestinischen Hofe zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhundert, Glaube und Macht: Sachsen im Europa der Reformationszeit, eds. Harald Marx and Cecilie Hollberg, Dresden: Sandstein, 2004, p. 298-304.
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