Ann Marie Rasmussen | Scholars@Duke

Ann Marie Rasmussen
Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature

I came to Duke University in 1988 from the "Deutsches Seminar" of the University of Berne in Switzerland, where I taught as an assistant professor for 2-1/2 years. I have held a variety of leadership positions at Duke University, including chairing the German department from 1/1/06 to 1/1/08 and chairing the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty from 2010-2013. From 2002 until 2009, I envisioned, initiated, and implemented the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, which was successfully launched with its first entering class in August, 2009. My research treats medieval literature and culture from the twelfth century to the Reformation. In my publications I combine gender studies with a variety of other approaches, including manuscript studies, the anthropology of gift-giving, visuality studies, and, most recently, material culture. I have published four books and over thirty articles. I am currently completing an interdisciplinary study of medieval badges and designing my next project, a digital humanities geo-referencing project on the late medieval saints' cult known as The Holy Kinship.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016

Contact Information

116C Old Chemistry, German Department, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90256, German Department, Durham, NC 27708-0256
annmarie.rasmussen@duke.edu (919) 660-3160

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1985
- B.A., University of Oregon 1976
Duke Appointment History
- Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2015
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
- Director, Undergraduate Studies, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2012
- Associate Professor, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2010
- Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2007
- Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2003
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2002
- Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988 - 1996
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Duke University Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Duke University. March 2014
- Visiting Distinguished Professor. Lewis & Clark University. January 2011
- Visiting Distinquished Professor. German, University of California at Irvine. December 2008
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Europe (Continent)
  - Germany (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Klinck, AL, and Rasmussen, AM. Medieval woman's song: Cross-cultural approaches. January 1, 2015.
  - Klinck, AL, and Rasmussen, AM. Medieval woman's song: Cross-cultural approaches. January 1, 2015.
  - Rasmussen, A, Eming, J, and Starkey, K. Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde. Notre Dame Press, 2012.
  - Rasmussen, AM, and Westphal, S. Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Reader in Gender and Class in Late Medieval German Texts. Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
- Book Sections
  - Rasmussen, A. "Reprint of: Moving Beyond Sexuality in Medieval Sexual Badges." In Nahrung, Notdurft, Obszönität, edited by A Grafetstaetter. University of Bamberg Press, 2013.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Moving beyond Sexuality in Medieval Sexual Badges." In From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, edited by EJ Burns and P McCracken, 296-335. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Reading in Nuremberg’s Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays." In Literary Studies and the Question of Reading, edited by R Benson, E Downing, and J Hess, 106-129. Camden House, 2012.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Problematizing Medieval Misogyny: Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition." In Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, edited by M Meyer, S Pincikowski, and A Sager. 2012.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Wanderlust: Gift Exchange, Sex, And The Meanings Of Mobility." In ’Liebe schenken‘: Liebesgaben in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, edited by M Egidi, L Lieb, and M Schnyder, 219-229. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2012.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Hadamar von Laber." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by R Bjork. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Das Liederbuch der Klara Hätzlerin." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by R Bjork. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Mai und Beaflor." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by R Bjork. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Die Minneburg." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by R Bjork. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Der Winsbecke." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by R Bjork. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. ""Konrad von Ammenhausen"." In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 2010.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Reading in Nuremberg's fifteenth-century carnival plays." In Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading, 68-83. January 1, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A, and Trokhimenko, O. "The Winsbeck Father-Son and Mother-Daughter Poems (Der Winsbecke and Die Winsbeckin), with a Medieval Parody,”." In Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behavior for Youths, edited by MD Johnston, 61-125. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Woman’s Song." In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, edited by M Schaus, 845-46. Palgrave, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Minnesang." In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, edited by M Schaus, 564-66. Palgrave, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Romance (German)." In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, edited by M Schaus, 718-19. 2006.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Masculinity and the Minnerede in Berlin mgo 186." In Triviale Minne? Konventionalität und Trivialisierung in spätmittelalterlichen Minnereden, edited by L Lieb and O Neudeck, 119-138. de Gruyter, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Visible and Invisible Landscapes: Medieval Monasticism as a Cultural Resource in the Pacific Northwest." In A Place to Believe In: Medieval Monasticism in the Landscape, edited by G Overing and CA Lees, 239-59. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Subjektivität und Gender in der Märe Die zwei beichten (A und B)." In Inszenierung von Subjektivität in der Literatur des Mittelalters, edited by MBE al, 271-287. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2005.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "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, edited by CS Jaeger and I Kasten, 174-91. New York: de Gruyter, 2003.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "The Female Figures in Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde." In A Companion to Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde, edited by W Hasty, 143-63. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2003.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide’s Poetry." In Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, 168-86. 2002.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Thinking through Gender in Late Medieval German Literature." In Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by T Fenster and CA Lees, 97-111. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Fathers to Think Back Through: The Medieval German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Conduct Poems Known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke." In Medieval Conduct, edited by K Ashley and RLA Clark, 106-34. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Medieval German Romance." In Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, edited by R Krueger, 183-202. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  - Rasmussen, A. ""Ich trug auch ledig siben child": Zur sozialen Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit in der Minnerede "Stiefmutter und Tochter"." In fremdes Wahrnehmen - Fremdes wahrnehmen, edited by W Harms, CSJ together, and A Stein, 193-204. Stuttgart: Hirzel, 1997.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse von Müttern und Töchtern im Mittelalter: Margaret von Courtenay und Yolande von Vianden." In Frauen: Weibliche Beziehungsgeflechte im Mittelalter, edited by H Röckelein and H-W Goetz. 1996.
  - Rasmussen, A. ""ez ist ir g’artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried’s Tristan und Isolde." In Arthurian Women: A Casebook, edited by T Fenster, 41-58. New York: Garland, 1996.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Gender studies als Konzept disziplinärer Öffnung." In Germanistik: Disziplinäre Identität und kulturelle Leistung, Vorträge des deutschen Germanistentags 1994, 185-193. Frankfurt a.M.: Beltz/Athenäum, 1995.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Bist du begehrt, so bist du wert: Magische und höfische Mitgift fîr die Töchter." In Mütter-Töchter-Frauen: Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Literatur, edited by H Kraft and E Liebs, 7-34. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993.
  - Rasmussen, A, and Migiel, M. "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, 68-70. Washington.D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1991.
  - Rasmussen, A. "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 Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature, edited by A Classen, 69-85. Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1991.
  - Rasmussen, A. "Women and Literature in German-Speaking Switzerland: Tendencies in the 1980s." In Frauen-Fragen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1945, edited by M Knapp and G Labroisse. 1989.
- Journal Articles
  - Rasmussen, AM. "The medieval Dance Song (1100-1300). Songs to Dance-Dance in the Song." SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 89, no. 3 (July 2014): 792-793. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, AM. "The "Jena Song Manuscript" Codex - History - Environment." SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 88, no. 2 (April 2013): 521-523. Full Text Link to Item
  - Madden, H, and Rasmussen, AM. "Hiding in plain sight: Print literary histories in the digital age." College & Research Libraries News 74, no. 3 (March 1, 2013): 140-143. Full Text
  - Rasmussen, A, and Madden, H. "Hiding in Plain Sight." College and Research Library News (2013). (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, A. "Review of Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds. Die ‘Jenaer Liederhandschrift’: Codex - Geschichte - Umfeld (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010)." Speculum (2013). (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, A. "Siegfried the Dragonslayer Meets the Web: Using Digital Media for Developing Historical Awareness and Advanced Language and Critical Thinking Skills." Die Unterrichtspraxis 44.1 (2011): 105-114. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "FRAUENLOB'S SONG OF SONGS: A MEDIEVAL GERMAN POET AND HIS MASTERPIECE." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 108, no. 2 (April 2009): 276-279. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Sorrow and Identity: Emotions in the German Literature of the Middle age." SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 84, no. 2 (April 2009): 462-464. Full Text Link to Item
  - Classen, A, Rasmussen, AM, and Stern, G. "The Role of Translation in German Studies: With a Medieval Perspective." GERMAN QUARTERLY 82, no. 1 (2009): 1-4. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, A. "Falsche Freunde." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2009): N5-N5. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, A. "Short essay, in Forum: The Role of Translation in German Studies." German Quarterly 82 (2009). (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity." Edited by KSCLM Series. (2009).
  - Rasmussen, AM. "“War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter." Merkur: Zeitschrift fuer europaeisches Denken 63 (2009): 627-33. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "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 (2009): 281-84.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Review of Review of Elke Koch, Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006)." Speculum 84 (2009): 462-64.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Preserving the Pre-Modern: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Curtailed Memory." German Studies Association Newsletter 29 (2004): 29-39. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Gendered knowledge and eavesdropping in the late-medieval 'Minnerede'." SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 77, no. 4 (October 2002): 1168-1194. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, A. ""Gender and Secrecy"." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (January 2000).
  - Rasmussen, AM. "The Crisis in the Humanities: Feminism, Medieval Studies, and the Academy." Medieval Feminist Forum 29 (2000): 25-32.
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Introduction, Special Issue on Gender and Secrecy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (2000): 1-4. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Gender and Secrecy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (January 2000).
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Gender and secrecy - Introduction - Exploring the operations of gender in the construction of social, intellectual, linguistic, sexual, and literary modes of inclusion and exclusion in the medieval and early modern eras." JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES 30, no. 1 (2000): 1-4. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, AM. "The knowledge of childhood in the German Middle-Ages, AD1100-1350." SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 74, no. 2 (April 1999): 500-503. Full Text Link to Item
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Good Counsel for a Young Lady: A Low German Mother-Daughter Poem." Medieval Feminist Forum 28 (1999): 28-31. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Review of James A. Schultz, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)." Speculum 74 (1999): 500-503. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Brides and doom: Gender, property, and power in medieval German women's epic - Frakes,JC." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 96, no. 3 (July 1997): 406-408. Link to Item
  - Frakes, ROJR. "Brides and Doom: Gender, Power and Property in Medieval German Women’s Epics (U. of Pennsylvania, 1994)." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 69 (1997): 406-408. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Medievalism and Gender." Medieval Feminist Newsletter 23 (1997).
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Medievalism and Gender." Medieval Feminist Newsletter 22 (1996).
  - Rasmussen, AM. "Woman as Audience and Audience as Woman in Medieval German Courtly Poetry." Exemplaria 6, no. 2 (January 1994): 367-383. Full Text
  - Rasmussen, A. "Feminismus in der Mediävistik in Nordamerika." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 39 (September 1992): 19-27. (Academic Article)
  - Rasmussen, A. "Fredrik Böök and Georg Lukacs: Two Twentieth Century Claimants to the Goethe Legacy." Orbis Litterarum 43 (1988): 167-183. (Academic Article)
- Other Articles
  - Rasmussen, A. "Female Archetypes in Game of Thrones." Huffington Post (September 2012).
  - Neidhart, SS. "Appendix to Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature." (1997).
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