Ann Marie Rasmussen | Scholars@Duke

Ann Marie Rasmussen
Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature

joined the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) on January 1, 2015 as the John G. Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies after having been a faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University in North Carolina for twenty-five years. I received my BA from the University of Oregon and PhD from Yale University, both in the field of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Areas of expertise are medieval studies, German studies, and gender studies; author of Mothers and Daughter in Medieval German Literature (1997); and coeditor of Medieval Woman’s Song (with Anne Klinck, 2002); Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in Courtly, Religious, and Urban Cultures of Late Medieval Germany, with Introductory Essays (with Sarah Westphal-Wihl, 2010), and Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde (with Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey, 2012), as well as numerous essays and forthcoming monograph on medieval badges. 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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, 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, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2015
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
- Director, Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2012
- Associate Professor, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2010
- Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2007
- Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2002
- Acting Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 1999
- Assistant Professor, German Studies, 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
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- Expertise
  - Europe (Continent)
  - Germany (Country)
Research
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Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Medieval Badges Their Wearers and Their Worlds (Accepted), 2021.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. Rivalrous Masculinities New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies. University of Notre Dame Pess, 2019.
  - Klinck, A. L., and A. M. Rasmussen. Medieval woman's song: Cross-cultural approaches, 2015.
  - Klinck, A. L., and A. M. Rasmussen. Medieval woman's song: Cross-cultural approaches, 2015.
  - Rasmussen, A., Jutta Eming, and Kathryn Starkey. Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde. Notre Dame Press, 2012.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie, and Sarah Westphal. Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Reader in Gender and Class in Late Medieval German Texts. Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
- Academic Articles
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Dorothea Klein, ed., Das mittelalterliche Tanzlied (1100–1300): Lieder zum Tanz—Tanz im Lied. (Würzburger Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie 37.) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. Pp. xiii, 265; musical examples. €29.80. ISBN: 978-3-8260-5066-4.” Speculum 89, no. 3 (July 2014): 792–93. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038713414001092.
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  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds., Die “Jenaer Liederhandschrift”: Codex—Geschichte—Umfeld. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. Pp. x, 287. $196. ISBN: 9783110218961.” Speculum 88, no. 2 (April 2013): 521–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038713413001474.
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  - Madden, H., and A. M. Rasmussen. “Hiding in plain sight : Print literary histories in the digital age.” College and Research Libraries News 74, no. 3 (January 1, 2013): 140–43. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.74.3.8916.
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  - Rasmussen, A. “Review of Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds. Die ‘Jenaer Liederhandschrift’: Codex - Geschichte - Umfeld (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010).” Speculum, 2013.
  - 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): 105–14.
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  - Classen, A., A. M. Rasmussen, and G. Stern. “The role of translation in German studies: With a medieval perspective.” German Quarterly 82, no. 1 (December 1, 2009): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1183.2009.00035.x.
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  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Elke Koch.” Speculum 84, no. 2 (April 2009): 462–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038713400018510.
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  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity.” Edited by King S College London Medieval Series, 2009.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “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, A. M. “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, A. “Falsche Freunde.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2009, N5–N5.
  - Rasmussen, A. “Short essay, in Forum: The Role of Translation in German Studies.” German Quarterly 82 (2009).
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. ““War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter.” Merkur: Zeitschrift Fuer Europaeisches Denken 63 (2009): 627–33.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and his Masterpiece (review).” Jegp, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108, no. 2 (2009): 276–79. https://doi.org/10.1353/egp.0.0038.
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  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Preserving the Pre-Modern: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Curtailed Memory.” German Studies Association Newsletter 29 (2004): 29–39.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Gendered Knowledge and Eavesdropping in the Late-Medieval Minnerede.” Speculum 77, no. 4 (October 2002): 1168–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/3301216.
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  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Gender and Secrecy.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (January 2000).
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Introduction.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-30-1-1.
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  - Rasmussen, A. “"Gender and Secrecy".” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (January 2000).
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “The Crisis in the Humanities: Feminism, Medieval Studies, and the Academy.” Medieval Feminist Forum 29, 2000, 25–32.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Introduction, Special Issue on Gender and Secrecy.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30 (2000): 1–4.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350.James A. Schultz.” Speculum 74, no. 2 (April 1999): 500–503. https://doi.org/10.2307/2887126.
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  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Good Counsel for a Young Lady: A Low German Mother-Daughter Poem.” Medieval Feminist Forum 28, 1999, 28–31.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “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.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “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): 406–8.
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  - Frakes, Review of Jerold R. “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): 406–8.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Medievalism and Gender.” Medieval Feminist Newsletter 23 (1997).
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Medievalism and Gender.” Medieval Feminist Newsletter 22 (1996).
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Woman as audience and audience as woman in mediebal German courtly poetry.” Exemplaria 6, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 367–83. https://doi.org/10.1179/exm.1994.6.2.367.
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  - Rasmussen, A. “Feminismus in der Mediävistik in Nordamerika.” Mitteilungen Des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 39 (September 1992): 19–27.
  - Rasmussen, A. “Fredrik Böök and Georg Lukacs: Two Twentieth Century Claimants to the Goethe Legacy.” Orbis Litterarum 43 (1988): 167–83.
- 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 E Jane Burns and Peggy 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 Richard Benson, Eric Downing, and Jonathan Hess, 106–29. 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 Mathias Meyer, Scott Pincikowski, and Alexander 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 Margreth Egidi, Ludger Lieb, and Marielle Schnyder, 219–29. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2012.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Hadamar von Laber.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Bjork, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Das Liederbuch der Klara Hätzlerin.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Bjork, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Mai und Beaflor.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Bjork, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Die Minneburg.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Bjork, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Der Winsbecke.” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Bjork, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “"Konrad von Ammenhausen".” In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A. M. “Reading in Nuremberg's fifteenth-century carnival plays.” In Literary Studies and the Pursuits of Reading, 68–83, 2010.
  - Rasmussen, A., and Olga Trokhimenko. “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 Mark D. Johnston, 61–125. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  - Rasmussen, A. “Woman’s Song.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, edited by Margaret Schaus, 845–46. Palgrave, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, A. “Minnesang.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe., edited by Margaret Schaus, 564–66. Palgrave, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, A. “Romance (German).” In Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, edited by Margaret Schaus, 718–19, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Masculinity and the Minnerede in Berlin mgo 186.” In Triviale Minne? Konventionalität Und Trivialisierung in Spätmittelalterlichen Minnereden, edited by Ludger Lieb and Otto Neudeck, 119–38. de Gruyter, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “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 Gillian Overing and Clare A. Lees, 239–59. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Subjektivität und Gender in der Märe Die zwei beichten (A und B).” In Inszenierung von Subjektivität in Der Literatur Des Mittelalters, edited by Martin Baisch et al, 271–87. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2005.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “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 C Stephen Jaeger and Ingrid Kasten, 174–91. New York: de Gruyter, 2003.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “The Female Figures in Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde.” In A Companion to Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde, edited by Will Hasty, 143–63. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2003.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide’s Poetry.” In Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, 168–86, 2002.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Thinking through Gender in Late Medieval German Literature.” In Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by Thelma Fenster and Clare A. Lees, 97–111. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “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 Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark, 106–34. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  - Rasmussen, Ann Marie. “Medieval German Romance.” In Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, edited by Roberta 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 Wolfgang Harms, C Stephen Jaeger together, and Alexandra 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 Hedwig Röckelein and Hans-Werner 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 Thelma 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, 185–93. 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 Helga Kraft and Elke Liebs, 7–34. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1993.
  - 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., and Marilyn Migiel. “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. “Women and Literature in German-Speaking Switzerland: Tendencies in the 1980s.” In Frauen-Fragen in Der Deutschsprachigen Literatur Seit 1945, edited by Mona Knapp and Gerd Labroisse, 1989.
- Other Articles
  - Rasmussen, A. “Female Archetypes in Game of Thrones.” Huffington Post, September 2012.
  - Neidhart, Sommer Songs. “Appendix to Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature,” 1997.
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