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Ann Marie Rasmussen

Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature
German Studies
Box 90256, German Department, Durham, NC 27708-0256
116C Old Chemistry, German Department, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Fishy Women · May 3, 2014 Lecture Duke University Alumni Travel, Holland and Belgium
Waterways · May 1, 2014 Lecture Duke University Alumni Travel, Holland and Belgium
Wandering Genitalia · April 12, 2014 Lecture Moving Body Parts: Their Transcendence of Time and Space in Pre-Modern Europe, Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Why do Medieval Badges Matter? · March 6, 2014 Lecture Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
Christ on a Donkey: Performance and Spectacle in late Medieval Cities · February 12, 2014 Lecture OLLI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Delve Deeper: Travelling into the Past via Medieval Art
Medieval Studies for Everybody: Ideas and Resources for Teaching the Digital Generation · February 11, 2014 Lecture Medieval Studies and the Humanities Institute, Wake Forest University
Medieval Badges as Media · January 23, 2014 Lecture Medieval Studies Institute, University of Indiana- Bloomington
Rivalrous Masculinities: Aristotle and Phyllis in the Medieval German Tradition · September 18, 2013 Lecture Works in Progress Series, Carolina Duke Graduate Program in German Studies
„Demonstration Job Interviews,“ ADFL-sponsored session · January 7, 2013 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Boston,
„Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committee Members," ADFL-sponsored session · January 6, 2013 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, MA, , 5.-8. January.
Commentary for Session „Mothers and Daugthers in Medieval and Early Modern Literature,“ · October 6, 2012 Lecture 36th German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukie, WI, 4-7. October.
Medieval Badges and Stories · October 6, 2012 Lecture 36th German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukie, WI, 4-7. October.
Recovering Saint Anne and the Holy Kinship · September 18, 2012 Lecture A Room of its Own: Middle Low German between Colonialism, Cultural Transfer, and Bilingualism,” Kungliga Vitterhets Akademie, Stockholm, Sweden, 16. – 19. September
Language and Identity: A Linguistic Journey on the Rhine · July 2, 2012 Lecture Duke University Alumni Travel, The Great Journey, Amsterdam to the Alps
Siegfried the Dragonslayer: Hero, Villain, or Icon? · June 30, 2012 Lecture Duke University Alumni Travel, The Great Journey, Amsterdam to the Alps
Roundtable speaker, „German Graduate Education 2020: Strategies for the Future,“ AATG-sponsored session, · January 7, 2012 Lecture Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, 5.8-January.
Reading in the Nuremberg Carnival Plays · January 6, 2012 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.
Demonstration Job Interviews,“ ADFL-sponsored session · January 6, 2012 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.
Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committee Members,“ ADFL-sponsored session, · January 4, 2012 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Seattle, WA, 5.-8. January.
Workshop for Graduate Students · November 12, 2011 Lecture Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University at St Louis
Workshop with "Clerical Cultures," Medieval Studies Reading group · November 12, 2011 Lecture Washington University at St Louis
Sex, Gender, and Food in the Medieval Sexual Badges · November 11, 2011 Lecture Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University at St Louis
Session Commentator, "Transformation in Medieval German Literature" · September 23, 2011 Lecture German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, KY
The Many Faces of Arthur · September 9, 2011 Lecture Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Le Roi Artu · September 9, 2011 Lecture Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Once and Future King · September 9, 2011 Lecture Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sex, Gender, and Nourishment in the Medieval Sexual Badges · July 16, 2011 Lecture Nahrung Notdurft Obzönität in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, University of Bamberg
Fifteenth-Century Plays in the German Tradition · July 5, 2011 Lecture University of Bamberg, Lehrstuhl für deustche Philologie des Mittelalters
2011 “ Workshop for New Chairs,” Joint ADE-ADFL Summer Seminar East · June 9, 2011 Lecture Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,
Gender Norms in Conflict: Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women · May 14, 2011 Lecture 46th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University.
Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition · April 20, 2011 Lecture University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Stelzen, Stolzen': Linguistic Metaphors and Puns in the Medieval Sex Badges · April 9, 2011 Lecture Un/Translatables across Germanic Languages and Cultures, Department Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania
Philology and Feminism: Translating Medieval German Texts about Prostitution · April 5, 2011 Lecture Workshop. M@P, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Family as a Way of Thinking through the Middle Ages · April 2, 2011 Lecture Keynote Address, Mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters, Medievalists@Penn, Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition · March 8, 2011 Lecture Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
In this World He Changed his Life: The Medieval Faces of King Arthur · February 22, 2011 Lecture Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Presentation on the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies · February 17, 2011 Lecture University of California at Irvine
Pre-Convention Workshop for Search Committees, ADFL-sponsored session, · January 6, 2011 Lecture Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles
The Changing Faces of King Arthur · October 4, 2010 Lecture Duke Alumni Association Tour
Knowledge in the Service of Deceit: Fun and Games with Aristotle · July 13, 2010 Lecture ZEMAS (Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien), University of Bamberg, Germany
Workshop for Program Reviewers · June 17, 2010 Lecture ADFL Summer Seminar West, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
“Wanderlust: Sexual Badges and the Meanings of Mobility,” Renaissance Society of America · April 10, 2010 Lecture Venice, Italy
“"We Must Make a New World”: Die Reflexion der Gegenwart im US-amerikanischen Historienfilm seit 1990,” Colloquium Frühe Neuzeit-Späte Neuzeit · January 20, 2010 Lecture University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Sex als Gabe," Colloquium, "‚Liebe schenken‘: Liebesgaben in der Literatur" · December 12, 2009 Lecture University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Response, Session 49 · October 8, 2009 Lecture German Studies Association Conference, Washington DC
“Knowledge in the Service of Deceit: Fun and Games with Aristotle · June 18, 2009 Lecture Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der Mittelalterlichen Literatur, Workshop, Institut fuer Germanistik, University of Vienna
“Wanderlust: Sex and the Body in Late Medieval Northern European Culture,” · May 22, 2009 Lecture University of California at Irvine
“Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in Late Medieval Northern Europe · April 20, 2009 Lecture Stanford University
“Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in Late Medieval Northern European Culture · March 11, 2009 Lecture University of Oregon
“Wanderlust: Obscenity and the Meanings of Mobility,” · March 7, 2009 Lecture Workshop on Medieval Sexuality 2009, UCLA
New Directions in Medieval German Studies · November 1, 2008 Lecture Princeton University
Backlash: Creative Obscenity and the History of Sexuality · May 1, 2008 Lecture 43rd International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
Introduction for Peter Schneider · April 1, 2008 Lecture Germany's 1968: A cultural revolution? North Carolina German Studies Workshop

Service to the Profession


University of Frankfurt, Germany, External Reviewer for Tenured Appointment · September 30, 2013 Other
Rivalrous Masculinities, 2 special sessions organized with Prof I. Bennewitz for 48th International Congress, Western Michigan Univ,, Kalamazoo, MI · May 2013 Other
Moderator : The Arthur of the North, Conference of the Scandinavian Branch of the Arthurian Society · May 2013 Other Oslo, Norway
„Configurations of Gender and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Culture,“ Session organized for „Abrahams Erbe – Konkurrenz, Konflikt, Ko · March 2013 Other University of Heidelberg Germany
University of Maryland, College Park, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, External Reviewer · February 12, 2013 Other
MLA, German Literature to 1750, Division, Executive Committee · 2013 - 2018 Other
Discpline Representatative : Renaissance Society of America · 2012 - 2015 Other
The German Quarterly · December 13, 2011 Other
Outside Evaluator, Habilitation, Deutsches Institut, University of Bamberg, Germany · July 15, 2011 Other
MLA, Arthurian Literature Discussion Group, Executive Committee · 2011 - 2016 Other
Outsider Evaluator, Tenure Review · December 24, 2010 Other
ACLS Fellowship Reviewer · December 24, 2010 Other
Article Reviews, German Quarterly · December 24, 2010 Other
Co-PI (with Fritz Mayer, PPS) : Faculty Working Group, "Narrative in Action" · September 1, 2010 - May 1, 2011 Other Franklin Humanities Center
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, Executive Committee · 2010 - 2013 Other
Outside Evaluator, Tenure Review · December 2, 2009 Other Univ of Toronto
Chair, Implementation Committee : Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies · September 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008 Other