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