Ann Marie Rasmussen

Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literature

annmarie.rasmussen@duke.edu

Box 90256, German Department, Durham, NC 27708-0256

116C Old Chemistry, German Department, Durham, NC 27708

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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

The Romantic Middle Ages of German Studies: On the Past and Present of a Popular Subject. With an afterword by Racha Kirakosian

Journal article COLLOQUIA GERMANICA · March 1, 2026 Link to item Cite

What's Cooking? How to Understand a Miniature Penis in a Pan

Journal article Peregrinations · 2025 Open Access Link to item Cite

Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century: The Woman in the Mirror. By Morgan Powell. Medieval Media Cultures. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020.

Journal article Digital Philology Journal of Medieval Cultures · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Arthurian Cosmopoiesis: Wolfram's Parzival

Journal article Arthuriana · December 1, 2022 Offering five possible thematic pedagogical approaches to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival (1200-1210), this article argues that the romance, often overlooked due to its complexity, is a rich and timely medieval work that will capture students' imaginatio ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Medieval media

Journal article Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies · May 25, 2016 Full text Cite

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.

Journal article Speculum · July 2014 Full text Cite

Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds., Die “Jenaer Liederhandschrift”: Codex—Geschichte—Umfeld. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. Pp. x, 287. $196. ISBN: 9783110218961.

Journal article Speculum · April 2013 Full text Cite

Review of Jens Haustein and Franz Körndle, eds. Die ‘Jenaer Liederhandschrift’: Codex - Geschichte - Umfeld (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010)

Journal article Speculum · 2013 Cite

Hiding in plain sight : Print literary histories in the digital age

Journal article College and Research Libraries News · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Siegfried the Dragonslayer Meets the Web: Using Digital Media for Developing Historical Awareness and Advanced Language and Critical Thinking Skills

Journal article · 2011 Open Access Cite

The role of translation in German studies: With a medieval perspective

Journal article German Quarterly · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Was the damsel really in distress? New research on the role of women in the Middle Ages

Journal article Merkur · July 1, 2009 Cite

Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Elke Koch

Journal article Speculum · April 2009 Full text Cite

Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity

Journal article · 2009 Cite

Falsche Freunde

Journal article Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung · 2009 Cite

“War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter

Journal article Merkur: Zeitschrift fuer europaeisches Denken · 2009 Cite

Short essay, in Forum: The Role of Translation in German Studies

Journal article German Quarterly · 2009 Cite

Review of Barbara Newman, Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and his Masterpiece (State College, PA: Penn State Univ. Press, 2006)

Journal article JEGP · 2009 Cite

Review of Review of Elke Koch, Trauer und Identität: Inszenierungen von Emotionen in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006)

Journal article Speculum · 2009 Cite

<i>Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and his Masterpiece</i> (review)

Journal article JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology · 2009 Full text Cite

Preserving the Pre-Modern: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Curtailed Memory

Journal article German Studies Association Newsletter · 2004 Cite

Gendered knowledge and eavesdropping in the late-medieval Minnerede

Journal article Speculum · December 1, 2002 Full text Cite

The Crisis in the Humanities: Feminism, Medieval Studies, and the Academy

Journal article Medieval Feminist Forum 29 · 2000 Cite

Introduction, Special Issue on Gender and Secrecy

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2000 Cite

Gender and Secrecy

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 2000 Cite

"Gender and Secrecy"

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 2000 Cite

Introduction

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2000 Full text Cite

The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350.James A. Schultz

Journal article Speculum · April 1999 Full text Cite

Good Counsel for a Young Lady: A Low German Mother-Daughter Poem

Journal article Medieval Feminist Forum 28 · 1999 Cite

Review of James A. Schultz, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995),

Journal article Speculum · 1999 Cite

Brides and doom: Gender, property, and power in medieval German women's epic - Frakes,JC

Journal article JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY · July 1997 Link to item Cite

Brides and Doom: Gender, Power and Property in Medieval German Women’s Epics (U. of Pennsylvania, 1994)

Journal article Journal of English and Germanic Philology · 1997 Cite

Medievalism and Gender

Journal article Medieval Feminist Newsletter · 1997 Cite

Medievalism and Gender

Journal article Medieval Feminist Newsletter · 1996 Cite

Woman as audience and audience as woman in mediebal German courtly poetry

Journal article Exemplaria · January 1, 1994 Full text Cite

Feminismus in der Mediävistik in Nordamerika

Journal article Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes · September 1992 Cite

Fredrik Böök and Georg Luká;cs: Two Twentieth Century Claimants to the Goethe Legacy

Journal article Orbis Litterarum · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite