Biography

Prof. Albrecht Classen

Department of German Studies

The University of Arizona, USA


Email: aclassen@arizona.edu


Qualifications

1986 Ph.D., University of Virginia, German

1984-1986 Graduate Studies, University of Virginia, USA

1982-1984 Graduate Studies, Oxford University, Great Britain, UK

1982 M.A. (Staatsexamen), Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany

1978-1982 Undergraduate Studies, Universities of Marburg, Erlangen, and Millersville, PA


Publications (Selected)

  1. The Forest in Medieval German Literature: Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective. Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Lanham, Boulder, et al.: Lexington Books, 2015).
  2. Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen. 3 vols. (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015), X, 2247 pp.
  3. Bestseller – gestern und heute: Ein Blick vom Rand zum Zentrum der Literaturwissenschaft / Bestseller – Yesterday and Today: A Look from the Margin to the Center of Literary Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen (80%) and Eva Parra Membrives (20%). Popular Fiction Studies, 2 (Tübingen: Narr, 2016), 231 pp.
  4. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 16 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), vi, 545 pp., 73 ill.
  5. Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2016), 430 pp.
  6. Mediaevistik, vol. 28, ed. (reviews) together with Werner Heinz (articles) (Frankfurt a.m M.: Peter Lang, 2015), 635 pp.
  7. Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Communication and Miscommunication in the Premodern World, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 17 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), VI, 402 pp.
  8. An English Translation of Rudolf von Ems’s Der guote Gêrhart (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), xxxiii, 199 pp.
  9. Mediaevistik Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung vol. 29 (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2016), 593 pp.
  10. Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Exploration of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water, ed. A. Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 19 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), VII, 615 pp., 4 ill.
  11. Translation: T. H. Moedriach, Prydori: Perfection is Us. Translated from the German by Albrecht Classen in cooperation with Anneliese Chittock, Glenn Allen Elms, Nicholas Flannery, Ivana Lea Goldtooth, Benjamin Joseph Michael Horn, Adelina Isabella Lilani Lane, Nicholas Edward McNutt, and Patrick Ploschnitzki. Translation revised and edited by Albrecht Classen and Carolyn Classen (Lubljana, Slovenia: Založištvo Jerneja Jezernik, 2017), 179 pp.
  12. Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading. Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, et al.: Lexington Books, 2018), xlvi, 311 pp., also as paperback.
  13. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 20 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), x, 757 pp., 36 ill.
  14. Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern European Literature. Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture, 8 (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), viii, 329 pp.
  15. Eros und Logos: Literarische Formen des sinnlichen Begehrens in der (deutschsprachigen) Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Albrecht Classen, Wolfgang Brylla, and Andrey Kotin. Popular Fiction Studies, 4 (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018), 342 pp.
  16. Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of Worldly Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 22 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018), XIX, 704 pp.
  17. Japanisch-deutsche Gespräche über Fremdheit im Mittelalter: Interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Forschungen in Ost und West, ed. Manshu Ide and Albrecht Classen. Stauffenburg Mediävistik, 2 (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2018), 231 pp., 40 b/w ill.
  18. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, vol. 30 (Berlin, Bern, et al.: Peter Lang, 2017; appeared in 2018), 552 pp.
  19. Reiner Cornelius, Gunhild Classen, and Albrecht Classen, Zur Rhön hinauf (Niederaula: Auwel-Verlag, 2018), 296 pp. (ca. 25%).
  20. Paradigm Shifts during the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Albrecht Classen. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 44 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), xlvi, 396 pp.
  21. Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: The Dark Side of Sex and Love in the Premodern Era. Studies in Medieval Literature (Lanham, MA, Boulder, CO, et al.: Lexington Books, 2019), v, 237 pp.
  22. Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 23 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019), XIII, 751 pp., 41 b/w and color ill.
  23. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, vol. 31 (2018; appeared in 2019), 490 pp.
  24. Religious Toleration in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: An Anthology of Literary, Theological, and Philosophical Texts (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020), 396 pp.
  25. The Relevance of The Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Past and Present, ed. Albrecht Classen. Special issue of Humanities Open Access, June 2020-https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/pas_pre
  26. Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ed. Albrecht Classen. Vol. 32 (2019; appeared in 2020), 552 pp.;https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:6336a70b-1633-4976-9daf-77806d2a29ef.
  27. 108. Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 24 (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020), xiii, 805 pp., 34 ill. (color and b/w).
  28. The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350): Masterwork of Late Medieval Didactic Literature, trans. Albrecht Classen (Newcastle-upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), xxxii, 262 pp., 11 b/w, 4 color ill.
  29. Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. Bristol Studies in Medieval Culture (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021), vi, 250 pp.
  30. Together with Carolin Radtke, translation of Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Der Leichnam im Mittelalter: Einbalsamierung, Verbrennund und die kulturelle Konstruktion des toten Körpers, as The Corpse in the Middle Ages: Embalming, Cremation, and the Cultural Construction of the Dead Body (orig. 2014) (Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, Brepols, 2020), 780 pp.


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