Thread by @digitalmedieval

1. Me and my research🧵

I studied German Medieval Literature and Northamerican Literature at the University of Hamburg. I wrote my dissertation about Giants in Medieval German Literature and got #PhDone in 2020.

Giants in Medieval Lit are not just big and powerful, but complex. Sometimes the definition of what a giant can be extends to human heros and vice versa.

You can read my thesis here (German): bit.ly/3J9FAya "Riesen in der Literatur des Mittelalters. Diskursive Formationen im deutschen Sprachraum." There is also a German Podcast about it: @geschichtspod
historia-universalis.fm/hu176/

My research interests include Queer, Trans and Game Studies. But more about that later in a separate thread about Games Studies and the Middle Ages!

In Germany, you have to write a second book or get a juniorprofessorship to stay in the game, so I’m working on my second book about stones right now. (More about working conditions in German science later.)

We (@line_green and I) got funding for a one month research stay @FUBerlin. You can read about our project here. Basically, we're establishing a posthumanist theoretical and material culture framework for German Medieval Literature. bit.ly/3x6CYyQ

These past to weeks, I read Bynum, Cohen, Levine and Wigalois and Gregorius (two Middle High German texts). Lots of *things* to process! I love reading and research and it's amazing to get time and money to do it properly.

So these are my main two "traditionial" medievalist research projects. Not many digital things about it, but wait for the second thread. ;) Thanks for reading!

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