Prof Annette Volfing

Prof Annette VolfingKnight Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages

Prof. Annette Volfing, MA, DPhil. Tutor in Modern Languages (German)

Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW

Email: annette.volfing@oriel.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 765592

Research:

Annette Volfing is a medievalist with particular interest in later medieval religious, mysical, philosophical or allegorical writing. She has written monographs of Heinrich von Mügeln and on medieval uses of the figure of John the Evangelist. Current research projects include Albrecht's 'Jüngerer Titurel' and the 'Tochter Syon' material. She has also written articles on the "classic" narrative texts by Heinrich von Veldeke, Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Straßburg.

Teaching:

German language; Old High German and Medieval German language, culture and literature.
Special Subjects Taught:

Walther von der Vogelweide and the origins of the German love lyric; Gottfried's Tristan and Medieval German Court Society; Mechthild von Mogdeburg and women's writing in German 1150-1300.

Selected Publications:

'Sodomy and rehtiu minne in Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneit', Oxford German Studies, 30 (2001), 1-25

John the Evangelist and Medieval German Writing: Imitating the Inimitable (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

'Dialog und Brautmystik bei Mechthild von Magdeburg', in Dialoge. Sprachliche Kommunikation in und zwischen Texten im deutschen Mittelalter, ed. Nikolaus Henkel, Martin Jones and Nigel Palmer, Hamburger Colloquium 1999 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003), 257-266

'offentlich beslafen het der Grahardois sin eigen swester: Allegorie und Personifikation in 'Diu Crône' und 'Der Jüngere Titurel', in Erzähltechnik und Erzählstrategien in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Wolfgang Haubrichs, Eckhart Conrad Lutz and Klaus Ridder Ridder (Wolfram-Studien 18), Saarbrücker Kolloquium 2002 (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2004), 305-321

'ich ôrlôser und dînr ôren porten. Auditive Wahrnehumng bei Walther von der Vogelweide', in Walther verstehen - Walther vermitteln, ed. Thomas Bein (Walther-Studien 2) (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), 109-130

'Welt ir nu hoeren fürbaz? On the Function of the Loherangrin-episode in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' (P 824,1-826,30)', Beiträge zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 126 (2004), 65-84