Monika Schausten

Monika Schausten (born May 18, 1963 ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

After studying German, philosophy and psychology at the University of Cologne (1982–1990), she taught from 2005 to 2012 at the professorship for older German literature and language at the University of Siegen . Since 2012 she has been W3 Professor for Older German Language and Literature with a focus on the late Middle Ages and early modern times at the University of Cologne .

Her main research interests are German literature of the Middle Ages and early modern times, the history of mentalities and historical anthropology, the mediality of the premodern: visual topoi and color discourses in medieval literature, exchange economies in medieval literature and gender theory and historical gender research.

Fonts (selection)

• Narrative worlds of the Tristan history in the high Middle Ages. Investigations into the German-language versions of Tristan from the 12th and 13th centuries . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3435-2 .
• Search for identity. The 'own' and the 'other' in novels of the late Middle Ages and early modern times . Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-30205-8 .
• Edited with Gerald Kapfhammer, Christiane Krusenbaum, Heike Sahm and Christian Seebald: Hans-Joachim Ziegeler : Places of Literature: Contributions to the literary and cultural history of the late Middle Ages . Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20396-2 .
• Ed .: The Long Middle Ages. Imagination - Transformation - Analysis. A book for Jürgen Kühnel . Göppingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86758-018-2 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Monika Schausten