Ursula Schaefer

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Ursula Schaefer (born August 19, 1947 in Überlingen ) is a German English and linguist .

Life

Schaefer studied English, history and political science at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the University of Munich from 1966 to 1971 and completed her studies with a state examination and a master's degree. After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the English Department of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau until 1993. This was followed in 1976 with a doctorate in English on the subject of courtly-knightly poetry and socio-historical reality. Studies in the sociology of literature on the relationship between the structure of the nobility, the ideal of knights and poetry with Geoffrey Chaucer as well as a doctorate on the subject of vocalism in 1989: Old English poetry between orality and written form at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, combined with the license to teach English philology. From 1991 she was in Freiburg as the successor to Willi Erzgräber and head of the sub-project Transitions and Tensions Between Orality and Written Language in the Early English Middle Ages of the CRC 321 of the German Research Foundation .

Schaefer became Professor of Older English Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1993 and also served as Vice President of the university from 1996. In 1999 she accepted a position at the Technical University of Dresden , where she held the professorship for English linguistics until her retirement in 2013. From 2003 to 2006 she was dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies at TU Dresden, was a member of the council from 2007 to 2008 and a member of the senate of the university in 2010. In August 2010 she became Vice Rector for Education and International Affairs at the TU Dresden and during this time she implemented reform of teacher training (including reintroduction of the state examination in teacher training courses). She held this position until October 1, 2013; her successor was Susanne Strahringer .

Publications (selection)

  • 1974: Proseminar Middle English (with Lilo Moessner ; 2nd edition 1986)
  • 1977: Courtly-knightly poetry and socio-historical reality
  • 1992: voweliness. Old English poetry between orality and writing
  • 1993: Writing in the early Middle Ages (as editor)
  • 1996: Dialogic Structures. Festschrift for Willi Erzgräber on his 70th birthday (as editor; with Thomas Kühn )
  • 1996: Orality - Written Form - Change of World View. Literary communication and interpretative schemes of reality in medieval literature (as editor, with Werner Röcke )
  • 1998: Artes changing media (as editor)
  • 1999: Artes in the Middle Ages (as editor)
  • 2006: The Beginnings of Standardization. Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (as editor)
  • 2008: The Shared Object. Contributions to the history, present and future of philology (as editor)

literature

  • Schaefer, Ursula. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 820.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Schaefer: Introduction . In: Ursula Schaefer (Hrsg.): Writing in the early Middle Ages . Narr, Tübingen 1993, p. 1.
  2. ↑ See biography of Ursula Schaefer on tu-dresden.de ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b See change in the Vice-Rector for Education and International Affairs . tu-dresden.de, July 10, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Überlingen