Seminar für Englische Philologie

Dr. Dirk Schultze

(Sessional Instructor/Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben)

Curriculum Vitae

Born 1972 in Magdeburg, 1990-1997 studied English and German in Greifswald; 1997 Magister Artium; 1998-2000 Research assistant at the subdepartment of English Historical Linguistics and Medieval English Literature (Prof. Dr. Lucia Kornexl), Greifswald University; 2000-2007 Researcher and Junior lecturer at the subdepartment of English Historical Linguistics and Medieval English Literature (Prof. Dr. Lucia Kornexl), Greifswald University; 2003-2005 elected board member of the Mittelalterzentrum (Centre for Medieval Studies), Greifswald; 2005 PhD - The Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom. The Middle English Translation of Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae. A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary Based on Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Brogyntyn II.5; 2007-March 2011 assistant to Prof. Dr. Lucia Kornexl at the subdepartment of English Linguistics, Rostock University; Summer 2011 Interim Professor English Historical Linguistics and Medieval English Literature, Göttingen University; since 10/2012 Sessional Instructor, Göttingen University; 2018 guest lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; 2015-2019 four-year training as counsellor and therapist in Gestalt therapy



Scholarly Interests


  • Middle English marriage troth plights
  • 15th cent. English, translations into English
  • manuscript studies, early printing
  • editing
  • knowledge and the sciences in the Middle Ages
  • James Joyce: Ulysses



Projects


  • Uniformity and variation in late-medieval marriage troth plights
  • Cato's Distichs in England
  • Medieval Anglo-Saxonism in South Africa
  • with Steven Rozenski (Harvard University): St. Catherine of Siena in England: An Edition of Selected Texts
  • participation in "Oeuvres Pieuses Vernaculaires à Succès" (headed by Géraldine Veysseyre, Maître de conférences - Paris IV Sorbonne Idéologies, histoire des textes et pratiques sociales) http://www.opvs.fr



Teaching
Current courses in UniVZ

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Current Functions


  • 2020-2023: research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Sessional Instructor/Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben



Former Functions


  • 2011: Interim Professor for English Medieval Studies (Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  • 2003-2005, 2007-2011: elected board member of the Mittelalterzentrum Greifswald (Centre for Medieval Studies)
  • 2005-2011: redactional assistant to ANGLIA - Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, ed. Stephan Kohl, Lucia Kornexl, Martin Middeke, Hans Sauer and Hubert Zapf, red. Rostock (Prof. Lucia Kornexl)



Publications

Books


  • with Winfried Rudolf: Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist ##: Manuscripts in German Libraries. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (forthcoming).
  • The Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom. The Middle English Translation of Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae. A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary Based on Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Brogyntyn II.5. (= PhD thesis Greifswald 2005)
  • Bereit zum Konflikt – Strategien und Medien der Konflikterzeugung und Konfliktbewältigung in mittelalterlichen Integrations- und Differenzierungsprozessen, Hg. Oliver Auge, Felix Biermann, Matthias Müller & Dirk Schultze, Mittelalter-Forschungen 20, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2008
  • JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES. Übersetzt von Hans Wollschläger. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Dirk Vanderbeke, Sigrid Altdorf, Friedrich Reinmuth und Dirk Schultze in Verbindung mit Bert Scharpenberg. Mit Abbildungen, Plänen und Register. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004



Articles


  • "For better, for worse: The Middle English Portions of the Marriage ordo" (in preparation)
  • "English Portions of the Marriage ordo in Manuscripts of German Provenance: An Edition of Two Middle English Texts in Hanover, Stadtbibliothek, Mag. 3, and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 705". Anglia 140,2 (2022, printing).
  • "Caxton's Book of Divers Ghostly Matters" (in preparation)
  • "Spiritual Teachings by Catherine of Siena in BL Harley 2409: An Edition." Anglia 136.2 (2018), 296-325
  • "The “Treatise on the Sacrament” in Cambridge, St John's College G.25: An Edition", Anglia 132 (2014), 439-472
  • "Wisdom in the Margins: Text and Paratext in the Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom", Etudes anglaises 66/3 (2013), 341-356.
  • "Translating St Catherine of Siena in Fifteenth-century England", Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger & Gabriela Signori. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, 185-212.
  • (with Lucia Kornexl): “History and Change”, English and American Studies. Theory and Practice. Ed. Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald & Hubert Zapf, Stuttgart und Weimar: Metzler Verlag, 2012, 395–-412.
  • "Joyce's rib risible?", James Joyce Quarterly 48.2 (2011), 347-350.
  • "Kloster Eldena und Universität Greifswald: Geistige Gemeinschaft um 1500 im Spiegel der Bücher von Wichmann Kruse und Michael Knabe", in Glaube, Macht und Pracht: Geistliche Gemeinschaften des Ostseeraums im Zeitalter der Backsteingotik, hg. O. Auge, F. Biermann & Ch. Herrmann, Archäologie und Geschichte im Ostseeraum 6, Rahden 2009, pp. 283-304
  • "Hippocras Bag, Oil of Exeter and Manus Christi: Recipes in BL Harley 1706", in Anglia 126 (2008), 429-460
  • "Wichmann Kruse", in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz Verlag 2005. Bd. XXIV, cols. 986-987 [click here]
  • with Dirk Vanderbeke, "Wer Augen hat zu sehen. Zum Status der Wissenschaft in Arno Schmidts Leviathan oder Die beste der Welten", in Zettelkasten. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft der Arno-Schmidt-Leser, hg. Friedhelm Rathjen, Bd. 18 (1999), 67-81



Reviews


  • Daniel McCann. 2018. Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England, in Anglia 138.4 (2020), 705–8
  • A Mirror to Devout People (Speculum devotorum). Ed. Paul J. Patterson, in Anglia 136.2 (2018), 344-7
  • The Middle English Text of Caxton's Ovid, Book II-III. Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34 with a Parallel Text of The 'Ovide moralisé en prose II'. Edited from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137. Ed. Wolfgang Mager. (= Middle English Texts, 53). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016, in Editionen in der Kritik IX/Berliner Beiträge zur Editionswissenschaft 17 (2017), 15-17.
  • After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England. Ed. Vincent Gillespie & Kantik Ghosh. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012, in Anglia 132 (2014), 160-166.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism. Ed. Samuel Fanous & Vincent Gillespie. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011, in Anglia 131 (2013), 370-373.
  • The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective. Ed. Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo & John Denton. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2010, in The European English Messenger 21,2 (2012), 52–-59.
  • Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of their Texts. Ed. Jacob Thaisen & Hanna Rutkowska. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang, 2011, in Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 249/2 (2012), 417–419.
  • The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Vol. 1: To 1550. Ed. Roger Ellis. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008, in Anglia 128 (2010), pp. 139-144
  • Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c. 1100–c.1500. Ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al. York: York Medieval P, 2009, in Anglia 130 (2012), 161-165.
  • Beatrix Weber: Sprachlicher Ausbau: Konzeptionelle Studien zur spätmittelenglischen Schriftsprache. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang, 2010, in Anglia 130 (2012), 426–428.
  • The Middle English Text of Caxton’s Ovid. Book I, Edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College, Old Library, MS F.4.34, with a Parallel Text of The Ovide moralisé en prose II, Edited from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 137. Ed. Diana Rumrich. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011, in Anglia 129 (2011), 504-507.
  • Doppelrezension: Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria. Ed. Claire M. Waters. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008; und Three Women of Liège: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d’Oignies. Ed. Jennifer N. Brown. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 23. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008, in Anglia 127 (2009), pp. 341-347
  • Marleen Cré: Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse. A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790. The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006, in Anglia 127 (2009), pp. 137–141
  • Jones, E.A., ed.: The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII. Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2004, in Anglia 125 (2007), pp. 518-522



Conference talks and presentations


  • "For better, for worse: The Middle English portions of the marriage ordo: A research project". 22. Studientag des Englischen Mittelalters, Jena, 11 March 2022.
  • “Teaching Latin, Teaching Morals, Emancipating English: Cato's Distichs in England”. University of Johannesburg, 23 April 2018
  • “The company she keeps: Translating Saint Catherine in England”. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 20 March 2018; University of Johannesburg, 22 May 2018
  • “A Language Found in Translation: The role of translation in the development of the English language”. Symposium Translation: Theory and Practice, Past and Present, University of Rostock, 19-21 May 2011.
  • with Ulrich Blumenbach, Michael Bowen and Andrea Zittlau: “Unendlicher Spaß, oder die Arbeit des Übersetzers: Ulrich Blumenbachs Übersetzung von David Foster Wallaces Infinite Jest”. Universitätsbuch-handlung Weiland, Rostock, 19 May 2011.
  • “Syon Abbey’s Care for Translation”. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011.
  • "Affective Language and Piety: The Saintly (Auto-)Biography in Later Medieval England", Symposium Sanctity and Literature, 12-13 November 2010, Bochum.
  • "The gift of tongues: Theories and myths of language acquisition", Symposium Language: Learning, Acquisition & Communication, Rostock, 4–5 June 2010.
  • "Coming to terms in poetry: Aspects of technical language in literature", Symposium Techno Speak: Languages for Special Purposes – Past and Present, Rostock, 19–20 June 2009.
  • "Einführung" [introduction], Symposium Techno Speak: Languages for Special Purposes – Past and Present, Rostock, 19–20 June 2009.
  • with Fritz Senn, Harald Beck, and Dirk Vanderbeke: "The same renew: Joyces «Ulysses» deutsch erneuert. Freuden und Leiden des Joyce-Übersetzens". Literaturhaus Zurich, 9 March 2009, in cooperation with the Zurich James-Joyce-Foundation and the Translation House Looren.
  • "Translating St Catherine of Siena in(to) Fifteenth-century England", The Making of a Saint: Catharina of Siena, Tomaso Caffarini and Venice, Konstanz 12–14 January 2009.
  • "Termini technici: Die Entwicklung von Fachsprachen im Mittelalter" [technical terminology in the middle ages], lecture series Technik im Mittelalter, Mittelalterzentrum Greifswald, 24 November 2008.
  • "'... alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch' – Manuscripts and Linguistic Identity in Later Medieval England", Symposium Language and Identity, Rostock, 27-28 June 2008.
  • "Geistiges Leben und Schriftkultur im monastischen Bereich" [on books in monasteries], Glaube, Macht und Pracht – Geistliche Gemein-schaften des Ostseeraums im Zeitalter der Backsteingotik, Greifswald, 27-30 November 2007. [published as “Kloster Eldena etc.” in 2009]
  • "Bücher und literarische Interessen der englischen Gentry" [on literary interests of the English gentry]. lecture series Hofkultur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Mittelalterzentrum Greifswald, winter term 2006–07, 24 January 2007.
  • The Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom. presentation at Studientag des Englischen Mittelalters VIII, München 3.–4. März 2006.
  • "Einführung" (Introduction) at the conference Bereit zum Kon-flikt - Strategien und Medien der Konflikterzeugung und Konfliktbewälti-gung in mittelalterlichen Integrations- und Differenzierungsprozessen, 28.-30. April 2005, Greifswald. [published in 2008]
  • "Wahnsinn und Melancholie: Die Welt in der Nußschale" [on madness and melancholy in the middle ages]. Wahnsinn im Mittelalter (Mittelalterzentrum der Universität Greifswald, 3 July 2002).



Conferences, lecture series, workshops


  • Yes! – Zum Ulysses-Übersetzen. Workshop B8, 9. Wolfenbütteler Gespräch. Jahrestagung der Literaturübersetzer vom 15. bis 17. Juni 2012, Wolfenbüttel 16. Juni 2012.
  • with Michael Bowen: Symposium Translation: Theory and Practice, Past and Present, University of Rostock, 19-21 May 2011.
  • with Fritz Senn, Harald Beck, and Dirk Vanderbeke: "The same re-new: Joyces «Ulysses» deutsch erneuert" [on translating Ulysses]. Max-Geilinger-Translation workshop, Translation House Looren (Switzerland), 6–10 March 2009, in cooperation with the Zurich James-Joyce-Foundation.
  • with Birte Bös: Symposium Techno Speak: Languages for Special Purposes – Past and Present, University of Rostock, 19–20 June 2009.
  • with Oliver Auge, Felix Biermann & Matthias Müller: Bereit zum Konflikt - Strategien und Medien der Konflikterzeugung und Konfliktbewäl-tigung in mittelalterlichen Integrations- und Differenzierungsprozessen [on conflicts in the middle ages], Greifswald, 28–30 April 2005.
  • with Lucia Kornexl: Sprache im Mittelalter [on language in the middle ages], University of Greifswald, winter term 2004–2005.



Translations


  • Lukasz Polowczyk: "Sea City" (contribution for "Pattern NYC" on 13/10/2007, a performance in the context of the exhibition Lyonel Feininger. Vom Sujet zum Bild, Pommersches Landesmuseum, 19.08.–28.10.2007)
  • Marchon Eyewear, Germany (various catalogues and other texts: Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Jil Sander, Diane von Furstenberg)