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Ann Marie Rasmussen, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literature

Ann Marie Rasmussen
Office Location:  116C Old Chemistry
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3173, (919) 660-3160
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~amras

Teaching (Fall 2012):

  • German 390-1.01, Sp topics in german studies Synopsis
    Perkins 2-059, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
    (also cross-listed as ARTHIST 390.01, MEDREN 390.01, WOMENST 290.02)
  • German 501.01, German academic research i Synopsis
    Old chem 119, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
Education:

  • PhD Yale University 1985
  • BA UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, OR 1976

Specialties:

Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Gender Studies
Literary History & Criticism
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Ann Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal. Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Reader in Gender and Class in Late Medieval German Texts.  Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, 2010.
  2. Ann Marie Rasmussen. Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature.  Syracuse University Press, 1997. (Reviews: Almut Suerbaum, in Arbitrium (2/1997):162-64; Albrecht Classen, in German Quarterly 71.4 (1998): 393-94; Katrien Heene, in Paedagogica historica 34 (1998): 143-45; Francis G. Gentry, in Choice 35.7 (1998): 1196; Katherine J. Meyer, in Speculum 74.3 (1999): 816-817; Elisabeth Lienert in Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 128 (1999): 89-97; Albrecht Classen, in Tristania 19 (1999): 129-34; Susanne B. Kimball, in Germanic Notes and Reviews 31.2 (Fall, 2000): 203-204; Hartwig Mayer, in Seminar 36.3 (2000): 362-63; Margaret Schleissner, in Medieval Feminist Forum 30 (Fall, 2000): 50-52; Claudia Brinker-Gabler, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 122 (2000): 323-27; Maria Dobozy, Monatshefte 93.1 (2001): 115-17. Discussed by Joseph M. Sullivan, "Brother Hermann's Iolande: A Tale of Ideal Female Spirituality," Monatshefte 90.2 (1998): 161-75, pages 162 and 165; Edith Wenzel, in “Hêre vrouwe und übeles wîp: Zur Konstruktion von Frauenbildern im Minnesang,” in Mannlîchiu wîp, wîplîch man: Zur Konstruktion der Kategorien ‘Körper’ und ‘Geschlecht’ in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Ingrid Bennewitz und Helmut Tervooren, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, vol. 9. Berlin: Schmidt, 1999, pp. 275, 278, 280; Ruth Mazo Karras in “Sex and the Singlewoman,” in Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800, ed. Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, pp. 133-34; Albrecht Classen, “Mother Speaks to Daughter: Literary Historical Reflections on a Feminist Theme,” in German Quarterly 75.1 (2002): 71-87; Martin Baisch & Hendrikje Haufe, “Väter und Söhne - Mütter und Töchter. Normbruch und Normerfüllung in Heinrichs von Veldeke “Eneasroman”“in Der Deutschunterricht 60.1 (2003):62-67)
  3. A. Rasmussen, Jutta Eming, Kathryn Starkey. Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde. Notre Dame Press, 2012. (Forthcoming)
  4.  Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
  5. A. Rasmussen. "Hybridity and Gender in the Medieval Sexual Badges."  Under review Stones, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medival Europe  (2012).
  6. A. Rasmussen. "Siegfried the Dragonslayer Meets the Web: Using Digital Media for Developing Historical Awareness and Advanced Language and Critical Thinking Skills." Die Unterrichtspraxis 44.1 (2011): 105-114.
  7. A. Rasmussen. "Wanderlust: Gift Exchange, Sex, And The Meanings Of Mobility." 'Liebe schenken‘: Liebesgaben in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit  (Forthcoming).
  8. A. Rasmussen. "Reading in Nuremberg’s Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays." Literary Studies and the Question of Reading  (2012).
  9. A. Rasmussen. "Problematizing Medieval Misogyny: Aristotle and Phyllis in the German Tradition." Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur  (forthcoming).
  10. "Wandering Genitalia: Sexuality and the Body in German Culture between the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity."  Published in August 2009.   (Fall, 2009).
  11. A. Rasmussen. "Falsche Freunde." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung :185 (August 12 2009): N5.
  12. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "“War die Jungfrau wirklich in Nöten: Neue Forschungen zur Rolle der Frau im Mittelalter." Merkur: Zeitschrift fuer europaeisches Denken 63:7 (2009): 627-33.
  13. A. Rasmussen and Olga Trokhimenko. "The Winsbeck Father-Son and Mother-Daughter Poems (Der Winsbecke and Die Winsbeckin), with a Medieval Parody,”." Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behavior for Youths  (2009): 61-125.
  14. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Masculinity and the Minnerede in Berlin mgo 186." Triviale Minne? Konventionalität und Trivialisierung in spätmittelalterlichen Minnereden  (2006): 119-138.
  15. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Visible and Invisible Landscapes: Medieval Monasticism as a Cultural Resource in the Pacific Northwest." A Place to Believe In: Medieval Monasticism in the Landscape  (2006): 239-59.
  16. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Subjektivität und Gender in der Märe Die zwei beichten (A und B)." Inszenierung von Subjektivität in der Literatur des Mittelalters  (2005): 271-287.
  17. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Emotions, Gender, and Lordship in Medieval Literature: Clovis's Grief, Tristan's Anger, and Kriemhild's Restless Corpse." Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages  (2003): 174-91.
  18. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "The Female Figures in Gottfried's Tristan and Isolde." A Companion to Gottfried's Tristan and Isolde  (2003): 143-63.
  19. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Reason and the Female Voice in Walther von der Vogelweide's Poetry." Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches  (2002): 168-86.
  20. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Thinking through Gender in Late Medieval German Literature." Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance  (2002): 97-111.
  21. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Gendered Knowledge and Eavesdropping in the Late Medieval German Minnerede." Speculum 77:4 (2002): 1168-94.
  22. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Fathers to Think Back Through: The Medieval German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Conduct Poems Known as Die Winsbeckin and Der Winsbecke." Medieval Conduct  (2001): 106-34.
  23. Ann Marie Rasmussen. "Medieval German Romance." Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance  (2000): 183-202.
  24. A. Rasmussen. ""Ich trug auch ledig siben child": Zur sozialen Konstruktion von Weiblichkeit in der Minnerede "Stiefmutter und Tochter"."  Rev. by Will Hasty, German Quarterly 73.1 (2000):87-88, here 87 fremdes Wahrnehmen - Fremdes wahrnehmen  (1997): 193-204.
  25. A. Rasmussen. ""ez ist ir g'artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried's Tristan und Isolde."  Reprint New York: Routledge, 2001 Arthurian Women: A Casebook  (1996): 41-58.
  26. A. Rasmussen. "Woman as Audience and Audience as Woman in the Medieval German Courtly Lyric." Exemplaria 6:2 (1994): 367-384.
  27. A. Rasmussen. "Representing Woman's Desire: Walther's Woman's Stanzas in 'ich hoere iu sô vil tugende jehen' (L43,9), 'under der linden' (L39,11) and 'Frô Welt' (L100,24)."  Cited in Günther Schweikle, ed., Liedlyrik, vol. 2 of Walther von der Vogelweide, Werke. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1998, p. 634; Louise O. Vasvari, “L’usignuolo in gabbia: Popular tradition and Pornographic Parody in the Decameron,” Forum Italicum 28.2 (1994): 224- 52, here p. 235 Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature GAG 528 (1991): 69-85.
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