Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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Christopher Young has primary teaching and research interests on medieval German literature and language and the history of European (and in particular German) sport. In medieval studies: he is the author of Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs Willehalm (Tübingen 2000), co-editor of four volumes, has addressed major conferences in the field in Europe, and organised international conferences on medieval literacy and aesthetics (Cambridge 2001, 2005). He was awarded a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and spent a year researching at the University of Cologne. His work there - an edition, translation and commentary of Ulrich von Liechtenstein's Frauenbuch - was published by Reclam (2003). He recently completed a co-authored History of the German Language through Texts (Routledge 2004). In the field of sports history: he has edited a special edition of American Behavioural Scientist (with Andrei Markovits, 2003) on 'Sports and Cultural Space', three further volumes in the UK, US and Germany, been invited to be plenary speaker at conferences in Europe, and organised two international conferences (Cambridge 2003, 2006). With other members of the Faculty, he produced German Video Plus (an interactive CD ROM, 2003) for Arnold. His latest publications include The 1972 Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press 2010), with Kay Schiller, and Ulrich von Liechtenstein: Leben, Zeit, Werk, Forschung (de Gruyter 2010), ed. with Sandra Linden. He is co-founder and editor of de Gruyter's new series Companions to Modern German Culture, and he is currently producing a major edition of the A, B, and C recensions of the Kaiserchronik with Mark Chinca and Jürgen Wolf (Marburg). After four years as Head of Department, he is spending 2010-12 in Berlin as Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien der FU Berlin.