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Will Hasty

Will Hasty

Professor of German and Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Office Hours — Fall 2023

On sabbatical. Please contact by email <hasty@ufl.edu> and allow ample time for response.

Areas of Research

German and European Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Arthurian Studies, Digital Humanities and E-Learning, Global-Cultural Resource Analyses.

Initiatives:

Co-developer of the The Online German Studies Minor

 

 

 

 

Co-developer of the German Grammar Cruncher Online Learning Application:

 

 

 

 

Conception Draft for Metaverse-Related Project Funding: An Event Cruncher Stylus for True Digital Poiesis in Language and Culture Studies: Event Cruncher Stylus Grant Proposal-Draft

Biography

Will Hasty is Professor of German Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He has published widely on medieval and early modern literature culture, particularly on medieval romance narratives. He is author of numerous books and has edited collections of essays and literary encyclopedias.

Selected Publications

  • “The Beginning of the End: Binary Dynamics and Initiative in Hartmann von Aue’s Gregorius,” in Endtimes in Medieval German Literature: Sin, Evil, and the Apocalypse, eds. Ernst Ralf Hintz and Scott Pincikowski (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2019), 50-71.
  • The Medieval Risk-Reward Society. Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages (Columbus: The Ohio State University press, 2016).
  • “Revolutions and Final Solutions: On Enlightenment and its Dialectic in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” in Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies. 2 (2014): 21-42. Access via Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/30310; click on “View,” “Download,” or “Save” below article and authenticate through your institution.
  • “The Allure of Otherworlds: the Arthurian Romances in Germany,” in A Companion to Arthurian Literature, ed. Helen Fulton. (Maldon, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 175-188.
  • “Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival,” in The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur, Norris J. Lacy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), 48-61. Access via Semantic Scholar: Link
  • “Theorizing German Romance: The Excursus on Enite’s Horse and Saddle in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec,” in Seminar 43, 3 (2007): 253-264.
  • “Theory meets Praxis: From Derrida to the Beginning German Classroom via the Internet,” in Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German/ 39 1-2 (2006): 14-23. Access via Gale Academic and your institution:
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