Kathryn Starkey
Professor Starkey's work focuses primarily on medieval German literature from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, and her research topics encompass visuality and materiality, object/thing studies, manuscript illustration and transmission, language, performativity, and poetics. She has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Palermo (2011) and Freiburg im Breisgau (2013 and 2018).
Book publications include:
- Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 800-1600, edited with Jutta Eming (Berlin/New York, 2021).
- Animals in Text and Textile. Storytelling in the Medieval World, edited with Evelin Wetter. Riggisberger Berichte, Vol. 24 (Riggisberg, Switzerland, 2019).
- Sensory Reflections. Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts, edited with Fiona Griffiths (Berlin/New York, 2018).
- Neidhart: Selected Songs from the Riedegger Manuscript, edited and translated with Edith Wenzel, TEAMS series in bilingual medieval German texts (Kalamazoo, MI, 2016).
- A Courtier’s Mirror: Cultivating Elite Identity in Thomasin von Zerclaere’s “Welscher Gast” (Notre Dame, 2013).
- Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan, edited with Jutta Eming and Ann Marie Rasmussen (Notre Dame, 2012).
- Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Willehalm” (Notre Dame, 2004).
Kathryn Starkey is the PI for the Global Medieval Sourcebook for which she received a NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant as well as awards from the Roberta Bowman Denning Fund for Humanities and Technologies at Stanford.
She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the UNC Institute for the Arts and the Humanities, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC).
Before joining the faculty at Stanford in 2012 Kathryn Starkey taught in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
