Mareike Elisa Reisch

Mareike Elisa Reisch is a Ph.D. candidate in German Studies and a Ph.D. Minor student in ILAC. She works on medieval and early modern German and Spanish literature. Her research focuses on late medieval travel literature with a particular interest in cross cultural and religious contact, and the perception of space. In her dissertation, Mareike explores the perception and narrative transmission of space in 15thcentury pilgrimage accounts about pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

Publications:

• "Transporting the Holy City: Hans Tucher's Letter from Jerusalem as Medium and Material Object." In Things and Thingness in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Visual Arts, ed. by Jutta Eming, Kathryn Starkey, 45-63. Berlin: De Gruyter 2022.
•  "sinne and ​sêlen kraft: medieval models of sensory perception in a mural of the Constance Haus zur Kunkel." In Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 12, no. 1-4 (2021): 135-152.
• "(De)stabilisierende Herrschaftswechsel - Landnahmen und Landgaben im 'Herzog Ernst B'," in: "Land in Sicht!" Literarische Inszenierungen von Landnahmen und ihren Folgen, ed. by Michaela Holdenried, Anna-Maria Post, pp. 271-288. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag (2021).
•  Together with Björn K. Buschbeck, Annalena Dostalek, Anna Velia Vogel, "Dominikanische Selbstvergewisserung und Anweisungen für ein reformiertes Klosterleben: Eine Auswahledition aus Johannes Meyers Buch der Ersetzung." In buochmeisterinne. Handschriften und Frühdrucke aus dem Dominikanerinnenkloster Adelhausen, Ed. by Balázs Nemes, Martina Backes, 269-284. Freiburg: Stadtarchiv 2021 (Stadt und Geschichte 24).

Scholarships and Awards:

• 2014: Promos-Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• 2018: Centennial Teaching Award
• 2019: Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Travel Grant