Annette Volfing
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5 February 1965
British (since 2017)
Annette Volfing | |
|---|---|
| Born | Annette Marianne Volfing 5 February 1965 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Citizenship | Danish British (since 2017) |
| Occupations | Literary scholar and poet |
| Title | Professor of Medieval German Literature |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Thesis | A commentary on Der meide kranz by Henrich von Mügeln (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nigel F. Palmer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | German literature |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Oriel College, Oxford |
Annette Marianne Volfing FBA (born 5 February 1965) is a Danish-British scholar of medieval German literature and poet. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Medieval German Literature at the University of Oxford.
Media work
Volfing completed her undergraduate degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1985; she returned there to carry out her doctoral studies; her DPhil was awarded in 1993 for her thesis "A commentary on Der meide kranz by Heinrich von Mügeln". Her thesis was supervised by Nigel F. Palmer.[1] She was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford, the following year, alongside a lectureship at the University of Oxford (where she was promoted to reader in 2006 and Professor of Medieval German Literature two years later).[2][3][4]
According to her university profile, Volfing is a "medievalist with particular interest in later medieval religious, mysical, philosophical or allegorical writing";[3] her British Academy adds that her research focuses on "mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence" in medieval German literature.[5]
Volfing has contributed reviews of books examining medieval literature and culture to the Times Literary Supplement.[6]
Honours and awards
In 2015, Volfing was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]
Poetry
Alongside her academic career, Volfing has published two pamphlets of poetry: Ecliptic with Black Light Engine Room in 2016 and Learning Finnish with Paekakariki Press in 2021. Her poems have also appeared in magazines such as Magma Poetry.[7]
