Seminar für Englische Philologie

Dr. Andreas Lemke, StRef, Business Mediator (IHK)

Curriculum Vitae

born 1982 at Hildesheim; Course of Study: English/History (Grammar School Teacher Training); 2009-2010 Postgraduate Research Assistant/Lecturer; 2010-2012 Sessional Instructor/Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben; 2012-2014 Research Associate; 2013-2014 Course of Study: Business Mediation (IHK); 2014-2016 Teacher-in-Training at Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Garbsen; since 2016 Teacher at Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Garbsen
Research Interests


  • Violence, Crime and Punishment in Old English Literature
  • Anglo-Saxon History
  • Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Latin/Old English)
  • Prose Translations of the 'Alfred Circle'
  • Anglo-Saxon Ethnogenesis and Identity
  • Children and Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England



Dissertation

"The Old English Translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in Its Historical and Cultural Context" (supervisor: Prof. W. Rudolf; defended 19 May 2014; Magna cum Laude)




Former Duties


  • research associate (2012-2014)
  • sessional Instructor/Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (2010-2012)
  • deputy member of the study commission (2011)
  • BA/MA module coordinator English Medieval Studies 2011)
  • deputy member of the board of editors of "Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie" (2011)
  • member of the executive board of the English Department (spokesperson of the non-professorial staff) (2011-2013)
  • safety advisor of the English Department (2012-2013)
  • web admin English Medieval Studies (2012-2014)
  • member of the selection panel MA English (2011-2014)



Publications


    Monographs
  • The Old English Translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its Historical and Cultural Context, Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie, Bd. 8 (Göttingen, 2015) . http://http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/univerlag/2015/GSEP8_lemke.pdf


    • Essays
  • '"Ealla þas ungesælða us gelumpon þuruh unrædas": Voices from the Reign of Æthelred II', in Von Æthelred zum Mann im Mond: Forschungsarbeiten aus der englischen Mediävistik, ed. J. Müller, F. Reitemeier, Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie 4 (Göttingen, 2010), 13-121 http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/univerlag/2010/GSEP4.pdf
  • "Fear-Mongering, Political Shrewdness, or Setting the Stage for a 'Holy Society'?: Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos" in Unræd: Intellectual Thought and Rule in Æthelredian England, Leeds Studies in English 95.7 (2014), pp. 758-78; (forthcoming 2015); online veröffentlicht: 10.9. 2014 (forthcoming, October 2014); published online: 9/10/14
  • "Puer and Pueritia in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum", Journal of Medieval Latin 24 (2014), 153-69
  • "Children and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum", in Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by S. Irvine and W. Rudolf (forthcoming 2015)
  • "A Fragment of Bede's Chronica Minora in MS CCIX", in Mutilated Books - Studies in the Fragments, Damaged Manuscripts, and Rotuli of the Biblioteca Capitolare, Vercelli, ed. by D. Schultze and W. Rudolf (fortcoming 2015)



Conference Papers


  • "The Depiction of Kingship in the Æthelredian Annals" (11.3. 2011, SEM XIII, Freiburg i. Br.; Speaker: Dr. W. Rudolf)
  • "Fear-Mongering, Political Shrewdness, or Setting the Stage for a 'Holy Society'?: Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos"
    ( 16.4. 2011, Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Scottsdale,AZ)
  • "The Old English Bede and the Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons" (13.5. 2011, 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI)
  • "The Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign" (21.5. 2011, Symposium "Negotiating the Original: Translation in Theory and Practice", Rostock)
  • Speaker: Courtnay Konshuh (Winchester) - "The Narrative of Treachery in theÆthelredian Annals" (10.3.2012, SEM XIV, Göttingen)
  • "Conversion and the Old English Bede" (10.5. 2012, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI)
  • "The Old English Translator of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica: Bede's Friend or Foe?" (11.7. 2012, International Medieval Congress Leeds, Leeds, GB)
  • "Children and Childhood in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum" (12.5. 2013, 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI)



Projects

  • WS 2012/13: Project ,,Forschungsorientiertes Lehren und Lernen (FoLL): Violence, Crime and Punishment in Old and Middle English Literature" in cooperation with the Hochschuldidaktik Göttingen, funded by Göttingen Q-Campus Plus and BMBF

    • Awards


    • Graduate Student Paper Prize 2011 (Medieval Academy of America)
    • David R. Tashjian Travel Award 2011 (Richard Rawlinson Center, Western Michigan University)



    Travel Grants/Scholarships


    • 2015 GSGG (Publication Grant doctoral thesis)
    • 2014 GSGG (Travel Grant 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies/ Kalamazoo,MI)
    • 2013 GSGG (Travel Grant 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies/ Kalamazoo,MI)
    • 2013 Universitätsbund Göttingen (Travel Grant 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies/Kalamazoo, MI)
    • 2012 DAAD (Travel Grant International Medieval Congress, Leeds)
    • 2012 GSGG (Travel Grant 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies/ Kalamazoo,MI)
    • 2012 Universitätsbund Göttingen (Travel Grant 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies/Kalamazoo, MI)
    • 2011 Universitätsbund Göttingen (Travel Grant Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America/ Scottsdale, AZ)
    • 2011 GSGG (Travel Grant Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America/Scottsdale, AZ)
    • 2011 DAAD (Travel Grant 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies/ Kalamazoo,MI)



    Affiliations



    • International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS)
    • Medieval Academy of America (MAA)
    • Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP)
    • Mediävistenverband e.V.
    • Graduiertenschule für Geisteswisschenschaften Göttingen (GSGG)