CV
Academic Positions
2024–present? | Research Assistant of Prof. Dr. Laura Lieber, Chair for Transregional History of Religion at DIMAS, Regensburg |
2023–present? | PostDoc Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon”, Regensburg (DFG FOR 2770, Prof. Dr. Tobias Nicklas, Faculty of Catholic Theology) |
2018–2023? | Academic Coordinator of the Centre for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon”, Regensburg (DFG FOR 2770, Prof. Dr. Tobias Nicklas, Faculty of Catholic Theology) |
2008–2013? | Teaching Assistant at the Institute for German Philology, Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Monika Schulz, Medieval High German Language and Literature) |
2005–2008? | Student Assistant at the Institute for German Philology, Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Monika Schulz, Medieval High German Language and Literature) |
Academic Training
2009–2013 | Promotion to Dr. phil. on “Text und Bild in der Els?ssischen Legenda aurea: Der Cgm 6 in München und der Cpg 144 in Heidelberg”, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Monika Schulz (Medieval High German Literature) and Prof. Dr. Albert Dietl (Pictoral Arts of the Middle Ages, Universit?t Regensburg). |
2002–2007 | M.A. in Art History and German Philology, Universit?t Regensburg |
Research
Main interests
- Christian Iconography (with a focus on Medieval manuscripts and Early Modern art),?
- Reception of the Bible(s) and Christian Apocrypha,?
- Entangled Traditions between Jewish and Christian Art.
Ongoing Research Projects
- The Cross-Border development of the Book of Judith in dialogue between Jewish and Christian art and literature (within the CfAS “Beyond Canon” until 2027),
- “Entangled Cultural Traditions: The image of biblical and parabiblical figures in Judaism and Christianity” (Project Proposal for the DFG Nahostkooperation Programme, together with Prof. Dr. Laura Lieber, Prof. Dr. Tobias Nicklas, Dr. Gal Sela, and Prof. Dr. Haim Weiss/BGU Beer Sheva, Israel – currently under consideration).
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Third-party funds and research funding
- Doctoral degree scholarship from the Bavarian Program for the Realization of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching (August 2011–July 2012),
- Active participation in the successful re-application for the CfAS “Beyond Canon” (2023–2027).
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Publications
Monographs
?Text und Bild in der Els?ssischen Legenda aurea.“, Der Cgm 6 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München) und der Cpg 144 (Universit?tsbibliothek Heidelberg), Hamburg 2015.
Editorships
With Michael Sommer and Beatrice Wyss (ed.s). “Transzendentales ?gypten. Jenseits, Himmel, H?lle und das Ende in antik-?gyptischen Diskursen“, Series SCB - Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible, Ferdinand Sch?ningh Verlag. Brill. Deutschland 2024.
Articles in anthologies
?“Entangled Traditions about Judith: From heroine to vamp” In: Jan Rüggemeier, Elizabeth Shively (ed.s), Characters in Mind: The Migration of Characters in Early Jewish, Early Christian, and Greco-Roman Literature and Art (Diegesis in Mind 2), Bonn University Press in collaboration with Brill Publishing/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (forthcoming 2024).
?Die Seelenw?gung in der Legenda aurea als Nachwirkung ?gyptisch-r?mischer Kulturgeschichte?“ In: Michael Sommer, Stephanie Hallinger, Beatrice Wyss (ed.s), Transzendentales ?gypten, Jenseits, Himmel, H?lle und das Ende in antik-?gyptischen Diskursen, Series SCB - Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible, Ferdinand Sch?ningh Verlag, Brill Deutschland GmbH (forthcoming 2024).
With Tobias Nicklas. ?Von der Illustration zum Text: Ein intermediales Experiment mit der Bamberger Apokalypse“ In: Textforschung zur Septuaginta, zum Hebr?erbrief und zur Apokalypse: Die Relevanz von Textkritik zur Erforschung des frühen Judentums des Neuen Testaments und des frühen Christentums. Festschrift für Martin Karrer zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. G. G?bel & M. Geigenfeind, Berlin – Boston 2024 (forthcoming 2024).
?Im Raum zwischen ?kanonisch“ und ?parabiblisch“. Caravaggios Auferweckung des Lazarus“ In: Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 26/51 (2023), 107–129.
?Zeit und Ewigkeit. Text-Bild-Bezüge und ikonographische Elemente in Caravaggios Auferweckung des Lazarus“ In: Festschrift J?rg Frey (forthcoming 2024).
?Johannes-Rezeption in der frühbarocken Malerei. Caravaggios Auferweckung des Lazarus (1609)“ In: Sacra Scripta XVIII, 2 (2020), 157-182.?
?Nomen autem meum ideo volui silentio contegi. Honorius Augustodunensis in Regensburg“ In: Reiner Barbey, Erwin Petzi (Hg.), Kleine Regensburger Literaturgeschichte, Regensburg 2014, 21-25.
?Belehrung mit dem Hammer. Rüdegers des Hinkhofers Der Schlegel“ In: Reiner Barbey, Erwin Petzi (ed.s), Kleine Regensburger Literaturgeschichte, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2014, 82-87.
?(Schein-)Heiligkeit in M?ren des Strickers: Die Martinsnacht und Der durstige Einsiedel“ In: Monika Schulz (ed.), Vind?rinne wunderb?rer m?re. Gedenkschrift für Ute Schwab, Vienna 2013, 393-410.
Essays
?Max Beckmanns ?Auferstehung“ (Blatt 12 aus der Folge ?Gesichter“). Online catalogue of the Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg (https://christliche-kunst-wittenberg.de/works/auferstehung-blatt-12-aus-der-folge-gesichter-62d2272f/), 2024.
?Thinking in a Broader Context“ In: Blick in die Wissenschaft 41 (2020), 18-20.?
?Die Faszination des Grauens. Dantes G?ttliche Kom?die in der Bildenden Kunst“ In: TITEL Kulturmagazin online 2010 (http://titelmagazin.com/artikel/209/10379/dantes-g%C3%B6ttliche-kom%C3%B6die-in-der-bildenden-kunst.html), 2013.
Teaching and Science Communication
Teaching
- More than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses taught in Medieval German language, literature, and art; several international study excursions organized.
Science Communication
- Responsibility for all areas of outward communication of the CfAS “Beyond Canon” with more than 300 researchers and institutes involved (networking and initializing academic cooperations, PR, Social Media etc.);
- Organization of more than 120 international conferences and workshops.
Projects and Networking
Committee work and academic functions
- Member of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker (since 2019),
- Member of the Society for Biblical Literature (since 2022)
Lectures and Conferences
- “Apo gearbeitet. Dunkler Sonntag.” – Die Apokalypse durch die Augen Max Beckmanns (conference Intermediality in the Apocalypse of John, Conference in in Regensburg, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Stefan Alkier/Frankfurt and the CfAS ?Beyond Canon“, 28 March 2025, Universit?t Regensburg
- A glimpse into Hell: Simon Marmion’s Illustrations of the Visio Tnugdali (international conference Entangled Traditions: Parabiblica about the End of Times, 20-21 March 2025, Bucharest, in cooperation with Dr. Emanuela Timotin/Bucharest and Dr. Alexandru Ionita/Sibiu).
- Beyond Caravaggio: Au?erkanonisches in der Ikonographie frühbarocker Malerei (Research colloquium at the Department of History, 7 February 2023, Universit?t Regensburg)
- John and beyond: Caravaggio’s Resurrection of Lazarus. Reception history of the Lazarus pericope in the sphere of communication between New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha (international online lecture series Novum Testamentum Patristicum, 11 July 2022).
- Hidden bias: Kunstkritik als Instrument des Anti-Genderism: Der Fall Judith vs. Holofernes (lecture series Anti-Genderismus - Kritik und Polemik gegen Genderkonzepte, 20 December 2022, Universit?t Regensburg, Germany)
- Die Ikonographie des Seelengerichts von ?gypten bis zur Legenda aurea (international conference Transzendentales ?gypten. Jenseits, Himmel, H?lle und das Ende in antik-?gyptischen Diskursen /Transcendental Egypt. Other Worlds, Heaven, Hell, and the End in antique-Egyptian discourses, together with Michael Sommer and Beatrice Wyss, 23-25 June 2022 in Bern, Switzerland).
- Text-Bild-Bezüge und ikonographische Elemente in Caravaggios Auferweckung des Lazarus (international conference Zeit und Ewigkeit, 22-25 March 2022, Monte Veritá/Ascona, Switzerland)
- (with Tobias Nicklas) Regensburger Apokryphen. Die Visio Tnugdali und der Clm 13074 aus Kloster Prüfening (Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Regensburg, 11 July 2021).
Cooperation/ Projects
- Cooperation on the iconography of the Archangel Michael with Prof. Dr. Michael E. Stone/Hebrew University Jerusalem (em.) and Dr. Emanuela Timotin/Bucharest (publication in preparation),
- Organisation of a conference on “Entangled Judith Traditions” together with Dr. Osnat E. Rance/Beyond Canon, Jerusalem,
- Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Antti Laato/Turku (project proposal “Texts for New Times: Biblical Argumentation after the Edict of Milan” for the Finnish Initiative foe Excellence),
- Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Haim Weiss/BGU Beer Sheva on the conference “Upon the Empty Bookshelf: Germany in the Literature of Haim Be’er” (Regensburg, 3–4 June 2024).
- Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lily Vuong (joint article on Apocrypha in Christian Art for the Routledgle Companion for Christian Apocypha, forthcoming 2026).
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