People
Will Hasty
Professor of German
Ph.D University of California, Berkeley
- 263 Dauer
- hasty@ufl.edu
- 352.273.3780
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- Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)
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Office Hours
- R: 10:00-12:00
Areas of Research
German literary and cultural history from the High Middle Ages, medieval and modern Arthurian Studies, cross-cultural studies (pre-modernity, modernity, postmodernity).
Biography
Will Hasty is Professor of German Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He has published widely on medieval and early modern German literature, particularly on the Arthurian romances. He is author of Adventure as Social Performance: A Study of the German Court Epic (1990), Adventures in Interpretation: The Works of Hartmann von Aue and their Critical Reception (1996), and Art of Arms: A Study of German Court Poetry (2002). He has also edited numerous volumes, including German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280- The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138 (1994), German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages 800-1170- The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 148 (1995), A Companion to Wolfram's ‘Parzival’ (1999), A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's ‘Tristan’ (2003), and The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3: The Literature of the High Middle Ages (2006). He served as Interim Chair of GSS from 2004-2005 and from 2007-2008. He serves on the editorial boards of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ed. Richard A. Shoaf) and Perspicuitas: Internet-Periodicum für mediävistische Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaft (ed. Rüdiger Brandt, Jürgen Fröhlich, and Karl Otto Seidel). He was elected to serve on the Modern Language Association executive committee of the Division on German Literature to 1700 (2004-2008).
Publications
- Will Hasty, “The allure of Otherworlds: the Arthurian romances in Germany.” A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Ed. Helen Fulton. Maldon, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 175-188.
- Will Hasty, “Theorizing German Romance: The Excursus on Enite's Horse and Saddle in Hartmann von Aue's Erec.” Seminar 43, 3 (2007): 253-264.
- Will Hasty, “Theory meets Praxis: From Derrida to the Beginning German Classroom via the Internet.” /Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German/ 39 1-2 (2006): 14-23.
