Review of Anneke B. Mulder-Bakkers book about the spiritual biography of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg and Heilke of Staufenberg.

The article focuses on three womens monasteries in late medieval southwestern Germany. Berau, Sitzenkirch and Gutnau were subordinate cells of St. Blasien in the Black Forest, but varied considerably in size and legal status.

The article discusses their relations to the monks of St. Blasien and Bürgeln (a cell of St. Blasien) as well as the…[Read more]

The article discusses the Acta sancti Petri in Augia, a 13th century cartulary consisting of four books collecting charters, traditiones, chronicles and administrative sources from the monastery of Weißenau near Ravensburg in southwestern Germany. Particular emphasis is placed on the way this source remembers and writes about the history of the…[Read more]

This chapter gives an overview of several different projects grounded in digital media approaches or digital humanities methodologies that I assign my students while we are reading Dostoevsky’s novels. In particular, Crime and Punishment is rich for this kind of approach. Projects include a digital mapping project using software like S…[Read more]

This chapter argues that the concept of the gothic corpse can be productively used to analyze Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (1869) through the deployment of two specific imagined corpses in the novel: “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” by Hans Holbein the Younger and the murderer’s victim buried under the floorboards of Rogozhin’s house. The…[Read more]

This is the introduction to the volume, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity, published in 2021 by University of Toronto Press. Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky’s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer’s art – specifically the tension between experience and formal representation – as its central theme. While m…[Read more]

Ann Radcliffe’s novels were extremely popular in early nineteenth-century Russia. Publication of her work in Russian translation propelled the so-called gothic wave of 1800-10. Yet, many of the works Radcliffe was known for in Russia were not written by her; rather, they were works by others that were attributed to Radcliffe. This article t…[Read more]