Notes on Contributors
Victoria Gutsche
is a research fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research centers on early modern literature, editorial studies, literature of the 19th and 20th century, German-Jewish literature, and diversity in literature. In addition to book chapters and articles she has published Zwischen Abgrenzung und Annäherung. Konstruktionen des Jüdischen in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts (2014) and Die Romantrilogie. Zur Geschichte einer großen Form von ihren Anfängen bis zur Mitte des 10. Jahrhunderts (2023); her edition of Julius Wilhelm Zincgrefs Deutsche Kleinschriften (with Werner Wilhelm Schnabel and Dirk Niefanger) is forthcoming.
Peter Hess
is a Professor of German and European Studies, teaching early modern cultural history at the University of Texas at Austin. He recently published Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490–1540: Visions of a Nation in Decline (2020) and Violent First Contact in Venezuela: Nikolaus Federmann’s ‘Indian History’ (2021). A book-length study on German conquistadors in Latin America in the first half of the sixteenth century is in progress. He currently also is editing a volume entitled Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany.
Cornelia Niekus Moore
is Emeritus Dean of the University of Hawaii’s College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, where she was also a longtime faculty member (1971–1999). Her research has concentrated on the reading and writing practices of women in early modern Germany, especially their interest in and writing of devotional literature (The Maiden’s Mirror 1986) as well as the genre of the Lutheran funeral book as part of the development of biography in early modern Germany (Patterned Lives 2006). She has recently changed her focus from devotional texts to the accompanying illustrations and the interaction between word and pictures.
Matthias Roick
is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in Renaissance philosophy with a focus on ethics, early modern literary culture, and book history. His current research concerns scholarly writings on friendship.
Jason Rosenholtz-Witt
is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Western Kentucky University. He specializes in music and geopolitics in the Venetian Republic during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, extending into German-speaking lands and England. Additional interests include American experimentalism (1960s–80s) and jazz during the Civil Rights era. He has published on topics ranging from musical life in early modern Bergamo, English viol consort music, music printing, and avant-garde cellist Charlotte Moorman. His research at the Herzog August Bibliothek was supported by the Dr. Gudrun Busch Stipendium für Musikwissenschaft and the American Friends of the HAB.
Sara Smart
is Honorary Associate Professor of German, University of Exeter. Her research focus is on Protestant courts of the Empire in the early modern period with particular interest in the stylization of the ruling dynasty in the court’s print culture. Currently she is working on representations of the consort at the Hohenzollern court in Berlin. Publications include: the co-edited volume with Mara R. Wade, The Palatine Wedding of 1613: Protestant Alliance and Court Festival (2013), and with Benjamin Marschke, Daniel Riches, and Alexander Schunka, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts: Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555–1860 (forthcoming, Spektrum).
Kathleen M. Smith
is the subject specialist for the Germanic Collections & Medieval Studies at Stanford Libraries. She received her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Germanic Languages & Literatures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to Stanford, she worked in the Research and Development Department of the State and University Library in Göttingen, Germany.
Dwight E. Raak TenHuisen
received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As professor at Calvin University, he teaches a range of language, culture, and literature courses in Spanish and German. He has written on the hagiographic discourse in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación, Staden’s Wahrhaftige Historia, and Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação, as well as on the transformations, domestication of alterity, and elimination of self-representation in the reception of these authors in the context of early modern confessional geographies. His current project examines Calancha’s Crónica moralizada in the context of early modern Augustinian evangelization strategies and global networks.
Janette Tilley
is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Performing Arts at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia. She earned a PhD in musicology from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersections of music, gender, and pious practice in German Lutheranism of the seventeenth century. Her current research examines musical engagement with the Song of Songs and mystical love metaphors from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. She is editor of the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music, an open-access collection of modern scholarly editions published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.
Mara R. Wade
is professor emerita of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned the Ph.D. at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Professor Gerhard Dünnhaupt. Her research focuses on emblems, digital humanities, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender, and early modern German literature. She is the past president of the Renaissance Society of America; she holds a senior research prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. As a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, in 2023 she continues work on the monograph A Social History of the Renaissance Emblem.
Gerhild Scholz Williams
has published widely on German and French literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (1100–1700), specializing more recently in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Williams has been working in translation theory and practice, the early modern witch phenomenon, the early modern Volksbuch, the development of the novel, and Ottoman Eurasia in German literature. She has explored the impact and influence of newspapers and other early modern media on the production of novels.
Enrica Zanin
is senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Strasbourg (France). An alumna of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), a Humboldt Fellow, and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, her research focuses on ethical issues in early modern European literature. As a fellow at the Duke August Library, she became deeply interested in the Ethica section and the literary books it contains. She has worked on ethics and theater in the early modern period (Fins tragiques, 2014) and is currently preparing a book on ethics and the novella (working title: Ethique du récit).