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Adam Oberlin
Department of German
Princeton University
208 East Pyne
Princeton, NJ 08542
USA
Positions and Education
Positions | Education
Positions
2017 – now
Senior Lecturer in German
Princeton University ↗
Department of German
course instruction, curriculum development, study abroad, evaluation and testing
2015 – 2017
Social Sciences and German Teacher
Atlanta International School ↗
German A/Individuals and Societies
course instruction, curriculum development, data administration
2013 – 2015
2012 – 2013
(-2015 remotely)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Universitetet i Bergen
Nordisk Institutt
project: Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective (IECASTP)
Education
2009 – 2012
PhD, Germanic Medieval Studies
Minor in Medieval Studies
University of Minnesota
Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
2007 – 2009
MA, Germanic Medieval Studies
University of Minnesota
Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
2003 – 2006
BA, German Studies
University of Florida
Department of German and Slavic
various dates
study abroad
LMU Munich, University of Iceland, various locations in Poland
undergraduate study, graduate study, and teacher education training programs
Teaching
Princeton | Elsewhere
At Princeton I regularly teach the following courses:
GER 105
Intermediate German language
GER 107
Advanced German language
GER 1025
Intermediate intensive German language
GER 207/208
a two-semester sequence on German history from 1871-1945 and 1945-present
And have also taught the following courses:
GER 310
Origins of Deutschtum
GER 318
Die Hauptstadt der Bewegung
Wintersession
Introduction to Icelandic
Elsewhere I have taught:
- all levels of German language
- German for Reading Knowledge
- German Civilization and Culture to 1700
- Antisemitism and the Holocaust
- first- and second-year Latin
- basic Russian
- Introduction to Medieval Literature
- Scandinavian History to 1500
- Nordic Mythology
- World History to 1700
- World Geography
Publications
Books | Articles and Chapters | Reference Work Entries | Translations | Reviews | Editorial
Books
2022
Ed., English Grammar for Students of German. 7th ed. Ann Arbor: Olivia and Hill Press.
2014
Ed., English Grammar for Students of German. 6th ed. Ann Arbor: Olivia and Hill Press.
Articles and chapters
2025
“Inventing a Germanic Present in the Neo-Fascist Aesthetics of Extreme Heavy Metal.” Forthcoming in Storyworlds: Open-ended Story Universes Across Time, Cultures, and Media, ed. Ann Marie Rasmussen.
2024
“On Language History and Extralinguistic Periodization in Germanic.” In Germanic Philology. Perspectives on Linguistics and Literature, eds. Tina Boyer and Heiko Wiggers, 1-25. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
2023
“Technology, the Flipped Classroom, and Exigent Paradigm Shifts, or Being Forced into the Present.” Die Unterrichtspraxis 56: 45-48.
2022
“Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Periodisierungsschemata in der Germanistik.” Germanica 71: 21-32.
2020
“Weather, Metaphor, and the Lexicon: A Corpus Study of Medieval German.” Mediävistik 33: 143-154.
2018
“Sensory Disability in the Metaphorical and Phraseological Vocabulary of Middle High German.” Mediävistik 30: 103-123.
2016
Barðdal, Jóhanna et al., “Dative Subjects in Germanic: A Computational Analysis of Lexical Semantic Verb Classes across Time and Space.” Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 69: 49-84.
2015
“Diachronic Perspectives on the Phraseology of Premodern German.” Neophilologus 99: 81-96.
2014
“The Face of Minnesang: Kinegrams, Corporeal Phraseology, and Emotional Expressions.” Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 72: 177-198.
2011
“Vita sancti, vita regis: The Saintly King in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar.” Neophilologus 95: 313-28.
2010
“Wandering Glosses for Gothic rūna.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 247.2: 348-352.
2010
“‘Translating’ Tristan: Hákonar saga and the Possibilities of Translatio.” Tristania 25: 49-68.
2009
“Odinic Elements in the Northern Sigurðr Legend: A Re-Reading of Fáfnismál.” In Myth: German and Scandinavian Studies, eds. V. Lenshyn and E. Torner, 170-179. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Reference work entries
2016
“Canonization of Canute IV of Denmark (1101).” In Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, eds. Florin Curta and Andrew Holt, 529-530, vol. 2. London: Bloomsbury.
2016
18 entries on chronicles from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Scandinavia (list on request). In Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. Graeme Dunphy, 2 vols., 2nd ed. Leiden: Brill.
Translations
2024
North, Caro. “Via Sedna,” Alpinist 85: 50-61; Banff Mountain Book longlist selection for article category ↗
2020
Zieff, Drew, “History of Splitboarding,” Backcountry Magazine 136: 81-101 (translated primary source materials)
2014
Steck, Ueli. “Journey into Night. The South Face of Annapurna.” Alpinist 45: 64-71; Nilsen, Signar. “Riddles in the Moss. Trakta, Lofoten Islands, Norway.” Alpinist 44: 20-26;
2013
Gantzhorn, Ralf. “At the Ends of the Earth, Where the Mountains are Born.” Alpinist 42: 15-22.
Book reviews and review articles
2025
Röttger, Nina. Eine Studie in Rot. Blutspuren in deutschsprachiger Literatur des Mittelalters. Heidelberg:
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023. (JEGP 124.1: 114-116, forthcoming)
2024
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 84: 489-528)
2024
Adler, Gillian and Paul Strohm. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life. London: Reaktion Books, 2023 (Mediävistik 36: 259-261)
2024
Lütkenhaus, Hildegard and Winfried Wilhelmy, eds. Der Mainzer Domschatz. Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2022. (Mediävistik 36: 313-315)
2024
Hasse, Claus Peter and Gabriele Köster, eds. Welche Taten werden Bilder? Otto der Große in der Erinnerung späterer Zeiten. Oktober 2023. Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2023. (Mediävistik 36: 366-368)
2024
Scase, Wendy. Visible English: Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700–c. 1550. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. (Mediävistik 36: 341-345)
2023
Coxon, Sebastian. Beards and Texts: Images of Masculinity in Medieval German Literature. London: UCL Press, 2021. (JEGP 122.2, 285-287)
2023
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 83: 593–624)
2023
Oehme, Annegret. The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations. Leiden: Brill, 2021. (The Medieval Review)
2023
Pretzer, Christoph J. Writing Across Time in the Twelfth Century: Historical Distance and Difference in the Kaiserchronik. Germanic Literatures, 25. Cambridge: Legenda, 2022. (JEGP 123.1: 108-111)
2023
Classen, Albrecht. Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. Bristol Studies in Medieval Culture. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021. (JEGP 122.1: 131-134)
2022
Bleuler, Anna Kathrin and Oliver Primavesi, eds. Lachmanns Erbe. Editionsmethoden in klassischer Philologie und germanistischer Mediävistik. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 19. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2022. (Mediävistik 35: 351-353)
2022
Drechsler, Stefan. Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland: Literary and Artistic Activities of the
Monastery at Helgafell in the Fourteenth Century. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. (Mediävistik 35: 508-510)
2022
Kroesen, Justin and Stephan Kuhn, eds. The Medieval Church Art Collection. University Museum of Bergen (Norway). Regensburg: Verlag Schnell und Steiner, 2022. (Mediävistik 35: 351-352)
2022
Nievergelt, Andreas, ed. Zeitenwende. Notker der Deutsche (†1022). Sommerausstellung Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen 8. März bis 6. November 2022. Basel: Schwabe Verlag and St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2022. (Mediävistik 35: 438-440)
2022
Walgenbach, Elizabeth. Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland. The Northern World, 92. Leiden: Brill, 2021. (Mediävistik 35: 400-402)
2022
Bildhauer, Bettina. Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature
and Beyond. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. (JEGP 121.3: 394-397)
2022
Goldenbaum, Annika. Heinrich Wittenwilers ›Ring‹ als Krisenexperiment. Erwartung und Störung didaktischer
Kommunikation. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. (JEGP 121.3: 391-394)
2022
Lembke, Astrid. Inschriftlichkeit. Materialität, Präsenz und Poetik des Geschriebenen im höfischen Roman. Berlin: De
Gruyter, 2020. (JEGP 121.2: 291-294)
2022
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 82: 541-573)
2022
Turner, Victoria and Vincent Debiais, eds. Words in the Middle Ages/Les Mots au Moyen Âge. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. (The Medieval Review)
2021
Abram, Christopher. Evergreen Ash. Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2019. (The Medieval Review)
2021
Darilek, Marion. Füchsische Desintegration: Studien zum Reinhart Fuchs im Vergleich zum Roman de Renart.
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020 and Jan Glück, Animal Homoficans: Normativität von Natur und Autorisierung des Politischen in der europäischen Tierepik des Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. (Mediävistik 34: 444-449)
2021
Hammer, Franziska. Räume erzählen – erzählende Räume. Raumdarstellung als Poetik. Mit einer exemplarischen
Analyse des Nibelungenliedes. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. (JEGP 120.2: 284-287)
2021
Ihden, Sarah, Katharina Dreessen, and Robert Langhanke, eds. Studien zur mittelniederdeutschen und
frühneuhochdeutschen Sprache und Literatur. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2021. (Mediävistik 34: 361-363)
2021
Iverson, Tore, John Ragnar Myking, and Stefan Sonderegger, eds. Peasants, Lords, and State: Comparing Peasant Conditions in Scandinavia and the Eastern Alpine Region, 1000‒1750. Leiden: Brill, 2020. (Mediävistik 34: 327-330)
2021
Kellner, Beate. Spiel der Liebe im Minnesang. Paderborn: Fink, 2018 (Monatshefte 133.2: 298-300)
2021
Weiskott, Erik. Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. (Mediävistik 34: 537-539).
2021
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 81: 761-780)
2020
Griebel, Julia. »das their friszt, der mensch iszt«: Zur Diachronie der lexikalischen Mensch-Tier-Grenze im Deutschen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. (Mediävistik 33: 284-287)
2020
Brandenburg, Elena. Karl der Große im Norden: Rezeption französischer Heldenepik in den altostnordischen Handschriften. Tübingen: Narr, 2019. (Mediävistik 33: 517-520)
2020
Preißler, Katharina. Fromme Lieder – Heilige Bilder: Intermediale Perspektiven auf die skandinavische Ballade und die spätmittelalterliche Bildkunst Schwedens und Dänemarks. München: utzverlag, 2019. (Mediävistik 33: 597-600)
2020
Rüther, Hanno. Grundzüge einer Poetologie des Textendes der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. (JEGP 120: 134-136)
2020
Schultz-Baluff, Simone. Wissenswelt Triuwe. Kollokationen – Semantisierung – Konzeptualisierung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. (Mediävistik 32: 344-346)
2020
Mohr, Jan. Minne als Sozialmodell. Konstitutionsformen des Höfischen in Sang und rede (12.–15. Jahrhundert). Heidelberg: Winter, 2019 (Mediävistik 32: 418-421)
2020
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 80: 761-780)
2019
Baragona, Alan and Elizabeth L. Rambo, eds. Words that Tear the Flesh: Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. (Mediävistik 31: 236-237)
2019
Bullitta, Dario. Niðrstigningar saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse “Descent into Hell” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. (Mediävistik 31: 394-396)
2019
Schorn, Brittany Erin. Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. (Mediävistik 31: 387-389)
2019
Sietz, Fabian. Erzählstrategien im Rappolsteiner Parzifal. Zyklizität als Kohährenzprinzip. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. (Mediävistik 31: 480-82)
2019
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 79: 585-601)
2019
Classen, Albrecht. Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. (German Quarterly 92.1: 87-88)
2019
Edwards, Cyril. Hartmann von Aue: Erec. German Romance V. Arthurian Archives 19. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. (Speculum 94.4: 1164-1165)
2018
Veldhuizen, Martine. Sins of the Tongue in the Medieval West. Sinful, Unethical, and Criminal Words in Middle Dutch (1300-1550). Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. (The Medieval Review)
2018
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 78:429-439)
2018
Crawford, Jackson, trans. and ed. The Saga of the Volsungs with the Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2017. (The Medieval Review)
2018
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 77: 323-333)
2017
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 76: 428-440)
2016
Krueger, David M. Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. (H-Skand)
2015
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin et al. Manuscripta Mediaevalia, 2014. (Digital Philology 4.2: 305-308)
2015
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 75: 524-534)
2015
Perkins, Richard. The Verses in Eric the Red’s Saga: Norse Visits to America. London: The Viking Society for Northern Research, 2011. (The Medieval Review)
2015
Meylan, Nicolas. Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. (The Medieval Review)
2014
Harris, Stephen et al., ed. Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literatures in Honor of James E. Cathey. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012. (The Medieval Review)
2014
“Nordic Languages and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 74: 408-417)
2013
Hahn, Reinhard. Geschichte der mittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur Thüringens. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2012. (The
Medieval Review)
2013
“Danish Language and Linguistics.” (Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 73: 405-407.)
Editorial
2024
reviewer, book proposal for Georgetown University Press
2023-now
referee for Die Unterichtspraxis
2021-now
referee for Nordic Journal of Migration Research
2019
Digital Editor for New Norse Studies
2019-now
referee for Digital Philology
2018
referee for Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies
2012-16
advisory board member and Review Editor for H-Skand: Scandinavian History and Culture
2014-15
Section Editor for Open Linguistics
2013-now
editorial board member for the Journal of the Society for Medieval Germanic Studies
2012-now
referee board member for the Digital Humanities Quarterly
2012-now
Nordic Languages and Linguistics reviewer for Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies
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