About

I am Assistant Professor in German at National Taiwan University with a research interest in female agency, manuscript cookery books, and book history in the long eighteenth century.

I have worked as Lecturer/Assistant Professor in German at University College Dublin from 2022-2024, as Postdoc in German at the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University from 2020-22, and as Lecturer in German Studies at Bangor University from 2019-20. I have held several short-term positions at the University of Liverpool from 2013-2019 and taught as German Language Tutor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2017-18). My thesis, ‘Memory, Education, Circulation, Prestige: Form and Function of the Austrian Manuscript Cookery Book in the Long Eighteenth Century’, focuses on the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century manuscript cookery book as object, its function, and female authorship and ownership. I was awarded my doctorate by the University of Liverpool in 2019.

Education

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

PhD in German Sept. 2012 – Jun. 2019

Part-time, degree awarded 3 June 2019

Dissertation: Memory, Education, Circulation, Prestige: Form and Function of the Austrian Manuscript Cookery Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

Supervisors: Prof Eve Rosenhaft and Dr Godfried Croenen

 

University of Graz, Austria

PhD in German Literature and Language Apr. 2010 – Oct. 2012

Transferred to the University of Liverpool in 2012

Dissertation: „Zum Gebrauche aller Kochlustigen …“ Das ‚Frauenkochbuch‘ Ms. 1963

Supervisors: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Beatrix Müller-Kampel and Univ.-Doz. Dr. tit.Univ.-Prof. Günther Jontes

 

University of Graz, Austria

MA in German Literature and Language Mar. 2008 – Apr. 2010

Thesis: Der Spiegel im Spiegel. Ein Labyrinth. Zur Symbolik von Michael Ende (Mirror in the Mirror. On Michael Ende’s Symbolism)

 

University of Graz, Austria

BA in German Literature and Language Oct. 2004 – Feb. 2008

Thesis: Letale Mutterliebe. Szenen einer Mutter-Kind-Beziehung zwischen Traum und Trauma in Wolframs von Eschenbach ‘Parzivâl‘ (Mother and Child in Wolfram‘s von Eschenbach Parzivâl)

 

HTBLVA Ortweinschule Graz, Austria (Master School of Art and Design)

Degree in Fine Arts Sept. 2004 – Jul. 2006

Comprehensive study of various fine art techniques (e. g., painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour, woodcut, lino-print, photography) by Richard Frankenberger and Hans Szyszkowitz. Final degree awarded with distinction.

 

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Weibliche Selbstermächtigung im Spiegel Caroline Pichlers ‘Über die Bildung des weiblichen Geschlechtes’, Einheit des Faches – Vielfalt der Perspektiven. Ausgewählte Beiträge zum XII. Nordisch-Baltischen Germanistentreffen in Reykjavík vom 8. – 10. Juni 2022, ed. by. Frank Thomas Grub, Ewald Reuter, Oddný G. Sverrisdóttir (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024) (Nordeuropäische Arbeiten zur Literatur, Sprache und Kultur / Northern European Studies in Literature, Language and Culture; 18), pp. 139-148.

    ‘ich meÿne ich mus die füsse ins Maull schieben vor müedigkeit’: Betrachtungen über die Rolle der arbeitenden Frau in den Briefen der Familie Mozart und Caroline Pichlers ‘Über die Bildung des weiblichen Geschlechtes’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 93.3 (2024), pp. 288-300.

    (with Dennis Schäfer, University of Princeton): Introduction: In Her Own Hand. Female Agency around 1800, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 93.3 (2024), pp. 201-209.

    Parallelbeziehungen in handschriftlichen und gedruckten Kochbüchern des 18. Jahrhunderts, in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, 48/2 (2024), pp. 188-202.

    (With Kaian Lam, University of Macau): Alimentary Memory, Oral History and Heritagization of Everyday Peace (in preparation.)

    (with Sarah Peters Kernan): Introduction, Early Modern Manuscript Recipe Books Across Europe: Materiality and Use, ed. by Sarah Peters Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024), pp. 11-35.

    Early Modern Manuscript Recipe Books Across Europe: Materiality and Use, ed. by Sarah Peters Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024)

    The Austrian Manuscript Cookery Book in the Long Eighteenth Century. Studies of Form and Function (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2022)

    A Missing Link for New College Puddings, in The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine (2021) <https://recipes.hypotheses.org/17714&gt;

    The Chameleon in the Kitchen: The Plural Identities of the Manuscript ‘Cookery Book’, in The Materiality of Writing: Manuscript Practices in the Age of Print, ed. by Eve Rosenhaft, Helga Müllneritsch and Annie Mattsson (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2019), pp. 53-102.

    The Materiality of Writing: Manuscript Practices in the Age of Print, ed. by Eve Rosenhaft, Helga Müllneritsch and Annie Mattsson (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2019)

    The “Who” of Manuscript Recipe Books: Tracing Professional Scribes, in: Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 14 (2017), pp. 38-57.

    The Roast Charade: Travelling Recipes and their Alteration in the Long Eighteenth Century, in Traces of Transnational Relations in the Eighteenth Century, ed. by Tim Berndtsson et al. (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 2015), pp. 99-119.

    Wie viel Roastbeef steckt im „Rost Pfiff“? Auf den Spuren eines „englischen“ Rezeptes, in Feldbacher Beiträge zur Heimatkunde der Südoststeiermark, H. 13 (2014), pp. 7-18.

    Der Kürbis als Nahrungsmittel in der Steiermark des 18. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der Stadt Graz. Eine staatliche Vorschrift unter Joseph II. im Spiegel der Grazer Kochbuchdrucke des späten 17. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, in Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, 41 (2011), pp. 291-317.

    Ungehobene Schätze. Handschriftliche Kochbücher aus dem späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, in Epikur – Journal für Gastrosophie, 1/2011 (2011) <http://www.epikur-journal.at/de/ausgabe/detail.asp?id=160&art=Artikel&tit=Ungehobene%2520Schaetze.%2520Handschriftliche%2520Kochbuecher%2520aus%2520dem%2520spaeten%252018.%2520und%2520fruehen%252019.%2520Jahrhundert%2520&gt;

    Die unbekannte Seite Michael Endes. Zur Symbolik in der Geschichtensammlung Der Spiegel im Spiegel. Ein Labyrinth (Wetzlar: Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar, 2011)

    Die Darstellung des Fuchses in der mittelalterlichen Dichtung, in Concilium medii aevi, 13 (2010), pp. 289-306 <https://cma.gbv.de/dr,cma,013,2010,a,11.pdf&gt;

    Letale Mutterliebe. Szenen einer Mutter-Kind-Beziehung zwischen Traum und Trauma in Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzivâl, in Concilium medii aevi, 13 (2010), pp. 19-44 <https://cma.gbv.de/dr,cma,013,2010,a,02.pdf&gt;

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    Gesellschaft für Buchforschung in Österreich

    Historische Esskultur Österreich

    University of Liverpool Alumni

     

     

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