Anna A. Grotans, Chairperson
498 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-292-6985
Fax: 614-292-8510
Office Hours:
Autumn quarter 2009: M 1-3, W 1-3, and by appointment.
Personal URL(s):
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/grotans1/
Education:
PhD, University of Minnesota; MA, University of Toronto; University of Bonn, University of Vienna
Anna A. Grotans, Associate Professor of German and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Acting Chair 2004-05).
Associate Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000-2004; Acting Director 1999-2000.
Specializations: Medieval German Studies; Paleography; Historical Linguistics; Medieval Pedagogy; Linguistic Historiography.
Books: Classica et Beneventana (ed. with Frank T. Coulson; Brepols, 2008); Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (ed. with Barbara Hanawalt; Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007); Reading in Medieval St. Gall (Cambridge UP, 2006); Consolatio Philologiae: Festschrift for Evelyn S. Firchow (Kümmerle, 2000); Annotated edition and translation of The Gall Tractate (with David Porter; Camden House, 1995).
Articles on: Notker's De rhetorica in 15th-century Bavaria; Notker and the ordo naturalis; Medieval Punctuation; Old High German accentuation; Text-Editing; New Philology; Medieval Education.
Major courses taught: Medieval German Literature; History of German Language; German Culture to 1700; Middle High German; Old High German; Manuscript Studies; German Language, Past and Present; Court of Charlemagne; Intermediate and Advanced German Language.
Winter 2010 Courses: Ger 806, History of the German Language
Spring 2010 Courses: Ger 420, German Literature 750-1500
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