Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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Christopher Young has primary teaching and research interests in medieval German literature and language and the history of European (and in particular German) sport. In medieval studies: he is the author of Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs Willehalm (Tübingen 2000) and A History of the German Language through Texts (Routledge 2004), and has edited Ulrich von Liechtenstein's Frauenbuch (Reclam 2003) as well as a range of collections, including the major handbook Ulrich von Liechtenstein: Leben, Zeit, Werk, Forschung (de Gruyter 2010), with Sandra Linden. In the field of sports history: he has edited many volumes and journal special issues, including American Behavioural Scientist, German History, and European Review. His The 1972 Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press 2010), with Kay Schiller, appeared in German translation with Wallstein Verlag (2012) and was awarded the North American Society of Sports History Book Award and the UK’s Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History.

 

He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Cologne) and a Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien der FU Berlin (2010-12). He is co-founder and editor of de Gruyter's new series Companions to Modern German Culture, of the University of California Press’s series Sport in World History, and is a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum. His current research projects are: a media history of German sport (for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2012-14) and a major new edition of the A, B, and C recensions of the twelfth-century Kaiserchronik (in collaboration with Jürgen Wolf, Marburg, and for which he and Mark Chinca secured c. £950K funding from the AHRC, 2012-2017).