Dr Mark Chinca
On leave in Michaelmas 2012
College:
Trinity College
Positions:
University Senior Lecturer
Department of German and Dutch
Postal Address:
Trinity College
Trinity Street
CAMBRIDGE CB2 1TQ
Email:
mgc1000@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 338542
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Mark Chinca works on medieval literature, with with particular research interests in aesthetics and poetics (especially the theory of fiction) and in the literature of death and dying. He also teaches some early modern topics as well as the history of the German language. He is the author of two books:
History, fiction, verisimilitude (London 1993) and
Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan (Cambridge 1997), and he has co-edited three further volumes:
Blütezeit (Tübingen 2000),
Orality and literacy in the
middle ages (Turnhout, 2004); and
Mittelalterliche Novellistik (Berlin 2006). Currently he is finishing the manuscript of a book (provisionally entitled
Remember thy last end: texts and the meditation of death in western Europe, from the 'Somme le Roi' to Martin Luther), producing a major edition of the A, B, and C recensions of the
Kaiserchronik with Christopher Young and Jürgen Wolf (Marburg), and is engaged in several other projects relating to German literature of the period 1050-1170.
Link to further selected publications
