Department of German and Dutch

Department of German and Dutch

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Philipp Jeserich is a visiting scholar funded by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He specializes in Medieval French and Modern Spanish and Latin American literature, with particular research interests in narratology and historical poetics. During his time in Cambridge, Dr Jeserich will be involved in the Department's medieval research group working on the literature of the twelfth century.
He is the author of a monograph on Medieval music theory and poetics from Saint Augustine to the late Fifteenth century in France (Musica naturalis. Tradition und Kontinuität spekulativ-metaphysischer Musiktheorie in der Poetik des französischen Spätmittelalters, Stuttgart 2008), which was awarded the Elise Richter-Preis of the German Association of Romance Studies in 2009: editor of a volume on media theory and the modern subject (EgoLogie. Subjektivität und Medien in der Spätmoderne, Frankfurt a. M. 2005); and has published articles on the Old French Song of Roland, Christine de Pizan and the poetics of the French Renaissance.
His current research projects include a German translation of Marie de France’s Lais, a critical edition of an Early High Alemannic translation of Christine de Pizan’s Livre des faits d’armes et de chevalerie in Ms. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, germ. fol. 1705, and a monograph on cognitive-psychological approaches to fictional narrative, which will include case studies on Julio Cortázar’s short stories.