Seminarunterlagen PD Dr. Oliver M. Traxel

Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen

PD Dr. Oliver M. Traxel

Room: 362
Phone: 0551 39-7571
e-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours during Term Time: Th 12-13

Classes at the University of Göttingen:

Vorlesungen:

Hauptseminare:

Seminare:

Proseminare:

Grundzüge der englischen Sprachgeschichte (SS 09)

Classes at the University of Münster:

Grundkurse:

Englische Sprachgeschichte (SS 06) (also WS 05/06)
Sprachhistorischer Grundkurs (SS 05) (also SS 04, SS 03, SS 02, WS 01/02)
Sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs (WS 03/04)

Sprachwissenschaftliche Hauptseminare:

The Old English Lexicon and Its Further Development (SS 06)

Sprachwissenschaftliche Proseminare:

Some information about myself:

Originally from the city of Mainz, where I was born in 1970, I passed my Abitur a little less than twenty years later at the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Weinheim. My main subjects were English and Latin, which prepared me for a career in English language studies with specific interest in the past stages. English Linguistics became one of my subsidiary subjects at the University of Heidelberg, with Archaeology and Egyptology being my other choices. My increasing interest in England, in particular the medieval period, led me to join a BA course in Medieval Studies at the University of Manchester in 1993, which I passed successfully three years later. In 1996, I joined Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, where I took a Master's degree in preparation for my doctorate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. My particular interest during that time was in Old English manuscripts of the twelfth century. I was awarded a PhD degree at the Congregation of 24th February 2001. From 2001 to 2007 I was working in the wider field of English Historical Linguistics as a Wissenschaftlicher Assistent to Prof. H. J. Neuhaus at the University of Münster, for example, on the Shakespeare Database project, and on my habilitation treatise on historical lexicology. I was awarded a venia legendi in English Philology and became Privatdozent on 14 July 2008. Since 1st October 2006 I have represented the Lehrstuhl for Mediävistik at University of Göttingen.

Degrees:

2008: Habilitation (University of Münster); Dissertation: Lexical Instability and Replacement in the History of English with Particular Emphasis on the Documentation of Old English Words: Evidence from the Dictionary of Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary.
2001: PhD (University of Cambridge); Dissertation: Language, Writing and Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old English Manuscripts: the Scribal Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1.33.
1997: MPhil (University of Cambridge); Dissertation: The Scribes of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303: Language and Writing in the Twelfth Century.
1996: BA (University of Manchester); Dissertation: The Editing of Old English Poetry.

Publications:

2009 (forthcoming): 'Electronic/Online Resources', in Historical Linguistics of English, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science/Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Berlin, 2009).
2008: 'Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Elements in Computer Role-Playing Games: Use and Interactivity', Studies in Medievalism 16 (2008), 125-42. [revised version of Interactivity of Digital Texts Conference, Münster, 2005]
2007: 'Linking Old English and Middle English: the Peterborough Chronicle as an Introductory Teaching Tool to the History of English', in The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle, ed. A. Bergs and J. Skaffari, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 20 (Frankfurt, 2007), pp. 163-74. [revised version of ICEHL 13, Vienna 2004, Peterborough Chronicle Panel Paper 7]
2005: 'Low German Loanwords in Middle English: a Comparison Between the Electronic OED (Second Edition) and MED', Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 128 (2005), 41-62. [revised version of IMC Leeds 2003, Paper 710-b]
2004: Language Change, Writing and Textual Interference in Post-Conquest Old English Manuscripts: the Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1.33, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie 32 (Frankfurt, 2004). [revised version of PhD dissertation] Reviewed in Cahiers de Civilation Médiévale 52 (2009), 98-9 (S. Morrison); Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007), 134-7 (M. P. Richards); Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2 (2006), 265-7 (J. R. C. Martyn); Das Mittelalter 11 (2006), 206-7 (W. Rudolf).

Reviews:

2008 (forthcoming): C. Pasternack and L. M. C. Weston, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 277 (Tempe, AZ, 2004), Mediaevistik 21 (2008).
2007: R. A. Rouse, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance, Studies in Medieval Romance 3 (Cambridge, 2005), Anglia 125 (2007), 352-4.
2006: E. Treharne and S. Rosser, ed., Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 252 (Tempe, AZ, 2002), Anglia 124 (2006), 498-501.
2004: B. Ebersperger, Die angelsächsischen Handschriften in den Pariser Bibliotheken. Mit einer Edition von Ælfric's Kirchweihhomilie aus der Handschrift Paris, BN, lat. 943, Anglistische Forschungen 261 (Heidelberg, 1999), Anglia 122 (2004), 502-4.
2003: C. E. Karkov, Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript, CSASE 31 (Cambridge, 2001), and A. J. Kabir, Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, CSASE 32 (Cambridge, 2001), Anglia 121 (2003), 305-8.

Papers:

2009: Graphemik und Orthographie in Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games: Verwendung und Erkennbarkeit, Antrittsvorlesung, Münster.
2008: A. Haselow, Derivation of Nouns Denoting Objects and Locations: the Historical Development of Two Marginal Categories in English (speaker), Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM) X, Düsseldorf.
2005: The Presentation and Interactivity of Pseudo-Medieval Settings in Computer Role-Playing Games, Interactivity of Digital Texts Conference, Münster.
2005: The Old English Lexicon: Dictionaries and Size, Studientag zum Englischen Mittelalter (SEM) VII, Bochum (speaker G. Knappe).
2004: Linking Old English and Middle English: the Peterborough Chronicle as an Introductory Teaching Tool to the History of English, ICEHL 13, Vienna, Peterborough Chronicle Panel, Abstract in Old English Newsletter 38:3 (2005), 55-6.
2003: Low German Loanwords in Middle English: the Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Dictionaries, IMC Leeds, Paper 710-b.
2001: A Middle English Addition to Ælfric's Passion of St Andrew, IMC Leeds, Paper 717-b.
2000: Cambridge, University Library Ii. 1. 33: a Case Study, IMC Leeds, Paper 210-c, Abstract in Old English Newsletter 33:3 (2000), A-45.
2000: Later Medieval Glosses in Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33, ICMS Kalamazoo, Paper 034-b, Abstract in Old English Newsletter 33:3 (2000), A-17.

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