office: 55 McReynolds phone: 573-882-2087 email: kramerji@missouri.edu office hours: M 1-2 p.m.,
W 3:30-4:30 p.m.,
and by appointment
Research and teaching areas:
Old English and early Middle English;
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Latin
literature and culture; homiletics,
hagiography, and popular religion;
Germanic languages and literatures;
history of the English language
Johanna Kramer
Johanna Kramer is interested in all things Anglo-Saxon, but particularly in the influences of patristic writings, Christian theology, and popular religion on Old English religious literature. Her current book project on the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon literature examines how concepts of space, boundaries, and liminality are employed by Anglo-Saxon authors to meet their rhetorical goals and to teach the theology of the Ascension. Johanna Kramer received her doctoral training in Medieval Studies from Cornell University and has also studied at the University of Munich in her native Germany, the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), and Oregon State University. Besides rummaging through dead languages, she enjoys collecting sands and eating German (especially Swabian) foods.
Education
PhD Medieval Studies, Cornell University, January 2006
MA English, Oregon State University, 1998
Selected Publications
Johanna Kramer. "Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Intellectual Landscape: Source Study, the Old English Maxims I (lines 167-68), and Terence's Proverb 'Quot homines, tot sententiae." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, forthcoming 2010.
Johanna Kramer. "The Study of Proverbs in Anglo-Saxon Literature: Recent Scholarship, Resources for Research, and the Future of the Field." Literature Compass 6.1 (2009): 71-96. www.blackwell-compass.com
Johanna Kramer. "'Falsett no feit hes'—A Proverb in William Dunbar's 'In vice most vicius he excellis.'" English Studies 89.3 (June 2008): 263-72.
Johanna Kramer. "Thu eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells." Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall (U of Toronto P, 2007). 90-112. www.utppublishing.com
Courses Taught
English 2006: Real Men of the Middle Ages
English 3116: The World of the Vikings
English 4200/7200: Introduction to Old English (also Linguistics 4200/7200)
English 4210/7210: Medieval Literature: Writing, Authority, and Religion: Women in the Early Middle Ages
English 4610/7610: History of the English Language (also Linguistics 4610/7610)
English 8001: Medieval Hagiography
English 8200: Studies in Old English Literature
Selected Awards
Research Board Grant, University of Missouri, 2008-09
EGSA Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 2008
Summer Research Fellowship, Reseach Council, U of Missouri, Summer 2007
Center for Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, 2006
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, 2004-05
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