Dr Sarah Bowden
Sarah Bowden
Powys Roberts Research Fellow, St Hugh's College
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Research
My research interests are in medieval German literature, culture and thought. My doctoral thesis (Cambridge 2011) was on medieval German bridal quest epics and the problems of genre, and my current work is concerned with early Middle High German religious writings and their intellectual context. I have a particular interest in literary works that deal in some way with themes of confession and penance. Other research interests include the history of scholarship of medieval literature, and the relationship between writings in Latin and the vernacular.
Teaching
Medieval and modern German literature; translation into English
Publications
Bridal-Quest Epics in Medieval Germany: A Revisionary Approach (MHRA, forthcoming)'Sehen, Sichtbarkeit und Reliquien im Grauen Rock', in Sehen und Sichtbarkeit in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters, ed. by Ricarda Bauschke, Sebastian Coxon and Martin Jones (Berlin: Akademie, 2011), pp. 240–53
'A False Dawn: the Grippia episode in three versions of Herzog Ernst', Oxford German Studies 41 (2012), 15-31
I have also published reviews in the Modern Language Review, Medium Aevum and Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum