Gerhild Williams

Title:	Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities Associate Vice Chancellor and Special Assisant for Academic Affairs Professor of German
Degree:	PHD, University of Washington MA, University of Washington BA, University of Washington
Dept:	Comparative Literature Germanic Languages & Literatures Women & Gender Studies
Office:	Ridgley Hall 325
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1104 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-5106
E-mail:	gerhildwilliams@wustl.edu

Courses
First-, second-, and third-year German; Business German; German History and Culture 800-Present; The German Fairy Tale; The Renaissance: Crises and New Beginnings; The European Middle Ages; The Reformation; History of the German Language; Literature and Cosmos: 1500-1700; The Construction of the Witch in the Early Modern Period; Witches, Ghosts, and Vampires: the Uncanny in German Literature

Research Interests
Professor Williams’s research interests include the literature of early modern witchcraft and magic; the radical reforming movements; the 17th century polyhistor Johannes Praetorius; early modern science and literature.

Selected Publications:

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany. Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006

(With Alexander Schwarz, Lausanne) Existentielle Vergeblichkeit: Verträge in Melusine, Faust und Eulenspiegel. Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 2003

(Co-Editor) Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, & Astrology in Early Modern Europe (Sixteenth Century Texts and Studies 64. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2002)

Trans. Christiane Bohnert and Hexen und Herrschaft: Die Diskurse der Magie und Hexerei im frühneuzeitlichen Frankreich und Deutschland. München: Fink, 1998.

Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1995.