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GERHILD WILLIAMS

Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanties in Arts and Sciences; Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Phone 314.935.5133, Fax 314.935.7255

gerhildwilliams@wustl.edu • Website

Gerhild Scholz Williams is the Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanties in Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Ph.D in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.

Her publications include Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006; On the Inconstancy of Witches: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et Demons (1612). Harriet Stone and Gerhild Williams, trans. Tempe: Arizona Center for Texts and Studies, 2006; (with Alexander Schwarz, Lausanne) Existentielle Vergeblichkeit: Verträge in Melusine, Faust und Eulenspiegel. Berlin: Schmidt Verlag, 2003; Defining Dominion: The Discourses of Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern France and Germany. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, l995; and Trans. Christiane Bohnert; Hexen und Herrschaft: Die Diskurse der Magie und Hexerei im frühneuzeitlichen Frankreich und Deutschland. München: Fink, 1998. She has co-edited a number of volumes; the most recent is Paracelsian Moments: Science, Medicine, & Astrology in Early Modern Europe (Sixteenth Century Texts and Studies 64. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2002). She has published many articles in books and journals on early modern German and French literature and culture.

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 print media. Her research has been supported by grants from the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and a Fulbright Senior Scholars Grant, among others.

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