Curriculum Vitae – Shami Ghosh
Full
Name: Shami
Ghosh
Date of Birth: 4
June 1979
Nationality: Canadian
Address: Magdalen College
Oxford
OX1 4AU
UK
2009–10: Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of
Historical Studies, University of Leicester.
2000–3: Department of German, King’s College London.
2003: BA First Class Hons,
German (London); Presidential Scholarship, Harvard University (2003–8);
Robert Priebsch Prize, University of London (awarded to the student of the
University of London who has achieved the best performance in the field of
medieval German studies at the BA degree).
2003–4: Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.
2004: University of Toronto Open
Fellowship (2004–9).
2004–9: Centre
for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.
2005: MA, Medieval Studies
(Toronto); Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario (2005–6).
2006: Canada
Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,
Government of Canada (2006–9).
2008: Chancellor Jackman Graduate Student Fellowship in the Humanities,
University of Toronto.
2009: PhD, Medieval Studies (Toronto) (dissertation title: ‘The barbarian
past in early medieval historical narrative’; successfully defended on August 7
2009 [no corrections; available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19189]).
2010: MA
(Oxon.).
Professional awards
2009: Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of
Canada (2009–11).
2010: Fellowship by Examination (Junior Research Fellowship), Magdalen
College, Oxford (2010–13).
German:
near-native proficiency.
Danish, Dutch,
French, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish: reading knowledge.
Hindi: elementary.
(b)
Medieval languages:
Medieval Latin,
Middle High German, Old Norse: excellent reading knowledge.
Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old Dutch, Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon: reading knowledge.
Gothic: elementary.
Undergraduate teaching experience
(a): As a PhD student at the
University of Toronto
2005–6: Postgraduate
tutor for HIS101: Introduction to historical studies (Department of Historical
Studies, University of Toronto at Mississauga), with responsibility for
tutorials and marking assignments and final exam.
(b): As a postdoctoral fellow at the
University of Oxford
(i) Faculty of Medieval and
Modern Languages, Sub-Faculty of German
2011–: Tutorials and translation classes for Final Honour School paper IX:
medieval set texts (Nibelungenlied; Heinrich von Morungen; Osterspiele;
Parzival).
(ii) Faculty of History / Magdalen
College
2011: Tutorials
and class for Final Honour School further subject III: The Carolingian
renaissance.
2011–: Tutorials for Final Honour School general history paper V: 1122–1273;
tutorials on economic history for the Preliminary Examination, paper IV(a):
approaches to history.
Graduate teaching experience
As a PhD student at the University
of Toronto
2007: Postgraduate
tutor for MST1000: Introduction to Medieval Latin (Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Toronto), with responsibility for tutorials, and for setting and
marking assignments.
Examining undertaken
2005–6: Marker for assessed essays and
final exams for HIS101: Introduction to historical studies (Department of
Historical Studies, University of Toronto at Mississauga).
2011–12: Second marker, Final Honour School
general history paper III: 700–900, School of History, University of Oxford.
2007: Member, planning
committee, and session chair, ‘Cultural translations of Alexander II’,
University of Toronto conference on ‘Alexander the Great in medieval and early
modern culture’ (University of Toronto conference, 2007)
2007–8: Member, modern languages
committee, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.
2008–9: Member, Latin committee,
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.
2010–: Member, Governing Body,
Magdalen College, Oxford.
2011–12: Member, working group on graduate recruitment, Sub-Faculty of German,
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.
2010–12: Panel member, career development workshops for MSt and DPhil students,
Division of Humanities, University of Oxford.
Current research
1. ‘When
is Parzival called what, and why?’ [in preparation; expected to be submitted by
January 2013; c. 6,000 words].
2. [With
Martin H. Jones]‘Sin and grace in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival’ [in
preparation; expected to be submitted by March 2013; c. 8,000 words].
3. ‘Rural
economies and transitions to capitalism’ [in preparation; expected to submitted
by April 2013; c. 30,000 words].
4. ‘Did
Harald fairhair exist? Imagining the unification of Norway in thirteenth
century’[in preparation; expected to be submitted by July 2013; c. 7,000
words].
Invited papers
1. ‘Conquest, conversion and the
heathen ‘other’ in Henry of Livonia’s Chronicon Livoniae and the Livländische
Reimchronik’, University of Oxford (1 December 2010).
2. ‘Sin
and grace in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival’, University of British
Columbia, (12 January 2012).
3. ‘Rural economies and transitions
to capitalisms: Germany and England compared’, Medieval Economic History
seminar, Oriel College, University of Oxford (13 June 2012).
Publications
Published:
(a): Monograph:
1. Kings’ sagas and Norwegian
history: problems and perspectives, The northern world, 54 (Leiden: Brill,
2011).
(b) Articles:
1. ‘Forms of kinship: unresolved
tensions in Wolfram’s Willehalm’, Euphorion, 97, 3 (2003),
303–25.
2. ‘On the origins of Germanic
heroic poetry: a case study of the legend of the Burgundians’, Beiträge zur
Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 129, 2 (2007), 220–52.
3. ‘Condwiramurs’, Deutsche
Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 82, 1
(2008), 3–25.
(c) Reviews:
1. ‘Divergent understandings of
medieval landscapes’ [review of Karl-Heinz Spieß (ed.), Landschaften im
Mittelalter], published online by H-German at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=244261219079559
(July 2008).
2. ‘Medieval diplomacy: a family
affair’ [review of Björn K. U. Weiler, Henry III and the Staufen Empire,
1216–1272], published online by H-German at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23097
(January 2009).
3. ‘State formation in medieval
Norway: strong kings and weak things?’ [review of Hans Jacob Orning, Unpredictability
and presence: Norwegian kingship in the high middle ages], published online
by H-German at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24881 (July
2009).
4. ‘The world of the Nibelungs
revisited’[review of Jan-Dirk Müller (trans. William Whobrey), Rules for the
endgame: the world of the ‘Nibelungenlied’], published online by H-German
at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26232 (February 2010).
5. Review of Stephen Mossman, Marquard
von Lindau and the challenges of religious life in late medieval Germany,
published online in The Medieval Review at
http://hdl.handle.net/2022/12901 (January 2011).
6. Review of Johannes Frey, Die
Gegner der Helden in germanischer Heldendichtung ‘Nibelungenlied’ und ‘Edda’,
Modern Language Review, 106, 1 (2011), 274–5.
7. Review of Cyril Edwards, trans.,
The Nibelungenlied, Modern Language Review, 106, 2 (2011), 571–2.
8. Review of Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, Institutions
and European trade: merchant guilds, 1000–1800, published online in Reviews
in History at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1102
(July 2011).
9. Review of D. H. Green, Women
and marriage in German medieval romance, Modern Language Review,
106, 3 (2011), 896–8.
10. Review of Susanne Knaeble, Höfisches
Erzählen von Gott: Funktion und narrative Entfaltung des Religiösen in Wolframs
‘Parzival’, Medium Ævum, 80, 2 (2011), 345–6.
11. Review of Carola Redzich, Apocalypsis
Joannis tot habet sacramenta quot verba: Studien zu Sprache, Überlieferung und
Rezeption hochdeutscher Apokalypseübersetzungen des späten Mittelalters, Medium
Ævum, 80, 2 (2011), 347–9.
12. Review of Marios Costambeys,
Matthew Innes, and Simon Maclean, The Carolingian world, published
online in Reviews in History at
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1122 (September 2011).
13. Review of Karl Gunnar Persson, An
economic history of Europe, Canadian Journal of History, 46,1
(2011), 141–3.
14. Review of Gudrun Clemen, Schmalkalden—Biberach—Ravensburg:
Städtische Entwicklungen vom Spätmittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit,
forthcoming in Sixteenth-Century Journal, 42, 3 (2011), 919–20.
15. Review of Kathleen J. Meyer (ed. and
trans.), Ulrich von Zatzikhoven: Lanzelet, published online in The
Medieval Review at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14141
(January 2012).
16. Review of Dorothea Klein (ed.), Vom
Verstehen deutscher Texte des Mittelalters aus der europäischen Kultur: Hommage
à Elisabeth Schmid, Modern Language Review, 107, 2 (2012), 639–40.
17. Review of Susanne Flecken-Büttner, Wiederholung
und Variation als poetisches Prinzip: Exemplarität, Identität und
Exzeptionalität in Gottfrieds ‘Tristan’, published online in The
Medieval Review at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14365 (April 2012).
18. Review of James Davis, Medieval
market morality: life, law and ethics in the English marketplace, 1200–1500,
published online in Reviews in History at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1246
(May 2012).
19. Review of Lynne Tatlock (ed.), Enduring
loss in early modern Germany: cross disciplinary perspectives, Sixteenth-Century
Journal, 43,1 (2012), 187–8.
20. Review of Tom Scott, The
city-state in Europe, 1000–1600: hinterland, territory, region, published
online in Reviews in History at http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1252
(May 2012).
Forthcoming:
(a) Article:
1. ‘Conquest, conversion and heathen
customs in Henry of Livonia’s Chronicon Livoniae and the Livländische
Reimchronik’, forthcoming in Crusades, 11 (2012).
2. Entries on ‘Historiography,
Norwegian’, ‘Kings’ sagas’, and ‘Jarl’; under contract for the Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia of the Viking World, ed. Judith Jesch and Christina Lee
(forthcoming 2013).
(b) Reviews:
1. Review of Elina Gertsman, The
Dance of Death in the middle ages: image, text, performance, forthcoming in
Medium Ævum, 81 (2012).
2. Review of Hannes Obermair and
Volker Stamm, Zur Ökonomie einer ländlichen Pfarrgemeinde im Spätmittelalter,
forthcoming online in The Medieval Review.
3. Review of Walter Haug and
Manfred Günter Scholz (eds and trans.), Gottfried von Straßburg: Tristan und
Isold, forthcoming in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 48
(2012).