Germanist Doreen Brandt appointed

Dr Doreen Brandt has been appointed Junior Professor of Low German Literature in Historical and Cultural Studies Perspectives at the Institute of German Studies.

She was previously a research assistant at the Universities of Rostock and Göttingen. Brandt studied history and German studies at the University of Rostock. She completed her Master's degree there in 2009 and then became a lecturer and research assistant and earned her doctorate in German medieval studies in 2017. In her dissertation, Brandt examined how event-related poetry and songs were handed down through the generations in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. In a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Rostock, Brandt worked on the analysis and digital edition of 16th century collections of sayings in Low German. She also designed a Centre for the Regional History and Culture of Mecklenburg, and worked at the University of Göttingen's Seminar for German Philology. Brandt's research interests include Middle Low German literature, 13th century Minnesang and literary historiography.