German Department Lyons Hall 201C Boston College  Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: (617) 552-3744 Fax: (617) 552-4454 E-Mail: resler@bc.edu Office Hours:

Education:

• Universität Salzburg
• College of William and Mary (A.B.)
• Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
• Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
• Harvard University (A.M. and Ph.D.)

• On Sabbatical

• GM 050.02 Intermediate German, M W F 10 a.m.
• GM 22001 Goethe & Schiller,M W F 12 a.m.
• GM 299 Reading and Research

Research Interests:
Medieval German literature, philology, Arthurian romance, der Stricker, Hartmann von Aue, language pedagogy

Academic Honors:

• Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, Omicron Chapter of Massachusetts, Boston College (1997)
• Erec by Hartmann von Aue. Translation, Introduction, Commentary:
• Outstanding Academic Book Award (Choice Magazine, 1988-89)
• Certificate of Award (Philadelphia Book Clinic, 1988)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Boston College Summer Research Grant
• Harvard Graduate Society Prize for Best Teaching Fellow in German
• Bernhard Blume Award for Academic Excellence, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University
• DAAD/Fulbright Fellowship
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• Phi Beta Kappa, College of William & Mary

List of Publications:

• Review of Walther von der Vogelweide. Gedichte, 1: Der Spruchdichter, ed. by Hermann Paul, eleventh edition, supervised by Silvia Ranawake, mit einem Melodieanhang von Horst Brunner. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 73 (October, 1998), 1172-1173.

 
• "aventiure," "bûhurt," "hôher muot," "hôh(ge)zît," "kneht," "Nibelungenhalle," "Nibelungenstraße," "nôt," "Walther von der Vogelweide," "Wolfger von Erla," "Worms." To appear in The Nibelungen Encyclopedia. Ed. Francis Gentry, Winder McConnell, Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich. New York and London: Garland, 1998.

 
• Review of The Lament of the Nibelungen (Div Chlage), transl. by Winder McConnell. The German Quarterly, 69, No. 1 (Winter 1996), 80-81.

 
• Der Stricker. Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal. Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, Vol. 92. Second revised edition. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995. Pp. xxvi + 364.
REVIEWS: Kalinke, Marianne E. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 97, No. 2 (April 1998), 295f.; [Lecouteux, Claude]. Etudes germaniques, 21 (1997), 344; Okken, Lambertus. Amsterdamer Beiträge, 46 (1996), 245-247; Wells, David A. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 57 (1995), 683.

 
• "Thomasin von Zerclaere." In German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages: 1170-1280. Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Vol. 138 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Washington, D.C., London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1994. 133-140.

 
• "Der Stricker." In German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages: 1170-1280. Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Vol. 138 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detriot, Washington, D.C., London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1994. 117-132.

 
• Daniel of the Blossoming Valley by der Stricker. Translation with Introduction and Notes. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 58. New York and London: Garland, 1990. Pp. 1xx + 214.
REVIEWS: Classen, Albrecht. German Studies Review, 15, No. 2 (May 1992), 373-375; Johnson, Sidney M. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 91, No. 1 (January 1992), 102-107; Kalinke, Marianne E. Quondam et Futurus, 1, No. 3 (Fall 1991), 89-91; Wells, David A. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 52 (1990), 619.

 
• "The Endings of the Definite Article as Primary Determinants in the Adjectival Phrase." Die Unterrichtspraxis, 22 (Spring 1989), 46-51.

 
• "Middle High German. Der Stricker: Daniel of the Blossoming Valley." Chapter VII of The Romance of Arthur. Vol. III. Ed. James J. Wilhelm. New York and London: Garland, 1988. 185-258.

 
• "Anmerkungen zum Textverständnis des Erec von Hartmann von Aue." Studia Neophilologica. A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, 60, No. 1 (1988), 77-95.

 
• Review of Hartmann von Aue: Erec, ed. by Albert Leitzmann, sixth edition, supervised by Christoph Cormeau and Kurt Gärtner. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 62 (July, 1987), 683-685.

 
• Erec by Hartmann von Aue. Translation, Introduction, Commentary. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Pp. x + 231.
REVIEWS: Buschinger, Danielle. Cathiers de Civilisation Medievale, 35, No. 4 (1992), 399-401; Classen, Albrecht. German Studies Review, 11, No. 1 (1988), 141; Gentry, F.G. Choice, 25, No. 7 (March 1988), n. p. [also: Choice, 25, No. 9 (May 1988), 1408]; Johnson, Sidney M. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 88, No. 4 (October 1989), 575-578; Keller, Thomas L. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 22 (Fall 1989), 209; König, Fritz H. Translation Review, 46 (1994), xx-xx; McConeghy, Patrick M. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 64, No. 4 (October 1989), 964-966; Meyer, Kathleen J. Monatshefte, 82, No. 2 (Summer 1989), 251f.; Wells, David A. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 49 (1987), 635.

 
• Review of 'Arabel'-Studien III. Arabel und Willehalm auf west-östlichem Divan, by Werner Schröder. Colloquia Germanica. Internationale Zeitschrift für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 19, No. 1 (1986), 73-74.

 
• Review of 'Arabel'-Studien II. Von der Ankunft willehalms in Todjerne bis zu Tybalts Abschied von Arabel, by Werner Schröder. Colloquia Germanica. Internationale Zeitschrift für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 18, No. 1 (1985), 82-83.

 
• "Zur Datierung von Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal," Euphorion, 78, No. 1 (1984), 17-30.

 
• Der Stricker. Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal. Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, Vol. 92. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1983. Pp. xx + 364.
REVIEWS: Blosen, Hans. Germanistik, 27 (1986), 855; Hart, Thomas Elwood. Colloquia Germanica. Internationale Zeitschrift für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 17 (1984), 124-128; Krohn, R[üdiger]. Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger, 22/23 (Dec. 1, 1984), n.p.; Lecouteux, Claude. Etudes germaniques, 39 (1984), 67; Quak, Arend. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 21 (1984), 197f.; Rocher, Daniel. Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 30 (1987), 87-89; Schlosser, Horst D. Arbitrium: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft, 4 (1986), 33-36; Spiewok, Wolfgang. Deutsche Literaturzeitung für Kritik der internationalen Wissenschaften, 105 (November 1984), 863-65; Ukena-Best, Elke. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 110 (1988), 132-37; Wailes, Stephen L. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 83 (1984), 406f; Werlin, Josef. Leuvense Bijdragen, 73 (1984), 379f.

 
• Review of Konrad von Würzburg: Engelhard, third edition, ed. by Ingo Reiffenstein. Colloquia Germanica. Internationale Zeitschrift für germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 16, No. 2/3 (1983), 231-32.

 
• Review of Wege und Formen der Passionalüberlieferung, by Hans-Georg Richert. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 54 (October, 1979), 850-854.

 
• "A Structural Approach to Aichinger's 'Spiegelgeschichte.'" Die Unterrichtspraxis, 12 (Spring 1979), 30-37.

 
• Review of "Wigalois" und "Diu Crone": Zwei Kapitel zur Gattungsgeschichte des nachklassischen Aventiureromans, by Christoph Cormeau. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 53 (October, 1978), 793-795.

 
• Review of Strickers Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal: Werkstruktur und Interpretation unter Berücksichtigung der handschriftlichen Überlieferung, by Ingeborg Henderson. Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, 53 (July, 1978), 581-583.