Professor
Chair of German Department
Universität Salzburg
College of William and Mary A.B.
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Harvard University A.M. and Ph.D.
Phone: 617-552-3744
Fax: 617-552-4454
resler@bc.edu
Personal Home Page
Office Hours
Lyons Hall 201C
MWF 11:00-12:00
Courses Taught Fall 2008
- GM 05002 Intermediate German I, MWF 10
Intermediate German I Syllabus - GM 222 Musik und Wort, MWF 12
Goethe & Schiller Syllabus
Courses Taught Spring 2009
Teaching Interests
- German language
- Age of Goethe
- Middle High German
- Arthurian romance
- Medieval German literature
- German music
Research Interests
- Medieval German literature
- Germanic 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, 1988-1989
Certificate of Award; Philadelphia Book Clinic, 1988 - National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- Outstanding Academic Book Award; Choice Magazine, 1988-1989
- 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