Publications

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Publication

series

  • Böhm, Felix / Martin Böhnert / Julia Drube / Maria Hornisch / Silvie Lang / Annika Rink / Murat Sezi / Jan Sinning / Vanessa-Nadine Sternath (eds.): Climates - Cultures - Contexts. Bielefeld: transcript 2025-.

Anthology

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine / Silvie Lang / Christine Riess (eds.): Menschen-Pflanzen-Netzwerke. Vegetable agency in the climate crisis (Climates - Cultures - Contexts 2). Bielefeld: transcript 2025, 270 pages [in review process].

Essays

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine / Michael Mecklenburg (2025): Sexual self-empowerment and sexualized violence in the Nonnenturnier and the Rosendorn. In: Hess, Hendrik / Christian Kaiser / Birgit Zacke (eds.): Sexualitäten im Mittelalter (Das Mittelalter 2025/2), 16 pages [in preparation].

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine (2025): Tief an des boumes rinden: An ecofeminist analysis of love references in Konrad von Würzburg's Trojan War and Andreas Hase's Bäume. Deeply rooted. In: Choné, Aurélie / Aurélie Le Née (eds.): Misshandlungen von Tieren und Pflanzen (special issue Recherches germaniques), 10 pages [accepted for publication].

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine (2025): On yield maximization and conservation of wine in Bohemia and Franconia: An ecocritical analysis of Gottfried of Franconia' s fur book . In: Fejtová, Olga / Markéta Růčková (eds.): Wein als Kulturphänomen in den Städten vom Mittelalter bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (Documenta Pragensia 41), 25 pages [accepted for publication].

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine / Silvie Lang / Christine Riess (2025): Introduction. Human-Plant Networks and Vegetable Agency in the Climate Crisis. In: this. (ed.): Human-plant networks. Vegetable agency in the climate crisis (Climates - Cultures - Contexts 2). Bielefeld: transcript, 16 pages [accepted for publication].

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine / Silvie Lang / Christine Riess (2025): From root to fruit. Vegetable agency in vernacular tree-snake networks in Lutwin and Franz Xaver Schönwerth. In: this. (ed.): Menschen-Pflanzen-Netzwerke. Vegetable agency in the climate crisis (Climates - Cultures - Contexts 2). Bielefeld: transcript, 18 pages [accepted for publication].

  • Lang, Silvie / Vanessa-Nadine Sternath (2025): Argumentation Strategies in Catastrophe Myths: Responsibility and Sense of Responsibility in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in Georg Wickram's Metamorphoses Adaptation. In: Böhnert, Martin / Maria Hornisch / Annika Rink (eds.): Apocalypse and Apathy. Bielefeld: transcript, 21 pages [accepted for publication].

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine (2024): Ecofeminism in the pre-modern era. In: Böhm, Felix / Martin Böhnert / Paul Reszke (eds.): Climate Thinking - A Living Handbook. Kassel: University of Kassel. URL=https://wiki.climate-thinking.de/index.php?title=Ökofeminismusin the pre-modern era.

  • Sternath, Vanessa-Nadine (2022):sie hazeten sie vil sêre: An intersectional analysis of the Dido episode in Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneasroman. In: Szmorhun, Arletta / Paweł Zimniak (eds.): People as objects of hate. Interdisciplinary Negotiations of a Destructive Phenomenon, Part 1. Göttingen: Brill / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, pp. 125-142. doi:10.14220/9783737014830.125.

Lectures

  • "How the Lindenblatt case caused unrest. Eine vegetabile Relektüre des Nibelungenlieds" at the XV IVG-Congress on the topic "Language and Literature in Times of Crisis" on the panel "Unruhe stiften: Ökologische Krisennarrative und experimentelle Poetiken des Anthropozäns" (Graz, July 20-27, 2025).

  • "Der chuettenwazzer wein iſt guot zuo dem roten ueberfluz der frawen: Intermediale Wissensentwürfe in spätmittelalterlichen Mensch-Baum-Relationen" at the XV IVG Congress on the framework theme "Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten" on the panel "Bäume in der Krise: Interdisziplinäre und intermediale Perspektiven" (Graz, July 20-27, 2025).

  • "Intersectionality" based on the Jocundille episode in Konrad von Würzburg's Trojan War; with Prof. Dr. Michael Mecklenburg in the introductory lecture "Interdisziplinäre Einführung in Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung" in the winter semester 2024/25 of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (University of Kassel, January 29, 2025).

  • "Zur Bedeutung von Literatur im DaF-Unterricht am Beispiel von Felicitas Hoppes Iwein Löwenritter", at the request of Prof. Lucia Mor (online lecture for future German teachers in Italy, University of Brescia, September 12, 2024).

  • Impulse lecture on the topic "Forest" as part of the Climate Thinking discussion round"WALD. fremde idylle. vertraute veränderung. verfügbare bedrohung", organized by Martin Böhnert and Annika Rink (Ottoneum Kassel, 29 May 2024).

  • "Intersectionality" based on the Jocundille episode in Konrad von Würzburg's Trojan War; with Prof. Dr. Michael Mecklenburg in the introductory lecture "Interdisziplinäre Einführung in Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung" in the winter semester 2023/24 of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (University of Kassel, January 10, 2024).

  • "Phantasmagorias of perpetrator-victim reversal. Sexualized violence in Middle High German fairy tale poetry" with Prof. Dr. Michael Mecklenburg in the interdisciplinary lecture series "Gewalt und Körper: Dimensionen sexualisierten Gewalt" (University of Kassel, 9 May 2023).
  • "Konrad von Megenberg's Das Buch der Natur and Franz Xaver Schönwerth's Sitten und Sagen aus der Oberpfalz als Dämonenkataloge" with Silvie Lang at the interdisciplinary conference "Demonology revisited. Demonology in Interdisciplinary Perspective" of the Working Group Interdisciplinary Witchcraft Research (AKIH) (Stuttgart-Hohenheim, February 25, 2023).
  • "Intersectionality" based on the Jocundille episode in Konrad von Würzburg's Trojan War; with Prof. Dr. Michael Mecklenburg in the introductory lecture "Interdisziplinäre Einführung in Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung" in the winter semester 2022/23 of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (University of Kassel, December 14, 2022).

  • "I was you, you who me. Die (Un-)Gleichheit von Achill und Patroklos in der mittelhochdeutschen Trojadichtung" as part of the humanities and cultural studies doctoral program GeKKo (University of Kassel, November 18, 2022).

  • "Sin 'disabled'?! On the Construction of Disability and Gender in Konrad von Megenberg" at the interdisciplinary 16th workshop of the research focus Women's and Gender History of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna on the topic "DisAbility and Gender History. Intersectional Perspectives on Disability and Gender" (University of Vienna, November 4, 2022).
  • "Ulixes between understanding advisor, clever messenger and 'cunning' hero. On the divergent conception of figures in Herbort von Fritzlar's Liet von Troye and Konrad von Würzburg's Trojan War" at the 27th Germanist Conference on the framework topic "Ambiguities" at the panel "Gesteigerte Mehrdeutigkeit in der deutschsprachigen Troja-Literatur des Mittelalters" (University of Paderborn, September 22-28, 2022).

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