EMPLOYMENT

2008-present: Professor, University of Florida, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. LLC Coordinator of Graduate Studies for German as of August 2010.

1999- 2008: Professor, University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. GSS Interim Chair 2004-2005 and 2007-2008. GSS Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies 1993-1999 and 2000-2004. Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2004-present. Visiting Professor, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, England, 1999-2000.

1993 - 1999: Associate Professor, University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.  Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies.

1988 - 1993: Assistant Professor, Yale University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.  Director of Undergraduate Studies 1992-1993.

1987 - 1988: Assistant Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University, Department of Foreign Languages.

EDUCATION

 1981 - 1987:      Ph.D in German, University of California, Berkeley.  

 1984 - 1985:      University of Konstanz.  

 1978 - 1979:      M.A. in German, Middlebury College/University of  Mainz.  

 1974 - 1978:      B.A. in German summa cum laude, Missouri State University.  

 
 PUBLICATIONS

Will Hasty.  Art of Arms: Studies of Aggression and Dominance in Medieval German Court Poetry. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 2002.

Will Hasty.  Adventures in Interpretation:  The Works of Hartmann von Aue and their Critical Reception.  Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1996.

Books, Edited

Will Hasty, ed. The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. i-xii, 1-338.

Will Hasty, ed. A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's ‘Tristan’. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2003. i-viii, 1-319.

Will Hasty, ed. A Companion to Wolfram's ‘Parzival’.  Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999. i-xxii, 1-295.

Will Hasty and Christa Merkes-Frei, ed. Werkheft Literatur: Sinasi Dikmen und Zehra Çirak. Atlanta: Goethe Institut, 1996.

Will Hasty and James Hardin, ed. German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages 800-1170.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 148.  Detroit: Gale, 1995.

Will Hasty,  “Theorizing German Romance: The Excursus on Enite's Horse and Saddle in Hartmann von Aue's Erec.”  Seminar 43. 3 (2007): 253-264.

Will Hasty, “Theory meets Praxis: From Derrida to the Beginning German Classroom via the Internet.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 39 1-2 (2006): 14-23.

Will Hasty. “Tristan and Isolde, the Consummate Insiders: Relations of Love and Power in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan.” Monatshefte 90 (1998):  137-147.

Will Hasty. “Daz prîset in, und sleht er mich: Knighthood and Gewalt in the Arthurian Works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach.” Monatshefte 86 (1994): 7-21

Will Hasty. “The Order of Chaos:  On Vanitas in the Work of Andreas Gryphius.” Daphnis 18 (1989):  145-57.

Will Hasty. “On the Construction of an Identity:  The Imaginary Family in Goethe’s Werther.” Monatshefte 81 (1989):  163-74.

Will Hasty. “Beyond the Guilt Thesis:  On the Socially Integrative Function of Transgression in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival.” The German Quarterly 60 (1988):  354-70.

Will Hasty, “Epic and Empire in Germany: On the Nibelungenlied as a Reichsepos.” 'Ain güt geboren edel man.' A Festschrift for Winder McConnell on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday.  Ed. Gary C. Shockey, with Gail E. Finney and Clifford A. Bernd.  Göppingen: Kümmerle, 2011.  350-389.

Will Hasty, “The Allure of Otherworlds: the Arthurian romances in Germany.”  A Companion to Arthurian Literature. Ed. Helen Fulton. Maldon, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 175-188.

Will Hasty. “Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival.”  The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur.  Ed. Norris J. Lacy.  Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008. 48-61.

Will Hasty, “Introduction.”  The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 1-20.

Will Hasty, “Minnesang -- The Medieval German Love Lyrics.”  The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 141-159.

Will Hasty, “Walther von der Vogelweide.”  The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 109-120.

Will Hasty, “Hartmann von Aue as Lyricist.” A Companion to Hartmann von Aue. Ed. Francis G. Gentry. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2005.

Will Hasty. “On Magic and its Significance in the German Arthurian Romances.” ‘Nu lôn ich iu der gâbe.’ Festschrift for Francis G. Gentry. Ed. Ernst Ralf Hintz. Göppingen: Kümmerle, 2003. 119-131.

Will Hasty. “Introduction: The Challenge of Gottfried's Tristan.” A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s 'Tristan.’  Ed. Will Hasty. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003.  1-19.

Will Hasty. “Performances of Love: Tristan and Isolde at Court.” A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s 'Tristan.'  Ed. Will Hasty. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. 159-181.

Will Hasty. “Love and Adventure in Germany: The Romances of Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg.”  A Companion to Middle High German Literature to the 14th Century.  Ed. Francis G. Gentry.  Leiden: Brill, 2002. 215-287.

Will Hasty. “At the Limits of Chivalry in Wolfram’s Parzival: An Arthurian perspective.” A Companion to Wolfram’s ‘Parzival.’  Ed. Will Hasty. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999.  223-241.

Will Hasty. Introduction. A Companion to Wolfram’s ‘Parzival’  Ed. Will Hasty. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999.  ix-xx.

Will Hasty. “Fremde Perspektiven in der deutschen Literatur: Zur neueren deutschen Literatur von Autoren nicht-deutscher Herkunft.” Werkheft Literatur: Sinasi Dikmen und Zehra Çirak. Ed. Will Hasty and Christa Merkes-Frei. Atlanta: Goethe Institut, 1996.  59-64.

Non-refereed Publications

Linda Archibald, Nigel Harris, and Will Hasty. “Medieval German Literature.” The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. Vol. 67 (2007): 514-565.

Linda Archibald, Nigel Harris, and Will Hasty. “Medieval German Literature.” The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. Vol. 66 (2006):  499-543.

Linda Archibald, Nigel Harris, and Will Hasty. “Medieval Literature.” The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. Vol. 65 (2005): 492-533.

G. Ronald Murphy. Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's 'Parzival' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) in H-NET BOOK REVIEW, Published by H-German@h-net.msu.edu (May 2007).

Walter Berschin and Martin Hellmann, Hermann der Lahme: Gelehrter und Dichter (1013-1054) (Heldelberg: Mattes, 2005) in Speculum 82 (2007): 962-64.

Heiko Fiedler-Rauer, Arthurische Verhandlungen. Spielregeln der Gewalt in Pleiers Artusromanen, ‘Garel vom blühenden Tal’ und ‘Tandareis und Flordibel’ (Heidelberg: Winter, 2003) in Arbitrium 3 (2005): 82-83.

Beat Wolf, Vademecum medievale: Glossar zur höfischen Literatur des deutschsprachigen  Mittelalters (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002) in Speculum 79/4 (2004): 1179.

Simon Julian Gilmour, ‘daz sint noch ungelogeniu wort’: The Gurnemanz Episode in ‘Parzival’ (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002) in Seminar 39/3 (2003): 122-23.

Neil Thomas, ‘Diu Crone’ and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002) in Arthuriana 13/3 (2003): 126-127.

Albrecht Classen, Verzweiflung und Hoffnung: die Suche nach der kommunikativen Gemeinschaft in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters  (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002) in The Medieval Review (<http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/>). TMR ID: 03.05.09 (2003)

Nicola McLelland, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven’s ‘Lanzelet’. Narrative Style and Entertainment (Cambridge: Brewer, 2000) in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 592-595.

Harald Haferland, Hohe Minne. Zur Beschreibung der Minnekanzone (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2000) in Monatshefte 94/3 (2002): 388-390.

Hartmann von Aue, Arthurian Romances, Tales, and Lyric Poetry. The Complete Works of Hartmann von Aue. Translated with a commentary by Frank Tobin, Kim Vivian, and Richard H. Lawson (University Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001) in Arthuriana 12/4 (2002): 103-104.

W.H. Jackson and S.A. Ranawake (eds), The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature  (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000) in Colloquia Germanica 34 (2001): 317-318.

Monika Schausten, Erzählwelten der Tristangeschichte im hohen Mittelalter:  Untersuchungen zu den deutschsprachigen Tristanfassungen des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts (München: Fink, 1999) in Speculum 74/4 (2001): 1099-1100.

Wolfgang Harms and C. Stephen Jaeger, eds., Fremdes wahrnehmen, fremdes Wahrnehmen (Stuttgart: Hirzel, 1997) in The German Quarterly 73/1 (2000): 87/88.

Scott Dixon, ed., The German Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) in The German Quarterly 73/2 (2000): 195/196.

Arthur Groos, Romancing the Grail. Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's 'Parzival' (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995) in Colloquia Germanica 32/1 (1999): 76/78.

Haiko Wandhoff, Der epische Blick: Eine mediengeschichtliche Studie zur höfischen Literatur (Berlin: Schmidt, 1996) in The German Quarterly 71/4 (1998): 394/395.

W.H. Jackson, Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany: The Works of Hartmann von Aue (Cambridge: Brewer, 1994) in Medievalia et Humanistica 23 (1996): 140/142.

Sarah Westphal, Textual Poetics of German Manuscripts 1300-1500 (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993) in Daphnis 24 (1995): 541/43.

Moriz von Craûn, ed. trans. Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (Garland: New York, 1990) in Speculum 68 (1993): 273/74

Positionen des Romans im späten Mittelalter, ed. Walter Haug (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1991) in Speculum 68 (1993): 516/518.

Encyclopedia Entries

Will Hasty. “Theoderic ‘the Great’.”  The Nibelungen Tradition. An Enclyclopedia. Ed. Winder McConnell et. al.  New York: Routledge, 2002. 126-27.

Will Hasty. “Ambraser Heldenbuch.”  The Nibelungen Tradition. An Enclyclopedia. Ed. Winder McConnell et. al.  New York: Routledge, 2002. 181-82.

Will Hasty. “Jürgen Lodemann, Siegfried/der Mord (co-authored with Werner Wunderlich).”  The Nibelungen Tradition. An Enclyclopedia. Ed. Winder McConnell et. al.  New York: Routledge, 2002. 252.

Will Hasty. Introduction.  With the Collaboration of James Hardin.  German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages 800-1170.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 148.  Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale, 1995.  ix-xvi.

Will Hasty. “Hartmann von Aue.” German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale1994.  27-43.

Will Hasty. Introduction.  With the Collaboration of James Hardin.  German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale, 1994.  ix-xiv.

Will Hasty. “Der Marner.” German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale, 1994.  72-75.

Will Hasty. “The Medieval Arthurian Tradition in its European Context.”  German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Ed. James Hardin and Will Hasty. Detroit: Gale, 1994.  289-301.
 

Translated Chapters

Rüdiger Krohn, "Gottfried von Strassburg and the Tristan Myth." Translated from German by Will Hasty. The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 55-73.

Rüdiger Brandt, "Konrad von Würzburg." Translated from German by Will Hasty. The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 243-253.

Ruth Weichselbaumer, "Wernher der Gärtner." Translated from German by Will Hasty. The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 3:  The Literature of the High Middle Ages. Edited by Will Hasty. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2006. 255-260.

Daniel Rocher. “Between Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried’s Tristan.” Translated from German by Will Hasty.  A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s 'Tristan.'  Ed. Will Hasty. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. 205-221.

Alois Wolf. “Humanism in the High Middle Ages: The Case of Gottfried’s Tristan.” Translated by Will Hasty.  A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's 'Tristan.'  Ed. Will Hasty. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003.  23-54.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Centers

Co-founder and co-director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida.

Co-founder of the nascent Institute for the Online Study of German Language and Culture at the University of Florida.
 

Editorial boards

Book Review Editor for the online Medieval Review (TMR)

Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Edited by Richard A. Shoaf.

Perspicuitas: Internet-Periodicum für mediävistische Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaft. Edited by Rüdiger Brandt, Jürgen Fröhlich, and Karl Otto Seidel.