EMPLOYMENT

2000- pres.: Professor, University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Coodinator of Undergraduate Studies.
1999- 2000: Visiting Professor, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, England.
1999-pres.: Professor, University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies.
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.
 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

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

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

1990: Will Hasty. Adventure as Social Performance:  A Study of the German Court Epic.
Tübingen: Niemeyer.
 

Editions

2003: A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's ‘Tristan’. Ed. Will Hasty. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House.

1999: A Companion to Wolfram's ‘Parzival’.  Edited by Will Hasty. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House.

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

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

1994: German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty.  Detroit: Gale.
 

Chapters

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

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

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

2002: 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. 215-287.

1999: 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.  223-241.

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

1998: Will Hasty. “From Battlefields to Bedchambers: Conquest in the Nibelungenlied.”
A Companion to the ‘Nibelungenlied.’ Ed. Winder McConnell. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House. 79-93.

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

1995: Will Hasty. “Graf Rudolf.” German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages
800-1170.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 148.  Edited by
James Hardin and Will Hasty (Detroit: Gale): 186-188.

 1995: 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.  Edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty (Detroit: Gale):  ix-xvi.

 1994: Will Hasty. “Hartmann von Aue.” German Writers and Works of the High Middle
Ages 1170-1280.  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 138.  Edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty (Detroit: Gale):  27-43.

 1994: 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.  Edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty (Detroit: Gale):  ix-xiv.

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

 1994: 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.  Edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty (Detroit: Gale):  289-301.
 

Refereed Articles

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

1994: 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: 7-21.

1993: Will Hasty. “Wâfenâ, wie hat mich minne gelâzen:  On Gewalt and its Manifestations in the Medieval German Love Lyric.”  Colloquia Germanica 26:  5-15.

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

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

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

1987: Will Hasty. “Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein:  An Adventure of Paradox.”  Pacific Coast Philology 22:  22-28.
 

Encyclopedia Entries

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

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

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

Reviews

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

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

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

2002: 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: 103-104.

2001: 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: 317-318.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1992: Ralf Simon, Einführung in die strukturalistische Poetik des
mittelalterlichen Romans: Analysen zu deutschen Romanen der matière de
Bretagne (Würzburg: Könighausen, 1990), in Arbitrium: 150/152.
 

Translated chapters

Daniel Rocher. “Between Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried’s Tristan.” Translated 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.
 

Conference presentations

“German Cultural Identity and the ‘Nibelungen’: A fatal Attraction?” a paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Baltimore on November 16, 2002

“Enlightenment and its Discontents in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” a paper presented at the International Arthurian Congress in Bangor, Wales, on July 21, 2002.

“Teaching German Language and Culture Online,” a paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta on November 9, 2001

Organized international Medieval and Early Modern Studies lecture-series titled “Pre-National, National, Inter-National: ‘Internationalization’ from medieval and early modern perspectives” at UF (October 22-23, 2001).

“The Power of Secret Sin in Hartmann von Aue’s Gregorius,” a paper presented at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan on May 3, 2001.

Panelist in discussion “Carnival Today, Cultural Disparities and Similarities”
in the colloquium “Carnevale, Carnival” (organized by Romance Languages and Literatures) on February 28, 2001.

“The German Romances and Wolfram von Eschenbach,” a lecture presented
at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham on May 1, 2000.

Invited to teach Honors Seminar on the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach at the University of St. Andrews on April 21, 2000.

“Eine Einführung in die gegenwärtige deutsche ‘Ausländerliteratur’,” a paper presented at the Florida Foreign Languages Association Conference in West Palm Beach (October 1997), and at the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Conference in Nashville, Tennessee on November 10, 1997.

“Sin or Love? Interpreting Disease in Hartmann von Aue’s Der arme Heinrich.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1997

Chaired session titled “Last Days III: The Apocalypse.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference in Waco, Texas, October 1996.

“Adultery and Adulteration: On Love and Power in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1995.

“Wrestling with the Duchess: Observations on the Jeschute-Episode in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.” The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, November 1995.

“The Germanic Sound Shifts: An Introduction.” A lecture for the UF Linguistics Colloquium, December 1994.

“The Feudal ‘Other’ in the Courtly World of King Arthur:  Knightly gewalt in the Works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach.”  The Munich-Seattle Medievalist Colloquium, October 1993.

“On the Power of Love in the Medieval German Lyric.”  Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Faculty Colloquium, Gainesville, September 1993.

“On the Power of Magic in the World of King Arthur.”  Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Lecture Series at Yale University, May 1992.  (Presented also at the University of Florida, December 1992.)

Organized special session titled “Ideological Approaches to German Court Literature.”  The Modern Language Association conference in Washington D.C., December 1989.

“Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival:  An Adventure of Transgression.”  The International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1988.

“The Order(ing) of Chaos:  Vanitas in the Work of Andreas Gryphius.”  The Kentucky Foreign Language conference in Lexington, Kentucky, May 1988.

“A Kingdom of the Heart in Gottfried von Straßburg’s Tristan:  The Adventure of Love.”  Modern Language Association conference in New York, December 1986.

“Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein:  An Adventure of Paradox.”  Philological Association of the Pacific Coast conference in Riverside, California, November 1986.

“On the Imaginary Family in Goethe’s Werther.”  German Studies Association conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 1986.