Winder McConnell
    Professor of German
      Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1973
    Email: wamcconnell@ucdavis.edu
      Office: 415 Sproul Hall
      Office Hours
    Research Interests
     Medieval German Literature
    Current Projects
    
      -  An Annotated Translation of Thomasin von Zirclaere's Der Welsche Gast (with Marion Gibbs, London)(In Press)
 
      - A book on The Otherworld in Medieval German Literature
 
 
    Education
    
      -  B.A. 1967 McGill University, Montreal, Honors in German and History
 
      - M.A. 1969 University of Kansas, Honors in German Literature
 
      - Ph.D. 1973 University of Kansas (Medieval German Literature)
 
 
    Academic Positions
    
      -  1973-74 Ausländische Lehrkraft, Hannoversch Münden, BRD
 
      - 1974-76 Teaching and Research Fellow, Stanford University
 
      - 1976-78 Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
 
      - 1978-82 Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
 
      - 1982-88 Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
 
      - 1988- Professor, University of California, Davis Summer 1990 Acting Director
 
      - Summer Institute of German Language and Culture, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
      - 1990-91 Visiting Professor of German, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
 
      - Director of Medieval Studies Program, 1982-84; 1997-present; Chairman of Department of German and Russian 1984-1990; 1993-1995; 1998-2008
 
 
    Recent Publications
    
      -  Editor (with Rudi Keller), Values and Evaluating.
 
      - "Values and Thought: Calculative and Meditative Thinking."
 
      - With Carlee Arnett "Marriage in Robinson Jeffers's 'At the Birth of an Age': Gudrun/Kriemhild and Attila/Etzel in the Twentieth Century."  (Festschrift Werner Wunderlich, 2004)
 
      - Editor (with Frank Gentry, Ulrich Müller, Werner Wunderlick), The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia. (2002)
 
 
    Honors and Awards
     Ehrenmedaille der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 1997 (Medal of Honor)
    Teaching Fields/Courses Taught
    Various graduate seminars on:
    
      -  Medieval German
 
      - Language and Literature
 
      - Medieval Manuscripts
 
 
    Undergraduate courses (selection):
    
    - Chivalry
 
    - The Medieval Hero
 
    - The Origins of Romantic Love
 
    - The Young Goethe
 
    - Survey of Medieval Literature
 
    - Germany under the Third Reich (National Socialist Aesthetics)
 
    - The Western Film (for Humanities/Film Studies)