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)