Dr. Simone Kügeler Race

Biography

Simone Kügeler-Race specializes in medieval German literature and language. She completed her doctorate at the University of Cologne, supervised by Professor Ursula Peters. For her doctoral research, she was awarded a full-time stipend from the a.r.t.e.s Graduate School Humanities in Cologne and a DAAD research scholarship to analyze Carthusian manuscripts at the British Library, Bodleian Library, and Cambridge University Library. From 2011 to 2012, she held a stipend at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Between 2012 and 2018, she worked as a DAAD-Lektorin at St John's College, where she served as the Director of Studies in German from 2015 to 2018. Her monograph, "Frauenmystik im europäischen Kontext," published in 2020 by Böhlau Verlag, is an interdisciplinary study that explores manuscript transmission, text typology, and narrative modes to contextualize the Middle English Book of Margery Kempe and the text traditions of continental women mystics. Currently, she is working on Carthusian reader annotations of the Book of Margery Kempe and Julian Norwich's short text, focusing on their contemporary reception and devotional use within a Carthusian setting. Additionally, she is preparing a research article for the forthcoming DFG-Symposion on lyrical migrations and their forms around 1300 and 1800.

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