Biography

Katrin Rupp works as a chargée de cours (senior lecturer) of medieval English language and literature at the University of Neuchâtel. She received a Master’s degree in modern English literature and a PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Berne. She has taught at the universities of Berne, Lausanne and Geneva. She also teaches English as a foreign language at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Berne.

Her research interests include representations of the body in medieval literature, the afterlives of medieval texts and teaching methods.

Publications

Edited Collections

Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer. Ed. (with Nicole Nyffenegger). Anglia Book Series 60. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.

Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters. Essays on the Medieval Body. Ed. (with Nicole Nyffenegger). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

(with Emma Depledge) “Introduction: Medieval and Early Modern Afterlives.” Medieval and Early Modern Afterlives. Ed. Emma Depledge. SPELL 43. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2023. 11-27.

https://spell.winter-verlag.de/data/article/11851/pdf/162302006.pdf

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Classroom (and on Screen).” SAUTE 75^th Anniversary Website, Spring 2022: https://www.saute.ch/en/saute/75/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-in-the-classroom-and-on-screen

“The Consolation of Literature. Reading Boccaccio’s Decameron during the Covid-19 Pandemic.” New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 2.2 (2021): 76-79. https://doi.org/10.5070/NC32253179

(with Anne-Claire Michoux) “‘If wommen hadde writen stories:’ Gender and Social Change in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” The Challenge of Change. Ed. Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert. SPELL 36. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018. 101-21.

“Engendering a Sense of Englishness: The Use of the Mother Tongue in Osbern Bokenham’s ‘Vita Sanctae Margaretae.’” Fashioning England and the English. Literature, Nation, Gender. Ed. Rahel Orgis and Matthias Heim. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 23-45.

(with Nicole Nyffenegger) “Introduction: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.” Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer. Ed. Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp. Anglia Book Series 60. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 1-15.

“Getting Modern on Alisoun’s Ass: The BBC and Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale.” Neophilologus 98:2 (2014): 343-352.

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE)
• Member of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES)
• Member of The New Chaucer Society