Biography

Nadine Weiss holds degrees from the University of Richmond, Yale, and the University of Cambridge. Since completing her doctorate, she has held positions as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Geneva and is currently a lecturer at the Universities of Fribourg and Neuchâtel. Her scholarship and teaching are concerned principally with British literature of the early modern period. Within that period, her primary academic concern has been with: (1) religious poetry and poetics, especially the lyric; (2) literary form (specifically the sonnet and visually experimental forms of poetry such as shaped verse); (3) Renaissance genre theory and practice more broadly.

Publications

‘Eine fest eingesetzte Glasscheibe’: Kafka’s Windows in Der Prozeß.’ Oxford German Studies, 54.2, 2025, pp. 416-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2024.2422887.

‘Recreating the Eye of the Beholder: Technopaegnia, Encrypted Reading, and a New Version of “Easter-wings”.’ Studies in Philology, vol. 121 no. 3, 2024, pp. 386-431. Project MUSE. Supplementary data includes an Excel spreadsheet detailing authorial and scribal corrections in the Williams manuscript of George Herbert’s poems.

‘Milton’s Arithmetic of Salvation in His Talent Sonnets 7 and 19.’ Milton Quarterly, vol. 54 no. 2, 2020, pp. 83-100. Wiley Online, https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12331.