Curriculum Vitae

• 1968 born in Münster (Germany), Schools in Lüneburg (Johanneum) and Nürnberg (NGN).
• Undergraduate Studies: 1987-1992 in Bamberg, Edinburgh, Berlin; Work Placements in the 'Diözesanmuseum' in Regensburg and in the ‘National Library of Scotland’; Tutor at the FU Berlin (Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kasten); Project Work for the ‘Edition der Reisetagebücher Lavaters’ in Bamberg (Prof. Dr. Horst Weigelt). Scholarships by the Bavarian State (Bayerisches Begabtenstipendium) and by the German Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
• PhD 1992-1995 (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Huber in Bamberg). Scholarship (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). Research Associate (with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Smend, Old Testament) and Associate Member in the Graduate School ‘Kirche und Gesellschaft im 15./16. Jahrhundert’ at Göttingen University; Keeper of the Books at the 'Evangelische Stift'; Part-time teaching at Bamberg University; Prize for the best PhD thesis at Bamberg University.
• 1995-1997 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Angestellte) at the German Department of Tübingen University); Associate Member in the Graduate School ‘Ars & Scientia’.
• 1997-2004 Senior Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin); Organisation of the 10th Triennial Congress of the ICLS (International Courtly Literature Society) on 'Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture'; Coordination of the Tübingen 'Nachwuchsforum'. Director (together with Christoph Huber) of the medieval drama group Komediävisten.
• 2001/02 Feodor-Lynen Scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Gesellschaft, working with Prof. Nigel F. Palmer in Oxford.
• 28 May 2003: Venia legendi for German Studies (Deutsche Philologie) with the book Hystoria Judith.
• 2004/05 Heisenberg Scholarship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to work on the projects The transmission of the 'Expositio in Cantica Canticorum' by Williram of Ebersberg and Medingen Manuscripts.
• Summer 2005 Visiting Professor at the German Department of Zürich University.
• 2006-2014 Chair of German Studies at the School of Modern Languages of Newcastle University.
• Summer 2007 Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Oxford
• 2008 Scholarship by the Kevin Brine Charitable Trust for research on Judith Studies.
• Since 2008 Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
• Co-organiser of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group at Newcastle University.
• Since 2009: Chair of the Women in German Studies Group (WIGS).
• March 2009: Co-organiser of the Conference Lehre in Dichtung und Lehrdichtung at Newcastle University, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• September 2010: Co-organiser of the Conference 'Defining Northern German Mysticism' at Newcastle University, sponsored by a Small Research Grant of the British Academy as part of the project on Northern German Mysticism with Dr Elizabeth Andersen.
• November 2010: Neil Ker Grant for Manuscript Research (British Academy)
• Since 2010: Member of Academia-Net, proposed by the German Research Foundation (DFG)Plus: Read an interview with Henrike Lähnemann by Academia-Net (01/2014
• 2010-2013: External Examiner at Cambridge University
• Since 2012: Advisory Board for the AHRC funded ›Kaiserchronik‹ project at Cambridge
• Since 2012: Selector for the Lektorenprogramm UK of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Since 2013: External Examiner for the Undergraduate Degrees in German Studies and Comparative Literature at University College London
• September 2013: Co-organiser of the XXIII Anglo German Colloquium on ›Lehren, Lernen und Bilden‹ at Nottingham with Nicola McLelland (Nottingham) and Nine Miedema (Saarbrücken)
• Since 2013: Member of the EHRC funded COST Action no. IS1301 New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• August/September 2014: Joseph Cowen, Jr. Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at University of Connecticut
• Since 2015: Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford