Dr Cordula Boecking

    German Studies, School of Modern Languages

    Lecturer / Assistant Professor

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    Biography

    Cordula Böcking studied German and English literature and language at the University of Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin before undertaking doctoral studies on the early modern author Jörg Wickram at Trinity College Dublin. Following the award of a PhD in German literature, she worked as an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity, where she investigated medieval appropriations of the Amazon myth. Prior to joining the Department of German at Maynooth, Cordula has held lectureships at the University of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge.

    Research Interests

    Cordula’s research interests lie originally in the area of medieval and early modern studies and their intersection with cultural studies, with a particular concern for questions of gender and alterity and how they may be related. More recent research focuses on constructions of Orient and Occident in contemporary Turkish-German text and film, examining the link between transgressive femininity/masculinity and cultural otherness. Other key areas of interest include intercultural transmission of ideas and myth reception, and it is in this context that she is currently investigating the reception of Jeanne d’Arc and this figure’s significance for the formation of European identities through literature and film in the post-medieval world.

    Book

    Year Publication
    2007 Politis, Cordula (2007) The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jörg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern Narrative in German Literature. Lewiston: Mellen.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2021 Böcking, Cordula (2021) '‘ Europe was built on blood. Christian Petzold as a European Filmmaker'' In: Routledge Companion to European Cinema. Abingdon : Routledge. [Link]
    2017 Böcking, Cordula (2017) '' Eine Jungfrau war auserkoren’: Geschlecht und Nation in Gustav Ucickys Das Mädchen Johanna (1935)'' In: Alte Helden – Neue Zeiten. Die Formierung europäischer Identitäten im Spiegel der Rezeption des Mittelalters. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann.
    2015 Böcking, Cordula (2015) '' mit geflorierten worten? Hugo von Montforts Minnelyrik zwischen Epigonalität und Experiment'' In: Stil. Mittelalterliche Literatur zwischen Tradition und Innovation (XXII. Anglo-German Colloquium). Berlin : De Gruyter.
    2013 Böcking, Cordula (2013) ''»daz wær ouch noch guot wîbes sit, / daz si iht harte wider strit«. Streitbare Frauen in Wirnts Wigalois '' In: Aktuelle Tendenzen der Artusforschung. Berlin : De Gruyter.
    2011 Böcking-Politis, Cordula (2011) ''An Anglo-Norman Fool in Constantinople: Der Pfaffe Amis '' In: Alexander Schwarz and Lucy Perry(Eds.). Behaving like Fools: Voices, Gestures and Laughter in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout : Brepols.
    2010 Böcking-Politis, Cordula (2010) '' ain iunkfrow rait der kúnsten perkh. Der Minnesklaventopos bei Hugo von Montfort'' In: Klaus Amann(Eds.). Aller weishait anevang ist ze brúfen an dem aussgang. Zum 650. Geburtstag Hugos von Montfort. Ostfildern : Thorbecke.
    2008 Politis, Cordula (2008) '' nach der mannesnamen site? Amazons and their Challenge to Normative Masculinity in Herbort von Fritzlar’s liet von Troye '' In: Sarah Colvin and Peter Davies(Eds.). Masculinities and German Culture. Edinburgh German Yearbook 2. New York : Camden House.
    2007 Politis, Cordula (2007) ''Wisdom vs. Riches: The Discourse on Money in Fortunatus '' In: Fiona Cox and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa(Eds.). Money and Culture. New York : Peter Lang.
    2007 Politis, Cordula (2007) ''The Encounter between Christendom and Islam in Wolfram’s Willehalm '' In: Aileen Pearson-Evans and Angela Leahy(Eds.). Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity. New York : Peter Lang.

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2010 Böcking-Politis, Cordula and Smith-Prei, Carrie (Ed.). (2010) Sexual-Textual Border-Crossings: Lesbian Identity in German-Language Literature, Film, and Culture. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre,
    2008 Politis, Cordula and Creighton, Nicola (Ed.). (2008) Weg und Bewegung. Medieval and Modern Encounters. Festschrift in Honour of Gilbert J. Carr and Timothy R. Jackson. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre,

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2023 Böcking, C. (2023) 'PRIVATE RELIGION AS RESISTANCE IN ANNA SEGHERS’ DER PROZESS DER JEANNE D'ARC ZU ROUEN 1431 (1937) AND BERTOLT BRECHT'S 1952 STAGE ADAPTATION'. German Life and Letters, . [Link] [DOI]
    2022 Cordula Böcking (2022) 'A Europe Beyond Borders? Shifting Borders in Petzold and Seghers’ 'Transit''. Interfaces, 45 .
    2021 Böcking, Cordula (2021) ''Schiller Goes Transnational: Julie Paucker and Robert Schuster’s Malalai – Die afghanische Jungfrau von Orléans (2017)''. German Life and Letters, 74 (4):551-570. http://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12317
    2014 Böcking, Cordula (2014) ''Beyond Binary Identity Politics? Ethnic, Cultural and Gendered Othering in Feo Aladag's Die Fremde ''. Studies in European Cinema, 11.3 :212-222. [Full-Text]
    2010 Böcking-Politis, Cordula (2010) ''mannes manheit, wîbes prîs: Challenging Heteronormativity in Rudolf von Ems' Alexander ''. GERMANISTIK IN IRELAND, 5 :13-29.
    2009 Politis, Cordula (2009) ''Das ‚lanndt der frawen’ im Priester Johannes des Ambraser Heldenbuches: Zur Verwendung des Amazonen-Motivs und seiner Bedeutung für das mythologische Selbstverständnis Maximilians I.''. JAHRBUCH DER OSWALD VON WOLKENSTEIN-GESELLSCHAFT, 17 :47-59.
    2008 Politis, Cordula (2008) ''The Taming of the Amazon: Pentesilie in Ulrich von Türheim's Rennewart ''. Medium Aevum, LXXVII :77-95. [Full-Text]
    2007 Politis, Cordula (2007) ''Deutsche Prinzessinnen in Skandinavien und skandinavische Prinzessinnen in Deutschland: Kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte dynastischer Verbindungen im Mittelalter''. JAHRBUCH DER OSWALD VON WOLKENSTEIN-GESELLSCHAFT, 16 :59-74.
    2004 Politis, Cordula (2004) ''The Narratives of Jörg Wickram: An Example of the German Reception of Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortune ''. Fifteenth-Century Studies, 29 :160-173. [Full-Text]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2021 Cordula Böcking (2021) (Trans)national Identities in Paucker/Schuster’s Afghan Joan of Arc after Friedrich Schiller (2017) Identities in Flux. Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Migrant Communities across Europe University College Dublin, 13/05/2021-15/05/2021.
    2020 Cordula Böcking (2020) Life in Transit: Transnationalisms in Anna Seghers and Christian Petzold 51st Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Boston University, 05/03/2020-08/03/2020.
    2019 Cordula Böcking (2019) An Afghan Maid of Orleans? Jeanne d’Arc goes Transnational Configuring ‘World Theatre’: Gaining Global Perspectives on Transnational and Intercultural Drama and Performance University of Edinburgh, 20/06/2019-21/06/2019.
    2019 Cordula Böcking (2019) ‘I can’t build walls/Define limits, cut territories’: Julie Paucker’s Afghan Joan of Arc after Friedrich Schiller (2017) Adaptation and Modernisms: Establishing and Dismantling Borders in Adaptation Practice and Theory, Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2019 , Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 19/09/2019-20/09/2019.
    2019 Cordula Böcking (2019) Nibelungenlied for a New Generation? Clashes of Culture in Feridun Zaimoglu and Günter Senkel’s Siegfrieds Erben (2018) International Medieval Congress 2019 University of Leeds, 01/07/2019-04/07/2019.
    2018 Cordula Böcking (2018) Diasporic Spaces in Recent Turkish-German and Turkish-Austrian Migrant Film Space, Place and Adaptation, Literature/Film Association Annual Conference New Orleans, USA, 29/11/2018-01/12/2018.
    2017 Cordula Böcking (2017) Absent Parents, Absent Children: Displacement and the (Im)Possibility of Closure in Weißensee Family Sagas in World Literatures and Audio-Visual Cultures: Reimagining Nations Across the Globe University of Leeds, 28/06/2017-29/06/2017.
    2016 Cordula Böcking (2016) ‘was ich durch kürtze willen underlaß zů schreiben’ – Ökonomisches Erzählen bei Jörg Wickram 25. Deutscher Germanistentag University of Bayreuth, Germany, 25/09/2016-28/09/2016.
    2015 Cordula Böcking (2015) 'Es geschah vor 500 Jahren in Orleans’: Adapting the Middle Ages in Gustav Ucicky’s Das Mädchen Johanna (1935) 78th Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland University of Limerick, 02/09/2015-04/09/2015.
    2015 Cordula Böcking (2015) Migrant Mothers in Recent Turkish-German and Turkish-Austrian Film: Charting Intergenerational Difference in Feo Aladag’s Die Fremde and Umut Dag’s Kuma Motherhood & Culture Maynooth University, 15/06/2015-17/06/2015.
    2015 Cordula Böcking (2015) ‘Eine Jungfrau war auserkoren’: Geschlecht und Nation in Gustav Ucickys Das Mädchen Johanna (1935) Alte Helden – Neue Zeiten University of Bamberg, Germany, 09/04/2015-11/04/2015.
    2014 Cordula Böcking (2014) Intergenerational Memory in English and German Young Adult Literature The First World War in European Children’s Literature Trinity College Dublin, 27/06/2014-27/06/2014.
    2013 Cordula Böcking (2013) Beyond Binary Identity Politics? Ethnic, Cultural and Gendered Othering in Feo Aladag’s Die Fremde European Cinema Research Forum Annual Conference University of Edinburgh, 01/07/2013-02/07/2013.
    2011 Cordula Böcking (2011) Keeping it in the Family? Examining Stereotypes of Turkish-German Experience in Feo Aladag’s Die Fremde Migration and Diaspora. Royal Irish Academy Modern Languages Symposium Dublin Institute of Technology, 02/12/2011-03/12/2011.
    2011 Cordula Böcking (2011) 'mit geflorierten worten'? Hugo von Montforts Minnelyrik zwischen Epigonalität und Experiment Stil. Mittelalterliche Literatur zwischen Konvention und Innovation. XXII. Anglo-German Colloquium University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 07/09/2011-11/09/2011.
    2011 Cordula Böcking (2011) Das Waldweib Ruel und die Amazone Marine: ‘Unhöfische‘ Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit im Wigalois Wirnts von Gravenberc XXIII. Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society University of Bristol, 25/07/2011-30/07/2011.
    2010 Cordula Böcking (2010) Die Parabel von der Todestrompete in Trinity Cod. 432: Zur Verbreitung eines Motivs in der mittelenglischen Bearbeitung der Barlaam und Josaphat-Legende Barlaam und Josaphat in der Literatur des Mittelalters University of Vienna, Austria, 15/04/2010-18/04/2010.
    2009 Cordula Böcking (2009) Conquering the Unknown: The Bridal-Quest Motif in the Willehalm-Trilogy International Medieval Congress 2009 University of Leeds, 13/07/2009-16/07/2009.
    2009 Cordula Böcking (2009) Christianizing the Heathen? The Bridal-Quest Motif in Arabel and Rennewart 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 06/05/2009-10/05/2009.
    2008 Cordula Böcking (2008) Natur und ihre Bedeutung in mittelhochdeutschen Schilderungen des Amazonenlandes International Medieval Congress 2008 University of Leeds, 07/07/2008-10/07/2008.
    2008 Cordula Böcking (2008) 'nach der mannesnamen site'? Amazons and their Challenge to Normative Masculinity in Herbort von Fritzlar’s liet von Troye 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 07/05/2008-11/05/2008.
    2007 Cordula Böcking (2007) 'ain iunkfrow rait der kúnsten perkh': Der Minnesklaventopos bei Hugo von Montfort Symposium zum 650. Geburtstag Hugos von Montfort University of Innsbruck, Austria, 20/09/2007-22/09/2007.
    2007 Cordula Böcking (2007) Gender Models and their Subversion: The Amazon Myth in Middle High German Literature 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 10/05/2007-13/05/2007.
    2007 Cordula Böcking (2007) Das ‚lanndt der frawen’ im Priester Johannes des Ambraser Heldenbuches: Zur Verwendung des Amazonen-Motivs und seiner Bedeutung für das mythologische Selbstverständnis Maximilians I Kaiser Maximilian I. und die Hofkultur seiner Zeit. Symposium der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft Bressanone, Italy, 26/09/2007-30/09/2007.
    2007 Cordula Böcking (2007) Challenging Conventional Male-Female Dichotomy? The Amazon Myth in Medieval German Literature Lesbian Lives XIV: Lesbian Existence and the Lesbian Continuum University College Dublin, 14/06/2007-16/06/2007.
    2007 Cordula Böcking (2007) The Relationship between Impaired Beauty and Female Warriorship: Representations of the Amazon Myth in Medieval German Literature International Medieval Congress 2007 University of Leeds, 09/07/2007-12/07/2007.
    2006 Cordula Böcking (2006) An Anglo-Norman Fool in Constantinople: Der Pfaffe Amis International Medieval Congress 2006 University of Leeds, 10/07/2006-13/07/2006.
    2005 Cordula Böcking (2005) Deutsche Prinzessinnen in Skandinavien und skandinavische Prinzessinnen in Deutschland: Kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte dynastischer Verbindungen im Mittelalter Deutsch-skandinavische Literatur- und Kulturbeziehungen im Mittelalter. Symposium der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft Bressanone, Italy, 29/09/2005-02/10/2005.
    2005 Cordula Böcking (2005) Wisdom vs. Riches: The Discourse on Money in Fortunatus XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts University College Cork, 06/05/2005-08/05/2005.
    2005 Cordula Böcking (2005) Images of Childhood and Youth in Wolfram’s Parzival International Medieval Congress 2005 University of Leeds, 11/07/2005-14/07/2005.
    2004 Cordula Böcking (2004) Male-Female Relations as the Basis for Intercultural Understanding in Wolfram’s Willehalm International Medieval Congress 2004 University of Leeds, 12/07/2004-15/07/2004.
    2003 Cordula Böcking (2003) Intercultural Conflict in Wolfram’s Willehalm 30th Annual Research Symposium, Royal Irish Academy Dublin City University, 07/11/2003-08/11/2003.
    2002 Cordula Böcking (2002) The Narratives of Jörg Wickram: An Example of the German Reception of Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque fortunae 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 02/05/2002-05/05/2002.

    Book Review

    Year Publication
    2011 Böcking-Politis, Cordula (2011) 'Hughes, Timothy Jolyon. Wolfram von Eschenbachs Criticism of Minnedienst in his Narrative Works. Lanham: University Press of America, 2009'. [Book Review] [Full-Text]
    2010 Böcking-Politis, Cordula (2010) ' cristallîn wort. Hartmann-Studien, ed. Waltraud Fritsch-Rössler, Wien, Berlin, Münster: LIT. Bd. 1 (2007), Rahmenthema: Das Ambraser Heldenbuch'. [Book Review]
    2009 Politis, Cordula (2009) 'Urban, Melanie: Kulturkontakt im Zeichen der Minne. Die Arabel Ulrichs von dem Türlin, Mikrokosmos 77, 2007'. [Book Review]

    Translation

    Year Publication
    2010 Cordula Böcking (2010) Richard Kirwan, “Akademische Repräsentationspraktiken und der Umgang mit dem Öffentlichkeitsbild der Institution”. Wiesbaden: [Translation]
    2010 Cordula Böcking (2010) David Little, “Portfolios und informelle Leistungsdiagnosen”. New York: [Translation]
    2004 Cordula Böcking (2004) Caitríona Leahy, “Die Be-Gründung des Netzwerks. Bachmann erkundet den Heideggerschen Grund”. Cologne: [Translation]
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