Pembroke College听 Trumpington Street听 CAMBRIDGE 听 CB2 1RF United Kingdom
Chris Young is currently working as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities.
Christopher Young has primary teaching and research interests in medieval German literature and language and the history of European (and in particular German) sport. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Cologne) and a Permanent Visiting Fellow of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule f眉r literaturwissenschaftliche Studien der FU Berlin (2010-12). He is co-founder and editor of de Gruyter's new series Companions to Modern German Culture, of the University of California Press鈥檚 series Sport in World History, and is a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift f眉r deutsches Altertum. He is currently Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, Director of the 海角社区 DAAD Research Hub for German Studies, and Director of the 海角社区-LMU Strategic Partnership.
Professor Young听welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to his听interests.
Medieval German literature and culture
The history of sport in modern Europe and Germany
A media history of German sport (for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2012-14); a major new edition of the A, B, and C recensions of the twelfth-century Kaiserchronik (in collaboration with J眉rgen Wolf, Marburg, and for which he and Mark Chinca secured c. 拢950K funding from the AHRC, 2012-2017); Co-Director, with Robert Edelman (UC San Diego) of the collaborative project on Sport and the Cold War (under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities).
Narrativische Perspektiven in Wolframs Willehalm (T眉bingen 2000)
A History of the German Language through Texts (Routledge 2004),
Ulrich von Liechtenstein's Frauenbuch (Reclam 2003)
Ulrich von Liechtenstein: Leben, Zeit, Werk, Forschung (de Gruyter 2010), edited with Sandra Linden.听
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In sports history:听The 1972 Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press 2010), with Kay Schiller, appeared in German translation with Wallstein Verlag (2012) (awarded the North American Society of Sports History Book Award and the UK鈥檚 Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History).
