# Annette Volfing

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{{Short description|Danish-British scholar of German literature (born 1965)}}
{{infobox academic
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA}}
|title = Professor of Medieval German Literature
|occupation = Literary scholar and poet
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|2|5}}
|birth_name = Annette Marianne Volfing
|alma_mater = [St Edmund Hall, Oxford](/source/St_Edmund_Hall%2C_Oxford)
|thesis_title = A commentary on ''Der meide kranz'' by Henrich von Mügeln
|workplaces = [Oriel College, Oxford](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford)
|discipline = [German literature](/source/German_literature)
|sub_discipline = {{hlist|[Middle High German literature](/source/Middle_High_German_literature)|[Christian devotional literature](/source/Christian_devotional_literature)}}
|thesis_year = 1993
|doctoral_advisor = [Nigel F. Palmer](/source/Nigel_F._Palmer)
|birth_place = [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen), Denmark
|citizenship = Danish<br>British (since 2017)
}}
'''Annette Marianne Volfing''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA}} (born 5 February 1965) is a Danish-British scholar of [medieval German literature](/source/medieval_German_literature) and poet. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Medieval German Literature at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).

== Academic career ==
Volfing completed her [undergraduate degree](/source/undergraduate_degree) at [St Edmund Hall, Oxford](/source/St_Edmund_Hall%2C_Oxford), graduating in 1985; she returned there to carry out her [doctoral studies](/source/Doctorate); her [DPhil](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) was awarded in 1993 for her thesis "A commentary on ''Der meide kranz'' by Heinrich von Mügeln". Her thesis was supervised by [Nigel F. Palmer](/source/Nigel_F._Palmer).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Volfing |first1=Annette |last2=Mossman |first2=Stephen |last3=Lähnemann |first3=Henrike |title=Nigel Palmer |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy |date=21 March 2024 |volume=21 |page=530 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5293/Memoirs-21-20-Palmer.pdf}}</ref> She was elected to a fellowship at [Oriel College, Oxford](/source/Oriel_College%2C_Oxford), the following year, alongside a lectureship at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) (where she was promoted to [reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in 2006 and Professor of Medieval German Literature two years later).<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-284771 "Volfing, Prof. Annette Marianne"], ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 4 July 2018.</ref><ref name=":0">[http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/annette-volfing "Annette Volfing"], ''University of Oxford''. Retrieved 4 July 2018.</ref><ref>[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.357700 "A commentary on Der Meide Kranz by Heinrich von Muegeln"], ''EthOS'' (British Library). Retrieved 4 July 2018.</ref>

According to her university profile, Volfing is a "medievalist with particular interest in later medieval religious, mysical, philosophical or allegorical writing";<ref name=":0" /> her [British Academy](/source/British_Academy) adds that her research focuses on "mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence" in medieval German literature.<ref name=":1" />

=== Media work ===
Volfing has contributed reviews of books examining medieval literature and culture to the ''[Times Literary Supplement](/source/Times_Literary_Supplement)''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annette Volfing |url=https://www.the-tls.com/authors/annette-volfing |website=Times Literary Supplement |access-date=18 July 2025}}</ref>

=== Honours and awards ===
In 2015, Volfing was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy), the United Kingdom's [national academy](/source/national_academy) for the humanities and social sciences.<ref name=":1">[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-annette-volfing "Professor Annette Volfing"], ''British Academy''. Retrieved 4 July 2018.</ref>

== Poetry ==
Alongside her academic career, Volfing has published two pamphlets of poetry: ''Ecliptic'' with Black Light Engine Room in 2016 and ''Learning Finnish'' with Paekakariki Press in 2021. Her poems have also appeared in magazines such as ''[Magma Poetry](/source/Magma_Poetry)''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Poetry Spring 2023 |url=https://thehighwindowpress.com/2023/02/18/poetry-spring-2003/ |website=The High Window |access-date=18 July 2025}}</ref>

== Personal life==
Originally from [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen), Volfing has lived in the United Kingdom since 1982 and obtained British citizenship in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annette Volfing – Decluttering |url=https://thestaresnest.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/annette-volfing-decluttering/ |website=The Stare's Nest |access-date=18 July 2025}}</ref>

== Publications ==

* ''Heinrich von Mügeln: >Der meide kranz<''. Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 111 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997).
* ''John the Evangelist and Medieval German Writing: Imitating the Inimitable'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
* ''Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German. Reading and Writing in Albrecht’s Jüngerer Titurel'' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
* (Co-editor with [Burhhard Hasebrink](/source/Burhhard_Hasebrink), [Hans-Jochen Schiewer](/source/Hans-Jochen_Schiewer) and Almut Suerbaum) ''Innenräume in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters. XIX. Anglo-German Colloquium Oxford 2005'' (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008).
* (Co-editor with Sarah Bowden) ''Punishment and Penitential Practices in Medieval German Writing'', King's College London Medieval Studies (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018).

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