About

Kathryn Starkey is the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies at Stanford University, where she also holds positions in German Studies, and is a courtesy professor of English, History, and Comparative Literature. Her academic work primarily focuses on medieval German literature from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, with research topics encompassing visuality and materiality, object and thing studies, manuscript illustration and transmission, language, performativity, and poetics. Starkey has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Palermo and Freiburg im Breisgau, and she has contributed to the field through numerous publications and edited volumes related to medieval literature and art. She is the principal investigator for the Global Medieval Sourcebook project, which has received support from the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, among other awards. Starkey's scholarly background includes a Ph.D. in German Literature and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in Germanic Linguistics from the same institution. She earned her B.A. with Honours in German and Linguistics from Queen’s University in Canada. Before joining Stanford in 2012, she taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests extend to comparative studies, cultural history, digital humanities, and the visual arts, with a focus on medieval languages, literatures, and cultures, as well as literary and cultural theory.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology
• Aesthetics
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• Art

Selected publications

• How to Make the Body

  2022

  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Aesthetics

  <JATS1:p>How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a variety of German contexts. The engaging contributions to this volume utilize and challenge cutting-edge approaches to scholarship on the body by putting these approaches in direct conversation with canonical texts and objects, as well as with lesser-known yet provocative emerging forms. To these ends, the chapter authors investigate “the body” through detailed studies across a wide variety of disciplines and modes of expression: from advertising, aesthetics, and pornography, to social media, scientific experimentation, and transnational cultural forms. Thus, this volume showcases the ways in which the body as such cannot be taken for granted and surmises that the body continues to undergo constant—and potentially disruptive—diversification and transformation.</JATS1:p>

  PublisherDOI

• Acknowledgments

  New York University Press eBooks · 2020

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Horst Wenzel

  4 shared

• Fiona J. Griffiths

  Stanford University

  3 shared

• Erin Eckhold Sassin

  2 shared

• Elizabeth Otto

  2 shared

• Nina Lübbren

  2 shared

• Hans Adler

  2 shared

• Mae Velloso-Lyons

  Emory University

  2 shared

• Charlotte Klonk

  2 shared

Education

• PhD, German

  University of California, Berkeley

  1998

Awards & honors

• NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant
• Roberta Bowman Denning Fund for Humanities and Technologies…
• Fellowship from the National Humanities Center
• Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Fellowship from the UNC Institute for the Arts and the Human…

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