Research Interests
Medieval and early modern German literature, print history, medicine and disease in literature.
Biography
Dr. Christopher Hutchinson earned his B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge in 2013. He was a Visiting DAAD Research Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin (2016-2017) and earned his Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University in 2019.
Articles and Book Chapters
Hutchinson, Christopher. “Textual Infection: Syphilis in Grimmelshausen’s Courasche.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies vol. 58, no. 2, 2022, pp. 127–48.
Hutchinson, Christopher. “Printing Things: Materiality and Immateriality in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus,” Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600.Eds. Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022: 193–210.
Hutchinson, Christopher. “The Economics of Fortune in Schiller’s Der Ring des Polykrates.” The German Quarterly 91.3 (2018): 254–269.
Courses Taught
- Germ 303 Conversation and Composition I
- Germ 304 Conversation and Composition II
- Germ 311 Business German
- Germ 341 German in the US
- Germ 577 Survey of German Lit. & Culture I
- Germ 584 The Age of Goethe
- Germ 587 German Fairy Tales
- Germ 597 German Teaching Practicum
Education
Ph.D. German, Stanford University (2019)