Dr. Christopher Hutchinson is an Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. He is the Director of the Basic German Program (100 and 200-level courses).
Research Interests
Dr. Hutchinson's research expertise includes Medieval and early modern German literature, print history, and medicine and disease in literature.
Biography
Christopher Hutchinson earned his B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University. He has been at the University of Mississippi since 2019 and teaches classes in the German language program, as well as classes on medieval and early modern German literature and German-American studies. His research is concerned with print history and the cultural history of medicine and disease in early modern German literature. His most recent publication, "Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany," was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2026.
Publications
Book
Hutchinson, Christopher. Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2026.
Articles and Book Chapters
Hutchinson, Christopher. "Plague for a Popular Audience: Suspicions of Print in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany" in Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany. Ed. Peter Hess. New York: Berghahn, 2026, pp. 19–50.
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)