Ray M Wakefield

Contact Me

wakef001@umn.edu
612-626-3327

German, Scandinavian & Dutch
328D FolH

9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

• Global Studies, Institute for
• Asian Languages and Literatures
• German, Scandinavian and Dutch

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• Dutch
• manuscript culture
• medieval German literature
• medieval mystics
• print culture
• second-language acquisition

Courses Taught

• Dtch 3510 - Topics in Dutch Culture: Mystic Writings of Hadewijch

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Director of Language Instruction: 1980 - 1995
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch:
• Director, European Studies Consortium:
• Founder, Dutch Studies Program and Dutch Writer-in-Residence Program:
• Principal Investigator, Title VI National Resource Center, Western European Area Studies:

Publications

• The Problematic German Reception of John Boorman's Film Excalibur. Wakefield, Ray, Politics and Literature, Camden House, 1998.
• Heinsius and Opitz: Germanic Prosody Revisited. Wakefield, Ray, 1994.
• The Beguines Sisters. Wakefield, Ray, 1981/1982.
• Kreise. Wakefield, Ray, Jermaine Arendt, Catharine Baumann and Gisela Peters, Heinle & Heinle, 1992.
• Nibelungen Prosody. Wakefield, Ray, Mouton, 1976.

Awards

• Officier of the Royal Order of Oranje-Nassau, 1991
• United States Department of Education Grant