Sabine Mödersheim Associate Professor German Department/ UW Madison 838 Van Hise phone (608) 262-3758 fax      (608) 262-7949 email: smoedersheim@wisc.edu
Sabine Mödersheim is Associate Professor of German Literature and Culture in the German Department; Dr. phil. (German and Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, 1992); teaching positions at the Universität Freiburg/Germany and McGill University, Montreal/ Canada; publications on German literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and on the German emblem tradition. Her books include "Domini Doctrina Coronat. Die geistlichen Emblembücher Daniel Cramers" (Mikrokosmos; 1994) and facsimile editions of emblem books by Daniel Cramer (Emblematisches Cabinet; 1994) and Hieronymus Ammon (Imago Figurata Editions; 1999). She serves on the advisory board of Emblematica and on the editorial board of Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur. She is currently working on a study of the global reception of Johann Gossner's "Heart of Man" (1812).
Recent and forthcoming publications: "Schauplatz des menschlichen Elends" Emblems in the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg." Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: The Material and The Medium. Conferenz Proceedings of the The Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies 2005. Ed. Mara Wade. (forthcoming in Emblematica, 2008) "Theologia Cordis. Daniel Cramer's Emblemata Sacra in Northern European Architecture." Emblems Around the Baltic. Ed. Mara Wade and Simon McKeown. (Glasgow Emblem Studies 11) Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2006, 295-329. "The Emblem in Architecture" Emblem Scholarship: Directions and Developments. A Tribute to Gabriel Hornstein. Ed. Peter M. Daly. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. (Imago Figurata, Studies, 5), 159-175. "Die Augsburger Kunstschränke für König Gustav Adolf von Schweden und Carl Gustaf Wrangel. Zur Rolle des Kunstagenten Philipp Hainhofer im kulturellen Austausch zwischen Deutschland und Schweden" On the Opposite Sides of the Baltic Sea. Relations Between Scandinavian and Central European Countries. Ed. Marcin Wislocki, Piotr Oszczanowski. Wroclaw: Uniwersytet Wroclawski, 2006, vol. 2, 395-406. "Bild und Buchstabe: Emblematik und visuelle Poesie in Stettin." Der Text und seine Spielarten im polnischen Barock. Bausteine zu einer Epochensynthese. Ed. Herta Schmid. München: Sagner, 2005, 116-128. "Duce virtute, comite fortuna. Das emblematische Programm des Goldenen Saals im Nürnberger Rathaus" Die Domänen des Emblems: Außerliterarische Anwendungen der Emblematik. Ed.Gerhard F. Strasser, Mara R. Wade. (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung 39) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004, 29-54. "Art and War." Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War. Ed. Chris Corcoran, Abu-Hassan Koroma, P.K. Muana. Chicago, 2004. "Raphael Custos Liebs Gemählde. Eine deutsche Adaption der Amorum Emblemata Otto van Veens" De steen van Alciato. Literatuur en visuele cultuur in de Nederlanden. Opstellen voor Prof. Dr. Karel Porteman bij zijn emeritaat. The Stone of Alciato. Literature and Visual Culture in the Low Countries. Essays in Honour of Karel Porteman. Ed. Marc van Vaeck, Hugo Brems, and Geert H.M. Claassens. Leuven: Peeters, 2003, 756-792. "Text als Bild - Bild als Text. Figurengedicht und Emblematik" Emblem Studies in the Honor of Peter M. Daly. Ed. Michael Bath, Pedro F. Campa, Daniel Russell (Saecula Spiritualia 41). Baden-Baden: Körner, 2002, 169-190. "Skin Deep - Mind Deep. Emblematics and Modern Tattoos" Emblems from Alciato to the Tattoo. Selected Papers of the Leuven International Emblem Conference 18-23 August, 1996. Ed. Peter M. Daly, John Manning, Marc van Vaeck, Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 309-333.

Research	Publications	Curriculum Vitae
Course Pages	German 221	Literatur und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts
	German 222	Literatur und Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts
	German 226	Conversation and Composition II
	German 337	Advanced Conversation and Composition
	German 601	Kulturgeschichte bis 1648
	German 611	Literatur bis 1700
	German 676	Reiseliteratur seit der frühen Neuzeit
	German 677	Multikulturelle Gesellschaft in Deutschland
	German 702	Humanismus und Reformation
	German 711	Spiegel der Welt Utopische und satirische Entwürfe in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit
	German 711	Wiener Moderne
	German 947	Seminar: Bild und Text
	Lit Trans 277	Minority Literature in Germany
Outreach	German Club	Madison Freiburg Sister City Committee