Dr. Gabriela Schmidt

Academic Positions

since 2013 Senior Lecturer, Department of English at LMU Munich

2009-2013 Lecturer, Department of English at LMU Munich

2008-2009: Doctoral research fellow in the DFG collaborative research centre (SFB) “Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Period”; project: “Translation and Literary Culture in the Elizabethan Period” (PI: Prof. Andreas Höfele)

2004-2007: Doctoral research fellow in the DFG collaborative research centre (SFB) “Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Period”; project “Linguistic Plurality in Early Modern England: Thomas More and others” (PI: Prof. Andreas Höfele)

2002-2003: Student research assistant at the Chair of early modern English literature, LMU Munich

2000-2002: Student tutor in phonetics, English Department, LMU Munich

Education

2007: Ph.D. in English Literature (LMU Munich); thesis: “Quo vadis, Lingua? Thomas Mores Rezeption humanistischer Sprachtheorie und der Umgang mit Sprachenpluralität im England der frühen Tudorzeit”

2003: M.A. (English Literature) and first state exam (teaching qualification for secondary schools, English and Latin) (LMU Munich)

1999-2000: Graduate Visiting Student in Classics and English at Brasenose College, University of Oxford

1996-2003: Studies of English and Classical Philology at LMU Munich

Since 2009: Member of the editorial board of the journal Moreana (Edinburgh University Press)

2018-2024: Collaborator in the SSHRC project “Trajectories of Translation in Early Modern Britain (1473-1660): Routes, Mediations, Networks”; Université de Montreal (PI Marie-Alice Belle, Université de Montreal; Co-I: Brenda Hosington, Université de Montréal and University of Warwick) https://www.crosscurrentscatalogue.ca/

Since 2022: Collaborative member of the Cátedra John Henry Newman (Universidad Católica de Àvila)

Since 2023: Member of the advisory board of the journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento (Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid)

Member of the German Shakespeare Society and the Renaissance Society of America

Book

Thomas More und die Sprachenfrage: Humanistische Sprachtheorie und die translatio studii im England der frühen Tudorzeit. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009 (= Anglistische Forschungen, 397).

Edited Collections

[with Andreas Höfele, Stephan Laqué und Enno Ruge]: Representing Religious Pluralization in Early Modern Europe. Münster: LIT, 2007 (= P&A, 12).

Elizabethan Translation and Literary Culture. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013 (= P&A, 36).

[with Bettina Boecker, Daniella Jancsó, Stephan Laqué and Enno Ruge]: Acts of Crime: Lawlessness in Shakespeare’s Theatre. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015 (= Rezeptionskulturen in Literatur- und Mediengeschichte, 4).

Journal Articles

“‘Lingua, quo vadis?’: Die Ambivalenzen humanistischer Sprachtheorie und Thomas Mores History of Richard III”, in: Anglia 124:2 (2006), 244-275.

“‘The variety of teaching is divers’: Pluralisierung der Autoritäten und die versuchte Etablierung von ‚Uniformität‘ im englischen Lateinunterricht unter Heinrich VIII.”, in: Mitteilungen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 573 2/2007, 43-53 [URL: http://www.sfb-frueheneuzeit.uni-muenchen.de/mitteilungen/M2-2007/pluralisierung.pdf].

“‘This Turk’s persecution for the faith’: Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort and the Reformation Debate on Martyrdom”, in: Moreana 45:175 (2008): 209–238.

“Realigning English Vernacular Poetics Through Metrical Experiment: Sixteenth-Century Translation and the Elizabethan Quantitative Verse Movement”, in: Literature Compass 7/5 (2010): 303–317. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00696.x.

“Textual Encounters in an Age of Transition: Thomas More’s Translations between ‚Medieval‘ and ‚Humanist‘ Literary Culture”, in: Moreana 48:185-186 (2011), 149-171.

“Cautivados por la alegría: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, y el encuentro con la verdad en la literatura”, in: Cuadernos de Pensamiento 24 (2011), 87-111.

“What use to make of a tyrant? Thomas More’s History of Richard III and the Limits of Early Tudor Historiography”, in: Moreana 50: 191-192 (2013), 187-218.

“Of travellers, messengers and foundlings – fictionality, authorship, and textual property in Thomas More’s paratexts”, in: Moreana 53: 205-206 (2016), 17-44.

“Hidden Presences of Thomas More in Marian Literature”, in Moreana 56.2 (2019): 213-231.

“‘His word is more than a miraculous harp’: Übersetzung und Magie in The Tempest”, in Shakespeare Jahrbuch 156 (2020), 31-49.

“Cicero Among the Martyrs: A Reassessment of the First Edition of Nicholas Grimald’s Thre bokes of duties (1556)”, in Renaissance and Reformation 42.2 (2020): 93-118.

“Transforming ‘Tragedye’: Mediations of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes in Sixteenth-Century English Print”, in: Philological Quarterly 102.2-3 (2023): 123-147.

“A Double-Edged Tool: More’s Humanist Views on Language from his Pro-Erasmian Defences to his Anti-Lutheran Polemics”, in Yearbook of English Studies 54 (2024): 84-110.

“More unites them than divides them: Thomas More and William Tyndale as translators of the Bible”, in: Moreana 62.1 (2025): 65-86.

“‘When one idea strikes against another, there may be a spark’: creative synthesis as a prophetic principle in Newman’s thought and teaching”, in: Cuadernos de Pensamiento (forthcoming 2026).

Book Chapters

“‘Sua sunt figmenta poetis‘: imitatio und historica fides im poetologischen Dissens zwischen Germanus Brixius und Thomas More (1513-1521)”, in: Müller, Jan-Dirk/Robert, Jörg (Hrsg.): Maske und Mosaik. Poetik, Sprache, Wissen im 16. Jahrhundert. Münster: LIT, 2007 (= P & A, 11), 129-157.

“Representing Martyrdom in Post-Reformation England”, in: Höfele, Andreas/Laqué, Stephan/Ruge, Enno/Schmidt, Gabriela (Hrsg.): Representing Religious Pluralization in Early Modern Europe Münster: LIT, 2007 (=P&A, 12), 63-90.

“Pluralisierung von Autorschaft – Entgrenzung des Textes: Die Fiktionalisierung des Paratextes in Thomas Mores literarischen Dialogen”, in: Vögel, Herfried / Von Ammon, Frieder (Hrsg.): Die Pluralisierung des Paratextes. Formen, Funktionen und Theorie eines Phänomens frühneuzeitlicher Kommunikation. Münster: LIT, 2008 (= P&A, 15), 225-253.

“The Translation of Paradise: Thomas More’s Utopia and the Poetics of Cultural Exchange”, in: Pordzik, Ralph (Hrsg.): ‘Futurescapes’: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009 (= Spatial Practices, 9), 25-52.

“Elizabethan Translation – Literature at the Limits: Thomas Wilson’s Demosthenes and John Harington’s Orlando Furioso”, in: Eckstein, Lars/Reinfandt, Christoph (Hrsg.): Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen, Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2009, 167-178.

[with Enno Ruge]: “‘They call us Babylon’: Verhandlungen religiöser Pluralisierung im England der Frühen Neuzeit”, in: Müller, Jan-Dirk /Oesterreicher, Wulf / Vollhardt, Friedrich (Hrsg.): Pluralisierungen. Konzepte zur Erfassung der Frühen Neuzeit. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2010 (= P & A, 21), 163–187.

“‘To set some colour vpon ye matter’: Thomas Mores History of King Richard the Third zwischen humanistischer Vergangenheitskonstruktion und autoreflexiver Skepsis“, in: Bezner, Frank/Mahlke, Kirsten (Hrsg.): Zwischen Wissen und Politik: Archäologie und Genealogie frühneuzeitlicher Vergangenheitskonstruktionen. Heidelberg: Winter (= Akademiekonferenzen, 6), 2011, 161–182.

“Introduction”, in: Schmidt, Gabriela (ed.): Elizabethan Translation and Literary Culture. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013 (=P&A, 36), 1-18.

“Enacting the Classics: Translation and Authorship in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster“, in: Schmidt, Gabriela (ed.): Elizabethan Translation and Literary Culture. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013 (=P&A, 36), 111-145.

“Marketing Utopia: The Protean Paratexts in Ralph Robinson's English Translation”, in: Belle, Marie-Alice and Hosington, Brenda (eds.): Thresholds of Translation: Paratext, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Britain (1473-1660). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan/Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2018, 183-206.

“Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551)”, in: Berensmeyer, Ingo (ed.): Handbook of English Renaissance Literature. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2019, 244-264.

“From Prototype to Genre: Translations and Imitations of Utopia in Early Modern Germany (1524–1753)”, in Withington, Phil/ Shrank, Cathy (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More’s Utopia. Oxford: OUP, 2023, 195-214.

“Hinführung: Katholische Bildung heute. Zur Aktualität von John Henry Newmans ‘Idee der Universität’”, in: Hess, Katja/Wehr, Lothar/Zapf, Burkard M. (eds.): Katholische Bildung aus biblischer Perspektive. Regensburg: Pustet, 2024, 15-24.

“Limits of the letter: controversies on biblical translation and Erasmian humanism in 16th-century England”, in: Belle, Marie-Alice/Bolduc, Michelle (eds.): A Cultural History of Translation, Vol. 3: A Cultural History of Translation in the Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction. Ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2025, 102-108.

“Al servicio del hombre: la misión de la Universidad según John Henry Newman”, in: Ed. Cid Vázquez, María Teresa (ed.): La Universidad: una propuesta de renovación. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2025, 253-284.

Book Reviews

Hüllen, W./Klippel, F.: Heilige und profane Sprachen. Die Anfänge des Fremdsprachenunterrichts im westlichen Europa – Holy and Profane Languages. The Beginnings of Foreign Language Teaching in Western Europe. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002 (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 98), in: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 126:3 (2004), 498–501.

Griffiths, Jane: John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, in: Anglia 126:2 (2008), 421–424.

Moul, Victoria: Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge: CUP, 2010, in: Translation and Literature 20:2 (2011), 243–248.

Meyer, Jürgen: Textvarianz und Schriftkritik: Dialogische Schreib- und Lesekultur bei Thomas More, George Gascoigne und John Lyly. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010, in: Anglia 129: 3-4 (2011), 516–519.

Ribhegge, Wilhelm: Erasmus von Rotterdam. Darmstadt: WBG, 2010, in: Moreana 49: 189-190 (2012), 271-276.

Reid, Lindsay Ann: Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval. Woodbridge: Brewer, 2018, in: Anglia 137.4 (2019), 693-696.

Davies, Abe: Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, in: Renaissance Quarterly 76.3 (2023): 1190–1191.

Schön, Katharina-Maria: ‘Eutopia nusquama’: Polyphonie, Paradoxie und philosophische Staatskonstruktion in der ‘Utopia’ des Thomas Morus. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2025 (= neoLatina, 39), in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch (forthcoming 2027).

“Representing Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe”, International Symposium Representing Religious Pluralization in Early Modern Europe, LMU Munich/ SFB 573, 7-9 July 2005.

“‘To set some colour vpon ye matter’: Thomas Mores History of King Richard the Third zwischen nationalpolitischer Mythisierung, humanistischer Vergangenheitskonstruktion und autoreflexiver Skepsis”, International Conference Zwischen Wissen und Politik: Archäologie und Genealogie frühneuzeitlicher Vergangenheitskonstruktionen, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 5-7 April 2006.

[with Enno Ruge] “‘They call vs Babylon’: Verhandlungen religiöser Pluralisierung im England der Frühen Neuzeit”, International Conference Pluralisierungen. Konzepte zur Erfassung der Frühen Neuzeit, LMU Munich/Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 7-9 December 2006.

“‘This Turkes Persecucion for the Fayth’: Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort and the Reformation Debate on Martyrdom”, International Symposium Tyndale, More and their Circles: Persecution and Martyrdom under the Tudors, Liverpool Hope University, UK, 3-6 July 2008.

“Realigning English Vernacular Poetics through Metrical Experiment: Richard Stanyhurst’s Translation of Virgil (1582) and the Quantitative Movement in Elizabethan Poetry”, International Conference Poetry and Translation, Stirling University, UK, 16-20 July 2008.

“Elizabethan Translation as Literature at the Limits: Thomas Wilson’s Demosthenes and John Harington’s Orlando Furioso”, Anglistentag 2008, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 5-8 October 2008.

“Cautivados por la alegría: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, y el encuentro con la verdad en la literature”, 55o Encuentro de Universitarios Católicos, Burgos, Spain, 26-28 February 2010.

“Textual encounters in an age of transition: Thomas More’s translations between medieval and humanist literary culture”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 24-26 March 2011.

“Of Travellers, Messengers and Foundlings: Fictionality, authorship, and textual property in Thomas More’s paratexts”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, 26-28 March 2015.

Panel coordinator (two panels): “Thomas More and the Art of Publishing”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, 26-28 March 2015.

“Cicero Among the Martyrs: A Reassessment of the First Edition of Nicholas Grimald’s Bokes of Duties (1556)”, International Conference Early Modern 'Transformissions': Linguistic, material, and cultural translation in England and France (c. 1470-1660), Université de Montreal, 5-7 July 2017.

“Hidden Presences of Thomas More in Marian Literature”, International Conference Thomas More and History, Centre d’Études du Saulchoir, Paris, 13-14 September 2018.

“Translation, Religious Identity, and Literary Innovation under Mary Tudor”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, 17-19 March 2019.

Panel coordinator (with Marie-Alice Belle): “Inheriting More II: Translation, Print, and the Making of Catholic Identity in Early Modern England”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, 17-19 March 2019.

“‘His word is more than a miraculous harp’: Übersetzung und Magie in The Tempest”, Shakespeare-Tage 2019, Weimar, 26-28 April 2019.

“Transforming ‘Tragedye’: The Marian Editions of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes”, Renaissance Society of America, Virtual Annual Meeting, April 13–15, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT und April 20–22 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT.

“Katholische Bildung heute - Zur Aktualität von John Henry Newmans ‘Idee der Universität’”, Opening Address, International Conference Katholische Bildung aus biblischer Perspektive, KU Eichstätt, 6-8 May 2022.

“Al servicio del hombre: la misión de la Universidad según John Henry Newman”, Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid, and Universidad Católica de Ávila, 14-15 March 2023.

“Self and community in Thomas More's Approach to Conscience”, Symposium Avec Thomas More vivre et faire vivre la liberté des consciences, European Parliament, Strasbourg, 18 April 2023.

“‘Lest God for my presumption might suffer me to fall’: Martyrdom in More’s Prison Correspondence”, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-24 March 2024.

Seminar „Den Glauben in der Welt verwurzeln: Der Auftrag der Laien nach John Henry Newman“, International Conference Auftrag der Laien, KU Eichstätt, 7-9 June 2024.

“More unites them than divides them: Thomas More and William Tyndale as translators of the Bible”, International Conference, “Thomas More, Erasmus and the Reformation”, Centre d’Études du Saulchoir, Paris, 12-13 September 2024.