Profile
Abstract
Having studied English, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Leipzig University and University College Cork (Ireland), I joined the English Department at Leipzig University in 2009. My PhD on the various ways of upgrading and authorising vernacular poetry in fifteenth-century English texts and manuscripts was completed in 2015.
Professional career
- since 10/2009
Lecturer at the English Department at Leipzig University
Education
- 09/2013
Participant in the summer-school programme for manuscript culture at Leipzig University Library - 01/2011 - 06/2011
Recognised Student at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford - 09/2005 - 09/2006
Erasmus-student (English and Philosophy) at University College Cork (Rep. Ireland) - 08/2002 - 03/2009
Magister Artium in English, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Leipzig University
- show detailsNisters, D.Poetry and Authority: Chaucer, Vernacular Fable and the Role of Readers in Fifteenth-Century EnglandBerlin u.a.: Peter Lang. 2018.ISBN: 978-3-631-76113-7
- show detailsHolzwarth, K. C.; Nisters, D.Handschriftenbasierte Textinterpretation am Beispiel zweier volkssprachiger Fassungen der äsopischen Fabel 'Vom Wolf und dem Lamm'In: Schwab , V.; Kremer , A. (Eds.)Handschriften als Quellen der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft: Aktuelle Fragestellungen - Methoden - Probleme. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. 2018. pp. 99–130.ISBN: 978-3-86309-535-2
As a lecturer in British cultural studies, my teaching predominantly consists of introductory courses on cultural theory and cultural history. However, I also regularly teach seminars on medieval and early modern topics as well as on different aspects of material culture, both past and present, and on the history of reading as a cultural practice.