Faculty Member, History
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Associate Professor of History
College of Arts and Sciences
About
I'm not the Julia Hofmann who is an early medievalist and postdoc at University College Dublin. I'm older and crankier.
I did my undergrad work at UC Santa Barbara in History (and a class short of a Latin minor) with Jeff Russell, Warren Hollister, and Sharon Farmer. Then, after a brief stop at the University or Warwick for a summer course on the English Reformation, completed my MA and PhD with Tom Burns and Steve White at Emory University (including a three-year sojourn at the Universität Augsburg begun as a DAAD recipient). After a several-years-long break from academia, I began teaching as contingent faculty in 2002, visiting faculty in 2003, and got my first tenure(like)-track position in 2006. And now I'm an associate professor -- go figure!
When I get a break from teaching and being a department chair, I am currently working on a searchable database and new introduction to accompany a reprint edition of the _Codex Diplomaticus Fuldensis_, as well as revising two papers on land transaction patterns at Fulda into one larger paper for publication.
After that, I plan to continue working on the Fulda collections, as well as those at Mondsee and Wissembourg (perhaps) in order to examine the ways in which women's participation in land transactions and landholding in general changed over the Carolingian period in the territories east of the Rhine.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at the _deo sacrata_ in the same document collections for a proposed Berks panel (and as part of the book. And playing about with Orderic Vitalis and Mabel of Bellême and how she fits into Orderic's ideas of femininity.
Next year, I'm teaching a revised version of my department's methodology course and developing a course for Women's Studies on Constructions of Gender in Disney's animated films, and a course on Race, Gender, and the Other in Disney for our Freshman Seminar.
Contact Information
| Address: | History Department |
| Telephone: |
540-665-4792 |
