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SABINE THUERWAECHTER

M.A. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Hamburg University, Germany

Research Interests:

• Semiotics and Communication Theory
• Narratology
• Structural Anthropology
• Ancient Near East
• Shakespeare Studies
• Science Fiction and Myth. Material Culture in Shakespeare’s history plays
• Food History
• Middle English cookbooks
• Metadrama
• Filmmusic

Sabine began her academic training in Cuneiform Studies and Archaeology. During the program, she worked on a dictionary project for the Nuzi dialect of Akkadian, and did some fieldwork on excavations in Germany and the Middle East. After finishing her masters, she went on to work for the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut (Berlin, Germany) while pursuing Shakespeare and theatre studies. She is currently working on the semiotic aspects and the interrelation of linguistic and visual sign systems in various media, like cuneiform inscriptions, medieval codices, and films like Independence Day.

Awards:

• Barricelli Memorial Student Grant for scholarship in comparative literature and inter-art study
• Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award, University of California, Riverside
• Special Award of the Martin Lehnert Stiftung, Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft (German Shakespeare Society)
• Fulbright Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania
• Pre-Academic Program for Fulbright Grantees, American University, Washington, D.C.

Publications Include:

"A Tale of Two Nations. Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers and Its Retelling in Roland Emmerich's The Patriot." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Conference Proceedings (2004).

"Bedtime Stories: The Narrative Of Lingerie." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Conference Proceedings (2004).

Dittmann, Reinhard, Barthel Hrouda, Ulrike Loew, PaoloMatthiae, Ruth Meyer-Opificius, Sabine Thuerwaechter (eds.). Variatio Delectat: Iran und der Westen. Gedenkschrift fuer Peter Calmeyer. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 272 (2000).

"'Not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither': Audio-visuelle Parallelen und Dekonstruktionen in Kenneth Branaghs HENRY V." In: Peter Drexler, and Lawrence Guntner. Negotiations with Hal: Multi-Media Perceptions of (Shakespeare’s) Henry the Fifth. Braunschweiger Anglistische Arbeiten 11 (1995) 99-118.

Dittmann, Reinhard, and Tilman Eickhoff, Roland Stengele, Rainer Schmitt, Sabine Thuerwaechter. "Untersuchungen in Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Tulul al-'Aqar) 1986." Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft 120 (1988): 97-138.