International Career Paths and Methodologies in Medieval Studies

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Lunch with medievalists from the University of Zürich’s Romanisches Seminar

Q and A facilitated by:

Richard Trachsler, Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich and Julien R. Stout, Assistant Professor of French and Italian

Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the Department of French and Italian

Richard Trachsler is full Professor for Medieval French and Occitan Literature at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) after holding positions in Paris IV-Sorbonne (France) and Göttingen (Germany). He is the current president of the Collegium Romanicum, the Association of Romance Philologists of Switzerland and of the Société des Anciens Textes Français. He is also Honorary International President of the ICLS and of the International Reynardian Society. Richard Trachsler has a long experience as co-editor of a book series in France and Italy and is co-editor of the Revue critique de Philologie Romane (since 2007) and Reynardus (since 2010). He is also one of the interim editors of Encomia, the journal of the ICLS that will evolve from a bibliographical bulletin in to a scientific journal. He serves on the advisory board of many journals and books series in Europe (B, I, D, UK, CH, F, NL) and the US. He has held Visiting Professorships in Paris (Ecole des Chartes, 2010 and 2017 and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 2018), Cagliari (2010 and 2012), Bologna (2022), Bergamo (2024), and has obtained a Sassoon Fellowship for the Bodleian Library in Oxford (2019) and a Visiting Professorship at Corpus Christi in Cambridge (2024 postponed). His main interest lies in Medieval narrative literature and text editing on which he has extensively published in French, English, Italian and German. To date, he has (co-)authored 8 books, (co-)directed 14 volumes and published some 150 articles.