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Professor Nigel Harris is a Professor of German at the University of Birmingham's Department of Modern Languages. Educated at the University of Birmingham (BA in French and German) and the University of Oxford (DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages), he has been affiliated with Birmingham since 1984 except for a visiting professorship at the University of Florida. His research focuses on late-medieval didactic literature in German and Latin, animal symbolism in medieval texts, and the Swiss Reformation.
Teaching responsibilities include medieval German language and literature courses, with core contributions to modules like 'Epic and Romance' and 'Other Germanies'. He also teaches modern German literature and language courses, emphasizing German grammatical complexities. His supervision of postgraduate research has covered topics such as Heinrich von Beringen's chess treatise, Zwinglian dialogues, and the Nibelungenlied's reception.
Key publications include editions of understudied medieval works (e.g., Etymachia, In campo mundi), the co-authored The Correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius (2025), and The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn (2020). His work bridges textual editing, historical analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval cultural studies.
