Graeme Dunphy


Graeme Dunphy is a British professor of translation.

Biography

Dunphy was born in Glasgow in 1961. He studied German at Stirling between 1979 and 1984, and Hebrew and Old Testament at the University of St Andrews between 1984 and 1987. He completed his PhD in medieval German literature in 1998.

Career

Dunphy is currently a professor of translation at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. He was formerly lecturer in English at the University of Regensburg from 1993 till 2013, and also taught at the Open University and the University of London via the open access programme.
His work focuses primarily on German world chronicles, such as the Annolied, Kaiserchronik, Jans der Enikel, Christherre-Chronik, and Rudolf von Ems, among others. He has also worked on German Baroque literature and modern migrant literature.

Awards and honours

He currently serves as the president of the Medieval Chronicle Society. He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle and The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies.

Select bibliography

His notable books include: