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Dieter Bitterli has taught Old and Middle English language and literature at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich (Switzerland), where he is a lecturer in the English Department. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, where he studied English, German and Medieval Latin. Following a research fellowship from the Swiss National Fund (1992-97), he submitted his habilitation thesis on the Exeter Book Riddles to the University of Zurich in 2005, and was appointed Privatdozent (lecturer) in the same year. From 1998 to 2007 he worked as a lecturer in the English Department of the University of Zurich, before being appointed Professor of English Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne.
In the English Department, Dieter Bitterli has regularly taught courses on Old and Medieval English language, literature and culture, ranging from Beowulf to Robin Hood. He has supervised a number of Master's theses and examinations in pre-modern English literature and linguistics (Englische Sprachwissenschaft).
Dieter Bitterli's three main areas of research are early English literature (including the relationship between Old English and Anglo-Latin), medieval Latin literature and manuscript studies, and early modern emblems. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) and the Society for Emblem Studies. His current projects include a Latin-German edition of Marbod of Rennes' Liber lapidum (with commentary), a monograph on the Old English Exeter Book Riddles, and the web-based inventory of applied emblems in Switzerland.
Die Berner Rätsel: Aenigmata Bernensia: Lateinisch–deutsch. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Dieter Bitterli. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2024.https://www.degruyter.com
Der Bilderhimmel von Hergiswald. [new edition, fully revised] Salenstein: Benteli, 2018.
http://www.bilderhimmel-hergiswald.ch
Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. http://www.utppublishing.com
Die Wallfahrtskirche Unserer Lieben Frau in Hergiswald (LU). Bern: Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, 2000; 2nd rev. ed. 2007.
Der Bilderhimmel von Hergiswald: Der barocke Emblemzyklus der Wallfahrtskirche Unserer Lieben Frau in Hergiswald bei Luzern, seine Quellen, sein mariologisches Programm und seine Bedeutung. Basel: Wiese, 1997; 2nd rev. ed. 1999.
Prokop von Templin OFMCap: Encæniale, Das ist: Hundert Kirch-Tag-Predigen (1671): Photomechanischer Nachdruck, mit Kommentar, Glossar, Nachwort und Bibliographie, Geistliche Literatur der Barockzeit, 13-4, 2 vols. Amsterdam, Maarssen: Amsterdam University Press, 1990. [PhD University of Zurich] http://www.apa-publishers.com
"The Origin and Date of the Bern Riddles" [submitted for publication].
"Exeter Book Riddle 95: 'The Sun', a New Solution", Anglia 137 (2019), 612-38. Abstract
"Spur, a New Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 62", Notes and Queries 66 (2019), 343-47.
"The One-Liners Among the Exeter Book Riddles", Neophilologus 103 (2019), pp. 419-434.
"Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English Marvels of the East", in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England, eds. Annette Kern-Stähler, Beatrix Busse and Wietse de Boer. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, pp. 137-62.
"Two Old English Prose Riddles of the Eleventh Century", in Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond: Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, eds. Sarah Chevalier and Thomas Honegger (Tübingen: Francke, 2012), pp. 1-11.
"Alkuin von York und die angelsächsische Rätseldichtung", Anglia 128 (2010), pp. 4-20. English abstract [revised version of "Alkuin und die angelsächsische Rätseldichtung", in: Alkuin von York und die geistige Grundlegung Europas, eds. E.Tremp and K.Schmuki (St.Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2010), pp. 151-67].
"The 'Cuckoo' in the Collectanea of Pseudo-Bede: An Unnoticed Analogue to Exeter Book Riddle 9", Notes and Queries 56 (2009), pp. 481-2. http://nq.oxfordjournals.org
"The Survival of the Dead Cuckoo: Exeter Book Riddle 9", in Riddles, Knights and Cross-dressing Saints: Essays on Medieval English Language and Literature, ed. T. Honegger, Sammlung/Collection Variations 5 (Bern, Berlin etc.: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 95-114. http://www.peterlang.com
"Exeter Book Riddle 15: Some Points for the Porcupine", Anglia 120 (2002), pp. 461-87. Abstract
"Marcellin de Pise OFMCap (1594-1665) und seine Moralis encyclopaedia: Die Predigtsammlung des französischen Kapuziners – eine neu entdeckte Quelle für den Bilderhimmel von Hergiswald", Helvetia Franciscana 47 (2018), pp. 113-22.
"emblemata.ch – zur Dokumentation angewandter Emblematik in der Schweiz", in Architektur als Ort für Embleme, ed. Ingrid Höpel. Kiel: Ludwig, 2014, pp. 28-34.
"Imago Sancti Judoci: An Unknown Cycle of Applied Emblems in Central Switzerland", in Visual Words and Verbal Pictures: Essays in Honour of Michael Bath, eds. Alison Saunders and Peter Davidson, Glasgow Emblem Studies, special volume. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2005, pp. 13-36.
"Barockemblematik, Memento mori und Totentanz: Die Embleme in der Beinhauskapelle von Ettiswil (LU)", Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte 58 (2001), pp. 143-58.
"Tota pulchra es amica mea: Marianische Embleme in Luzern, Stans und Hospental", Der Geschichtsfreund 146 (1993), pp. 115-150.
"Die emblematische Kassettendecke der Rosenburg in Stans (NW)", Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte 49 (1992), pp. 201-220.
emblemeta.ch: An Inventory of Applied Emblems in Switzerland.
Regular contributions since 2011; ongoing.
http://www.emblemata.ch
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