Hasty, Will

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HASTY, Will

HASTY, Will. American. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Educator. Illinois Wesleyan University, Department of Foreign Languages, assistant professor, 1987-88; Yale University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, assistant professor, 1988-93, director of undergraduate studies, 1992-93; University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, associate professor, coordinator of undergraduate studies, 1993-99, professor, 1999-. University of Birmingham, England, Department of German Studies, visiting professor, 1999-2000. Publications: Adventures as Social Performance: A Study of the German Court Epic, 1990; Adventures in Interpretation: The Works of Hartmann von Aue and Their Critical Reception, 1996. EDITOR: (with J. Hardin; and contrib.) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 138: German Writers and Works of the High Middle Ages, 1170-1280, 1994; (with J. Hardin; and contrib) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 148: German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages, 800-1170, 1995; (with C. Merkes-Frei) Werkheft Literatur: Sinasi Dikmen und Zehra Cirak, 1996; A Companion to Wolfram's Parzival, 1999. Contributor of articles and reviews to publications. Address: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, 263 Dauer Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, U.S.A.

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