Dr. Ruth REICHER

Ruth Reicher is Research and Development Specialist at the Institut für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Interkulturalität, University of Luxembourg.

Ruth Reicher’s research stands at the intersection of German medieval studies, object studies, and pre-modern cultural studies. Her doctoral dissertation examined the literary staging of the book-object in Middle High German texts of the late 12th and 13th centuries (Daz waz ein dinc, das hiez…. buoch-Literarisierungen in mittelhochdeutschen Texten, University of Luxembourg, 2023, publication forthcoming).

Her ongoing work explores materiality, liminality, and liminal spaces and transgression in medieval and early modern literature, drawing on cultural studies and historical linguistics approaches to examine the literary staging of objects, bodies, and boundary crossings. Recent publications have appeared in the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (IASL) and several international edited volumes. A further strand of her research addresses the methodological integration of quantitative approaches and digital humanities tools into philological analysis.

Ruth Reicher teaches at Bachelor and Master levels, offering courses on linguistics, Middle High German, and medieval literature within the Bachelor en Culture Européenne and Transnational German Studies programmes. Within the Doctoral School’s Transferable Skills Programme she runs workshops on thesis defence preparation and academic presentation skills.

Before her current position at the University of Luxembourg, Ruth Reicher worked as Project Manager and Editorial Lead in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences programme area at VERITAS Verlag in Linz, Austria (2017–2018), and as a Student Research Assistant at the University of Graz (2016–2018). She also held positions as a statistician at KFV Sicherheit-Service GmbH and completed mathematical analysis internships at Siemens AG Austria.

Ruth Reicher wrote her PhD dissertation at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Heinz Sieburg. She holds a Joint Master’s degree in German Philology of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period from the Universities of Graz and Bamberg (2018), and degrees in German Studies (2015) and Mathematics (2013) from the University of Graz.