Dr. Jeremy Thompson
Institutional Mailing Address
Department of English, American and Celtic Studies
English Literatures and Cultures
University of Bonn
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
Office Location
Room 2.058
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
Email: jthompso@uni-bonn.de
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests
the literary imagery of acedia and melancholy from the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century; theories of the connection between hand, eye and mind, again from medieval to early Romantic; numbers, number symbolism, numeracy; paleography; form and function of paratexts; historical pedagogies of reading and writing and the digital interface
Courses: Language Skills I and Writing Skills I, in addition to VND curriculum development for Language Practice
Academic Profile
University of Bonn (2022–present)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2018–2021, Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship)
Fu Jen University, Taipei (2015–2017, intensive summer school)
Purdue University Calumet (2015–2016)
PhD, University of Chicago
MA, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, USA)
BA, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, USA)
“Simultaneously Creating by Hand and Head: Virtual Precursors in a Medieval Creatio ex Nihilo,” Krems, Austria.
“Melancholy in the Desert,” University of Melbourne, Australia (over Zoom).
“Paradigms of Melancholy: A Study of the Mythological Exempla,” Leuven, Belgium.
“The Muratorian Fragment as Deposit and Tributary of Latin New Testament Prologues,” Strasbourg, France.
“Reflections on Number and God out of the Margins of Boethius,” Maynooth, Ireland.
“Introducing the Corpus Paulinum in the Middle Ages: The Prologues to the Letters of Paul in the Latin Bible,” Toruń, Poland.
“Eine Neubewertung der Lehren über Weisheit und Zahl in den Glossen der Kölner Handschriften von Boethius' De arithmetica,” Cologne, Germany.
“The Angel of Light and the Demon at Noonday: Exegetical Symbols in the Description of Medieval Melancholia,” Rostock, Germany.
“Did Christ Die of Melancholy?,” Australian Center of the History of Emotions.
“Vat. lat. 36 (‘The Manfred Bible’) and the Muratorian Fragment,” Leuven, Belgium.
“The Entry of Classical Arithmology into Latin Exegesis from c. 1050 to c. 1200,” Paris, France (online).
Current Project: “The English Course Companion (EnC2): An Integrated, LLM-Supported Platform for English Language Practice” (see here)