Dr. Janika Bischof

Englisches Seminar
Lecturer
Chair of British Studies
Room 251
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster

Consultation hours: Thursdays, 9:00-10:00 am, after previous registration per e-mail: bischofj@uni-muenster.de

For recognition of Work Experience/Stays Abroad, please use: workexp.abroad@uni-muenster

For incoming exchange students and exchange agreements, please use: exchanges.ed@uni-muenster.de

 

  • Research Areas

    • Book Gifts and Symbolic Communication
    • History of Printing and the Book in 18th Century Britain
    • Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture
    • Digital Humanities

  • Further Affiliation at the University of Münster

  • CV

    Education

    Doctoral degree studies in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature
    M.A. degree at the WWU Münster in English Language and Literature (Major), Philosophy and Comparative Literature

    Positions

    wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies der WWU Münster
    wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 496, Projekt B7 "Das Buchgeschenk in England im Spätmittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit"

  • Project

    • CRC 496 B7 - Book Gifts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England ( – )
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre

  • Publications

    Monograph
    Bischof, Janika. Testaments, Donations, and the Values of Books as Gifts: a Study of Records from Medieval England before 1450. Münster Monographs on English Literature 36 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014).

    Edited volumes

    Reading Swift: Papers from the Seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift. Janika Bischof, Kirsten Juhas and Hermann J. Real, eds. (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2019).

    Acta Et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae (1618-1619): Vol. II/2, Early Sessions of the Synod of Dordt. Donald Sinnema, Christian Moser, and Herman J. Selderhuis, eds. in collaboration with Johanna Roelevink, Dagmar Bronner and Janika Bischof (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2018).

    Acta Et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae (1618-1619): Vol. I, Acta of the Synod of Dordt. Donald Sinnema, Christian Moser, and Herman J. Selderhuis, eds. in collaboration with Janika Bischof, Johanna Roelevink and Fred van Lieburg (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2015).

    Text Editions

    Bischof, Janika. "Sektion 9: Advice on Printing Abuses," Dokumente II/2.100-117, pp. 198-226; Dokumente II/2.132-34, pp. 284-288; Dokumente II/2.143-45, pp. 333-349; Dokument II/2.281 "Emden Magistrates to Daniel Eilshemius and Ritzius Lucas Grimersheim," 877-879, in Acta Et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae (1618-1619): Vol. II/2, Early Sessions of the Synod of Dordt. Donald Sinnema, Christian Moser, and Herman J. Selderhuis, eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2018).

    Bischof, Janika and Donald Sinnema. "Acta Contracta," in Acta Et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae (1618-1619): Vol. I, Acta of the Synod of Dordt. Donald Sinnema, Christian Moser, and Herman J. Selderhuis, eds. (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2015), 337-466.

    Sinnema, Donald and Janika Bischof. "Acta Authentica," in Acta et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae: Vol. I (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2015), 3-187.

    Journal Articles and Book Chapters

    Bischof, Janika. "Petruccio Ubaldini and Network Analysis: Historical Uses for a Modern Concept," in Book Gifts and Cultural Networks from the 14th to the 16th Century. Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser, ed. (Münster: Rhema, 2019), 319-30.

    Bischof, Janika. "Online.Swift Edition by Ehrenpreis Centre Newly Enhanced," in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 31, no 2 (2017), 16-18.

    Bischof, Janika. "The Printed Acta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechti as a Networking Tool," in Material Moments in Book Cultures. Essays in Honour of Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser. Simon Rosenberg and Sandra Simon, eds. (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015), 177-87.

    Bischof, Janika. "Die Emder Gesandten auf der Dordrechter Synode von 1618-1619: eine Vorschau auf das Editionsprojekt der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek Emden," in Jahrbuch Kirchliches Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, N.F. 2 (2014), 141-45.