Dr. Janika Bischof

Englisches Seminar
Lecturer
Chair of British Studies
Room 251
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
bischofj@wwu.de
Consultation hours: Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11: 00 am, by appointment via e-mail

  • 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

  • CV

    Education

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

    Positions

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

  • Projects

    • CRC 496 B7 - Book Gifts in Late Medieval and Early Modern England ( - )
      Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: 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.