Tim read for a BA in French and German at St Edmund Hall (with a year abroad in Pontigny and Freiburg im Breisgau) and an MSt in German at St John's College. After a year as a Chapel Intern at Pusey House, he returned to St Edmund Hall in 2024 to begin reading for a DPhil in German.
His DPhil project is focused on the reception of Hans Sachs (1494-1576) and his works in the German Democratic Republic, funded by the Crankstart Graduate Scholarship and supervised by Professor Henrike Lähnemann. Tim’s project will explore the relationship between images of Hans Sachs as an author figure and interpretations of his works in the GDR, and how both were harnessed to rehabilitate Sachs and integrate him into the canon of ‘national heritage’ by appropriating him as a popular and politically engaged writer who anticipated ideals of literature and personhood promoted by the East German state.
Tim is currently preparing to present on Hans Sachs' Reformation writings at the 20. Internationales Treffen Germanistische Mediävistik on 11 April 2025. He will also be co-directing an adaptation of Hans Sachs' play Tragedia von schöpfung, fal und außtreibung Ade auß dem paradeyß (1548) to be performed at the Oxford Medieval Studies Medieval Mystery Cycle on 26 April 2025.
Publications
a) Edited Volumes
(with Mary Boyle and Philip Flacke): Epic! Homer and the 'Nibelungenlied' in Translation (Treasures of the Taylorian, Series 3: Cultural Memory, vol. 7) (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2024).
(with Florian Gieseler and Henrike Lähnemann): ‘Mönchkalb’ and ‘Ursache und Antwort: Two Anti-Monastic Pamphlets from 1523 (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2023).
b) Essays
"The Nibelungenlied from Socialist National Epic to National Socialist Epic", in: Mary Boyle, Philip Flacke, Timothy Powell (edd.), Epic! Homer and the 'Nibelungenlied' in Translation (Treasures of the Taylorian, Series 3: Cultural Memory, vol. 7) (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library, 2024), pp. 25-39.
“Ein himmlischer Wegweiser. Stephan von Landskron, Die Himelstrass”, in: Martina Backes, Balázs J. Nemes (edd.), buochmeisterinne: Handschriften und Frühdrucke aus dem Dominikanerinnenkloster Adelhausen, Stadt und Geschichte Heft 24 (Freiburg im Breisgau: Stadtarchiv Freiburg im Breisgau, 2021), pp. 201-08.
c) Translations
(with Pauline Gümpel and Eve Mason), “The Second Pamphlet: Summer 1942”, in: Lloyd, Alexandra (ed.), Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2022), pp. 97-101.
(with Pauline Gümpel and Eve Mason), “The Second Pamphlet: Summer 1942” in: Lloyd, Alexandra (ed.), The White Rose: Reading, Writing, Resistance (Treasures of the Taylorian, Series 3: Cultural Memory, vol. 1) (Oxford, Taylor Institution Library: 2019), pp. 127-42.
Conference Papers
(forthcoming:) 'Zwischen Reformation und Revolution: die Rezeption der Reformationsschriften von Hans Sachs in der DDR von 1953 bis 1983' - 20. Internationales Treffen Germanistische Mediävistik (11.04.25)
'Reinventing Walther von der Vogelweide in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' - 6th Cambridge Undergraduate Conference in German Studies (08.02.20)