Gutgsell Endowed Professor: Stephen Jaeger

Stephen Jaeger is Gutgsell Professor and Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literature.  He received his academic degrees from the University of California, Berkley and University of Tübingen.  Professor Jaeger taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Bryn Mawr College and the University of Washington before moving to the University of Illinois.  His research is focused on courtly literature of the Middle Ages and the inter-relations of vernacular and Latin cultures.  He also has studied medieval humanism and written on its emergence at cathedral schools in the pre-courtly period and its influence on Gottfried’s Tristan.