Annegret Oehme is an Associate Professor of German studies. Her research interests include medieval and early modern German and Yiddish literature and cultural transfers in a German-Jewish context. She has published articles on pre-modern German and Yiddish literature and translations, as well as The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations, (Brill, 2021) and He Should Have Listened to His Wife: The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-modern Wigalois Adaptations, (De Gruyter, 2020).

Oehme is a 2026-2027 Society of Scholars fellow for her project Between Friend and Foe: Monstrous Identities in Old Yiddish Epic and Romance, which explores the role of monsters in Old Yiddish romances and epics from the 14th to 16th centuries. Through detailed textual analysis, the project demonstrates how monsters reflect social anxieties and respond to questions of identity and intersectionality within the Ashkenazic and Italian Jewish diaspora communities of the late Middle Ages and early modern period. It intervenes in Monster Studies by shifting the perspective from majority cultures, where monsters mark and exclude minorities, to a minority culture itself.