Birkholz, Daniel
Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1999
Office Location: PAR 225
Office Hours: M 12:00-3:00
Phone: (512) 471-8807
birkholz@mail.utexas.edu

Daniel Birkholz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He comes to UT from Pomona College (Claremont, CA), where in 2002 he received the Wig Distinguished Professorship Award, for excellence in teaching and research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1999; his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1991; and his B.A. from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) in 1990. His fellowships include exchanges at Cambridge University (Downing College, Spring 2002) and the Arni Magnusson Manuscript Institute in Reykjavik, Iceland (1994-1995), plus various grants for archival research (Beinecke Library, Newberry Library, British Library, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, etc).

Recent Publications: Book:

The King’s Two Maps: Cartography and Culture in Thirteenth-Century England. New York: Routledge Press (Studies in Medieval History and Culture, vol. 22), February 2004. xxxiv + 254 pages. Winner of the 2001 Nebenzahl Prize

Journal Articles:

“Mapping Medieval Utopia: Exercises in Restraint.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36:3 (Duke University Press, September 2006): 585-618.

“The Gough Map Revisited: Thomas Butler’s The Mape off Ynglonnd, c.1547-54.” Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 58:1 (Taylor and Francis Ltd., January 2006): 23-47 + 4 color plates.

“The Vernacular Map: Re-Charting English Literary History.” New Medieval Literatures VI (Oxford University Press, December 2003): 11-77.

Work in Progress:

Book:

Harley Lyrics and Hereford Maps: Inventing the Life of Roger de Breynton.

Articles:

“Harley Lyrics and Hereford Clerics: The Implications of Mobility, c.1300-1351.”

“We Have to Invent Him, or, Roger de Breynton and Me: Biography, Periodization, and British Library MS Harley 2253.”

“A Heaven to be Had Here: Medieval Mapping and ‘The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale’.”

“A Crack in the Bedroom Map: Gender, Genre, and the Reception of Cartography in Early Fourteenth-Century England.”

Awards and Honors: The Nebenzahl Prize (2001), awarded biannually by the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center to the outstanding dissertation (world-wide) in any aspect of the history of cartography.

The Wig Distinguished Professorship Award (2002), Pomona College, Claremont California.