Rebecca Merkelbach
@beccamerkelbach.bsky.social
Doctor of trollology. Saga fangirl. Assistant Prof of Old Norse at Uni Tü. Lefty nerd💚 Powerlifting yoga teaching harpist. She/sie🏳️🌈 #SkandiRetten
Exciting things are happening in Tübingen over the next two days, and we’re happy to welcome friends and colleagues to our workshop on kaleidoscopic narration in Old Norse-Icelandic literature! I’m very much looking forward to the papers and discussions.
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Exciting things are happening in Tübingen over the next two days, and we’re happy to welcome friends and colleagues to our workshop on kaleidoscopic narration in Old Norse-Icelandic literature! I’m very much looking forward to the papers and discussions.
This has taken forever to arrive (and was only saved by the janitor paying for the customs charges, otherwise it’d have been sent back), but it’s finally here!
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This has taken forever to arrive (and was only saved by the janitor paying for the customs charges, otherwise it’d have been sent back), but it’s finally here!
I may not be at the IMC but I can bring IMC vibes (or rather a shirt I bought there years ago) to Tübingen!
July 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I may not be at the IMC but I can bring IMC vibes (or rather a shirt I bought there years ago) to Tübingen!
I'm a bit late to the party, but Daniela Hahn's awesome new volume "Dingversammlung" has just been published, and I was able to contribute this little piece on things and worldbuilding in the Íslendingasögur. I need to delete my academia.edu profile, so please just message me if you want a copy!
July 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I'm a bit late to the party, but Daniela Hahn's awesome new volume "Dingversammlung" has just been published, and I was able to contribute this little piece on things and worldbuilding in the Íslendingasögur. I need to delete my academia.edu profile, so please just message me if you want a copy!
Reform der Semestertermine wann?🫠
June 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reform der Semestertermine wann?🫠
Proofs! This was a fun piece to write that not only allowed me to go back to my earlier research but also look at the “afterlives” of saga revenants in folklore and popular culture.
Proof corrections are not fun when your brain is full of mucus though
Proof corrections are not fun when your brain is full of mucus though
June 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Proofs! This was a fun piece to write that not only allowed me to go back to my earlier research but also look at the “afterlives” of saga revenants in folklore and popular culture.
Proof corrections are not fun when your brain is full of mucus though
Proof corrections are not fun when your brain is full of mucus though
I think all of my students should read Terry Pratchett (quote from The Wee Free Men)
May 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I think all of my students should read Terry Pratchett (quote from The Wee Free Men)
Ready for Zwischenevaluation😵💫
May 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Ready for Zwischenevaluation😵💫
It has arrived!
May 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It has arrived!
Proof corrections for my article on things and saga worldbuilding sent off! Can’t wait for this exciting volume to be published😊
April 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Proof corrections for my article on things and saga worldbuilding sent off! Can’t wait for this exciting volume to be published😊
Re-reading Wyrd Sisters hits differently in 2025
March 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Re-reading Wyrd Sisters hits differently in 2025
Tübingen stabil (trotz angeblicher Gegendemo?)
March 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tübingen stabil (trotz angeblicher Gegendemo?)
Proofs!
Very much looking forward to the publication of the volume in which this will appear: Saga Emotions!
www.waterstones.com/book/saga-em...
Very much looking forward to the publication of the volume in which this will appear: Saga Emotions!
www.waterstones.com/book/saga-em...
February 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Proofs!
Very much looking forward to the publication of the volume in which this will appear: Saga Emotions!
www.waterstones.com/book/saga-em...
Very much looking forward to the publication of the volume in which this will appear: Saga Emotions!
www.waterstones.com/book/saga-em...
Tübingen Stadt wie üblich stabil (aber Kreis ist ziemlich übel bislang)
February 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Tübingen Stadt wie üblich stabil (aber Kreis ist ziemlich übel bislang)
Tübingen stabil wie immer
January 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tübingen stabil wie immer
Today I’m doing something I, as a bad medievalist, have never done before: I’m teaching an entire class on manuscript transmission and variance. Wish me luck!
January 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Today I’m doing something I, as a bad medievalist, have never done before: I’m teaching an entire class on manuscript transmission and variance. Wish me luck!
Taking notes from the Halsin school of leadership, just as I begin working towards the Leadership Certificate offered by my university.
January 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Taking notes from the Halsin school of leadership, just as I begin working towards the Leadership Certificate offered by my university.
The Storyworlds-volume is finally at proof stage! So exciting!
January 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Storyworlds-volume is finally at proof stage! So exciting!
The storyworlds volume, years in the making, finally has a cover!
July 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM
The storyworlds volume, years in the making, finally has a cover!
Conference number 2
July 4, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Conference number 2
Could we do this in Tübingen?
July 2, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Could we do this in Tübingen?
