The Lexicon of Mauch Studies
Edited by Rob Gioielli, Katie Ritson and Pavla Šimková
The phenomenon of Mauch knows no end.
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The Lexicon of Mauch Studies is a critical resource for both seasoned Mauchists and those yet to dip a toe into these temperate and inviting waters. Experts from across the Mauchian Humanities have come together to develop this definitive scholarly work, which explores the limitless definition and fantastical shapelessness of this exciting field. In proud Mauchian tradition, this Lexicon promises to beguile you. While you may intend to stop by for a single word, the editors are confident that you will then stay for twenty-five or more; because Mauch is always at least a sentence, and for many a life sentence.
The Editors
Rob Gioielli has been a card-carrying historian for almost twenty years, and a devotee of the Mauchian Method for almost as long. His apprenticeship began as a postdoctoral fellow at the RCC in 2010, where he was introduced to the art of the scholarly introduction, of which he was the befuddled subject in a workshop later that year. He returned to Munich in 2019 as a sabbatarian, during what one might call the high modernist period of Mauchianism, witnessing the method in its greatest form during the Tuesday discussions, which wove together scholarly digression, environmental practice and cake in equal measure. Since 2024 he has been the director of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm, where he works to retheorise Mauchian studies in a Nordic context.
The current version of Katie Ritson is an assistant professor in Scandinavian literature and culture. In previous lives she was a translator, editor and occasional ghostwriter and her future iterations include crime-writer and academic gossip columnist. Well, you never know. Her affiliation with LMU Munich goes back to three years BCE (Before the Christof Era) and her exposure to the Mauchian oeuvre is thus almost unrivalled. When she cleared out her office after fifteen years at the RCC, she possessed a full set of accessories for the scholarly pursuit of Mauch studies: every issue of RCC Perspectives ever published, a pair of hiking boots, a song book and a bottle of whisky. These important relics have all been put into storage as a legacy donation to the future Museum of Mauch. Apart from the whisky.
Pavla Šimková likes to think of herself as a historian. Like many others, she washed up at the RCC sometime in the early 2010s as Amerika-Institut flotsam and hung on for much longer than anyone thought possible or advisable, as student assistant, doctoral student, postdoctoral fellow and Christmas Party gatecrasher. Eventually, she bobbed over to Collegium Carolinum on the other (some would say wrong) side of the Isar River. Despite her longue-durée exposure to the Mauchian Method, she remained her exact, and exacting, self. This, together with having been an unwitting and long-suffering witness to all the shameful RCC shenanigans, makes her an excellent choice as an editor of this volume.
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Mauchian Turn in the Twenty-First Century
Lexicon
List of contributors
Appendix: Mauchian Miscellanea
Publication date: 10 July 2026
ISBN 978-1-917813-06-8 (PB) £18