Liberal Arts and Sciences
SONGS: A Sustainable Online Network for Global-Cultural Studies
Led by Will Hasty · Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
What we study
Dr. Hasty studies medieval and early modern German and European literature, especially Arthurian romance, and works in digital humanities. He leads SONGS, an online network for global-cultural studies, and takes part in Imagineering the Technosphere, a Mellon-funded group that studies how technologies like the Internet and AI reshape our world.
What working here is like
- Reading, writing & theory
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
SONGS: A Sustainable Online Network for Global-Cultural Studies
An online network and events series for global-cultural studies at UF.
Imagineering the Technosphere
A UF Intersections group funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that studies how humans use technology to alter the physical world, including a student-built augmented-reality app.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Romancing Epic Poetry: Love, War, and Global Sway in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “ Willehalm”
2026 · The Explicator
Analyzes love and war themes in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem Willehalm.
- Parameters of Outdoing Oneself: A Reconsideration of the Bipartite Structure of Early Romance Poetry
2025 · The Explicator
Examines the two-part structure of early medieval romance poetry.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
How to reach out
Will Hasty hasn't set up this page yet. You can also look them up in the UF directory (search “Will Hasty”).