2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Gastprofessur, Peking University und University of International Business and Economics, Peking, China

2006
Gastprofessur, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA

seit 1999
Lehrstuhl für Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Englisches Seminar I, Universität zu Köln

1994-1998
Professur für Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam

1994
Habilitation (“Wahnsinn und Weiblichkeit im Drama der englischen Renaissance”)

1989-90
Gastprofessur, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

1984-94
Akademische Rätin und Oberrätin, Englisches Institut, Universität Würzburg

1984
Promotion (“Spiel und Politik im Werk von Tom Stoppard”), summa cum laude

1981-84
Promotionsstudium

1980
Staatsexamen

1974-1980
Studium der Anglistik und Germanistik an der Universität Würzburg und an der Manchester University, England

1. Bücher

• Spiel und Politik: Aspekte der Komik bei Tom Stoppard. München: Fink, 1986. [Play and Politics: Aspects of the Comic in Tom Stoppard's Plays]
• Wahnsinn und Weiblichkeit im Drama der englischen Renaissance. Habilitationsschrift Würzburg 1992. [Madness and Gender in the Drama of the English Renaissance]
• Jüdische Erfahrung in den Kulturen Großbritanniens und Nordamerikas nach 1945. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. [Jewish Experience in the Cultures of Great Britain and North American after 1945]
• Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
• Dichotonies: Gender and Music. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2009.
• [with Kay Schaffer]. Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia. Cross-Cultures Series. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.
• [with Elisabeth Bronfen]. Gothic Renaissance. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2014.
• World Literatures in Australia: Kim Scott and Alexis Wright. Palgrave, 2018. Forthcoming.
• [ed. with Boris Braun, and Victoria Herche]. Nature and Environment in Australia. WVT, 2018.
• [ed. with Helen Tiffin]. Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent. Rowman & Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019.
  
   
• Renaissance Monstrosities: Madness – Gender – Genre in English Renaissance Theater. In preparation.
• Auto/biographical Performances: Gender and Life-Writing. In preparation.

2. Fachzeitschriften

• Ed., GenderInn, Gender Studies data base (since 1999)
• Ed., genderforum - An Internet Platform for Gender Studies (since 2001)
  • Issues:
  • Genderealisations - Locating Gender Studies 1 (2002)
  • Mediating Gender - Gender and the Media 2 (2002)
  • Rac(e)ing Questions I - Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues 3 (2002)
  • H(a)unted Heroines - Gender, Madness, and the Demonic 4 (2003)
  • Gender Debat|tl|ed - Gender and War 5 (2003)
  • Anybody's Concerns I - Gender and the Body 6 (2003)
  • Anybody's Concerns II - Gender and the Body 7 (2004)
  • Gender Queeries - Queer Concerns 8 (2004)
  • Male Accounts - Representing Masculinities 9 (2004)
  • Rac(e)ing Questions II - Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues 10 (2005)
  • Imagendering I - Gender and Visualization 11 (2005)
  • Illuminating Gender I - Gender and Disease 12 (2005)
  • Imagendering II - Gender and Visualization 13 (2006)
  • Rac(e)ing Questions III - Gender and Postcolonial/Intercultural Issues 14 (2006)
  • Gender Roomours I - Gender and Space 15 (2006)
  • Gender Roomours II - Gender and Space 16 (2006)
  • Working Out Gender 17 (2007)
  • Gender Disgussed - Gender and the Abject 18 (2007)
  • Women in Power - Special Issue (2007)
  • Illuminating Gender II - Gender and Illness 19 (2007)
  • Gender and Language 20 (2008)
  • Gender and Jewish Culture 21 (2008)
  • Black Women's Writing Revisited 22 (2008)
  • Face to Race - Gender, Ethnicity and the Media 23 (2008)
  • Apparatus XY - Gender Praxes in the History of Chinese and Western Medicine 24 (2009)
  • Literature and Medicine I - Women in the Medical Profession 25 (2009)
  • Literature and Medicine II - Women in the Medical Profession: Personal Narratives 26 (2009)
  • Off Centre - Eccentricity and Gender 27 (2009)
  • Eng“AGE”ing Questions - Gender and Age 28 (2010)
  • Private I, Public Eye - Gender and Exposure 29 (2010)
  • De-Voted - Gender and Politics 30 (2010)
  • Gender and Performance - Theatre / Dance / Technology 31 (2010)
  • Historical Masculinities as an Intersectional Problem 32 (2011)
  • Gender and Humour - Reinventing the Genres of Laughter 33 (2011)
  • Where Two Worlds Co“inc”ide - David Berger on Repression, Transgression, and the Roman Catholic Catholic Church  34 (2011)
  • Gender and Humour II - Reinventing the Genres of Laughter, Part II 35 (2011
  • (Con)Sequences - Gender, Dance and Ethnicity 36 (2011)
  • SexPosed - Gender and Pornography 37 (2012)
  • Passages to India - Literary and Socio-Political Perspectives on Gender Concepts in India 38 (2012)
  • Buddies that Matter - Gender and Friendship 39 (2012)
  • Gender and Consumerism 40 (2013)
  • Gender and Force in the Media 41 (2013)
  • Gender and Urban Space 42 (2013)
  • Empires of Gender. Constructions of Gender in the Age of Imperialism 43 (2013)
  • Gender and Fairy Tales 44 (2013)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers I 45 (2013)
  • Gender and Contemporary Film 46 (2013)
  • Gender Studies: Masculinity Studies 47 (2014)
  • Gender and Intersectionality 48 (2014)
  • Shakespeare, Gender and Sexuality 49 (2014)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers II 50 (2014)
  • Absolute Erotic 51 (2015)
  • Special Issue: Terry Pratchett 52 (2015)
  • Gender Down Under 53 (2015)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers III 54 (2015)
  • Gender, Animals, Animality 55 (2015)
  • Transgender and the Media 56 (2016)
  • Gender and Fantasy 57 (2016)
  • Gender and Captivity 58 (2016)
  • Queer Film and Television (2016)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers IV (2016)
  • Powerful Women (2017)
  • Gender and Superheroes (2017)
  • Threads of Eternity? Gender and Marriage (2017)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers V (2017)
  • Contemporary Muslim Women's Voices (2017)
  • Engendered Borders (2017)
  • Special Issue: On Cliteridectomy (2018)
  • Bodies on the Line: Intersections between Gender and Disability (2018)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers VI (2018)
  • #MeToo and its Ambivalent Repercussions (2018)
  • New Feminist Materialism and Queer Studies in the Anthropocene (2019)
  • Rainbowing Down for Straight? How Heteronormativity Secures its Reign (2019)
  • Special Issue: Early Career Researchers VII (2019)
  • Kathy Acker: Portrait of an Eye /I (2019)

3. Artikel

40 articles on English and American drama, novels, the English Renaissance, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, published in peer-reviewed European journals and collections of essays. Numerous reviews and entries on English literature for literary dictionaries.

• "Mary McCarthy: Autobiographie und Satire." Der zeitgenössische amerikanische Roman: Zwischen Realismus und postmodernem Experiment. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann. Vol. 2. München: Fink, 1988. 191-213.
• "Die Lust am Intertext: Robert Nyes Roman Falstaff." Shakespeare Jahrbuch (West) (1988): 150-62.
• "Past Lives in Present Drama: Feminist Theatre and Intertextuality." British Drama of the 1980s: New Perspectives. Eds. Bernhard Reitz and Hubert Zapf, 41 (1990): 63-77. Rpt. In Frauen und Frauendarstellung in der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur. Ed. Therese Seidel. Tübingen: Narr, 1991. 181-98.
• "Stoppards Komödien: Zwischen epistemologischem Spiel und ethischem Engagement." Comedies: Mirrors of English Society. Anglistik und Englischunterricht 45. Eds. Hans-Jürgen Diller, S. Kohl, J. Kornelius, E. Otto and G. Stratmann. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 1991. 117-38.
• "Postmodern Gothic: Desire and Reality in Angela Carter's Writing." A Decade of Discontent: British Fiction of the Eighties. Eds. Wolfgang Riedel and Thomas M. Stein. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 1992.  89-97. Rpt. in: Modern Gothic: A Reader. Eds. Victor Sage and Allen Lloyd Smith. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996. 141-51.
• "Passages to and from India: E. M. Forster and Salman Rushdie." Anglistentag 1993 Eichstätt. Ed. Günther Blaicher. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994. 163-75.
• "Female Visions: The Fiction of A. S. Byatt." (Sub)Versions of Realism - Recent Women's Fiction in Britain. Anglistik und Englischunterricht 60. Eds. Irmgard Maassen and Anna Maria Stuby. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 1997. 11-25.
• "Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain." Frauen-Info: Zeitschrift der Gleichstellungsbeauftragten der Universität Potsdam. 2 (1996): 22-30.
• "Sex and Violence in Contemporary Anglo-American Drama." Anglistentag 1996 Dresden. Eds. Uwe Böker and Hans Sauer. Trier: WVT, 1997. 235-43.
• "Zwischen Plurikulturalität und nationaler Homogenität: Jüdische Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart in Großbritannien und den USA." Jüdische Erfahrung in den Kulturen Großbritanniens und Nordamerikas nach 1945. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. ix - xvi.
• "Auto/biographie und Identität: Jüdische Erfahrungen in der britischen Kultur." Jüdische Erfahrung in den Kulturen Großbritanniens und Nordamerikas nach 1945. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. 55-70.
• "The Truth of Fiction - The Fiction of Truth: Judith Cernaik's Mab's Daughters." Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama. Eds. Werner Huber and Martin Middeke. Columbia (SC): Camden House, 1999. 106-119.
• "The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice." Shakespeares Dramen. Literaturstudium -  Interpretationen. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2000. 288-316.
• "Engendering Realism and Postmodernism." Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain. Postmodern Studies Series. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. 1-15.
• "Crossing Boundaries: Joan Riley's No/mad Women." Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain. Postmodern Studies Series. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001. 252-268.
• "Intercultural Performances: The Tempest." Crossing Borders: Intercultural Drama and Theatre at the Turn of the Millennium. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Trier: Wiss. Verlag Trier, 2001. 101-14.
• “Identität und Gedächtnis in der britisch-jüdischen Literatur der Gegenwart: Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes.” Identität und Gedächtnis in der jüdischen Literatur nach 1945. Ed. Dieter Lamping. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003. 156-71.
• "Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora." Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth Proceedings. Ed. Ewald Mengel, Hans-Jörg Schmid and Michael Steppat. Trier: Wiss. Verlag Trier 2003. 199-207.
• “Kindertransport: Memory, Identity and the British-Jewish Diaspora.” Diaspora and Multiculturalism. Ed. Monika Fludernik. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2003. 83-112.
• “Kindertransport: Childhood Trauma and Diaspora Experience.” Jewish Women's Writing of the 1990s and Beyond in Great Britain and the United States. Eds. Ulrike Behlau and Bernhard Reitz. Trier: WVT, 2004. 61-72.
• “Der Voyeur im Theater der englischen Renaissance.” Bilderwelten. Strategien der Visualisierung in Wissenschaft und Kunst. Eds. Peter Drexler and Judith Klinger. Trier: WVT, 2006. 77-94.
• "Re-Vising Dramatic History: Strindberg and Contemporary British Theatre.” History and Drama. Essays in Honour of Bernhard Reitz. Ed. Sigrid Rieuwerts. Trier: WVT, 2006. 229-241.
•  “Dichotonies – Gender and Music: An Introduction." Dichotonies. Gender and Music. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2009. 9-20.
• “Contemporary Playwrights: Staging Music and Gender.” Dichotonies. Gender and Music. Ed. Beate Neumeier. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2009. 341-70.
• “Women's Drama: Timberlake Wertenbaker.” Das englische Drama der Gegenwart. WVT-Handbuch zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium 13. Ed. Merle Tönnies. Trier: WVT, 2010. 173-92.
• “Feminist Theatre: Pam Gems' Queen Christina and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls.” A History of British Drama: Genres - Developments - Model Interpretations. WVT-Handbuch zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium 15. Eds. Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2011. 337-52.
• “Inszenierungen des Wahnsinns im Theater der englischen Renaissance: Gender und Genre.” Wahnsinn in der Kunst: Kulturelle Imaginationen vom Mittelalter bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Susanne Rohr and Lars Schmenik. Trier: WVT, 2011. 29-54.
• “Engendering the Monstrous. Kulturelle Transformationen des Monströsen im Theater der Frühen Neuzeit.” Gender in Bewegung. Aktuelle Spannungsfelder der Queer und Gender Studies. Eds. Susanne Völker and Dirk Schulz. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. 197-212.
• “Introduction.” Gothic Renaissance. A Reassessment. Eds. Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2014.
• “Vision and Desire: Fantastic Renaissance Spectacles.” Gothic Renaissance. A Reassessment. Eds. Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2014.
• “Introduction: Decolonizing Transformations.” Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia. Cross-Cultures Series. Eds. Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. ix-xix.
• “Performative Lives - Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead.” Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia. Cross-Cultures Series. Eds. Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014. 275-292.
• “Reading Matters: 'Marginal' British Jewish Writers.” The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction. Eds. David Brauner and Axel Staehler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 279-288.
• “(Disciplining) Monstrous Renaissance Bodies: Staging the Witch.” Performances and Regulations of the Renaissance Body. Eds. John Drakakis and Sidia Fiorato. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. 29-60.
• “Weltliteraturen in Ozeanien, Neuseeland und Australien.” Grundbegriffe der Literaturwissenschaft. Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming 2017.
• [with Sarah Youssef] “Immersive Shakespeare Productions.“ Anglistik, International Journal of English Studies, vol. 28, no. 2 (September), Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 163-174. Print ISSN: 0947-0034. Link.
• [with David Kern] “Tom Wright’s Black Diggers (2015): The Untold Story of WWI’s Black Diggers remembered.” Der Erste Weltkrieg in der Dramatik – deutsche und australische Perspektiven, Metzler, 2018.
• [with Victoria Herche and David Kern] “Representations of Mining in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016).” Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent. Rowman & Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019.
• “Introduction“. B. Neumeier, H. Tiffin (eds.): Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent. Ecocritical Theory and Practice. New York: Lexington Books, 2019.

2000-01, 2003-04, 2009-10 & 2015-16
Geschäftsführende Direktorin des Englischen Seminars I, Universität zu Köln

1997-98
Geschäftsführende Direktorin des Instituts für Anglistik und Amerikanistk, Universität Potsdam

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• Ed. Gender Inn (gender studies database since 1999)
• Ed. Gender forum (online journal since 2001)
• Ed. Board Gender. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft
• Board of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Cologne (GeStiK Rat)
• Center for Australian Studies and Center for "Jewish Studies", University of Potsdam (1995-98)  
• Erasmus-Cooperation with the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory (Cardiff University 2001-2010)
• MOU with Mumbai University und Khahch University (since 2010)
• MOU with Swansea University (since 2015)
• DAAD (committee ISAP; committee Gastdozentenprogramm; board Picador-Guest Chair 2003-2013)
• DFG (committee electronic publishing 2013)
• GASt (Gesellschaft für Australienstudien)
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• Asian Shakespeare Association
• German Shakespeare Society
• International Shakespeare Association
• International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)
• European Society for the Study of English