Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß

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Dear students,
I have left the University of Cologne for a professorship at the University of Bamberg. If I have already agreed to supervise your BA- or MA-thesis either this summer term or winter term 2024/25, I will do so. If you still want to hand in a term paper for a seminar you took with me in summer term 2023 or winter term 2023/24, you can register for the MAP with PD Dr. Marlena Tronicke. The same goes for oral exams. It was a pleasure meeting and teaching so many of you!
Warm regards & take care,
Susanne Gruß

I joined English Seminar I as professor of English literature and culture (with a special focus on gender and queer studies) in 2022. Before that I was visiting professor at the universities of Bonn, Passau, and Frankfurt/Main, and (senior) lecturer in English literature and culture at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. I hold a PhD in English literature (published as The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter, Rodopi/Brill 2009) and have finished a second book manuscript on the intersections of law, drama, and genre in the early modern age (The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre in Early Modern Drama, 2020).

My research and publications focus on contemporary British literature and culture as well as on early modern England. Within these very broad areas, my specialisms include gender studies and feminist theory, neo-Victorianism (and cultural appropriations of the long nineteenth century more generally), Black British writing, (film) adaptation, and, more recently, the cultural and literary implications of the fungal world; as well as early modern culture and drama (especially revenge tragedy & tragicomedy), collaboration and/in theatre, early modern piracy, and (early modern) law and literature. In both fields I am interested in popular culture and questions of canonisation and genre.

academic career

2022-10 to present	Professor English Seminar I Universität zu Köln
2022-04 to 2022-09	Interim Professor Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie (IAAK) Universität Bonn
2021-10 to 2022-03	Interim Professor Chair of English Literature and Culture Universität Passau
2020-10 to 2021-09	Interim Professor Institut für England- und Amerikastudien Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2001 to 2022-09	(senior) lecturer / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Department of English/American and Romance Studies Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

research interests

contemporary British literature and culture
- gender and queer studies
- feminist theory
- neo-Victorianism
- Black British writing
- (film) adaptation
- cultural and literary implications of the fungal world
early modern England
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- (early modern) law and literature
- genre (revenge tragedy & tragicomedy)
- early modern piracy
- (Jacobean) gothic
canonisation & genre

publications

monograph:

1. (2009) The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter. Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi [GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture, vol. 11].

reviews: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 19.1 (2012) – Journal of Gender Studies 20.1 (2011) – PG CWWN Newsletter 1.1 (2010)

editorship:

5. (2022–, with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) general editor: gender forum, online. http://genderforum.org.

4. (2022–, with Lena Steveker) reviews editor / Bücherschau: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Kröner.

3. (2014–) associate editor: Neo-Victorian Studies, online. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com.

2. (2014–2021) reviews editor: Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC), Königshausen & Neumann.

1. (2012–14) Assistant Editor: Neo-Victorian Studies, online.

edited volumes:

4. (2014) ed. (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker). Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. London and New York: Routledge [Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature 12]. [peer reviewed]

paperback 2021
reviews: Victorian Studies 59.1 (2016) – Neo-Victorian Studies 8.2 (2016) – The Gaskell Journal 29 (2015) – 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century <http://www.nbol_19.org> (2015)

3. (2014) Hg. (section editor, with Lena Steveker, Angelika Zirker). Not Shakespeare: New Approaches to Drama in the Seventeenth Century. Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz: Proceedings. eds Silvia Mergenthal und Reingard Nischik. Trier: wvt.

2. (2012) Hg. (mit Simone Broders, Stephanie Waldow). Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann [Focus: Gegenwart, Bd. 1].

1. (2004) ed. (with Rudolf Freiburg). “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy. Tübingen: Stauffenburg [ZAA Studies, vol. 20].

review: ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 56.4 (2008)

journals (special issues):

4. (forthc.) ed. (with Lena Steveker) Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Critical Survey 36.2. [peer reviewed]

3. (2022) ed. (with Manushag N. Powell) Pirates in English Literature and Culture 2. Humanities 11.4. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/pirates_vol2. [peer reviewed]

2. (2018) ed. (with Lena Steveker). Early Modern Spectacles. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.1. [peer reviewed]

1. (2011) ed. (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker). Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com. [peer reviewed]

essays in journals:

11. (2023) (with Lena Steveker) "Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft." Plurale Autorschaft: Formen der Zusammenarbeit in Schriftkultur, Kunst und Literatur. Eds Nicola Glaubitz and Katharina Wesselmann. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht: Neue Folge 2: 187-204 (https://lwu.uni-kiel.de/). [peer reviewed]

10. (2022) “Monstrous Growths? Mushrooms, Fungi, Spores and the Borders of the (Post)Human in Contemporary British Culture.” British Borders. Eds Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.1: 85–100. [peer reviewed]

9. (2022) “Massinger’s Strange Pirates: Strangeness, Law(s) and Genre in The Double Marriage and The Unnatural Combat.” Strangeness in Early Stuart Performances, 1603-1649. Eds Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Critical Survey 34.2: 80–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9010007. [peer reviewed]

8. (2021) “From Law-and-Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture... and Beyond?” Anglistik. Special Issue: Perspectives on Literature and Interdisciplinarity. Eds Jens Martin Gurr and Ursula Kluwick. 32.3: 19–32. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/3/5. [peer reviewed]

7. (2021) “Reading the Unconscious of the Law: From Psychoanalytical Legal Theory to Early Modern Law and Literature.” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Special Focus: Law and Literature. Ed. Franziska Quabeck. 21: 15–34. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756456-002. [peer reviewed]

6. (2020) “Slippery Pirates: Generic Conventions and Discursive Instability in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s Pirate Plays.” Pirates in English Literature. Eds Claire Jowitt and Manushag N. Powell. Humanities 9.1: 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9010007. [peer reviewed]

5. (2018) (withLena Steveker) “Introduction: Early Modern Spectacles.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.2: 121–128.

4. (2015) “Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde-Series.” (Neo-)Victorian Masculinities. Eds Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. Victoriographies – A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790–1914 5.2: 165–182. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2015.0191. [peer reviewed]

3. (2012) “Thomas Middleton’s Gothic Nightmares: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Bloody Banquet and The Lady’s Tragedy.” Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit / Studies in Early Modern History, Culture and Science 16.3/4: 225–242. [peer reviewed]

2. (2011) (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker) “Introduction: Spectacles and Things – Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism.” Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. Eds Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss. Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2: 1–23. [peer reviewed

1. (2009) “Spicing up the Austen Cult: Negotiating Bollywood, Hollywood and Heritage Aesthetics in Bride and Prejudice.” Bollywood and Beyond: Contemporary Indian Cinemas and Globalization. Ed. Thomas Kühn. ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57.1: 47–57.

book chapters:

19. (2022) “Black, Queer, Victorian? The Precarious Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Prince Alemayehu.” Black Neo-Victoriana: Interrogating Presence, Challenging Absence. Eds Julian Wacker, Marlena Tronicke, and Felipe Espinoza Garrido. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469150_004. [Neo-Victorian Series 8]. [peer reviewed]

18. (2021) “Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-Slave Narrative: Sara Collins’s Neo-Gothic The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019).” The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Eds Gerd Bayer and Rudolf Freiburg. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 111–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83422-7_5. [peer reviewed]

17. (2020) “Revisiting the Bloody Chamber: Transnational Bluebeard-Tales in Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr Fox (2011) and Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015).” And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales. Eds Ina Habermann and Christian Krug. Erlangen: FAU University Press. 125–139. https://doi.org/10.25593/978-3-96147-343-4.

16. (2018) “Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change.” Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change. Eds Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke and Eckart Voigts. Heidelberg: Winter. 59–73. [anglistik & englischunterricht 85]

15. (2016) “Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies.” English Topographies in Literature and Culture: Space, Place, and Identity. Eds Ina Habermann and Daniela Keller. Leiden und Boston: Brill Rodopi. 74–90. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004322271_007. [Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature 23]

14. (2015) “Jacobean Gothic and the Law: Revengers and Ineffectual Rulers in Middleton and Massinger.” Gothic Transgressions: Extension and Commercialization of a Cultural Mode. Eds Ellen Redling and Christian Schneider. Zürich: LIT. 35–53.

13. (2014) (mit Lena Steveker, Angelika Zirker) “Introduction: Not Shakespeare – New Approaches to Drama in the Seventeenth Century.” Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz: Proceedings. Eds Silvia Mergenthal und Reingard Nischik. Trier: wvt. 153–157.

12. (2014) (mit Nadine Boehm-Schnitker) “Introduction: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian – Neo-Victorian Fashions.” Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. Eds Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss. London and New York: Routledge. 1–17. [peer reviewed]

11. (2014) “Spectres of the Past: Reading the Phantom of Family Trauma in Neo-Victorian Fiction.” Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. Eds Nadine Boehm-Schnitker und Susanne Gruss. London and New York: Routledge. 123–136. [peer reviewed]

10. (2012) (mit Simone Broders, Stephanie Waldow) „Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung.“ Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hg. Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß und Stephanie Waldow. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 9–24.

9. (2012) „‘But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male’: Transgender als Passing von Jackie Kays Trumpet (1998) zum neoviktorianischen Bildungsroman.“ Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hg. Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß und Stephanie Waldow. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 191–213.

8. (2012) “Angela Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns.” Angela Carter: New Critical Readings. Eds Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips. London: Continuum. 44–55. [peer reviewed]

7. (2011) “The Diffusion of Gothic Conventions in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003/2007).” Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Eds Katrin Berndt and Lena Steveker. Farnham: Ashgate. 39–53. [peer reviewed]

6. (2010) “Sex and the City? Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright and Bernardine Evaristo.” Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures. Eds Laurenz Volkmann, Nancy Grimm, Ines Detmers, and Katrin Thomson. Amsterdam und New York: Rodopi [Cross/Cultures 121, ASNEL Papers 15]. 321–336. [peer reviewed]

5. (2009) “‘A few flowery phrases and he thinks I’m his’ – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film.” High and/versus Popular Culture. Eds Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dorothea Flothow. Heidelberg: Winter. 45–57.

4. (2009) “‘The Flesh Made Word’: Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts.” Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings. Eds Lars Eckstein und Christoph Reinfandt. Trier: wvt. 57–66.

3. (2009) “Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara (2006).” Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation. Eds Sarah Säckel, Walter Göbel, and Noha Hamdy. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 223–238.

2. (2004) (mit Rudolf Freiburg) “Introduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy.” “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy. Eds Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 13–47.

1. (2004) “Megalomaniac Ice-Cream Cone, Sulking Mistress, Sadistic Slacker: God in Postmodern Narratives.” “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy. Eds Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 533–549.

handbook entries, reference works:

3. (2022) „Die formation féminine.“ Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Form. Hg. Matthias Erdbeer, Florian Kläger und Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter. 470–481. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110364385-017.

2. (2013) “Angela Carter, Wise Children.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture. http://www.litencyc.com.

1. (2009) „Michèle Roberts.“ KLfG: Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. 78. Nachlieferung. München: edition text + kritik, 2009. 1–12, A/1–D/2.

Interviews:

2. (2012) (mit Nadine Böhm-Schnitker) „Jasper Fforde im Gespräch mit Schau ins Blau.“ Kult und Mythos. Schau ins Blau: Eine Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft 4. https://www.schauinsblau.de/?article=jasper-fforde.

1. (2004) “‘People confuse relationships with legal structures’: An Interview with Margaret Atwood.” Gender Queeries. gender forum 8. http://genderforum.org/gender-queeries-issue-8-2004.

reviews:

13. (2020) rev. “Margaret Morganrath Gullette, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 27.1: 89–91.

12. (2020) rev. “Daniela Carpi and François Ost, eds. As You Law It – Negotiating Shakespeare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 156: 297–298.

11. (2019) rev. “Elizabeth Hodgson, Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.” English Studies 100.1: 110–111.

10. (2018) rev. “Paul Raffield, The Art of Law in Shakespeare. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 154: 255–256.

9. (2014) rev. “Ina Schabert, SHAKESPEAREs: Die unendliche Vielfalt der Bilder. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2013.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 21.2: 235–238.

8. (2014) rev. „Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.“ Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung / Journal of Folktale Studies / Revue d’Etudes sur le Conte Populaire 55.3/4: 352–355.

7. (2013) rev. “Vanessa Gerhards, Shakespeare Reloaded: The Shakespeare Renaissance 1989-2004. Trier: wvt, 2011.” Anglistik 24.2: 220–222.

6. (2013) rev. „Susanne Rohr and Lars Schmeink (eds), Wahnsinn in der Kunst: Kulturelle Imaginationen vom Mittelalter bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Trier: wvt, 2011.“ Anglistik 24.1: 223–224.

5. (2012) rev. “Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos, A. S. Byatt: Critical Storytelling. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2010.” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 46: 101–105.

4. (2011) rev. “Valentina Castagna, Shape-Shifting Tales: Michèle Roberts’s Monstrous Women. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.” Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 29: 350–354.

3. (2011) rev. “Dietmar Böhnke, Stefanie Brusberg-Kiermeier, Peter Drexler (eds), Victorian Highways, Victorian Byways: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Berlin: trafo, 2010.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 18.1: 91–93.

2. (2006) rev. “Ralf Schneider, Hg. Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis: Eine anglistisch-amerikanistische Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004.” ZAA 54.4: 415–417.

1. (2003) rev. “Alexa Alfer, Michael J. Nobel, eds. Essays on the Fiction of A.S. Byatt: Imagining the Real. Westport and London: Greenwood, 2001.” ZAA 51.3: 311–312.

conference papers

2024	"Von Shakespeare und Peele zu Ravenscroft: Gemeinschaft und gemeinschaftliche Autorschaft in Titus Andronicus." Diversität & Gemeinschaft / Diversity & Community, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Bochum, 19.-21. April 2024. "'I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move': Von Pilzen und Myzelien und ihrer kulturwissenschaftlichen Bedeutung." Gaiageschichten: Ansätze zu einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Bodenkunde. Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Bad Heilbrunn.
2023	“Ecofungi? Mushrooms and their Fungal Networks in Twenty-First Century (Horror) Films.” Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures, 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken “Neo-Victorian Decadence (Studies): The Contingent Masculinities of Oscar Wilde.” Keynote, Late-Victorian Decadence as Mode, Theory and Attitude, DACH-Victorianists Workshop (online). (with Andy Kesson, Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith, Lena Steveker) Roundtable “What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?” European Society for Textual Scholarship, Annual Conference, University of Kent
2022	“The Fungal EcoGothic and the Annihilation of Human Agency in British-American Films.” Corporations, Communities, Crowds: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency in Twenty-First Century Culture, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?“ Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kollektive Autorschaft, Universität Kiel “The Posthuman in Fungal Gothic Fiction: Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2018) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020).” Posthuman Encounters: Desires, Fears, and the Uncanny, Universität des Saarlandes
2021	(with Lena Steveker) “Introduction: Practices of Collaboration, Then and Now.” Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts. Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg / Universität Passau “Thinking Collaboratively About Early Modern Forms of Collaboration.” Workshop Early Modern Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg “Spectacular Madness? Masculinity and Mental Distress in Early Modern Revenge Plays.” The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations, TU Dresden “Intercultural Contact, Maritime Law, and Generic Fluidity in Early Modern ‘Pirate’ Plays.” Conceptualizing Intercultural Contact in Early Modern Britain and Beyond, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld „Krankheit, Mutterschaft, Altern: Der (weibliche) Körper in Sinéad Gleesons Constellations (2019).“ Body Politics: Intersektionale Forschungsperspektiven auf den Körper. Interdisziplinärer Workshop, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg [online]
2020	“Monstrous Growths? Mushrooms, Fungi, Spores and the Borders of the (Post)Human in Contemporary British Culture.” British Borders, Britcult 2020, Universität des Saarlandes
2019	(with Lena Frommer and Verena Rissmann) „Literarische Piraten in der Hochschuldidaktik: Studentische Konferenzen als Einstieg in die Forschungspraxis.“ Forschung und Lehre – Widerspruch oder Synergie? Interdisziplinäres Symposium: Methoden in der Hochschullehre, LMU München “From Law-and-Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture... and Beyond?” Literature and…? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Anglistentag 2019, Universität Leipzig „‘Murder made parallel with law!’: Recht und Literatur auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne.“ Tag der Forschung – “Wissen in Bewegung”, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg “Black, Queer, Victorian? The Precarious Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Prince Alemayehu.” (Neo‑)Victorian ‘Orientations’ in the Twenty-First Century, Universidad de Málaga, Spanien
2018	“Marston’s Tragi-Comic Revenge Trio: Testing Generic Boundaries in the Antonio-Plays and The Malcontent.” Writing Renaissance Experience – Experiencing Renaissance Writing, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz “Refracturing Victorian Masculinity: The Curious Case of Dr James Miranda Barry.” De/Constructing Masculinities? Critical Explorations into Affect, Intersectionality, and the Body, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (with Dr. Marcus Hartner) “Introduction: Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers.” Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers: Connecting the Early Modern Seas, international symposium, Universität Bielefeld
2017	“Walking London, Walking the Past: Michèle Roberts’s The Walworth Beauty (2017).” Reading Michèle Roberts, Universität Łódź
2016	“Pirates and Their Daughters: Strangeness, Genre and the Law in The Double Marriage and The Unnatural Combat.” Strangeness in Early Stuart Performances, 1603-1649, Universität des Saarlandes
2015	“‘Clermont must author this just tragedy’: The (In)Justices of Early Modern Revenge Tragedy.” Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts (Connotations Symposium), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change.” Transforming Cities, TU Braunschweig
2013	(with Dr. Lena Steveker, Dr. Angelika Zirker) “Introduction.” Sektion ‘Not Shakespeare: New Approaches to Drama in the Seventeenth Century’, Anglistentag 2013, Universität Konstanz “Philip Massinger for the Middle Temple? The Queen of Corinth, The Fatal Dowry and the Genre of Legal Learning.” Renaissance Men at the Middle Temple, Birbeck College, London
2012	“Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies.” Topographies of Britain, Universität Basel “What Early Modern Literature Learnt from the Law – and Vice Versa.” Can Literature Learn from Law? Münster Symposium on Law and Literature, Universität Münster, (auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer)
2011	“‘Thou monster of cruelty, forbear!’: Women and ‘Gothic’ Monstrosity on the Early Modern Stage.” The Monster Inside Us, The Monsters Around Us: Monstrosity and Humanity, De Montfort University, Leicester “Jacobean Gothic and the Law: Revengers and Ineffectual Rulers in Middleton and Massinger.” Gothic Limits / Gothic Ltd. 10^th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, Universität Heidelberg “‘Whose hand presents this gory spectacle?’: Monstrous Rulers on the Early Modern Stage and the Breakdown of the Law.” Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society, LMU München “Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde-Series.” Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism, University of Hull
2010	(with Nadine Böhm) “Introduction.” Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2009	“Thomas Middleton’s Gothic Nightmares: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Bloody Banquet and The Lady’s Tragedy.” Gothic Renaissance, Universität zu Köln “Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns.” Angela Carter: A Critical Exploration, University of Northampton
2008	“‘The Flesh Made Word’ – Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts.” Anglistentag 2008, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen “Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara (2006).” Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation, Universität Stuttgart
2007	“‘A few flowery phrases and he thinks I’m his’ – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film.” 18^th British Cultural Studies Conference – High Culture and/versus Popular Culture, Universität Salzburg “‘…into the Shadows’: The Frailty of Masculinity in Angela Carter’s ‘Bristol Trilogy’.” Men and Madness: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern and Contemporary Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University “Sex and the City? (Re)Empowering Mistresses, Muses and Prostitutes.” ASNEL – Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2006	“Jane Austen in Kholiwood? Bride and Prejudice at the Crossroads of Hollywood and Bollywood Aesthetics.” Bollywood and Beyond. Contemporary Indian Cinemas and Globalisation, TU Dresden

(guest) lectures & workshop contributions

2023	“Haben Pilze ein Geschlecht? Von Myzelien, Sporen, Posthumanismus und der (Wieder)Einschreibung von Heteronormativität.” (lecture series (Inter-)Disziplinäre Ansätze der Gender und Queer Studies, GeStiK, Universität zu Köln) (with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) "Feminist Publishing: Shifts and Intersections." (Mobile Feminisms Networking Workshop, Würzburg University)
2022	“Jacobean Drama” (guest lecture, Université du Luxemburg)
2020	“Jacobean Revenge Tragedy” (guest lecture, Basel University) “‘Toxic’ Masculinity, Effeminacy and Necrophilia in Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy and Massinger’s The Duke of Milan” (guest lecture, Ruhr-University Bochum)
2018	(with Prof. Dr. Annette Keilhauer) „Monsieur Vénus und Dr. James Barry: Literarische Inszenierungen von Transgender und Passing“ (lecture series Zuordnungen in Bewegung: Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung quer durch die Disziplinen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2017	“Jane Austen and ‘Jane Austen’: Regency Literature, Janeites and Darcymaniacs” (guest lecture, Basel University) „Literatur als Differenzkategorie in der Law-and-Literature Debatte“ (11. Weiterbildungsseminar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2016	„Neoviktorianismus: Vom 21. ins 19. Jahrhundert – und wieder zurück?“ (Geschichtsrepräsentation in der zeitgenössischen Populärliteratur, Workshop Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2014	„Jane Austen 2.0 – Immersion, Sequels, Mash-Ups“ (lecture series Populärkultur, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2013	“Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus” (lecture series Classics of the English Canon, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) “Jacobean Drama” (guest lecture, Basel University)
2012	“From Bollywood to Hollywood and Back Again: Transcultural Adaptation” (interdisciplinary lecture series Understanding India, Germersheim University) (with Nadine Böhm-Schnitker) “Neo-Victorianism” (guest lecture, Basel University)
2009	„‘But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male’: Transgender und Passing im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman“ (lecture series Phänomene der Fremdheit, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
2008	“The Jane Austen Cult” (guest lecture, Basel University)
2007	(with Nadine Böhm) „Post-Colonial Shakespeares – Ein Unterrichtsexperiment“ (Workshop Anglistische Hochschuldidaktik: Alternative Lehr-/Lernformate, Bielefeld University)
2006	„Jane Austen dons a sari – Transkulturelles Kino in Gurinder Chadhas Bride and Prejudice“ (8. Anglistik Didaktik Workshop, Universität Wien)
2004	„Seminarmaterialien auf CD-ROM“ (6. Anglistik Didaktik Workshop: Anglistische Lehre und/im Internet, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) „Virtualität im Cyberpunk – Pat Cadigans Tea From an Empty Cup“ (Netzwelten, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Sektion “Vernetzte Welten: Virtualität und Wirklichkeit in Literatur und Film”)

organisation: conferences & workshops

(2021, with Lena Steveker) international conference Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts. Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg & Passau University, 02-04 December (online).
(2018, with Marcus Hartner) international symposium Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers – Connecting the Early Modern Seas. Bielefeld University, 13-14 April.
(2017, with Doris Feldmann) workshop 11. Weiterbildungsseminar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 05-06 May.
(2010, with Nadine Böhm-Schnitker & Anne Enderwitz) international conference Fashioning the Neo-Victorian. Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 08-10 April.
(2009/10, with Simone Broders & Stephanie Waldow) lecture series Phänomene der Fremdheit. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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