upcoming & recent talks
upcoming talks:
- "Shakespeare, Peele, Ravenscroft: Generische Diversität 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." Sondage – Bohrung – Grabung: Ansätze zu einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Bodenkunde. Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Bad Heilbrunn, 21.-23. March 2024.
- "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, 08.11.2023.
recent talks:
- (with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) "Feminist Publishing: Shifts and Intersections." Workshop Mobile Feminisms Networking Workshop, Universität Würzburg, 13.-14. October 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, 27-30 September 2023.
- "Neo-Victorian Decadence (Studies): The Contingent Masculinities of Oscar Wilde." Keynote, Late-Victorian Decadence as Mode, Theory and Attitude, DACH-Victorianists Workshop, 21 July 2023 (online).
- Gruß, Susanne (with Andy Kesson, Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith, and Lena Steveker) Roundtable “What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?” European Society for Textual Scholarship, Annual Conference, University of Kent, 13-14 April 2023.
- Gruß, Susanne. “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, 20-22 July 2022.
- Gruß, Susanne. „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?“ Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kollektive Autorschaft, Universität Kiel, 01 July 2022.
- Gruß, Susanne. “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, 19-20 May 2022.
- Gruß, Susanne (mit 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, 02-04 December 2021.
- Gruß, Susanne. “Thinking Collaboratively About Early Modern Forms of Collaboration.” Workshop Early Modern Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 27-28 November 2021
- Gruß, Susanne. “Spectacular Madness? Masculinity and Mental Distress in Early Modern Revenge Plays.” The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations, TU Dresden, 28-29 October 2021.
- Gruß, Susanne. “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, 21 October 2021.
forthcoming & recent publications
forthcoming publications:
- Gruß, Susanne (with Lena Steveker). „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?“ Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (https://lwu.uni-kiel.de/). 2023. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne (with Lena Frommer). „Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.“ Forschung und Lehre – Widerspruch oder Synergie? Hg. Jörg Noller et al. Cham: Springer, 2023. [Perspektiven der Hochschullehre Bd. 3] [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne, ed. (with Lena Steveker). Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Critical Survey 36.2. (2024). [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “The Posthuman in Fungal Gothic Fiction: Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2018) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020).” Posthuman Encounters. Eds Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism (2024). [peer reviewed]
recent publications:
- Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2022): 85–100. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2022): 80–92.http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9010007. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “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, 2022. 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469150_004. [Neo-Victorian Series 8]. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “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, 2021. 111–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83422-7_5. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2021): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/3/5. [peer reviewed]
- Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2021): 15–34. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756456-002. [peer reviewed]
conferences & workshops
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(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).
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(2018, with Marcus Hartner) international symposium Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers – Connecting the Early Modern Seas. Bielefeld University, 13-14 April.
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(2017, with Doris Feldmann) workshop 11. Weiterbildungsseminar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 05-06 May.
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(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.
guest lectures
winter term 2023/24:
- Dr. Felipe Espinoza Garrido (University Muenster)
Transimperial Texts from Braddon to Marryat
VL (Adapting) 19th-Century Literature and Culture, 13.11.2023 Flyer Garrido - Prof. Dr. Heidi Lucja Liedke (Frankfurt/Main)
“In Cahoots with Jane and Victoria – More Personal Encounters with the Nineteenth Century”
VL (Adapting) 19th-Century Literature and Culture, 04.12.2023 Flyer Liedke
summer term 2023:
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Dr. Jennifer Leetsch (Bonn University)
"From Rachel Carson to Wangechi Mutu: An Overview of Ecofeminist Approaches"
VL Feminist, Gender, Queer - An Overview, 03.07.2023
Flyer Leetsch
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Prof. Dr. Greta Olson (Gießen University)
"In Conversation: From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect (2022)"
HS Staging Early Modern Law, 23.06.2023 (Zoom)
Flyer Olson
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Dr. Marlena Tronicke (Münster University)
"Neo-Victorian Queerness and the Lures of Presentism"
HS Neo-Victorian Narratives, 10.05.2023
Flyer Tronicke
winter term 2022/23:
research projects
Practices of Collaboration: Reframing Cultural Production in Early Modern England
(Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß & Prof. Dr. Lena Steveker, Université du Luxembourg)
- project website: https://collaborate.hypotheses.org/
- ed. (with Lena Steveker). Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Eds Susanne Gruss and Lena Steveker. Critical Survey 36.2 (2024). [peer reviewed]
- roundtable "What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?" (with Andy Kesson, Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith, Lena Steveker), University of Kent, April 2023.
- (with Lena Steveker) "Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?" Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (https://lwu.uni-kiel.de/) (2023). [peer reviewed]
- international conference: "Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts", 02.-04. Dezember 2021 (online)
Law and (Early Modern) Literature
(Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß)
- The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre in Early Modern Drama (book manuscript)
- "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 (2022): 80–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9010007 [peer reviewed]
- "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 (2021): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/3/5. [peer reviewed]
- "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 (2021): 15–34. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756456-002. [peer reviewed]
- "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, 2015. 35–53.
Fungal Texts: Mushrooms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture
(Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß)
publications:
- "The Posthuman in Fungal Gothic Fiction: Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2018) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020)." Posthuman Encounters. Eds Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism (forthc. 2024). [peer reviewed]
- "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 (2022): 85–100. [peer reviewed]
talks:
- "'I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move': Von Pilzen und Myzelien und ihrer kulturwissenschaftlichen Bedeutung." Sondage – Bohrung – Grabung: Ansätze zu einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Bodenkunde. Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Bad Heilbrunn, 21.-23. March 2024.
- "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, 08.11.2023.
- "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, 27-30 September 2023.
- "Monstrous Growths: Mushrooms and Mexican Gothic." The Big Read, English Department, Purdue University, 20 October 2022 [online].
- "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, 20-22 July 2022.