upcoming talks & events
- (2026) “Wünsche und Magie, Wünsche als Magie: Die Figur der Hexe in zeitgen?ssischer britischer Literatur und Kultur.” Uni im Museum, Historisches Museum Bamberg, 11 March.
- (2026) “'A woman’s voice is a hex': Negotiating Female Grief and Anger in Historical Witchcraft Novels.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 19-20 February.
- (2025) Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today. Annual conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), 20-22 November.
- (2025) “Co-Living in the Spore-tastrophe? Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary Fungal Fiction.” The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, 31 October-01 November.
research areas
contemporary British literature and culture
- gender and queer studies
- feminist theory
- neo-Victorianism
- neo-gothic literature
- (film) adaptation
- fungi in literature and film
- witchcraft
- posthumanism
early modern English literature and culture
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- (early modern) law and literature
- genre (esp. revenge tragedy and tragicomedy)
- collaboration and/in theatre
- early modern piracy
- (Jacobean) gothic
other interests
- questions of canonisation & genre
- interdisciplinary (esp. law and literature, intersections of legal discourses and the stage)
publication projects
book project (Habilitation)
- The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre on the Early Modern Stage [book manuscript]
collection of essays
- ed. (with Marcus Hartner) Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [in print]
journals (special issues)
- ed. (with Sarah Busch) Early Career Researchers X. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 23.1. [publication planned for 2025] [peer reviewed]
articles
in print:
- (with Marcus Hartner) “Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy.” Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy, eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed, in print]
- “Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays.” Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy (1550-1800), eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed, in print]
submitted:
- “Abjection.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill. [peer reviewed]
- (with Marie-Luise Kohlke) “Gothic and Horror.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill. [peer reviewed]
in preparation:
- (with Marcus Hartner) “Pirates in Atlantic Literature.” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. [submission planned for 2025]
- rev. “Shakespeare, Ethics and Violence: Sarah Johnson and Georgina Lucas, eds. Atrocity and Early Modern Drama. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2025 and Noam Reisner, Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024).” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 162 (2026).
“?I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move‘: Von Pilzen und Myzelien und ihrer kulturwissenschaftlichen Bedeutung.” Dritte Natur 2026.