upcoming talks & events
- (2024) Shakespeare Study Day: Romeo & Juliet (in cooperation with German Shakespeare Association), 25 October.
- (2024) “Pirates on the Early Modern Stage (case study: Thomas Heywood & William Rowley, Fortune by Land and Sea, 1607-09).” Guest lecture, From Reformation to Revolution: Early Modern English Literature,LMU Munich, 19 November.
- (2025) “British Abolitionism: From Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince to The Confessions of Frannie Langton.” Guest lecture, 18th-Century Literature and Culture,FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 21 January.
- (2025) Annual conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), 20-22 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
- 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, publication planned for 2025] [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
journals (special issues)
- ed. (with Sarah Busch) Early Career Researchers X. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 23.1. [publication planned for 2024][peer reviewed]
articles
in print:
- (with Lena Frommer) ?Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.“ Lehre und Forschung: Widerspruch oder Synergie?, eds J?rg Noller et al. Cham: Springer, 2024. [Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik Bd. 4] [peer reviewed]
submitted:
- (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, accepted for publication]
- “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, accepted for publication]
- “Abjection.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill. [under peer review]
- ?Von Shakespeare und Peele zu Ravenscroft: Gemeinschaft und gemeinschaftliche Autorschaft in Titus Andronicus.“ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2025. [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
in prepration:
- “Gothic and Horror.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- ??I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move‘: Pilzen, Myzelien und ihre kulturwissenschaftliche Verwurzelung.“ Bodenerkundungen: Ans?tze zu literaturwissenschaftlichen soil studies, eds Joana van de Loecht und Mario Grizelj. [submission planned for 2024]
- (with Sarah Busch) “Feminism and Gender/Queer Studies.” Handbook of Literary Ethics, eds. Martin Middeke and Martin Riedelsheimer. Berlin: De Gruyter. [submission planned for 2024]
- (with Marcus Hartner) “Pirates in Atlantic Literature.” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. [submission planned for 2025]