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monograph

(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

(2022–, with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) General Editor: gender forum, online. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/.

(2022–, with Lena Steveker) Reviews Editor / Bücherschau: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Kröner.

(2014–) Associate Editor: Neo-Victorian Studies, online. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com.

(2014–2021) Reviews Editor: Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC), Königshausen & Neumann.

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

collections of essays

(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]
(2021 reissued as paperback)
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)

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

(2012) ed. (with Simone Broders and Stephanie Waldow). Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. [Focus: Gegenwart, Bd. 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)

(2024) ed. (with Lena Steveker) Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Critical Survey 36.2. [peer reviewed]

(2022) ed. (with Manushag N. Powell) Pirates in English Literature and Culture, Vol.2. Humanities 11.3-5. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/pirates_vol2. [peer reviewed]

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

(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]

journal articles

(2024) “Fungal Intelligence and the Posthuman: Mycohuman Art, Entangled Theory, and Fungi in (Eco-)Gothic Narratives.” Posthuman Encounters – Desires, Fears, and the Uncanny,eds Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism 4.2 (2024): 149–157. https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3341. [peer reviewed]

(2024) (with Lena Steveker) “Thinking About Collaboration: From Early Modern Theatre to Contemporary Academia.” Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre, eds Susanne Gruss and Lena Steveker. Critical Survey 36.2: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2024.360101. [peer reviewed]

(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 und Katharina Wesselmann. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht: Neue Folge 2: 187–204. [peer reviewed]

(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]

(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. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2022.340207. [peer reviewed]

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

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

(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]

(2018) (mit Lena Steveker) “Introduction: Early Modern Spectacles.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.2: 121–128. [peer reviewed]

(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]

(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]

(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]

(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

(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]

(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]

(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.

(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]

(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]

(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.

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

(2014) (with 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]

(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 and Susanne Gruss. London and New York: Routledge. 123–136. [peer reviewed]

(2012) (with Simone Broders and Stephanie Waldow) „Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung.“ Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen, eds Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 9–24.

(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, eds Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 191–213.

(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]

(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]

(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 et al. Amsterdam und New York: Rodopi. 321–336. [Cross/Cultures 121, ASNEL Papers 15] [peer reviewed]

(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.

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

(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.

(2004) (with 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.

(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 chapters & encyclopaedia articles

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

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

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

interviews

(2012) (with Nadine Böhm-Schnitker) „‘Man is a storytelling animal’: Ein Gespräch mit dem Kultautor Jasper Fforde.“ Kult und Mythos. Schau ins Blau: Eine Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft 4. https://www.schauinsblau.de/jasper-fforde/.

(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

(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.

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

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

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

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

(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.

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

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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

(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.