Publications

book project (Habilitation)

• The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre on the Early Modern Stage [book manuscript]

journals (special issues)

• ed. (with Sarah Busch) Early Career Researchers X. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 23.1. [publication planned for 2026] [peer reviewed]
• ed. (with Allison Lemley) Re-Orienting Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today. Journal for the Studies of British Cultures 2027.1. [peer reviewed]

articles

forthcoming:

• “'Layers of History': Haunting and Psychogeography in Michèle Roberts's Neo-Victorian Pasts.” Anglistik vol. 37, no. 3, 2026. [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
• (with Marcus Hartner) “Pirates in Atlantic Literature.” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
• (with Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer) “Report: Best Practices for Researchers in Managerial Positions to Improve the Working Conditions for Early Career Researchers.” Anglophone Studies and the Public: Past, Present and Future Debates and Interventions, edited by Jens Gurr et al. Anglistik vol. 38, no. 1, 2027. [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]

submitted:

• “Abjection.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Nadine Boehm-Schnitker. Brill. [peer reviewed]
• (with Marie-Luise Kohlke) “Gothic and Horror.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Nadine Boehm-Schnitker. Brill. [peer reviewed]

in preparation:

• “Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber.” Handbook of Gothic Literature, eds Stephan Karschay and Gero Guttzeit. DeGruyter. [submission planned for 2026]
• “‘no better than a Novel or Romance’? Re-Imagining Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the Twenty-First Century.” History as Literature, Literature as History, ed. Jessica S. Hower. Routledge, 2028 [submission planned for 2027]

(2009) The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter. 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)

6. (2026–) Associate Editor: English Studies, Taylor & Francis.

5. (2026–, with Allison Lemley; 2022–2026, with Lena Steveker; ) Reviews Editor / Bücherschau: Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Kröner.

4. (2022–, with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) General Editor: gender forum, online. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/.

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.

5. (2025) ed. (with Marcus Hartner). Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724043. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed]

4. (2014) ed. (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker). Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. 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)

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

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

1. (2004) ed. (with Rudolf Freiburg). “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy. Stauffenburg. [ZAA Studies, vol. 20]
review: ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 56.4 (2008)

4. (2024) ed. (with Lena Steveker) Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Critical Survey vol. 36, no. 2. [peer reviewed]

3. (2022) ed. (with Manushag N. Powell) Pirates in English Literature and Culture, Vol. 2. Humanities vol. 11, no. 3-5. 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 vol. 25, no. 1. [peer reviewed]

1. (2011) ed. (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker). Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. Neo-Victorian Studies vol. 4, no. 2. https://neovictorianstudies.com/issue/view/12. [peer reviewed]

14. (2025) “Gemeinschaft zersetzen, gemeinschaftlich schreiben: Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare und Peele zu Ravenscroft.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch vol. 161, pp. 123–141. [peer reviewed]

13. (2024) “Fungal Intelligence and the Posthuman: Mycohuman Art, Entangled Theory, and Fungi in (Eco-)Gothic Narratives.” Posthuman Encounters – Desires, Fears, and the Uncanny, edited by Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 149–157. https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3341. [peer reviewed]

12. (2024) (with Lena Steveker) “Thinking About Collaboration: From Early Modern Theatre to Contemporary Academia.” Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre, edited by Susanne Gruss and Lena Steveker. Critical Survey vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2024.360101. [peer reviewed]

11. (2023) (with Lena Steveker) „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft.“ Plurale Autorschaft: Formen der Zusammenarbeit in Schriftkultur, Kunst und Literatur, herausgegeben von Nicola Glaubitz und Katharina Wesselmann. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht: Neue Folge vol. 2, pp. 187–204. [peer reviewed]

10. (2022) “Monstrous Growths? Mushrooms, Fungi, Spores and the Borders of the (Post)Human in Contemporary British Culture.” British Borders, edited by Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Journal for the Study of British Cultures vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 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, edited by Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Critical Survey vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 80–92. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2022.340207. [peer reviewed]

8. (2021) “From Law-and-Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture... and Beyond?” Perspectives on Literature and Interdisciplinarity,edited by Jens Martin Gurr and Ursula Kluwick. Anglistik vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 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.” Law and Literature,edited by Franziska Quabeck. Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics vol. 21, pp. 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, edited by Claire Jowitt and Manushag N. Powell. Humanities vol. 9, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/h9010007. [peer reviewed]

5. (2018) (mit Lena Steveker) “Introduction: Early Modern Spectacles.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 121–128. [peer reviewed]

4. (2015) “Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde-Series.” (Neo-)Victorian Masculinities, edited by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. Victoriographies – A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790–1914 vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 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 vol. 16, no. 3/4, pp. 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, edited by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss. Neo-Victorian Studies vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 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, edited by Thomas Kühn. ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 47–57.

22. (2025) “Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays.” Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam University Press, 2025,  pp. 213–233. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.33610696.14. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed]

21. (2025) (with Marcus Hartner) “Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy.” Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam University Press, 2025, pp. 11–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.33610696.5. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800]

20. (2024) (with Lena Frommer) “Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.” Lehre und Forschung: Widerspruch oder Synergie?, herausgegeben von Jörg Noller et al. Springer, pp. 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45556-9_7. [Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik Bd. 4] [peer reviewed]

19. (2022) "Black, Queer, Victorian? The Precarious Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Prince Alemayehu.” Black Neo-Victoriana: Interrogating Presence, Challenging Absence, edited by Julian Wacker, Marlena Tronicke, and Felipe Espinoza Garrido. Brill, pp. 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, edited by Gerd Bayer and Rudolf Freiburg. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 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, edited by Ina Habermann and Christian Krug. FAU University Press, pp. 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, edited by Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, and Eckart Voigts. Winter, pp. 59–73. [anglistik & englischunterricht 85]

15. (2016) “Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies.” English Topographies in Literature and Culture: Space, Place, and Identity, edited by Ina Habermann and Daniela Keller. Brill Rodopi, pp. 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, edited by Ellen Redling and Christian Schneider. LIT, pp. 35–53.

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

12. (2014) (with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker) “Introduction: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian – Neo-Victorian Fashions.” Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations, edited by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss. Routledge, pp. 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, edited by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker and Susanne Gruss. Routledge, pp. 123–136. [peer reviewed]

10. (2012) with Simone Broders and Stephanie Waldow) “Phänomene der Fremdheit - Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung.” Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen, herausgegeben von Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow. Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 9–24.

09. (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, herausgegeben von Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow. Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 191–213.

08. (2012) “Angela Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns.” Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips. Continuum, pp. 44–55. [peer reviewed]

07. (2011) “The Diffusion of Gothic Conventions in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003/2007).” Heroism in the Harry Potter Series, edited by Katrin Berndt and Lena Steveker. Ashgate, pp. 39–53. [peer reviewed]

06. (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, edited by Laurenz Volkmann et al. Rodopi, pp. 321–336. [Cross/Cultures 121, ASNEL Papers 15] [peer reviewed]

05. (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, edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Dorothea Flothow. Winter, pp. 45–57.

04. (2009) “‘The Flesh Made Word’: Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts.” Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings, edited by Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. wvt, pp. 57–66.

03. (2009) “Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara (2006).” Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation,edited by Sarah Säckel, Walter Göbel, and Noha Hamdy. Rodopi, pp. 223–238.

02. (2004) (with Rudolf Freiburg) “Introduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy.” “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy, edited by Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss. Stauffenburg, pp. 13–47.

01. (2004) “Megalomaniac Ice-Cream Cone, Sulking Mistress, Sadistic Slacker: God in Postmodern Narratives.” “But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man”: Literature and Theodicy, edited by Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss. Stauffenburg, pp. 533–549.

3. (2022) „Die formation féminine.“ Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Form, herausgegeben von Matthias Erdbeer, Florian Kläger, und Klaus Stierstorfer. DeGruyter, pp. 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 vol. 78, Nachlieferung. edition text + kritik, pp. 1–12, A/1–D/2.

1. (2025) (with Alicia Fuchs, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Mareike Spychala, Elisabeth Weiß-Sinn) “Gender Gap in der Literatur.” GENIAL-forschen +: Podcast-Event, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv2rPfC10U 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/28j8FZFpWyLZWAlwTTg4Fq?si=F7OhoSPiTASfUlMUMyGVPg

2. (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 vol. 4. https://www.schauinsblau.de/jasper-fforde/.

1. (2004) “‘People confuse relationships with legal structures’: An Interview with Margaret Atwood.” Gender Queeries. gender forum vol. 3, no. 2 [8]. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/genderforum/article/view/2864.

14. (2026) rev. “Shakespeare, Ethics and Violence: Sarah Johnson and Georgina Lucas, eds. Atrocity and Early Modern Drama. London: Bloomsbury, 2025 and Noam Reisner, Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch vol. 162, pp. 266-270.

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 vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 89–91.

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

11. (2019) rev. “Elizabeth Hodgson, Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.” English Studies vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 110–111.

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

9. (2014) rev. "Ina Schabert, SHAKESPEAREs: Die unendliche Vielfalt der Bilder.Stuttgart: Kröner, 2013.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 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 vol. 55, no. ¾, pp. 352–355.

7. (2013) rev. “Vanessa Gerhards, Shakespeare Reloaded: The Shakespeare Renaissance 1989-2004. Trier: wvt, 2011.” Anglistik vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 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 vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 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 vol. 46, pp. 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 vol. 29, pp. 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 vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 91–93.

2. (2006) rev. “Ralf Schneider, Hg. Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis: Eine anglistisch-amerikanistische Einführung. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004.” ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol.54, no. 4, pp. 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: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik vol.51, no. 3, pp. 311–312.