Lectures

"Das Motiv des Wahnsinns in Shakespeares Tragödien und Komödien", Ringvorlesung WahnSinn in der Literatur und den Künsten, Würzburg, Dezember 2013.

"Somebody Else's Poem: Kipling's 'Wireless' and 'Dayspring Mishandled' and Their Accompanying Poems", Tagung Poetry in Fiction, Mülheim, August 2013.

"Conservative and Countercultural Elements in Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas", Tagung The Politics of Contemporary Fantasy, Würzburg, Oktober 2012.

"Dead Bodies on Stage", Tagung Bodies on Stage, Mülheim, Juni 2012.

"Othello – ein Drama in Schwarz und Weiß? ", Gastvortrag in der Reihe Atelier-Gespräche, Salzburg, März 2012.

"Sister Arts? Alfred Hitchcock und das Londoner Theater der 1920er und 1930er Jahre", Gastvortrag in der Ringvorlesung Alfred Hitchcock und die Künste, Saarbrücken, Dezember 2011.

"A New Variation on the Alien Invasion Theme – Neill Blomkamp's District 9", Tagung New Directions in the European Fantastic, Salzburg, November 2011.

"Rudyard Kipling and the Benefits of an International Education", Konferenz Rudyard Kipling – An International Writer, London, Oktober 2011.

"Exotic Scotland", Konferenz Comparisons, Interactions and Contestations within/across Cultures, Bukarest, Juni 2010.

"Unreliable Narration and Film – Asylum, Notes on a Scandal, Atonement", Anglistentag 2009, Sektion Beyond Adaptation?, Klagenfurt, 2009.

"Shakespeares The Tempest – neu gelesen", Bamberger Vorträge zum (Musik)Theater, Bamberg, 2008.

"R. L. Stevenson's Supernatural Stories in Scots in German Translations", ESSE 9, Seminar Scottish Literature in Translation, Aarhus, 2008.

"Learning from Animals: T.H. White's King Arthur", Anglistentag 2007, Sektion Man-Animal Relations in Literature, Münster, 2007.

"Metatextuality in Kipling's Short Fiction", Kipling Conference, Canterbury, 2007.

Interview mit Donna Leon, E.T.A.-Hoffmann Theater, Bamberg, 2007.

"Rebecca and the Problem of Genre", Daphne du Maurier Conference, Fowey, 2007.

"Ist Rebecca ein Krimi?", Ringvorlesung Literatur und Verbrechen der Fakultät Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg WS 2006/07, 2006.

"Amadeus and Narrative Unreliability", Mozart in Anglophone Cultures, Salzburg, 2006.

"The Abnormal Human Body in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days", ESSE 8, Seminar The Human Body in Contemporay Literatures in English, London, 2006.

"'Cliffhangers': the Cliff as Sublime Landscape in the Early 20th-Century Neo-Gothic Thriller", ESSE 8, Seminar Gothic Sublime – Subliminal Gothic, London, 2006.

"The Post-Political Plays of David Hare", ESSE 8, Seminar Contemporary Drama and the Question of Genre, London, 2006.

"Purloined Letters – Der Literaturkritiker als Figur in der Literatur", öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung, Bamberg, 2006.

"Die Bedeutung von Mündlichkeit für die Lyrik Robert Brownings", Habilitationsvortrag, Bamberg, 2005.

"Das englische Kriminalstück im 20. Jahrhundert", Bamberger Vorträge zum (Musik)Theater, Bamberg, 2005.

"Murder from Page to Stage: The Stage Adaptation of Agatha Christie's Novels", Detective Fiction, Paris, 2005.

"The 'Desire to See the Real Man Behind the Author' – Looking for Autobiographical Elements in Nabokov's Fiction", Fiction and Autobiography, Salzburg, 2004.

"Comic Spies on Stage", ESSE 7, Seminar Spies and Informers, Zaragoza, 2004.

"Painting and Writing in Michael Frayn's Headlong", Anglistentag, Sektion Word and Image, München, 2003.

"The Lives of Galileo: Brecht, Laughton, Brenton", Drama Translation and Theatre Practice, Salzburg, 2002.

"Representations of the British Legal System in Twentieth-Century Popular Courtroom Drama", ESSE 6, Seminar Law and Literature, Strasbourg, 2002.

"Comic Communication Patterns in Twelfth Night", The Comic in Shakespeare, Canterbury, 2001.

"Rediscovered Country: Tom Stoppard's Austrian Plays", Austria and Austrians: Images in World Literature, Salzburg, 2000.

"Speaking Shakespeare – The Problems of Verse in Performance", Meter, Rhythm and Performance – Metrum, Rhythmus, Performanz, Vechta, 1999.

"The Private Life of Robert Browning, According to Henry James", Public and Private Voices in Victorian Poetry, Salzburg, 1998.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Go to the Movies, or: What Happens to Hamlet", Elizabethan Literature and Transformation, Salzburg, 1997.