Research
Focus Areas
Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur and English late medieval literature and culture
Medieval reception in film and literature
Law and literature of the late 18th century (e.g. John Thelwall, High Treason Trials of 1794)
English literature and culture of the 20th century (e.g. cultural transfer and migration, Europeanisation)
Kindertransport and Holocaust literature
Contemporary Jewish-British literature
Rewriting War: The Paradigms of Contemporary War Fiction in English (with Departament de Filologia Anglesa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Literature and bio-technology
Conferences at the University of Bamberg
September 27-29, 2019: together with Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. LAPASEC Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference: Final Frontiers: Exploring, Discovering, Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment (financed by Université Franco-Allemande)
October 5-8, 2017: together with Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer and the German Society for English Romanticism: The Politics of Romanticism (et al. funded by DFG)
July 18-20, 2016: together with Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and The Centre for Medieval Studies (ZEMAS): European Myths retold. Tradition or Myth? The Reception of Medieval European Topics in the Anglo-American and European Spheres (et al. funded by DFG)
September 18-21, 2005: together with Anja Müller organisation of the Annual Meeting of the German Anglist Association ("Anglistentag") in Bamberg
June 3-4, 2005: together with Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis a conference on the "Erlöser und Heiler: literarische und filmische Rezeption und Transformation von mittelalterlichen und spätantiken Erlöser- und Heilerfiguren" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and Art and the University of Bamberg
June 2004: Annual meeting of the German Society of Contemporary Drama in English (CDE) on the topic "Staging Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, the University of Bamberg, the Universitäts-Bund association, the American Consulate Munich, the British Council and donations from the Industry
June 2003: International Conference on the Topic "Fashioning Childhood: Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe" with the support of the DFG, the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art, the University of Bamberg, the Universitäts-Bund association and donations from the Industry