Publications and Lectures

Publications

  • Gruß, Susanne (with Lena Steveker). „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?“ Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unttericht (https://lwu.uni-kiel.de/). 2023. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne (with Lena Frommer). „Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.“ Forschung und Lehre – Widerspruch oder Synergie? Hg. Jörg Noller et al. Cham: Springer, 2023. [Perspektiven der Hochschullehre Bd. 3] [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne, ed. (with Lena Steveker). Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern TheatreCritical Survey 36.2. (2024). [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “The Posthuman in Fungal Gothic Fiction: Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2018) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020).” Posthuman Encounters. Eds Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism (2024). [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2022): 85–100. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “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 (2022): 80–92.http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9010007. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “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, 2022. 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004469150_004. [Neo-Victorian Series 8]. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “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, 2021. 111–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83422-7_5. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “From Law-and-Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture... and Beyond?” Anglistik. Special Issue: Perspectives on Literature and Interdisciplinarity. Eds Jens Martin Gurr and Ursula Kluwick. 32.3 (2021): 19–32. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/3/5. [peer reviewed]
  • Gruß, Susanne. “Reading the Unconscious of the Law: From Psychoanalytical Legal Theory to Early Modern Law and Literature.” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Special Focus: Law and Literature. Ed. Franziska Quabeck. 21 (2021): 15–34. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756456-002. [peer reviewed]

Lectures

  • "Shakespeare, Peele, Ravenscroft: Generische Diversität und gemeinschaftliche Autorschaft in Titus Andronicus." Diversität & Gemeinschaft / Diversity & Community, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Bochum, 19.-21. April 2024.
  • "'I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move': Von Pilzen und Myzelien und ihrer kulturwissenschaftlichen Bedeutung." Sondage – Bohrung – Grabung: Ansätze zu einer literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Bodenkunde. Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Bad Heilbrunn, 21.-23. March 2024.
  • "Haben Pilze ein Geschlecht? Von Myzelien, Sporen, Posthumanismus und der (Wieder)Einschreibung von Heteronormativität.”"Lecture series (Inter-)Disziplinäre Ansätze der Gender und Queer Studies, GeStiK, Universität zu Köln, 08.11.2023.
  • (with Johanna Pitetti-Heil and Judith Rauscher) "Feminist Publishing: Shifts and Intersections." Workshop Mobile Feminisms Networking Workshop, Universität Würzburg, 13.-14. October 2023.
  • “Ecofungi? Mushrooms and their Fungal Networks in Twenty-First Century (Horror) Films.” Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures, 8. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 27-30 September 2023.
  • "Neo-Victorian Decadence (Studies): The Contingent Masculinities of Oscar Wilde." Keynote, Late-Victorian Decadence as Mode, Theory and Attitude, DACH-Victorianists Workshop, 21 July 2023 (online). 
  • Gruß, Susanne (with Andy Kesson, Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith, and Lena Steveker) Roundtable “What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?” European Society for Textual Scholarship, Annual Conference, University of Kent, 13-14 April 2023.
  • Gruß, Susanne. “The Fungal EcoGothic and the Annihilation of Human Agency in British-American Films.” Corporations, Communities, Crowds: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency in Twenty-First Century Culture, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, 20-22 July 2022.
  • Gruß, Susanne. „Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?“ Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kollektive Autorschaft, Universität Kiel, 01 July 2022.
  • Gruß, Susanne. “The Posthuman in Fungal Gothic Fiction: Aliya Whiteley’s The Beauty (2018) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020).” Posthuman Encounters: Desires, Fears, and the Uncanny, Universität des Saarlandes, 19-20 May 2022.
  • Gruß, Susanne (mit Lena Steveker). “Introduction: Practices of Collaboration, Then and Now.” Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts. Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg / Universität Passau, 02-04 December 2021.
  • Gruß, Susanne. “Thinking Collaboratively About Early Modern Forms of Collaboration.” Workshop Early Modern Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 27-28 November 2021
  • Gruß, Susanne. “Spectacular Madness? Masculinity and Mental Distress in Early Modern Revenge Plays.” The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations, TU Dresden, 28-29 October 2021.
  • Gruß, Susanne. “Intercultural Contact, Maritime Law, and Generic Fluidity in Early Modern ‘Pirate’ Plays.” Conceptualizing Intercultural Contact in Early Modern Britain and Beyond, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, 21 October 2021.