Research, Projects, Events

• (2026) “Wünsche und Magie, Wünsche als Magie: Die Figur der Hexe in zeitgenössischer britischer Literatur und Kultur.” Uni im Museum, Historisches Museum Bamberg, 11 March.
• (2026) “James VI and the Scottish Witch Trials in Contemporary Literature.” Guest lecture, University of Salzburg, 20 May.
• (2026) “‘It nudges you’: Narrating Fungal Infection as Altered Consciousness in Contemporary Canadian Fiction”, The Psychedelic Renaissance and Storytelling in Health Care, University of Innsbruck, 12-13 June.
• (2026) „Die Hexe im zeitgenössischen anglophonen Roman: Zwischen feministischem Rewriting und politischer Selbstermächtigungsfantasie.“ Guest lecture, Hexereiimaginationen von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, University of Bielefeld, 30 June.
• (2026) (with Elisabeth Lechner and Theresa Heyd), “Introduction” / “Round Table - Keep English Studies Queer: To-Dos for the Discipline”, panel (Doing) Gender and Queer Studies as a Standard of Anglophone Studies, Anglistiktag, LMU Munich, 14-16 September.

contemporary British literature and culture

• feminist theory, gender and queer studies
• neo-Victorianism, neo-gothic literature
• (film) adaptation
• fungi in literature and film
• witchcraft
• posthumanism

early modern English literature and culture

• Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• (early modern) law and literature
• genre (esp. revenge tragedy and tragicomedy)
• collaboration and/in theatre
• early modern piracy
• (Jacobean) gothic

other interests

• questions of canonisation & genre
• interdisciplinarity (esp. law and literature, intersections of legal discourses and the stage)

(2025) international conference Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today
Annual conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), University of Bamberg, 20-22 November
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(2021) international conference Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts (with Lena Steveker)
online, Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg / Passau University, 02-04 December
website: https://collaborate.hypotheses.org/conference
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(2018) international symposium Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers – Connecting the Early Modern Seas (with Marcus Hartner)
Bielefeld University, 13-14 April
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(2013) conference section Not Shakespeare: New Approaches to Drama in the Seventeenth Century (with Lena Steveker and Angelika Zirker)
Anglistentag 2013, University of Konstanz, 18-21 September

(2010) international conferene Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture (with Nadine Böhm and Anne Enderwitz)
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 08-10 April
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(2024) Shakespeare Study Day: Romeo and Juliet (in cooperation with the German Shakespeare Association, https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lang=en)
University of Bamberg, 25 October

(2021) interdisciplinary workshop Body Politics: Intersektionale Forschungsperspektiven auf den Körper (part of organisational team, with PD Dr. Victoria Gutsche, Prof. Dr. Annette Keilhauer, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley, Prof. Dr. Renate Liebold, Dr. Larissa Pfaller, Irmgard Steckdaub-Muller)
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 17-19 February

(2017) workshop for early career researchers: 11. Weiterbildungsseminar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen (with Doris Feldmann)
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 05-06 May

(winter term 2009/10) lecture series Phänomene der Fremdheit (with Simone Broders and Stephanie Waldow)
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

(2004) workshop: Anglistische Lehre und/im Internet (6. Anglistik Didaktik Workshop, with Ina Habermann)
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 21-23 October