Research and Projects

• (2024) Shakespeare Study Day: Romeo & Juliet (in cooperation with German Shakespeare Association), 25 October.
• (2024) “Pirates on the Early Modern Stage (case study: Thomas Heywood & William Rowley, Fortune by Land and Sea, 1607-09).” Guest lecture, From Reformation to Revolution: Early Modern English Literature,LMU Munich, 19 November.
• (2025) “British Abolitionism: From Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince to The Confessions of Frannie Langton.” Guest lecture, 18^th-Century Literature and Culture,FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 21 January.
• (2025) Annual conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult), 20-22 November.

contemporary British literature and culture

• gender and queer studies
• feminist theory
• neo-Victorianism
• neo-gothic literature
• (film) adaptation
• fungi in literature and film
• 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
• interdisciplinary (esp. law and literature, intersections of legal discourses and the stage)

book project (Habilitation)

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

collection of essays

• ed. (with Marcus Hartner) Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800, publication planned for 2025] [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]

journals (special issues)

• ed. (with Sarah Busch) Early Career Researchers X. gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 23.1. [publication planned for 2024][peer reviewed]

articles

in print:

• (with Lena Frommer) „Von forschendem Lernen zu lehrendem Forschen? Das geisteswissenschaftliche Konferenzseminar als Brücke zwischen Forschung und Lehre.“ Lehre und Forschung: Widerspruch oder Synergie?, eds Jörg Noller et al. Cham: Springer, 2024. [Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik Bd. 4] [peer reviewed]

submitted:

• (with Marcus Hartner) “Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy.” Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy, eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
• “Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays.” Connecting the Seas: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy (1550-1800), eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800] [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
• “Abjection.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill. [under peer review]
• „Von Shakespeare und Peele zu Ravenscroft: Gemeinschaft und gemeinschaftliche Autorschaft in Titus Andronicus.“ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2025. [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]

in prepration:

• “Gothic and Horror.” Handbook on Neo-Victorianism, eds Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
• „‚I tugged lightly on my root and felt the ground move‘: Pilzen, Myzelien und ihre kulturwissenschaftliche Verwurzelung.“ Bodenerkundungen: Ansätze zu literaturwissenschaftlichen soil studies, eds Joana van de Loecht und Mario Grizelj. [submission planned for 2024]
• (with Sarah Busch) “Feminism and Gender/Queer Studies.” Handbook of Literary Ethics, eds. Martin Middeke and Martin Riedelsheimer. Berlin: De Gruyter. [submission planned for 2024]
• (with Marcus Hartner) “Pirates in Atlantic Literature.” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. [submission planned for 2025]