Research and Projects

• (2025) “The Laws of Excess, the Laws of Book Proposals.” Workshop contribution, Workshop FNZ, HU Berlin, 21-22 February.
• (2025) “In Defence of Witches: Witchcraft and the Scottish Witch Hunts in Recent Neo-Historical Fiction.” Neo-Historical Fiction at 2025: Prized Temporalities and Contested Progress, FU Berlin, 02-04 June.
• (2025) “‘no better than a Novel or Romance’? Re-Imagining Anne Bonny and Mary Read in the Twenty-First Century.” The Problem of Piracy IV: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Plunder by Sea across the World from the Ancient to the Modern, University of Exeter, 19-20 June.
• (2025) Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today. 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] [submitted 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:

• ?Gemeinschaft zersetzen, gemeinschaftlich schreiben: Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare und Peele zu Ravenscroft.“ Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2025. 123–141. [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]

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: Ans?tze 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]