Projects:
Practices of Collaboration (joint research project with Prof. Dr. Lena Steveker, Université du Luxembourg)
- international conference “Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts” (with Lena Steveker, Université du Luxembourg)
02-04 December 2021 (online)
project website: collaborate.hypotheses.org
This international conference takes into view the intricate interplay of numerous agents in the early modern dramatic arena: authors and their respective playing companies, actors, printers, and playhouses. 21 speakers from Australia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, and the US will discuss a spectrum of collaborative practices between these various agents in the early modern dramatic arena. Situated at the intersection of literary studies, cultural studies, and early modern history, the conference aims to explore concepts of early modern collaboration and, consequently, of early modern authorship.
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Upcoming and Recent Conference Papers and Talks:
- “Haben Pilze ein Geschlecht? Von Myzelien, Sporen, Posthumanismus und der (Wieder)Einschreibung von Heteronormativität.” Ringvorlesung (Inter-)Disziplinäre Ansätze der Gender und Queer Studies, GeStiK, Universität zu Köln, 08 Novemer 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).
- (with Andy Kesson, Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith, Lena Steveker) Roundtable “What Is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?” European Society for Textual Scholarship, Annual Conference, University of Kent, 13-14 April 2023.
- “Monstrous Growths: Mushrooms and Mexican Gothic.” The Big Read, Purdue University, 20 October 2022. [online]
- (with Lena Steveker) Workshop “The Cultural Context and the Text – Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare-Studientag der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft / Shakespeare Study Day, German Shakespeare Association. University of Jena, October 2021; Université du Luxembourg, October 2022.
- “Kollaborative Praktiken auf der frühneuzeitlichen Bühne: Autorschaft, Leserschaft, Wissenschaft?” Interdisziplinärer Workshop Kollektive Autorschaft, University of Kiel, 01 July 2022.
- “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, Saarland University, 19-20 May 2022.
Work in Progress:
- ed. (with Marcus Hartner): Practices and Narratives of Piracy: Connecting the Early Modern Seas. [collection of essays, peer reviewed]
- “Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays.” Practices and Narratives of Piracy: Connecting the Early Modern Seas, eds. Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner. [peer reviewed]
- ed. (with Lena Steveker): Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre. Special Issue of Critical Survey 36.2 (2024) [peer reviewed].
- “Fungal Intelligence and the Posthuman: Mycohuman Art, Entangled Theory, and Fungi in (Eco-)Gothic Narratives.” Posthuman Encounters. Eds Jana Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, and Anne Hess. Journal of Posthumanism (2024). [peer reviewed]
- (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. [Perspektiven der Hochschullehre Bd. 2] [peer reviewed, accepted for publication]
- “‘Layers of History’: Haunting and Psychogeography in Michèle Roberts’s Neo-Victorian Pasts.” currently under review with English Studies [completed, under review].