upcoming talks & events
- (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) “Queering Early Modern Piracy: Anne Bonny and Mary Read in Contemporary Fiction.” Inaugural lecture, Bamberg University, 24 June.
- (2025) “Co-Living in the Spore-tastrophe? Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary Fungal Fiction.” The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, 31 October-01 November.
- (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.
research areas
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)
publication projects
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] [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:
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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.
- (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]