Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Education & Employment

• Professor (W1), English Department, HU Berlin (since 2008)
• "Akademischer Rat," English Department, U Marburg (2007-08)
• Ph.D., U Marburg (2006)
• "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (junior lecturer), English Department, U Marburg (2001-2006)
• M.A., U Marburg (2000)
• Visiting Scholar, Comparative Literature Department, Pennsylvania State U, University Park, U.S.A. (1998-99)
• Erasmus exchange: English and Related Literatures, University of York, UK (1995-96)
   

Research Interests:

• Early Modern English literature and culture (esp. theories and conceptions of authorship, temporalities, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson)
• Medieval English literature and culture (esp. theories and conceptions of authorship, imagination, households/economies, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate)
• Victorian literature and culture (esp. transformations of classical antiquity, reception of Ovid, Charlotte Brontë)
• Postcolonial literature (esp. translation, aesthetics, Canadian literature)
• Scottish Literature

Research Projects:

• with Andrew James Johnston, "Troynovant Revisited: Strategic Hybridization in the Competing Traditions of Classical Antiquity in English Literature, c. 1380 -1680," DFG Forschergruppe 2305 "Diskursivierungen von Neuem" [2016-]
• "Shakespearean Chronologies," Einstein Circle Asynchronies [2016-]
• "Poetological Household Management," Research Group B-3 "Ökonomie/Oikonomia," Excellence Cluster Topoi [2011-2017]
• co-opted researcher, "Medieval Harmonies," Configurations of Neo-Platonism: Versions and Models in English Rensissance and Restoration Culture [PI: Verena Lobsien], SFB Transformationen der Antike [2008-2012] 
• with Marcus Callies and Astrid Lohöfer, Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences, VW Stiftung [2008-2009] 

Conferences & Panels:

• co-organizer [with Andrew James Johnston and Maggie Rouse], international conference, "Trojan Temporalities," 31 Aug - 2 Sept., FU/HU/FOR 2305, Berlin
• co-organizer [with Andrew James Johnston and Maggie Rouse], international conference, "Transcending Medieval Temporalities," 29 May - 1 Jun 2014, HU/FU Berlin/SFB Episteme in Bewegung
• convener, panel on "Sound Science: Knowledge, (Dis)Harmony, Poetics," July 2012, New Chaucer Society Congress, Portland, Ore.
• co-convener, panel discussion on "Medieval(ist) Alterities: Cultural and Temporal Alterities in Transdisciplinary Perspective," 10-13 May 2012, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich.
• co-organizer, international conference "Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Musik im Spannungsfeld von ästhetischer Wahrnehmung und philosophischem Denken in der Frühen Neuzeit," SFB/CRC 644 Transformations of Antiquity, 1-3 Dec. 2011, Berlin  
• convener, panels on "Renaissance Transformations of Antiquity" (Humanist Historiography & Harmonia mundi), 24-26 March 2011, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada (with Patrick Baker)
• convener, panel on "Shakespearean medievalism," April 8-10, 2010, Renaissance Society of America Annual Congress, Venice, Italy
• co-convener, panel on "Pride, arrogance, and insolence: Shaping value and identity in medieval culture," May 7-10, 2009, 44th  International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich. (with Kiril Petkov, U Wisconsin)
• co-organizer: Bi-directional perspectives in the cognitive sciences: Illuminating the cross-disciplinary potential of cognitive approaches in the humanities, Feb 26-28, 2009 (with Astrid Lohöfer, U Marburg, and Marcus Callies, U Mainz)
• co-organizer, international conference "Irland und Europa im Mittelalter," 25-26 April 2008, University of Marburg  
• co-convener, panel on "Trojan Communities," May 10-13, 2007, 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich. (with Timothy Arner, Grinnell Coll)
• co-organizer: Literature as History / History as Literature in Early Modern Britain, January 19-21, 2007, U Marburg (with Sonja Fielitz, U Marburg)
• co-convener, panel on "Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of English Mythology and Identity," 4-7 May 2006, 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich.   
• For complete list, see here