Talks
Juli 2013 |
Metaphysical Speculation in Contemporary Drama. Symposium at Royal Holloway (University of London) Ghosts on Stage: Mourning, Metaphysics, Metatheatricality |
November 2012 |
Englisches Seminar, Universität Zürich “Embodied Minds in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Twelfth Night” |
Oktober 2012 |
Transforming Early Modern Identities. Conference at King’s College, London “Transubstantiation and Identity in Elizabethan England: The Religious Turn Revisited” |
September 2012 |
Interphilologische Ringvorlesung “Shakespearean Dimensions”, Universität Basel “The Theatrical Topology of Tyranny in Richard III” |
April 2012 |
Annual Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America, Boston “Confessional Conflict and Elizabethan Romances“ |
November 2011 |
Englisches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
April 2011 |
English Department, Universität Bern “Communion and Cannibalism in Early Modern Prose Fiction” |
November 2010 |
Viel Lärm um Nichts. Herbsttagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Universität Zürich “‘I would eat his heart’: Liebeshunger und Blutdurst in Much Ado About Nothing” |
März 2010 |
Early Modern Reformations: Literature, Religion, Aesthetics. Conference at Harvard University “Spectres of Transubstantiation in Thomas Lodge’s A Margarite of America” |
Februar 2010 |
Humanities Center at Harvard “Bodies in Disguise: The Eucharist, Cross-Dressing, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction”
Renaissance Colloquium. English Department, Harvard University “Romancing the Eucharist: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia” |
Juni 2009 |
Wissenschaft als Beruf. Veranstaltung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Köln “Habilitation oder Juniorprofessur?” (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Cornel Zwierlein) |
Februar 2009 |
Weltliche Wallfahrten. Forschungskonferenz an der Universität Luxemburg “The Quest for the Body Underneath: Die Säkularisierung der Transsubstantiations-Debatte in englischen Romances der Renaissance” |
Oktober 2008 |
Anglistentag 2008. Universität Tübingen “‘This is my Body’: Transubstantiation and Disguise in Early Modern Prose Fiction” |
Januar 2008 |
Theorien der Literatur. Ringvorlesung der Universität Augsburg “Performance und Performativität - As You Like It” |
Oktober 2007 |
Conference of the Sixteenth Century Society. Minneapolis, USA “‘But of course the stage has certain limits’? The adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Shakespeare’s Plays” |
November 2006 |
Transcultural Britain. 17th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of British Cultures. Universität Magdeburg “Screening Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in Transcultural Britain: Little England versus Global Village” |
August 2006 |
Eighth Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 8). Institute of English Studies, University of London “Hysteria, Trauma, and Melancholia: The Drama of Performative Malady” |
Juli 2006 |
Kontroversen in der Literaturtheorie. Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle Historische Epistemologie und Hermeneutik am Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt Universität Berlin “Judith Butler versus Martha Nussbaum oder ‚Old-Style’-Feminismus versus poststrukturalistische Gender-Theorie” |
Februar 2006 |
Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror. 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University “The Trauma Drama of the 1990s” |
Dezember 2005 |
Rhetoriken des Verschwindens. Konferenz an der Universität zu Köln. “Zurückgekehrt um dramatischer zu verschwinden? Hysterikerinnen im englischsprachigen Theater von 1990‑2002” |
Juni 2005 |
Mapping Uncertain Territories. Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. International University of Bremen “‘What discoveries do we bring back from that alien terrain?’ The Spatialisation of Trauma and the Exploration of the Paedophile's Mind in Bryony Lavery's Frozen” |
März 2005 |
Graduate Research Group. Birkbeck College, London “Gender Performativity, Theatrical Performance and Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholy as Performative Maladies” |
Februar 2005 |
...jenseits des Poststrukturalismus? Kolloquium im Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin “Das ganze Theater um Gender oder Bodies that Matter on Stage” |