Research Interests

• Irish Studies: Irish Literature, Irish Cultural Studies
• Auto/Biography
• British Romanticism (esp. Byron, the Romantic-Era novel)
• Samuel Beckett
• Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
• Film Studies (Literature and Film)

Teaching

• History of English Literature
• Irish Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Theatre Studies
• Film Studies

Selected Publications

• James Stephens' frühe Romane: Rezeption - Text - Intention. Sprache und Literatur: Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 21. Frankfurt/Main, Bern: Peter Lang, 1982.
• (co-author)  Critique of Beckett Criticism: A Guide to Research in English, French, and German. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994.
• "Byronic Bioplays." Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. Ed. Frances Wilson. London: Macmillan, 1999. 93-108.
• "'Because it's two World Wars and one World Cup ...': Soccer as a Cultural Metaphor." Anglistentag 2001 Wien. Ed. Dieter Kastovsky, Gunther Kaltenböck, and Susanne Reichl. Trier: WVT, 2002. 283-292.
• (editor)  The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837. Essays to Honour Rainer Schöwerling. Proceedings of the Third International Corvey Symposium. München: Fink, 2004.
• "Why this farce, day after day? On Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria." Self-Reflexivity in Literature. Ed. Hubert Zapf, Martin Middeke, and Werner Huber. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005. 125-134.
• "The Early Plays: Martin McDonagh, Shooting Star and Hard Man from South London." The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories. Ed. Lilian Chambers and Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2006. 13-26.
• (co-editor and contributor)  Intermedialities. Trier: WVT, 2007.

CV

• 1971-1980  Studied English, American, and German Literature at the Universities of Mannheim, Mainz, Amherst College (Amherst, MA), Trinity College Dublin
• 1980  Ph.D., University of Mainz
• 1980-1999  Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Paderborn
• 1993 (Sept.-Oct.)  Visiting Scholar, Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island, Co. Mayo
• 1995  Habilitation, University of Paderborn
• 1996-1999  guest professor (locum tenens), University of Tübingen and Chemnitz University of Technology
• 1999-2005  Professor (C4) of English Literature, Chemnitz University of Technology
• since September 2005  Full Professor (Universitäts-Professor) of English and American Language and Literature, University of Vienna
• currently Vice-President (Europe) of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) and President of The German Society for the Study of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)