Research Interests

• Renaissance Studies
• Drama
• 19^th Century Novel
• Modernism
• Literary and Cultural Theory

 Teaching

• Survey of Literatures in English: From the Renaissance to the Restoration
• Introductory Seminars on Shakespeare and New Historicism, the French Revolution in English Literature, American Expatriates in Paris, Literature and Art, London

 Publications

• Charlotte Smith. Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2002.
• With Margarete Rubik, ed. Discontinuities: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Papers given on the occasion of the tenth annual conference of the Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Trier: WVT, 2002.
• With Margarete Rubik, ed. A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre. Amsterdam, New York: Editions Rodopi, 2007.
• "John Brougham's stage adaptation of Jane Eyre - a Marxist reading of Brontë's novel?". A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre. Amsterdam, New York: Editions Rodopi, 2007. 375-390.
• "The Old Manor House". Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
• With Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann, ed. Rive Gauche: Paris as a Site of Avant-Garde Art and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s. Amsterdam, New York: Editions Rodopi, 2010.
• "Midwives to Modernism: Three Women's Contributions to the Making of the Avant-Garde". Rive Gauche: Paris as a Site of Avant-Garde Art and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s. Amsterdam, New York: Editions Rodopi, 2010. 41-60.
• "Die Welt ging zwischen 1918 und 1945 zweimal aus den Fugen. Das Burgtheater - nicht!" Shakespeare auf der Nachkriegsbühne des Burgtheaters". Weltbühne Wien. Vol. 2: Die Rezeption anglophoner Dramen auf Wiener Bühnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Ewald Mengel, Ludwig Schnauder, Rudolf Weiss. Trier: WVT, 2010. 149-179.

CV

• 1981-1987 English and French Studies at the University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen)
• 1987 1. Staatsexamen
• 1990 Dr. phil. from the University of Aachen
• 1993 2. Staatsexamen (Teacher’s Degree) in English and French
• since 1995  part-time lecturer in English literature at the department (maternity leave 1995-2000)