Research Interests

• Renaissance Studies (in particular Shakespeare and Performance)
• Victorian and Modernist Literature (in particular Conrad Studies)
• Literary and Cultural Theory

Teaching

• Introductory Seminars (Literature)
• Introduction to the Study of Literature
• Survey 1: From the Renaissance to the Restoration
• Research Methodology

Selected Publications

• With Ewald Mengel and Rudolf Weiss, eds. Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna, Vol.1: Approaches to Cultural Transfer. Trier: WVT, 2010.
• With Ewald Mengel and Rudolf Weiss, eds. Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna, Vol.2: Die Rezeption anglophoner Dramen auf Wiener Bühnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Trier: WVT, 2010.
• ""The poor man is wronged!" Die Figur des Shylock in Inszenierungen am Burgtheater." Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna, Vol.2. 119-147.
• Free Will and Determinism in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.
• "The Scientific-Materialist Worldview in The Secret Agent." The Secret Agent: Centennial Essays. Ed. Allan Simmons and J.H. Stape. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 95-105.
• "The Transformation of the Freedom-of-the-Will-Problem in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain: The Example of George Eliot's Middlemarch and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo." Language and Identity: English and American Studies in the Age of Globalisation. Ed. Zygmunt Mazur and Teresa Bela. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2006. 236-247.
• "Marlow's Journey in Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Cross-crossing the Boundaries of Imperialist Ideology and Epistemology." esharp 4 (2005). <http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue4/schnauder.pdf>.
• "Free Will and Determinism in Nostromo." Conradian 29.2. (2004): 59-74.

CV

• 2009- Univ.Ass. (Prof. E. Mengel)
• 2006- Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter (postdoc) FWF Projekt Weltbühne Wien/World Stage Vienna (Prof. E. Mengel)
• 2006 Dr. Phil. Universität Wien
• 2005-07 Ass. in Ausbildung (Prof. M. Rubik)
• 2004-05 Studienassistent (Prof. R. Weiss)
• 2000 Mag.phil. Universität Wien
• 1998-99 University College London
• 1992 Matura BG/BRG Freistadt, OÖ