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• English Romanticism
• The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Fin de Siècle Fiction and Drama
• James Joyce – Samuel Beckett
• The Postmodern Novel
• Contemporary Anglophone Drama (particularly England/Ireland/Canada)
• Literary Theory (especially phenomenological hermeneutics and questions of cultural anthropology; interrelations between philosophy, aesthetics and structures of lifeworld)
• Interrelations between literature and historiography
• Biofiction
• Cross-media relations between literature and painting

• Born on 24. April 1963 in Paderborn
• University of Paderborn: English, German, philosophy and education; examination in 1990
• 1986/87: DAAD scholarship: University of Reading, Berks., U.K.
• Doctoral Fellowship by the German National Academic Foundation
• 1993: PhD, University of Paderborn (summa cum laude)
• 1993-2001: Assistant Professor, University of Paderborn
• 1995: Fulbright Scholarship: New York University, New York City, USA
• 1998 and 1999: Research Fellowship, International Beckett Foundation, Reading, Berks., U.K.
• 2000: Post-Doctoral Qualification at University of Paderborn
• 2000-2001: Deputy Professor, University of Augsburg
• 2000-2004: Member of the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Anglistenverband
• 12/2001: Full Professor and Chair of English Literature, University of Augsburg
• Since 01/2006: Co-editor of Anglia. Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie.
• 2008: Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Since 2010: Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Member of the Selection Committee at the German National Academic Foundation
• Since 2010: Mentor at the "Max-Weber-Programm des Bayerischen Elitenetzwerks"
• 2011-2013: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology and History, University of Augsburg
• Since 2012: Member of the Research Group "Ethical Speculations on Contemporary British Drama"
• Since 2012: General Editor Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter)
• Since 2012: Member of the Research Group "Contemporary British Theatre", University of Barcelona ( more information)
• Since 2013: Member of the Advisory Board of C21: Journal of Twenty-First Century Literature (London: Gylph Publishing)
• Since 2013: Elected Member of Academia Europaea (https://www.ae-info.org)
• 2013-2015: Dean of the Faculty of Philology and History, University of Augsburg
• 2014: Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
• 2015-2017: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology and History, University of Augsburg
• 2016: Fellowship at the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum, University of Augsburg
• 2016: Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
• 2016-2017: Long Room Hub Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• 2018-2019: Appointed Jury Member: Dublin Literary Award 2019 (https://dublinliteraryaward.ie)
• Since 2019: Appointed Member of the Section Committee: Literary and Theatrical Studies (Academia Europaea)

• Samuel Becketts Spätwerk und Phenomenology
• The Coming Community in Contemporary Anglophone Drama
• with Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen): Theory Matters: The Place of Theory in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies Today (Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 20
• with Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Hamburg): Handbook of the English Novel: 1830-1900. Text and Theory (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017) [in Vorbereitung]
• with Christopher Morash (Trinity College Dublin) Time and Irish Literature: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) [in Vorbereitung].

Doctoral Theses

Finished

• Christoph Loreck, The Classical Tradition as a Magic Thread: John Keats and the 'Labyrinthian Path to Eminence in Art' (2005).
• Sybille Pärsch, Differenz und Interdependenz: Die Krise der Metaerzählungen und ihre Folgen in Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses und Don DeLillos Underworld (2007).
• Stephanie Egger-Gajardo, Das Prinzip Unentrinnbarkeit: Heteronormativität in Werken von Angela Carter und Christine Brooke-Rose (2008) [Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2008].
• Meike DeVries, Das Theodizee-Problem bei Thomas Hardy (2009).
• Elżbieta Baraniecka, Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s (2011) [Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013; CDE Bi-Annual Award 2012].
• David R. Kerler, Postmoderne Palimpseste: Studien zur (meta-)hermeneutischen Tiefenstruktur intertextueller Erzählverfahren im Gegenwartsroman (2011). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2013; Universitätspreis der Universität Augsburg für die beste Dissertation des Jahres 2011]
• Georg Hauzenberger, 'It's Not by Any Lack of Ghosts We're Haunted': First Nations Gothic and Spiritual Realism (2013). [Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014].
• Adina Sorian, Reading the Real: Toward a Reevaluation of Lacanian Theory in the Study of Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film (2015) [Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2017; Wissenschaftspreis der Universität Augsburg].
• Gerald Farca, Playing Dystopia: Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player’s Aesthetics Response [Bielefeld: transcript, 2018].
• Martin Riedelsheimer, The Fiction of Infinity: Ethics in the Contemporary Novel (2019).
• Korbinian Stöckl, Conceptions of Love in Contemporary Drama (2019).

In Progress

• Christian Attinger, The Theatre of Philip Ridley [Working titel];
• Christina Schönberger, The Interplay of Distance and Closeness: (Narrative) Strategies in Second and Third Person Autobiographical Writing [Working titel];
• Eva Ries, Flânerie as Technique of Self: Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Anglophone Flânerie Texts [Working titel];
• Leila Michelle Vaziri, Politics, Psychology and Philosophy in Contemporary British Drama: The Theatre of Anxiety [Working titel];
• Alexander Lehner, Metagames: Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Videogames [Working titel];
• Anja Weller, Affect and the Aesthetics of Trauma Narration in Utopian and Dystopian Speculative Fiction [Working titel]

Post-Doctoral Theses

Finished

• Christina Wald, Spectres of Transubstantiation: The Eucharist, Disguise and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014).
• Christoph Henke, The Discourse of Common Sense in  the  Literature  and  Culture  of Early Eighteenth-­Century Britain: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2014)

In Progress

• David Kerler, The Archive Fever of the Romantics: Melancholia, Memory, and Spectrality [Working titel]