Research

Research profile

English literature and culture of the 18th, 20th and 21st centuries

Contemporary drama in English (Vice President of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English/CDE)

Constructions of childhood in English literature and culture from the Renaissance to the Present

Children's literature and literature for young adults

Constructions of Identity (esp. Age, Europe)

Intertextuality, intermediality and adaptation

Political Theory and Literature

Co-Operations

Forschungsstelle "Europäische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur"

Projects

• "Kanonbildung und das soziale Imaginäre in britischer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur/Canon Formation and Social Imaginaries in British Fiction for Children and Young Adults" – DFG-Project; 2013-2015
• Book Series "Studien zur Europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur/Studies in European Literature for Children and Young Adults"; Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg – from 2014 (Editors: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Anja Müller, Astrid Surmatz)
• "Trends and Developments in European Children's Literature" – Essay Collection (Editors: Jana Mikota, Anja Müller and Sabine Planka)
• "Re-presenting Restoration, Enlightenment and Romanticism: Studies in New-Eighteenth-Century Literature and Film." – Essay Collection (together with Achim Hescher and Anke Uebel, both Landau)
• "Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature" Conference at Tübingen University (together with Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Tübingen; 11.-13. September 2014)
• Commissioned Essays and Presentations/Lectures on Screening the Lives of Children's Authors (Living on Screens: British Biopics (1990-2010), Farnham: Ashgate, Eds. Marta Minier, Maddalena Pennacchia); Survival and Failure (Re-Inventing Eastern Europe: New Directions in Theory and Practice, Cambridge Scholars, Eds. Emanuel Crudu and Ludmilla Kostova); Nostalgia and Melancholia in Contemporary Representations of Eastern Europe (Narrating Loss, WVT, Eds. Brigitte Glaser and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz); From Counter-Canonical Discourse to Cosmopolitan Conversation: Victorian Literature as Contact Zone in Lloyd Jones's Mr Pip (Criss-Crossing Borders: New Directions in the Study of National and Transnational Spaces and Identities, Ed. Ludmilla Kostova); Tom Stoppard's Travesties (Das englische Drama und Theater, Kröner Verlag, Ed. Bernhard Reitz); Power of Fantasy - Fantasy of Power: A Song of Ice and Fire (lecture for "Adventures in Wonder Worlds: The Power of Literary Fantasy" - Conference at the Universitá Ca'Foscari, Venice)