Main Research Areas


  • Literature and culture of the 17th-21st centuries
  • Literature and knowledge
  • Current focal points:
    • Theatricality of early modern knowledge cultures in the early modern period
    • MachineTheater
    • Knowledge (science) and gender 1500-1900
    • Early modern entertainment literature
    • Parody and metatheatricality
    • Kassel literary history
    • Intercultural constructions of knowledge (images of Italy)
    • History and present of censorship