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