Publications

Monograph

  • HeldenGeschlechtNarrationen: Gender, Intersectionality and Transformation in the Song of the Nibelungs and Nibelung Adaptations(= MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik 14), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2014.

Editorship

  • Adventurous 'Crossings': Vormoderne intersektional (= Aventiuren 12), Göttingen: V&R-unipress 2017 (with Mareike Böth and Michael Mecklenburg).
    • as co-editor of the research focus "Animal - Human - Society": Den Fährten folgen. Methods of interdisciplinary animal research, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016.
    • SprachGefühl. Interdisciplinary perspectives on an onlyseeminglywell-known term (= MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik 17), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2014 (with Miriam Langlotz, Nils Lehnert and Matthias Weßel).

    Cooperation

    • Gardt, A./Schnyder, M./Wolf, J. (eds.) (2011): Book culture and knowledge transfer in the Middle Ages and early modern times. In collaboration with Susanne Schul. Berlin et al.: de Gruyter.

    Essays in Preparation:

    • Schul, S. (2025): "The superpower to read between the lines!!!": A gender-reflexive and intersectional toolbox in children's and youth non-fiction comics. In: Witte, J./Gröber, F. (eds.): Gender & Sexualität in der Literatur- und Mediendidaktik (20 p., in preparation) [Text: Mirion Malle "Die Liga der Superfeminist*innen"].
    • Schul, S. (2025): Neither fish nor flesh: marine wonders as border crossers between species, emotions, elements and narratives. In: Wenzel, F. (ed.): Nature-Culture Interferences. Middle Ages - Early Modern Times - Modernity. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag (Frankfurter Beiträge zur Germanistik (24 p., in preparation) [Texts: Konrad von Megenberg "Buch der Natur", "Wolfdietrich"-Epos A and Sy Montgomery "Rendezvous mit einem Oktopus"].
    • Schul, S. (2025): Courage to leave gaps: Narrative-technical and reception-directing functions of text-image correlations in the Kassel "Willehalm" codex and "Willehalm" comic. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur (ZfdA), (20 pp., in preparation).
    • Schul. S. (2025): Wolf seen?! Animal-human relationality from a cultural-historical perspective. In: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (ZfdPh), (16 p., in preparation) [Texts: Konrad von Megenberg "Buch der Natur", Georg Schaller "Ein neuw Thierbuch" and Saša Stanišić "Wolf"].

    Essays in Print:

    • Schul, S. (2024): "No room for heroes": Intersectional reflections of self and other in the coming-of-age musical "Drachenherz" by Wolfgang Böhmer and Peter Lund. In: Identity politics in contemporary German-language literature. Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik (ZiG), 15th vol., (16 pp., in press).
    • Schul, S. (2024): Nibelungische Erklärvideos als Lehr- und Lernstrategie: Medienkompetenz und Intersektionalität im Handlungsfeld heldenepischen Erzählens. In: Sieber, A./Müller, K. (eds.): Fascination Nibelungen - Presence and mediation of a multimedia myth. Berlin: Peter Lang (26 pp.; in print).
    • Schul, S. (2024): Falling out of the frame? Narrated interdependencies in the Siegfried comic by Alex Alice. In: Darilek, M./Däumer, M. (eds.): Vom Spruchband zur Sprechblase: Comics des Mittelalters - Mittelaltercomics. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (27 p., in print).

    Published Articles:

    • Schul, S. (2022): Literary learning with a "far-famed magician and blacksmith"? Historical narration of the magical acquisition of knowledge in Oliver Pötzsch's "Faustus" novel. In: Standke, J. / Bernhardt, S. (eds.): Historical narration in contemporary literature - perspectives for teaching literature. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 285-300.
    • Schul, S. (2020): Dangerous companionship? Emotionalized narration in the late medieval prose epic "Queen Sibille". In: Animal Studies: Animals and Emotions (17), pp. 32-46 (peer-reviewed publication).

    • "ain hierß leit mir ain luoder": Intersectionality, animality and desire in the minstrel and aventurist novel Friedrich von Schwaben. In: Bennewitz, I./Eming, J. (eds.): Gender Studies - Queer Studies - Intersectionality. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019 (Berlin Medieval and Early Modern Studies), pp. 335-365.

    • "Dye lewynne stalte groß iamer": Processes of emotionalization between animals and humans in the late medieval prose epic Duke Herpin. In: Yearbook of Literary Studies, New Series (LJB). 60th volume (2019), pp. 123-158 (peer-reviewed publication).
    • Adventurous 'crossings': Vormoderne intersektional, in: S. Schul/M. Böth/M. Mecklenburg (eds.): Adventurous 'Crossings': Vormoderne intersektional (= Aventiuren 12), Göttingen: V&R-unipress 2017, pp. 9-40 (with Mareike Böth).
    • (V)Erlesene Animalität: Intersectionale Emotionalisierungsprozesse im spätmittelalterlichen Heldenepos, in: S. Schul/M. Böth/M. Mecklenburg (eds.): Adventurous 'Crossings': Vormoderne intersektional (= Aventiuren 12), Göttingen: V&R-unipress 2017, pp. 239-280.
    • "So this book held me. [...] And [I] read the song of Siegfried and Kriemhild": Heroic Narrative in the Song of the Nibelungs and Nibelung Adaptations, in: Hebbel-Jahrbuch 72 (2017), pp. 32-65. [Texts and films: Song of the Nibelungs and Nibelung adaptations]
    • "Wolf encounters with consequences": Interspecific care relations in theWolfdietrich-epic, in: Research focus "Animal - Human - Society" (ed.): Vielfältig verflochten. Interdisciplinary approaches to animal-human relationality, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016, pp. 223-239.
    • Of a wild animalund vom "Flamingo-Killer": 'Hegemoniale Tierlichkeit' im Tierepos und im Zoo-Krimi, in: M. Waltenberger et al. (eds.): Reflexionen des Politischen in der europäischen Tierepik, Boston/New York: de Gruyter 2016, pp. 60-93 [Texts: Henry the GlîchezareReinhart Fuchs, Journalistic contributions on the flamingo killings at Frankfurt Zoo in March 2014]
    • Den KatzenARTigen auf der Spur, in: Research focus "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft" (ed.): Den Fährten folgen. Methoden interdisziplinärer Tierforschung, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016, pp. 171-174 (with Theresa Kölczer, Christian Presche and Daniel Wolf).
    • "Von dem pantier. Animal-human relations between aesthetic design and natural history experience in Konrad von Megenberg's Book of Nature, in: Forschungsschwerpunkt "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft" (ed.): Den Fährten folgen. Methods of interdisciplinary animal research, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016, pp. 175-209 (with Theresa Kölczer). [Texts: Isidore of Seville Etymology, Millstätter Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Book of Nature]
    • Who wants to be beautiful... Beauty and Intersectionality in Grimm's Fairy Tale Adaptations in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, in: C. Brinker-von der Heyde/H. Ehrhardt/A. Inder et al. (eds.): Märchen, Mythen und Moderne: 200 Jahre Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Part 1 (= MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik 18), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2015, pp. 547-559 [Films: Rupert SandersSnow White and the Huntsman, Tarsem SinghMirror Mirror]
    • Off the beaten track: Medieval travel narratives as intersectional narratives, in: M. Bereswill/F. Degenring/S. Stange (eds.): Intersectionality and Research Practice: Mutual Challenges (= Forum Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung), Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot 2015, pp. 96-114 [Text:Herzog Ernst]
    • SprachGefühl - an introduction, in: M. Langlotz/N. Lehnert/S. Schul/M. Weßel (eds.): SprachGefühl. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf einen nur scheinbar altbekannten Begriff (= MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik 17), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2014, pp. 9-25 (with Miriam Langlotz and Nils Lehnert).
    • Emotional or full of feeling? Literary concepts of love and their linguistic garb from a diachronic perspective, in: M. Langlotz/N. Lehnert/S. Schul/M. Weßel (eds.): SprachGefühl (= MeLiS. Medien - Literaturen - Sprachen in Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Germanistik und Romanistik 17), Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2014, pp. 191-252 (with Nils Lehnert). [Texts: Mechthild von Magdeburg Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (ÄdL), Wilhelm Genazino's novel Die Liebesblödigkeit (NdL)]
    • The elephant in medieval literature and art, in: M. Sitt (ed.): Tier im Bild: Die menschliche Perspektive. Online publication on the interdisciplinary symposium (13-14.11.2014), Kassel 2014, pp. 23-26. (with Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde).
    • Finding one's own in the foreign- A fantastic retelling and retelling in Middle High GermanDuke Ernstand in Lutz Dammbeck's animated film, in: C. Lötscher/P. Schrackmann/I. Tomkowiak et al. (eds.): Übergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik (= Fantastikfoschung / Research in the Fantastic 1), Zurich: LIT Verlag 2014, pp. 499-512.
    • Nibelungen - born to die: In the here and now theold maerenvery close, in: Die horen 252 (2013), pp. 101-114 [Television theater: Dieter WedelFriedrich Hebbel's Nibelungen - born to die]
    • "Let the heroes be heroes for once!" Revisions of the comic in theSong of the Nibelungs-Rezeption des Gegenwartstheaters, in: J. Grabmayer (ed.): Das Bild vom Mittelalter (= Schriftenreihe der Akademie Friesach, N. F. 3), Klagenfurt 2013, pp. 79-116. [Texts and television theater: Moritz RinkeNibelungsJohn von DüffelThe Life of Siegfried]
    • Heroic bodies - body heroesConstructions of masculinity in text and film, in: Akten des XII. Internationale Germanistenkongress Warschau 2010: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit: Film und visuelle Medien; Multimediale und transnationale Kommunikation im Barockzeitalter; Entwicklungen in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien nach 1989; Literatur-Medien-Kultur im germanistischen Kontext, Frankfurt a. M. 2012 (Publikationen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG); 10), pp. 125-131 [Text and Film:NibelungenliedFritz LangThe Nibelungs]
    • frouwen-knowledge -gentlemen-knowledge? 'Gender' as a category of knowledge in Middle High German narratives, in: A. Gardt/M. Schnyder/J. Wolf (eds.): Book culture and the transmission of knowledge in the Middle Ages and early modern period. With the collaboration of Susanne Schul. Berlin et al.: de Gruyter 2011, pp. 183-202 [Texts: Hartmann von AueGregoriusHeinrich von dem TürlînDiu CrôneWolfram von EschenbachWillehalm]
    • Burg Katz, in: I. Baumgärtner/M. Stercken/A. Halle (eds.): Wilhelm Dilich: Landtafeln hessischer Ämter zwischen Rhein und Weser 1607-1622, Kassel: kassel university press 2011, pp. 94-102. [Cartography: Wilhelm Dilich's Landtafeln are among the most important cartographic works of the 17th century.
      The (handwritten, drawn) original plates are a source work for research into field names as well as local, building and war history. They show the town, landscape and castle situations before the destruction of the Thirty Years' War and the developments of subsequent centuries. The book contains, describes, comments on and analyzes all 66 plates by Dilich's hand in facsimile quality]
    • IAG Women's and Gender Studies, in: C. Brinker-von der Heyde/D. Fuhr/W. Gabler et al. (eds.): 40 years of the University of Kassel. Natur - Technik - Kultur - Gesellschaft, Kassel: kassel university press 2011, p. 62 (with Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde).
    • me fecit... Gravestones as sources of Roman craftsmanship, in: Geschichte lernen 117 (2007), pp. 26-33.

    Lectures

    • Presentation in preparation for the literary didactics conference "Gender & Sexuality in Literature and Media Didactics" by Dr. Jennifer Witte and Dr. Franz Kröber entitled "Die Superkraft zwischen den Zeilen zu lesen!!!": A gender-reflexive and intersectional toolbox in children's and young adult nonfiction comics (University of Osnabrück, July 26-27, 2024)
    • Lecture at the literary lecture series "Natur-Kultur-Interferenzen in Mittelalter, Früher Neuzeit und Moderne" by Prof. Dr. Franziska Wenzel (Ältere deutsche Literatur) with the title "Wolf gesehen?! Humanimal Narrative in the Middle Ages and the Present" (Goethe University Frankfurt, 04.12.2023)
    • Habilitation lecture/rehearsal lecture and academic discussion entitled "Alte Maere neu erklären: Promoting media literacy in the field of heroic narrative through self-produced explanatory videos" (University of Kassel, 25.01.2023)
    • Application lecture and scientific discussion entitled "Courage to fill in the gaps: Erzähltechnische und rezeptionslenkende Funktionen von Text-Bild-Korrelationen im Kasseler "Willehalm"-Kodex und "Willehalm"-Comic" for the W2-Professorship "Germanistische Mittelalterforschung mit Schwerpunkt Digital Humanities und Neue Medien" at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg (University of Bamberg: 31.01.2022)
    • Lecture at the interdisciplinary colloquium "Wiederholung und Kreativität. Repetitive Patterns in Early Modern Conversations" by Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach (University of Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott (University of Kassel) with the title "Was zum Teufel wil / das laest sich nicht aufhalten": Variierende Wiederholung und asymmetrische Kommunikationsmuster des Teufelspaktes in der Historia von D. Johann Fausten (Hofgeismar, 11.-14.10.2021)
    • Presentation at the transdisciplinary study conference "Faszination Nibelungen - Präsenz und Vermittlung eines multimedialen Mythos" by Prof. Dr. Andrea Sieber (Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft) and Prof. Dr. Karla Müller (Didaktik der deutschen Sprache und Literatur) with the title "Nibelungische Erklärvideos als Lehr-Lern-Strategie: Intersektionalität im Handlungsfeld heldenepischen Erzählens." (University of Passau, 24. -26.09 2021).
    • Lecture at the literary didactic online conference "New perspectives on German didactics oriented towards cultural and human sciences - Interdisciplinary and international perspectives on racism-sensitive teaching and training at schools and universities" by Prof. Dr. Michael Hofmann (University of Paderborn); Jun.Prof. Dr. Karina Becker (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) with the title "Heroic heterogeneity: Intersectional analyses of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" in diversity-sensitive literature teaching" (University of Paderborn, 02.-03.06.2021)
    • Lecture with Professor Dr. Andrea Sieber (Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft) as part of the lecture "Mittelalter-Mythen im medialen Transfer" with the title "Aus dem Rahmen fallen? Narrated interdependencies in the Siegfried comic by Alex Alice' (University of Passau, Faculty of Philology, 14.05.2019).
    • Lecture at the medievalist workshop "Vom Spruchband zur Sprechblase: Comics des Mittelalters - Mittelaltercomics" by Marion Darilek and Dr. Matthias Däumer with the title "Kindheitsbilder erzählen: Intermediality and hero genesis in the Siegfried comic by Alex Alice" (University of Tübingen, 26-27.04.2019).
    • Lecture at the medievalist conference "altiumære heute: Die Nibelungen und ihre Rezeption im 21. Jahrhundert" by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz and Dr. Detlef Goller with the title "Es gibt immer ein Opfer": Albert Ostermaier's GOLD: Der Film der Nibelungen aus einer intersektionalen Perspektive (University of Bamberg, 9-11 November 2017).
    • Lecture at the interdisciplinary conference "Tiere wissen - Tiere erzählen: Narrative Drafts of Animality in Literature and Culture - Fictionality and Factuality of Texts" of the Collaborative Research Center 833 "Constitution of Meaning" and the Research Training Group 1662 "Religious Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe (800-1800)" entitled "Dye lewynne stalte groß iamer vnd leyt vmb das kint, das ir genomen wart": Interspecific Emotionalization Processes in the Late Medieval Prose Novel Duke Herpin" (University of Tübingen, 23-24 June 2017).
    • Lecture with PD. Dr. Urte Heldhuser, German Seminar of the Leibniz University Hannover with the title "Dangerous intersections: Narrative constructions of heroism" (Leibniz Universität Hannover, May 02, 2017).
    • Lecture in the advanced seminar "Tiere in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit" by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz with the title "Begegnung der Arten: Humanimale Ästhetik in spätmittelalterlicher Heldenepik" (University of Bamberg, 24.01.2016).
    • Lecture at the medievalist conference "Gender Studies - Queer Studies - Intersectionality Research. Eine Zwischenbilanz aus mediävistischer Perspektive" with the title "ain hierß leit mir ain luoder: Begehren, Animalität und Intersektionalität im Friedrich von Schwaben" (Freie Universität Berlin, 17.-19.11.2016).
    • Lecture at the research colloquium of the "Cultural and Literary Animal Studies" by Prof. Dr. Roland Borgards (14-15.07.2016) with the title "Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen im Minne- und Aventiureroman Friedrich von Schwaben" (University of Würzburg, 14.07.2016).
    • Lecture at the Heidelberg Medieval Research Colloquium of Prof. Dr. Ludger Lieb with the title "Materialität des Transformativen: Hybrid heroes and non-human agents in the Wolfdietrich epic A" (University of Heidelberg, 09.06.2016).
    • Lecture and workshop at the interdisciplinary conference: "Die Sicht des Tieres: Reflexion von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in Texten und Medien des Mittelalters" (03.-04.03.2016) with the title "Wahrnehmung und Ästhetik" (University of Kassel, 03.03.2016).
    • Lectureat the interdisciplinary conference "Erträge einer interdisziplinären Tierforschung" of the research focus "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft" (06.-07.10.2015) with the title "si gienc ûf allen vieren recht sam si waere ein ber: Narrationsmuster einer humanimalen Ästhetik im Wolfdietrich-Epos D" (University of Kassel, 07.10.2015).
    • Lecture at the Zürcher Mediävistischen Forschungskolloquium by Prof. Dr. Susanne Köbele, Prof. Dr. Mireille Schnyder and Prof. Dr. Christian Kiening entitled "Monströs schön: Typologien einer humanimalen Ästhetik" (University of Zurich, 29.04.2015).
    • Lecture and workshop in the Master's seminar "Mittelalterliche Texte im Spiegel moderner Literatur. Forms of Adaptation and Recoding" by Prof. Dr. Timo Reuvekamp-Felber and Prof. Dr. Hans-Edwin Friedrich, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with the title "Liebesgeflüster zwischen Spezies? Humanimal relationship determination in Herzog Ernst" (Kiel University, 08.01.2015).
    • Lecture at the interdisciplinary conference "Tier im Bild - die menschliche Perspektive" (Ottoneum Kassel) with the title "Einbildung,Abbildungund Wortbildung: The Elephant in Medieval Literature and Art" (together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde, University of Kassel, 14-16.11.2014).
    • Lecture at the medieval conference "Satirische Kritik und Reflexion des Politischen in der europäischen Tierepik" with the title "Species and Power: Hegemoniale 'Tierlichkeit' auf dem Prüfstand" (Kloster Johannesberg, 18.-20.09.2014).
    • Lecture at the Summer School of the SFB 948 "Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen" (15.-17.05.2014) "Ein Antiheld? Gegenentwürfe zum Heroischen in Vormoderne und Moderne" with the title "Tierisch heldenhaft oder humanimaler Grenzgänger: Reinhart Fuchsals (Anti-)Held im mittelalterlichen Tierepos" (University of Freiburg, 16.05.2014).
    • Commentary in the lecture series of the ZFF research focus "Ungleichheiten in Geschlechterverhältnissen: Making Differences - Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Gender Studies"(SoSe 2013). Lecture with interdisciplinary commentary: Dr. Kerstin Wolff (History/Archives of the German Women's Movement): "The prostitute around 1900 - between abolitionism and neoreglementarism". Commentary by Dr. Susanne Schul (German Medieval Studies): "The oldest trade in the world?" (University of Kassel, 12.06.2013).
    • Lecture at the Hessian State Representation in Berlin "Hessen erinnert: Exportschlager und Landesmarke Grimm - einst und heute", event organized by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art entitled "Schneewittchen - ein Evergreen: Grimm'sche Märchenadaption im Film" (Berlin, 21.02.2013).
    • Lecture at the international conference "Märchen, Mythen und Moderne - 200 Jahre Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm" (17.12.-20.12.2012) with the title "Das doppelte Schneewittchen? An intersectional comparison of Grimm's contemporary reception in Hollywood cinema" (University of Kassel, 18.12.2012).
    • Lecture at the 3rd annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF) "Übergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik" (13.-16.9.2012) with the title "Das Eigene in der Fremde (er)finden - Ein fantastisches Wieder- und Weitererzählen im mittelhochdeutschen Herzog Ernst und in Lutz Dammbeck's Animationsfilm" (University of Zurich, 15.09.2012).
    • Lecture in the working group on Old German Studies at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna with the title "(Un)Gleichheit erzählen: Intersectionality from a cultural-historical perspective" (University of Vienna, 10.05.2012).
    • Lecture at the 12th Pöchlarner Heldenliedgespräche (11.4.-14.4.2012) "Spuren der Heldensage. Texte - Bilder - Realien" with the title "Live am Ort des Geschehens? Mediality and materiality of the Nibelung saga at the Worms Nibelung Festival" (Pöchlarn, 13.04.2012).
    • Lecture at the 15th colloquium of the Friesach Academy (Austria) "Das Bild vom Mittelalter" (27.-30.10.2011) with the title "Einmal die Helden Helden sein lassen. The Song of the Nibelungs in the Theater" (Friesach, 28.10.2011).
    • Lecture at theXII Congress of the International Association for German Studies (IVG) "Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit" (30.07.-07.08.2010) with the title "Spielregeln der Geschlechter: Ein genderspezifischer Vergleich des mittelhochdeutschen Nibelungenliedes und der Nibelungen-Verfilmung Fritz Langs" (University of Warsaw, 04.08.2010).
    • Lecture in the interdisciplinarylecture series of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Kassel "Ungleichheiten in Geschlechterverhältnissen" (28.04.-30.06.) with the title "Schwarz ≠ Weiß: Ungleichheiten von Männlichkeitskonstruktionen in Fritz Langs Nibelungenfilm" (University of Kassel, 30.06.2010).

    Lecture Series, Colloquia, Workshops and Section Leaders

    • Section leaders at the International Grimm Congress "Fairy Tales, Myths and Modernity - 200 Years of Children's and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm". University of Kassel, 17-20.12.2012: Section 8: Medial adaptations: The Fairy Tale Film / Section 20: Poetology of the Fairy Tale: Construction of Gender / Section 44: Poetology of the Fairy Tale: Fairy Tale Motifs.
    • Member of the planning and program committee of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Intersectional research - but how?" of the ZFF research focus "Inequalities in gender relations", winter semester 2012/2013, University of Kassel.
    • Member of the planning and program committee of the interdisciplinary lecture series "SprachGefühl" of the Humanities and Cultural Studies Doctoral College. On five evenings, experts from the disciplines of theology, older and modern German literature, rhetoric, conversation research and linguistics shed light on the relationship between language and emotion from the perspective of their subject-specific questions. Headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Anz (Modern German Literature/University of Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Andrea Sieber (Early German Literature/University of Duisburg-Essen), the section entitled "Emotion as Text? Possibilities and limits of literary emotion research", winter semester 2012/2013, University of Kassel.
    • Member of the planning and program committee of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Making Differences - Interdisciplinary Dialogues" on gender studies of the ZFF research focus "Inequalities in Gender Relations", University of Kassel, summer semester 2013. Lectures with interdisciplinary commentaries in cooperation with the Archive of the German Women's Movement.
    • Organizer of the interdisciplinary research colloquium "Mystik - Die Sehnsucht nach dem Absoluten", summer semester 2013, University of Kassel. In this series, organized together with Dr. Jörn Münkner (NdL), fourteen researchers from different disciplines (German language history and medieval studies, art and early modern history, historical contemporary history in the medium of film, theology, philosophy and modern German literature) explored the elusive concept of the mystical. A workshop by the medieval mysticism researcher Prof. Dr. Hildegart Elisabeth Keller (University of Zurich) was integrated and the series concluded with a cinema screening of her film contribution "Der Ozean im Fingerhut" (USA/CH, 2012, 90 min.).
    • Interdisciplinary workshop entitled "KatzenARTige: Narrativik in Text und Bild" as part of the LOEWE conference "Methoden der interdisziplinären Tierforschung" together with Theresa Kölczer (Germanistische Mediävistik), Dr. Christian Presche (Kunstgeschichte), Daniel Wolf (Kunstgeschichte), University of Kassel, 15-16.01.2015.
    • Medieval Studies Colloquium at the University of Kassel with the title: "Der Esel als Reflexionsfigur: Workshop zu Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der mittelalterlichen Literatur" (in cooperation with J.-Prof. Dr. Julia Weitbrecht, Ältere deutsche Literatur, Universität Kiel), 14.07.2015.
    • Interdisciplinary panel "Tiernarrative" (Medieval German Studies and Theology) with a commentary by Prof. Dr. Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher (Old Testament Biblical Studies, KTU Linz) as part of the LOEWE conference "Empirie und interdisziplinäre Tierforschung" together with Theresa Kölczer (German Medieval Studies) and Dr. Yvonne Thöne (Theology/Old Testament) University of Kassel, 05.-06.10.2015.
    • Chair of the medievalist conference and workshop entitled: "Die Sicht des Tieres: Reflexion von Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in Texten und Medien des Mittelalters", 03-04.03.2016. A cooperation between the Kassel LOEWE focus "Tier - Mensch - Gesellschaft" and the Kiel DFG project "Beredte Tiere. Narrative configurations of human-animal relationships in German-language animal literature of the 14th-16th centuries" (together with J.-Prof. Dr. Julia Weitbrecht). Funded by the LOEWE focus of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art - State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence.
    • Organization and management of the interdisciplinary panel "Animal Knowledge in Transfer: Teaching and Learning" with a panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Claudia Wulff (Biology Didactics, University of Kassel), Prof. Dr. Berbeli Wanning (Didactics of Literature, University of Siegen) and Christian Dölker (Didactics of Literature, University of Munich) as part of the LOEWE conference "Application and Transfer" together with Dr. André Krebber (History of Animal-Human Relations) and Christopher Hilbert (Theoretical Philosophy), University of Kassel, 10-11.10.2016.

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