Teaching and Research Interests

• 18th–21st Century British, Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Literatures
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
• Film Studies and Media History
• Gender Theory/ Literary Masculinity studies
• Gender- and genre-specific developments in anglophone crime fiction and film
• Postcolonial and transcultural perspectives in anglophone travel literature.

Research Networks and Memberships

• Bremen Institute of Canada and Québec Studies (BICQS – Faculty 10)
• British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
• Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
• Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
• International Crime Fiction Association