Dr. Eike Kronshage (he, him)

Robert-Koch-Gymnasium,
Berlin, Germany (since 02/2023)

Teacher: English and Ethics/Philosophy

Chemnitz University of Technology,
Chemnitz, Germany (10/2014-01/2023)

Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
at the Chair of English Literatures

Dahlem Research School (DRS)
Free University Berlin, Germany (05/2014-09/2014)

Postdoc Fellow (DRS HONORS) at the DRS, Free University Berlin

Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Berlin, Germany (10/2010-01/2014)

Doctoral Researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University Berlin
PhD thesis (2013): Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel

Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany (10/2018-09/2021)

Master of Education (Lehramtsmaster) in English and Philosophy (Ethics).

Dahlem School of Education (DSE)
Free University Berlin, Germany (10/2016-04/2018)

Bachelor of Education (Lehramtsbachelor) in English and Philosophy (Ethics).

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England (04/2012-07/2012)

Visiting researcher: Faculty of English

Free University
Berlin, Germany (10/2004-08/2008)

M.A.: Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature
Topic of master thesis: "Sexual violence in J.M.Coetzee's Disgrace" (2007)

Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA (09/2007-05/2008)

Doctoral researcher at the Department of Comparative Literature.
Teaching assistant at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark (08/2003-04/2004)

Major: Comparative Literature
ERASMUS-exchange program.

Ludwig-Maximilians University
Munich, Germany (10/2001-05/2004)

B.A.: Comparative Literature

• Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel. New York: Routledge, 2017.
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  English: This monograph explores the role of physiognomics in the English realist novel, examining how character and personality are depicted through physical appearance in literary texts. As readers, we form impressions of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author’s descriptions of their physical traits and environments. This process, known as physiognomy, has been evident throughout history, including in the English Realist novels of the 19th and 20th centuries. "Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel" explores the use of physiognomics and aesthetics by renowned authors in this genre, such as Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen. In this innovative approach to representation, visuality, and aesthetics in nineteenth-century realist novels, Eike Kronshage argues that physiognomics allows writers to reveal their characters’ inner lives without exerting authoritative control.
  
  Deutsch: Als Leser bilden wir uns Eindrücke von Charakteren und ihren Umgebungen in einem Roman, basierend auf den Beschreibungen der physischen Merkmale und Umgebungen durch den Autor. Dieser Prozess, bekannt als Physiognomie, ist im Laufe der Geschichte deutlich erkennbar, einschließlich in den englischen realistischen Romanen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. "Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel" untersucht die Verwendung von Physiognomie und Ästhetik durch bekannte Autoren dieses Genres wie Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens und Jane Austen. In diesem innovativen Ansatz zur Darstellung, Visualität und Ästhetik im realistischen Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts argumentiert Eike Kronshage, dass die Physiognomie den Schriftstellern ermöglicht, das Innenleben ihrer Charaktere zu offenbaren, ohne autoritativ einzugreifen.

• Crisis, Risks, and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017.
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  English: This collection of essays examines the effectiveness, limitations, and future of Cultural Studies as a theoretical and methodological approach to analyzing recent crises in Europe. The volume covers a wide range of topics, including: theoretical and critical perspectives on the stability of the EU as a political and economic union of its 28 member states; the ongoing refugee flows into Europe and other countries, including tragedies off the coast of Lampedusa; the rise of far-right, anti-Islam political groups across Europe; the negotiation of affect and crisis phenomena in literary texts; and the role of media in the refugee crisis. These and other pressing issues are discussed from various historical, political, pedagogical, gender, media, and aesthetic perspectives within Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literatures. The volume aims to develop a new working definition of Cultural Studies—making culture political again—integrating Postcolonial and Gender Studies within a European context. The essays offer a fresh approach to discussing crisis phenomena in the context of complex encounters and conflicts, new regionalisms, emergency diasporas, gender studies, and neo-capitalism/neo-colonialism within and beyond a German-Italian framework.
  
  Deutsch: Diese Sammlung von Essays untersucht die Wirksamkeit, Grenzen und Zukunft der Kulturwissenschaften als theoretischer und methodischer Ansatz zur Analyse aktueller Krisen in Europa. Der Band behandelt eine Vielzahl von Themen, darunter: theoretische und kritische Perspektiven auf die Stabilität der EU als politische und wirtschaftliche Union ihrer 28 Mitgliedstaaten; die anhaltenden Flüchtlingsströme nach Europa und in andere Länder, einschließlich der Tragödien vor der Küste Lampedusas; der Aufstieg rechtsextremer, anti-islamischer politischer Gruppen in ganz Europa; die Verhandlung von Affekt- und Krisenphänomenen in literarischen Texten; und die Rolle der Medien in der Flüchtlingskrise. Diese und andere dringende Themen werden aus verschiedenen historischen, politischen, pädagogischen, genderbezogenen, medialen und ästhetischen Perspektiven innerhalb der Kulturwissenschaften und der postkolonialen Literaturen diskutiert. Ziel des Ban des ist es, eine neue Arbeitsdefinition der Kulturwissenschaften zu entwickeln – Kultur wieder politisch zu machen – und dabei Postkoloniale und Gender Studies in einem europäischen Kontext zu integrieren. Die Essays bieten einen neuen Ansatz zur Diskussion von Krisenphänomenen im Kontext komplexer Begegnungen und Konflikte, neuer Regionalismen, Notfall-Diasporas, Gender Studies und Neokapitalismus/Neokolonialismus innerhalb und außerhalb eines deutsch-italienischen Rahmens.



• Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. De Gruyter, 2016.
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  English: Between 1756 and 1832, two distinct phases of British-German literary exchange can be identified. The anglophilia and European scholarship of the Germans—especially in Brunswick, Göttingen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zurich, and Weimar—toward the end of the eighteenth century was replaced by a competitive mindset focused on world and national categories. The contributions in this volume explore the intricate network of British-German and, to a lesser extent, German-British relations through twelve questions. These questions address the reception, translation, and adaptation of British writings in German-speaking regions, extending to Prague, and also compare aesthetic discourses and descriptions of travels to England.
  
  Deutsch: Zwischen 1756 und 1832 lassen sich zwei Phasen des britisch-deutschen Literaturtransfers erkennen. Zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts wird die Anglophilie und europäische Gelehrsamkeit der Deutschen – besonders in Städten wie Braunschweig, Göttingen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zürich und Weimar – von einem wetteifernden Denken in den Kategorien Welt und Nation abgelöst. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen das komplexe Netz der britisch-deutschen und am Rande auch deutsch-britischen Beziehungen anhand von zwölf Fragestellungen. Diese betreffen die Rezeption, Übersetzung und Verarbeitung britischer Schriften im deutschsprachigen Raum, einschließlich Prag, sowie den Vergleich ästhetischer Diskurse und die Darstellung von Englandreisen.



• Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015.
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  English: The city is a layered space where various strata overlap, readable as a palimpsest—both in the actual urban space and in its aesthetic representations. These layers reveal the city's flexibility and change: they are exposed, overwritings and shifts become discernible, and the interpretation of the urban space becomes more complex. This opens up new perspectives on power discourses that influence the overwriting processes and highlights the critical potential of the city's palimpsest. This volume examines this phenomenon in 13 contributions in German and English, ranging from the medieval city to the modern urban space. The contributions come from various disciplines: medieval studies, rhetoric, historical research, literary studies, art history, film studies, linguistics, cultural studies, and urban planning. The aim of the volume is to develop a critical concept of the city that illuminates layering phenomena in the context of complex spaces, encounters, conflicts, invisible power exertion, and translation processes.
  
  Deutsch: Die Stadt ist ein geschichteter Raum, in dem sich verschiedene Schichten überlagern, die als Palimpsest lesbar sind – sowohl im realen Stadtraum als auch in seinen ästhetischen Darstellungen. Diese Schichten machen die Flexibilität und den Wandel der Stadt sichtbar: Sie werden freigelegt, Überschreibungen und Verschiebungen werden erkennbar, und die Interpretation des Stadtraums wird komplexer. Dies eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf Machtdiskurse, die die Überschreibungsprozesse beeinflussen, und zeigt das kritische Potenzial des Palimpsests der Stadt.
  Der vorliegende Band untersucht dieses Phänomen in 13 deutsch- und englischsprachigen Beiträgen, die von der mittelalterlichen Stadt bis zum modernen Stadtraum reichen. Die Beiträge stammen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen: Mediävistik, Rhetorik, Geschichtsforschung, Literaturwissenschaften, Kunstgeschichte, Filmwissenschaft, Linguistik, Kulturwissenschaften und Stadtplanung. Ziel des Bandes ist es, einen kritischen Stadtbegriff zu entwickeln, der Schichtungsphänomene im Kontext komplexer Räume, Begegnungen, Konflikte, unsichtbarer Machtausübung und Übersetzungsprozesse beleuchtet.

• "Lavater's Physiognomics and Feuerbach's Concept of Projection in George Eliot's Middlemarch." Crossing the Channel: British-German Historical and Cultural Dialogues.. Ed. Rudolf Boch, Marian Nebelin, and Cecile Sandten. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2022 (Prinz Albert Research Publications 2): 49-72.
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  This article explores the influence of Lavater's physiognomics and Feuerbach's concept of projection on the characters and themes in George Eliot's Middlemarch.

• "The Garden of Iden: Bourgeoise Ideology and Rebellion in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI." Protest. Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Ed. Mandy Beck, Cecile Sandten, and Daniel Ziesche. Trier: WVT, 2021: 163-176.
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  This article examines the bourgeois ideology and themes of rebellion in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI.



• "Physiognomic Flânerie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent." Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk and Show. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach and Ulla Ratheiser. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2021.
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  This article explores the concept of physiognomic flânerie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, analyzing how the novel uses physical appearance to convey character and social commentary.

• "Nah, fern, skalierbar: Die Politik des Lesens von Kanon und Quisquilie." SPRACHKUNST. Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft 50.1 (2019): 95-113. (PDF)
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  This article discusses the politics of reading canon and non-canon texts, exploring the dynamics of literary value and interpretation.




• "Weimar Wallace: Three German Screen Adaptations of Novels by Edgar Wallace (1931-34)." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 67.4 (2019): 1-17. (PDF)
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  This article analyzes three German screen adaptations of Edgar Wallace's novels from the Weimar era, examining how these films interpret and represent Wallace's stories.



• "'Purchased honour': Economic Expediency in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi." John Webster's 'Dismal Tragedy', The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. Ed. Sophie Chiari and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2019, 103-120. [TOC]
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  This article examines the theme of economic expediency in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, analyzing how financial considerations influence the characters' actions and the play's plot.



• "Reformation and Transformation: On Religion, Politics, and Economics in King John". Shakespeare Seminar Online 15 (2017; published 2019). (PDF)
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  This article explores the interplay of religion, politics, and economics in Shakespeare's King John, analyzing how these themes shape the play's narrative and characters.



• Review of David Hawkes's Shakespeare and Economic Theory. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.2 (2018 [published 2019]): 213-216.
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  This review analyzes David Hawkes's book Shakespeare and Economic Theory, evaluating its arguments and contributions to the field of Shakespeare studies.



• Review of Martina Bross's Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 60 (2019): 405-408.
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  This review evaluates Martina Bross's book Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage, discussing its analysis of different adaptations and interpretations of Shakespeare's play.

• "Parasitic Picaresque. R.S. Surtees's Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour." Das Enigma des Pikaresken/The Enigma of the Picaresque. Ed. Jens Elze. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018: 89-105.
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  This article analyzes R.S. Surtees's Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, examining how the novel fits within the picaresque tradition and its critique of social and economic issues.



• "Theorien des Nichtlesens." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Lesen. Ed. Alexander Honold and Rolf Parr. Boston: De Gruyter, 2018: 211-230. (PDF)
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  This article explores theories of non-reading, analyzing how and why readers engage with texts in various ways and the implications for literary interpretation.

• "'Nothing Truer Than Physiognomy': Body Semiotics and Agency in Charles Dickens's 'Hunted Down' (1859)." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 48 (2017): 167-180. (PDF)
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  This article examines the role of body semiotics and agency in Charles Dickens's short story 'Hunted Down', analyzing how physical appearance influences character and plot.



• "Conspicuous Consumption, Croyance, and the Problem of the Two Timons: Shakespeare and Middleton's Timon of Athens." Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 18:3 (2017): 262-274. [DOI]. (PDF)
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  This article explores themes of conspicuous consumption and belief in Shakespeare and Middleton's Timon of Athens, analyzing the play's critique of economic and social values.



• (with Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, and Roberto Pedretti): "Introduction." Crisis, Risks, New Regionalisms. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017: 11-23.
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  This introduction provides an overview of the themes and objectives of the edited volume Crisis, Risks, New Regionalisms, discussing the impact of crises on regionalism in Europe.

• "Lavaters physiognomische Apodemik in Reisebeschreibungen deutscher Englandreisender im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert." Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 153-170. (PDF)
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  This article examines Lavater's physiognomic apodemics in travel writings of German travelers to England in the late eighteenth century, analyzing how physical appearance was used to interpret cultural differences.



• (with Lore Knapp): "Einleitung". Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 1-20.
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  This introduction provides an overview of the literary exchange between Britain and Germany from 1756 to 1832, discussing key themes and objectives of the edited volume.



• "On the Scientific Status of Literary Physiognomics in Victorian Realism: The Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Physiognomisches Schreiben: Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik. Ed. Hans-Georg von Arburg, Elias Zimmermann, Benedikt Tremp. Freiburg: Rombach, 2016: 125-139.
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  This article explores the scientific status of literary physiognomics in Victorian realism, focusing on the novels of Charlotte Brontë and their depiction of character through physical appearance.

• "Palimpsestic Layers: Urban Aesthetics and Social Criticism in Charles Dickens's 'Night Walks'." Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015: 79-92.
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  This article examines the urban aesthetics and social criticism in Charles Dickens's essay 'Night Walks', analyzing how the city's layers of meaning are depicted.



• (with Cecile Sandten and Winfried Thielmann): "Introduction." Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015: 1-11.
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  This introduction provides an overview of the themes and objectives of the edited volume Palimpsestraum Stadt, discussing the concept of the city as a palimpsest.

• "The Function of Poetic Epigraphs in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 23.2 (2014): 230-60. (PDF)
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  This article analyzes the function of poetic epigraphs in George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda, examining how they contribute to the novel's themes and narrative structure.

• "A Portrait of the Artist as a Translator. On James Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang." In: Yale Modernism Lab, New Haven, 2008.
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  This article examines James Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's play Vor Sonnenaufgang, analyzing how Joyce's translation techniques reflect his artistic principles.

• Interviewed by Deutschlandfunkkultur about Charles Dickens: "Der Charakter in einer Welt jenseits von Zeit. Die Lange Nacht über Charles Dickens", Saturday, 6 June 2020.
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  This interview with Deutschlandfunkkultur discusses the timeless nature of Charles Dickens's characters and their relevance to contemporary readers.



• Translation of: Bruno Latour: "On Actor-Network Theory: A Few Clarifications." Soziale Welt 47:4 (1996): 369-381.
  "Über die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie. Einige Klarstellungen." Übers. v. Eike Kronshage. In: Lore Knapp (Ed.): Literarische Netzwerke im 18. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2019: 45-66.
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  This translation of Bruno Latour's work on actor-network theory provides insights into the theoretical framework and its applications in literary studies.



• Shakespeare's Sonnet 155 (mit Stefan Schukowski). Shakespeare Sonnet Generator. Auftragsarbeit von Prof. Erika Greber
  Siehe auch: Greber, Erika. "Triskaidekaphobia? Sonettzahlen und Zahlensonette." Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren: Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur. Ed. Andrea Albrecht, Gesa von Essen und Werner Frick. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. 214-247 (besonders 231-32).
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  This project involved creating a fictional Shakespearean sonnet as part of a collaborative effort, exploring the use of mathematical inspiration in literature.



• Gesichter - Faces. 23.03.2010 - 25.03.2010, Berlin. Tagungsbericht. H-Soz-u-Kult, 17.04.2010.
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  This conference report summarizes the discussions and presentations at the "Faces" symposium, which focused on the cultural and historical significance of facial representation.



• Farø, Ken: Universal-Wörterbuch Dänisch: dänisch-deutsch, deutsch-dänisch. Vollständige Neubearbeitung von Eike Kronshage und Kerstin Klingelhöffer. Langenscheidt KG, München, 2005.
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  This dictionary is a comprehensive resource for translating between Danish and German, reflecting the latest updates and improvements in language reference materials.

• 2020: TU Chemnitz Printing Expenses (Forschungspauschalenbudget)


• 2018: DAAD Traveling Grant


• 2016: DFG Printing Expenses


• 2014: DRS Honors: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Excellence Initiative)


• 2010-2014: DFG: PhD-Scholarship (Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation)


• 2003-2004: Erasmus Scholarship

• Sep. 2021: "'[N]o trace to leave behind.' Vertical and Horizontal Financial Transmission as Dickens's Critique of Industrial Capitalism in Dombey and Son."
  15th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English), Lyon, France (virtual conference due to COVID-19).


• Jul. 2021: "The Dialectics of Money in Barnaby Rudge."
  26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Rochester, NY, USA (virtual conference due to COVID-19).


• Jan. 2020: "Weimar, Wallace, Westdeutschland."
  Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Dresden e.V., in cooperation with the Chair of English Literary Studies, University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany. [see Poster]


• May 2019: Keynote lecture: "'A keen eye for physiognomy': Lavaters Physiognomik im realistischen englischen Roman George Eliots":
  Britisch-Deutsche Wissenschaftsgeschichte(n). University of Technology Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.


• Dec. 2018: "'Purchased honour': Economic Expediency in The Duchess of Malfi":
  John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France.


• Sep. 2018: "'Red-hot applications on their vile skins.' Ironic Transparency in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent":
  Anglistentag 2018, Panel: Victorian Surfaces: Skin, Silk, and Show in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Bonn, Germany.


• Jul. 2018: "You would call that lad a degenerate?" Measuring Intellectual (Dis)Ability Through Phrenology in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
  Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950. Canterbury, Kent, England.


• Jul. 2018: "Speaking Faces? Dickens's Critique of Physiognomics":
  The 23rd Annual Dickens Symposium: Dickens and Language, Tübingen, Germany.


• Jun. 2017: "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice":
  Vortrag mit Studierenden vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany.


• Apr. 2017: "'Kings break faith upon commodity': Religious Crisis and Economic Transformation in King John":
  Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Shakespeare and Reformation, Weimar, Germany.


• Jul. 2016: "Genre City: London and the Early Modern City Comedy.":
  Ringvorlesung Die Stadt, Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz.


• Jul. 2016: "Theorien des Nichtlesens":
  21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA 2016), Vienna, Austria.


• Mar. 2016: "The Postcolonial Car: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger."
  Workshop at the Technische Universität Chemnitz.


• Nov. 2015: "Leitung der Lehrerfortbildung (mit Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten):
  Englischsprachige Kurzdramen im EFL-Classroom"
  University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.


• Nov. 2015: "Kommunikation und Körpersemiotik."
  Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.


• Sep. 2015: "Zur Objektivität physiognomischer Porträts im literarischen Realismus."
  Internationale Tagung: Physiognomisches Schreiben: Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.


• Jul. 2015: "Closure, Open Endings, and Poetic Justice."
  13th International Connotations Symposium: Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts, University of Tübingen, Germany.


• Jun. 2015: "'Better to be cruel': Inhumanity in Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure (1895)."
  Vortrag vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany.


• Jun. 2015: "Kirche und Recht in Anthony Trollopes Septimus Harding, Spitalvorsteher (The Warden, 1855)."
  Ringvorlesung "Viktorianische Jubiläen", Technische Universität Chemnitz, Ort: Buchhandlung Universitas Chemnitz.


• Dec. 2014: "Crisis of the Humanities: The First 150 Years."
  Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan, Italy.


• Nov. 2014: "Physiognomisches Verstehen, physiognomische Verständigung. Über die Persistenz historischer Körpersemiotiken"
  Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.


• Apr. 2014: "'Feast-won, fast-lost': Mock banquets in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens"
  Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Celebrating Shakespeare, Weimar, Germany


• Jul. 2013: "George Eliot's Poetic Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda."
  12th International Connotations Symposium: Poetry in Fiction, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.


• Oct. 2012: "'More in countenance than language.' Physiognomic Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette."
  International Symposium for Doctoral Students: A Culture of Language, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.


• Jul. 2012: "(Sur)Face. Physiognomics in Mid-Victorian Realism."
  Graduate Workshop: Surface Reading? What We Do to Texts and Other Media, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

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Geschichte der Mimesis
(in German)Undergraduate Course, Spring 2015

Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin
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Introduction to the Study of
Literatures in English Lecture, Fall 2014

Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
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Les(e)arten: Typologien des Lesens und ihr
Einfluss auf die Interpretation
(in German)Graduate Course, Fall 2014

Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin
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The Making of the English
Literary CanonUndergraduate Course, Spring 2014

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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Introduction to Literary StudiesUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013

Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam
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Representation of Britishness
in Film and Fiction, 1910 -2010 Undergraduate Course, Fall 2013

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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Introduction to Literary StudiesUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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Joseph Conrad's Spy FictionUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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Charles Dickens and London Undergraduate Course, Fall 2012

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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Mid-Victorian Realism:
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
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German for Reading Undergraduate Course, Spring 2008

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University