Research, Teaching & Activities

Research and Teaching Interests

• Shakespeare
• 18^th century / Romanticism
• Science Fiction
• Crime novels

Activities

• Faculty dean in 1978/9, 1984/5, 1989/90 and 1999.

• Member of various committees on study and examination regulations.

Memberships

• German Shakespeare Society West (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft); chairperson of the historical committee 1982-1994)
• Anglistentag
• German Association for American Studies (GAAS; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, DGfA)
• German Society for English Romanticism (GER; Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik; former German Byron Society (Deutsche Byron-Gesellschaft)).