Research
Research Interests
Culture of the Sixties
James Bond
Contemporary Theatre and Drama
Culture of the Restoration Period
Publications
Books
Werterepertoires der englischen Restaurationskomödie. Essen: Blaue Eule, 1998.
'Death is … Not.' Repräsentationen von Tod und Sterben im zeitgenössischen britischen Drama. Trier: WVT, 2005.
Editions
with Michael Hensen (Ed.). The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Violence. Proceedings of the Conference at Passau University, March 15-17, 2001. Passau: Stutz, 2001.
with Christoph Houswitschka, Edith Hallberg, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos and Ines Detmers (Ed.). Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe. Essays in Honour of Uwe Böker. Trier: WVT, 2005.
with Ellen Grünkemeier, Martina Iske, Jürgen Kramer and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Das kleine Bond Buch. Marburg: Schüren, 2007.
with Jutta Rymarczyk (Ed.). Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch. Themenheft Fashion. Stuttgart: Klett, 2009.
with Jürgen Kramer and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Mini & Mini. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009.
with Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Journal for the Study of British Cultures 2011/2. Birth & Death. Tübingen: Narr.
with Claus-Ulrich Viol and Ariane de Waal (Ed.). Birth and Death in British Culture: Liminality, Power, and Performance. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
with Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ed.). Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
with Ariane de Waal (Ed.). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 1/1. Bodies on Stage. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013.
with Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). (Un)Making the British Monarchy (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2017.
with Merle Tönnies (Ed.). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 9/1. Performing the Future. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021.
with Philip Jacobi (Ed.). Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021.
Articles
"Roles and Role-Playing in the Plays of Caryl Churchill". In Jürgen Kamm (Ed.). Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama in English. Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Trier: WVT, 1999. 267-289.
"Perceiving and Performing Caryl Churchill. The Drama of Gender Construction". In Ursula Pasero and Friederike Braun (Ed.). Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht. Perceiving and Performing Gender. Opladen/Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999. 177-187.
"Greek to Us? Appropriations of Myths in Contemporary British and Irish Drama". In Bernhard Reitz and Alyce von Rothkirch (Ed.). Crossing Borders. Intercultural Drama and Theatre at the Turn of the Millenium (CDE 8). Trier: WVT, 2001. 151-164.
with Michael Hensen. "Introduction. The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Violence". In Michael Hensen and Anette Pankratz (Ed.). The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Violence. Proceedings of the Conference at Passau University, March 15-17, 2001. Passau: Stutz, 2001. 9-18.
"Crucifixions in Contemporary Drama. Barker, Berkoff, Bond, Brenton, McNally and Tabori". In Michael Hensen and Anette Pankratz (Ed.). The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Violence. Proceedings of the Conference at Passau University, March 15-17, 2001. Passau: Stutz, 2001. 183-195.
"The Culture of the King's Three Bodies". In Wolfgang Görtschacher and Holger Klein (Ed.). Dryden and the World of Neoclassicism. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001. 257-272.
"Mythos und Makabres in Dramen von Bond, Barker, Barnes, Kane, Rudkin und Wertenbaker". In Peter Csobadi et al. (Ed.). Europäische Mythen von Liebe, Leidenschaft, Untergang und Tod im (Musik-)Theater. Der Trojanische Krieg (Vorträge und Gespräche des Salzburger Symposions 2000). Anif: Müller-Speiser, 2002. 351-362.
"Playing with Oscar. Camp as Textual Strategy in Adaptations of The Importance of Being Earnest by Orton, Fleming and Ravenhill". In Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis and Julie A. Hibbard (Ed.). The Importance of Reinventing Oscar. Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 229-236.
"Over the King's Bodies. The Emerging Public Sphere in Seventeenth-Century England". In Uwe Böker and Julie A. Hibbard (Ed.). Sites of Discourse. Public and Private Spheres. Legal Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 93-107.
with Alyce von Rothkirch, Kathleen Starck and Merle Tönnies. "Making Play-texts Live. Teaching Drama as Experience". In Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann and Birgit Däwes (Ed.). Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English (CDE 10). Trier: WVT, 2003. 247-264.
"Monarchen zwischen Hermelin und Handtäschchen. Die Inszenierung politischer Mythen und nationaler Identitäten im zeitgenössischen britischen Drama". In Peter Csobadi et al. (Ed.). Politische Mythen und nationale Identitäten im (Musik-)Theater (Vorträge und Gespräche des Salzburger Symposions 2001). Vol. I. Anif: Müller-Speiser, 2003. 391-403.
"Signifying Nothing and Everything. The Extension of the Code and Hyperreal Simulations". In Hans-Ulrich Mohr and Kerstin Mächler (Ed.). Extending the Code. New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression (CDE 11). Trier: WVT, 2004. 63-78.
"Sarah Kanes Crave als multiples Fragment". In Peter Csobadi et al. (Ed.). Das Fragment im (Musik-)Theater. Zufall und/oder Notwendigkeit? (Vorträge und Gespräche des Salzburger Symposions 2002). Anif: Müller-Speiser, 2005. 236-249.
"More Eggs and 'Meaning Bullshit'. British Post-Wall Plays". In Christoph Houswitschka et al. (Ed.). Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe. Essays in Honour of Uwe Böker. Trier: WVT, 2005. 249-260.
"Inside Out and Outside In. Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama". In Margaret Breen (Ed.). Minding Evil. Explorations of Human Iniquity. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 187-203.
"British Drama at the End of the Century". In Bernd Lenz (Ed.). New Britain. Passau: Stutz, 2006. 139-157.
"The Office and the Hyperreality of New Britain". In Jürgen Kamm (Ed.). Medialised Britain. Essays on Media, Culture and Society. Passau: Stutz, 2006. 201-217.
"Mapping Bond and his 'Little Atoll'". In Jürgen Kamm and Gerold Sedlmayr (Ed.). Insular Mentalities. Mental Maps of Britain. Essays in Honour of Bernd Lenz. Passau: Stutz, 2007. 129-143.
with Ellen Grünkemeier, Martina Iske, Jürgen Kramer and Claus-Ulrich Viol. "Mein Bond, dein Bond. Ein einleitendes Dossier". In Ellen Grünkemeier et al. (Ed.). Das Kleine Bond Buch. Marburg: Schüren, 2007. 17-25.
"'The World is not Enough'. James Bonds Geopolitik". In Ellen Grünkemeier et al. (Ed.). Das Kleine Bond Buch. Marburg: Schüren, 2007. 27-43.
"Body Power. Sexual Politics in Late 17th-century Poetry". In Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert (Ed.). Anglistentag 2006 Halle. Proceedings, Trier: WVT, 2007. 159-170.
with Jutta Rymarczyk. "Basisartikel. Glamour. Gucci. Gruppenzwang". In Jutta Rymarczyk and Anette Pankratz (Ed.). Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch. 102. Themenheft Fashion. Stuttgart: Klett, 2009. 2-7.
with Jürgen Kramer and Claus-Ulrich Viol. "Einleitung. Die Minis zwischen Zirkeltraining und Code-Flügel". In Jürgen Kramer, Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Mini & Mini. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 7-18.
"Queer Drama. Mark Ravenhill, Mother Clap's Molly House". In Merle Tönnies (Ed.). Das englische Drama der Gegenwart. Kategorien – Entwicklungen – Modellinterpretationen. Trier: WVT, 2010. 193-209.
with Julia McIntosh-Schneider. "Psychologisches Drama. Joe Penhall, Blue/Orange". In Merle Tönnies (Ed.). Das englische Drama der Gegenwart. Kategorien – Entwicklungen – Modellinterpretationen. Trier: WVT, 2010. 125-140.
"Neither Here nor There. Space in Sarah Kane's Plays". In Graham Saunders and Laurens de Vos (Ed.). Sarah Kane in Context. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. 149-160.
"Viel Blut um Nichts? Gewalt im zeitgenössischen britischen Drama". In Susanne Hartwig and Isabella von Treskow (Ed.). Bruders Hüter/Bruders Mörder. Intellektuelle zwischen Imagination und Analyse innergesellschaftlicher Gewalt. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. 23-39.
"The Pleasures in the Horrors of Eating Human Flesh. Stephen Sondheim und Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd". In Marion Gymnich and Norbert Lennartz (Ed.). The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating. Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2010. 387-407.
"The Spies who Spoofed Him. Bond Parodies". In Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug (Ed.). The Cultures of James Bond. Trier: WVT, 2011. 249-261.
"Constructing Identity in 18th-Century Comedy. Schools of Scandal, Observation and Performance". In Isabel Karremann and Anja Müller (Ed.). Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England. Public Negotiations, Literary Discourses, Topography. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 89-99.
"Jim Cartwright". In Aleks Sierz, Martin Middeke and Peter-Paul Schnierer (Ed.). Methuen Book of Contemporary English Drama. London: Methuen, 2011. 62-81.
"Political Drama. Edward Bond Saved and David Edgar Maydays". In Sybille Baumbach, Ansgar Nünning and Birgit Neumann (Eds.). Handbuch englisches Drama. Trier: WVT, 2011. 305-318.
with Claus-Ulrich Viol. "Introduction. Birth, Death and Culture". In Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Journal for the Study of Brititsh Cultures 2011/2. Birth & Death. 99-108.
with Claus-Ulrich Viol. "Birth and Death: Liminality, Power, and Performance". In Anette Pankratz, Claus-Ulrich Viol and Ariane de Waal (Ed.). Birth and Death in British Culture: Liminality, Power, and Performance. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 1-11.
with Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz. "Introduction. Portraits of the Artists". In Anette Pankratz and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ed.). Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 7-24.
"'Nothing That Is Worth Knowing Can Be Taught'. Artists and Academia in Novels by A.S. Byatt, Zadie Smith and David Lodge". In Anette Pankratz and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ed.). Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 259-281.
"Casino Globale. Wie Bond mit der Welt spielt". In Astrid Böger and Mark Föcking (Ed.). James Bond. Anatomie eines Mythos. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 145-168.
"'Rat-Catchers' or What? British Poets Laureate in the 20th and 21st Centuries". In Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 49-72.
with Ariane de Waal. "Introduction. Dissecting Bodies". In Anette Pankratz and Ariane de Waal (Ed.). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 1/1.. Bodies on Stage. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. 1-12.
"Performing Republics: Negotiations of Political Discourse in Restoration Comedies". In Gaby Mahlberg and Dirk Wiemann (Ed.). Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 85-101.
"Britische Sitcoms als Medien der Selbstbeschreibung". In Sabiene Autsch, Claudia Öhlschläger and Leonie Süwolto (Ed.). Kulturen des Kleinen: Mikroformate in Literatur, Kunst und Medien. Paderborn: Fink, 2014. 301-317.
"Spin, Swearing and Slapstick: The Thick of It". In Jürgen Kamm and Birgit Neumann (Ed.). British TV Comedies. Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 281-294.
"'The Far Side'. Britische Sitcoms, Qualitätsdiskurse und das Populäre". In Jonas Nesselhauf and Markus Schleich (Ed.). Das andere Fernsehen?! Eine Bestandsaufnahme des "Quality Television". Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 213-228.
"Aphra Behn, The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers (1677)". In Bernhard Reitz (Ed.). Das englische Drama und Theater von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Trier: WVT, 2016. 126-130.
"Edward Bond, The Woman: Scenes of War and Freedom (1978)". In Bernhard Reitz (Ed.). Das englische Drama und Theater von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Trier: WVT, 2016. 371-375.
"'The Far Side'. Britische Sitcoms, Qualitätsdiskurse und das Populäre". In Jonas Nesselhauf and Markus Schleich (Ed.). Das andere Fernsehen?! Eine Bestandsaufnahme des "Quality Television". Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. 213-228.
"Britische Sitcoms. Formen, Flow und Funktionen". In Roman Horak, Ingo Pohn-Lauggas and Monika Seidl (Ed.). Über Raymond Williams. Annäherungen, Positionen, Ausblicke. Hamburg: Argument, 2017. 246-258.
"Introducing the Monarchy". In Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). (Un)Making the British Monarchy (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 7-20.
"'That's Entertainment'. Monarchy as Performance". In Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). (Un)Making the British Monarchy (anglistik & englischunterricht). Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 41-64.
"Fifty Shades of White, Benidorm and the Joys of All-Inclusiveness". In Evangelia Kindinger & Mark Schmitt (eds.). The Intersections of Whiteness. London: Routledge, 2019. 200-218.
"Myths of the British Monarchy". In Jürgen Kramer & Bernd Lenz (eds.). Teaching Cultural Studies. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020. 277-301.
with Svenja Böhm. "Play it Again, James. Spectre, Bond and Seriality". International Journal of James Bond Studies 3/1 (2020): doi: https://doi.org/10.24877/jbs.53
"Mention the War: British Sitcoms and Military Masculinities". Anglistik 31/2 (2020): 93-109. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2020/2/11
with Merle Tönnies. "Introduction. Performing the Future". In: Anette Pankratz and Merle Tönnies (Ed.). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 9/1. Performing the Future. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021. 1-19.
"Britische Sitcoms: Lach- und Sachgeschichten". In Burkhard Niederhoff, Guido Hiß & Monika Woitas (Ed.). Wider Alle Norm? Theorie und Geschichte gespielter Komik im 20. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Athena/wbv, 2021. 161-180.
"James Bond, the Creativity Dispositif and Material Realities". In Philip Jacobi & Anette Pankratz (Ed.). Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 231-245.
"Komische Irritationen mit Behinderung in Sitcoms von und mit Ricky Gervais". In Susanne Hartwig (Ed.). Lachgemeinschaften? Komik und Behinderung im Schnittpunkt von Ästhetik und Soziologie. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022. 133-145.
"Cringe as New Structure of Feeling? An Analysis from A to B". In Alexandra Ganser, Elisabeth Lechner, Barbara Maly-Bowie & Eva Maria Schörgenhuber (Ed.). Caring for Cultural Studies: A Tribute to Monika Seidl. Göttingen: V+R unipress, 2022. 161-176.
"Civil Wars and Republics in Contemporary (Dystopian) Drama". In Merle Tönnies & Eckart Voigts (Ed.). Twenty-First Century Anxieties. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. 149-164.
Varia
"Sick, Sic, Sieg. Fallstudien über Nationalhumoristisches". Hard Times Nr. 84 (Herbst 2008). 2-5.
Biogramm "George Etherege". Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Ed., 2009.
Biogramm "Edward Martyn". Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Ed., 2009.
Article "Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa". Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Ed., 2009.
Article "Peter Nichols, Passion Play." Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Ed., 2009.
Article "Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane". Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Auflage, Online-Version, 2011.
Biogram "Martin McDonagh". Kindlers Literaturlexikon, 3. Ed., Online-Version, 2011.
"Erotik". In René Grohnert (Ed.). Bond, … James Bond. Filmplakate und Fotografien aus fünfzig Jahren. Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Essen. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. 164-165.
"Anglistik". In Thomas Hecken and Marcus S. Kleiner (Ed.). Handbuch Popkultur. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017. 345-349.
"TV Sitcom Fleabag: How to be a Funny Feminist on Television. Or Maybe Not". Hard Times 102/2 (2018): https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/announcement/view/3
"Parlamentarische Zeremonie und Politische Symbole". In Roland Sturm (ed.). Länderbericht Großbritannien. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2019. 95-98.