Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more
The postdoctoral project aims to examine the effects of a study abroad on foreign language acquisition. More specifically, the project will investigate possible gains in the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge ...read more
This research project will argue that the fifth-century emergence of new forms of kingship was the result of a crisis of leadership structures within the imperial Roman army. The relation ...read more
This project focuses on the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). Itexplores Gassendi’s optics and its relation to his commitment to empiricism. My aim is to propose,through Gassendi, a ...read more
Research interests: (1) Troy literature from Homer over imperial times towards the Middle Ages; (2) western romances "on the fringe" between Knight and Saint; and (3) heroic characterization.read more
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized ...read more
[Project funded by the Austrian Wissenschaftsfonds (Lise Meitner-Fellowship) and carried out at the University of Vienna. This is an extension of the project "Profiling the Prince's Servants", which is temporarily ...read more
My research project at Stockholm University pertains to questions of narrative framing and other forms of multi-narrative organisation in High Medieval Latin tale compilations: how are these compilations organised and ...read more
How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients ...read more
This project will investigate (a) the sociological and historical context of the late 19th & early 20thcentury history of religions, focusing on anti-Semitism in scientific networks, and (b) the depictionof ...read more