PD Dr. Susanne Gruß
Research Summary and Profile
Research Interests
- law and literature; early modern drama; early modern piracy; contemporary literature (focus on neo-Victorianism); literary and cultural theory (focus on gender studies & feminism); film & media studies (focus on processes of adaptation & canonisation); gothic; psychogeography;
Short CV
- SoSe 2022: Visiting Professor/Vertretungsprofessur, English Literature, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie (IAAK), Universität Bonn
- WS 2021/22: Visiting Professor/Vertretungsprofessor, English Literature and Culture, Universität Passau
- WS 2020/21-SoSe 2021: Visiting Professor/Vertretungsprofessur, Department for English Studies, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- Postdoc project / Habilitation: The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre on the Early Modern Stage
- Dissertation: The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: The (De)Construction of Gender in the Works of Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter
- Since September 2001: member of academic staff / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, FAU
- Magister Artium (Englische Philologie, Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte und Neuere/Neueste Geschichte) and Lehramt Gymnasium (Englisch, Deutsch), FAU and Trinity College, Dublin (DAAD Scholarship)
Current Research Projects
- special issue Pirates in English Literature and Culture, Vol. 2 (with Manushag N. Powell), Humanities.
CfP: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/pirates_vol2 - reviews editor/Bücherschau Shakespeare Jahrbuch (with Lena Steveker)
- edited volume Practices and Narratives of Piracy: Connecting the Early Modern Seas (with Marcus Hartner)
- articles on black neo-Victorianism, law and literature, and early modern piracy
- international conference “Practices of Collaborations in Early Modern English Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts” (with Lena Steveker), project website: https://collaborate.hypotheses.org/conference/draft-programme
Publications
Authored Books
- Gruß, Susanne. The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009.
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Edited Volumes
- Gruß, Susanne, and Lena Steveker, eds. Early Modern Spectacles. Journal for the Study of British Cultures. 2018.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine, and Susanne Gruß, eds. Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. London, New York: Routledge, 2014.
BibTeX: Download - Broders, Simone, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow, Hrg. Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne, and Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, eds. Spectacles and Things: Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism. Swansea, Wales: Swansea University, 2011.
URL: http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/
BibTeX: Download - Freiburg, Rudolf, and Susanne Gruß, eds. But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man: Literature and Theodicy. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2004.
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Journal Articles
- Gruß, Susanne. "Slippery Pirates: Generic Conventions and Discursive Instability in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s Pirate Plays." Humanities 9.1 (2020).
URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/1/7
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne, and Lena Steveker. "Introduction: Early Modern Spectacles." Journal for the study of British cultures 25.2 (2018): 121-128.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth's Oscar Wilde-Series." Victoriographies 5.2 (2015): 165-182.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine, and Susanne Gruß. "Jasper Fforde im Gespräch mit Schau ins Blau." Schau ins Blau (2012).
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Thomas Middleton’s Gothic Nightmares: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Bloody Banquet and The Lady’s Tragedy." Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 16.3/4 (2012): 225-242.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne, and Nadine Böhm-Schnitker. "Introduction: Spectacles and Things – Visual and Material Culture and/in Neo-Victorianism." Neo-Victorian Studies 4.2 (2011): 1-23.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Spicing up the Austen Cult: Negotiating Bollywood, Hollywood and Heritage Aesthetics in Bride and Prejudice." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57.1 (2009): 47-57.
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Book Contributions
- Gruß, Susanne. "Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change." Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change. Ed. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, Eckart Voigts, Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 59-73.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies." English Topographies in Literature and Culture: Space, Place, and Identity. Ed. Ina Habermann, Daniela Keller, Leiden, Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2016. 74-90.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Jacobean Gothic and the Law: Revengers and Ineffectual Rulers in Middleton and Massinger." Gothic Transgressions: Extension and Commercialization of a Cultural Mode. Ed. Redling Ellen, Schneider Christian, Zürich: LIT, 2015. 35-53.
BibTeX: Download - Böhm-Schnitker, Nadine, and Susanne Gruß. ""Introduction: Fashioning the Neo-Victorian - Neo-Victorian Fashions"." Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. Ed. Nadine Böhm-Schnitker und Susanne Gruß, London, New York: Routledge, 2014. 1-17.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne, Lena Steveker, and Angelika Zirker. "Introduction: Not Shakespeare - New Approaches to Drama in the Seventeenth Century." Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz: Proceedings. Ed. Mergenthal Silvia, Nischik Reingard, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014. 153-157.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Spectres of the Past: Reading the Phantom of Family Trauma in Neo-Victorian Fiction." Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. Ed. Böhm-Schnitker Nadine, Gruss Susanne, London, New York: Routledge, 2014. 123-136.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Angela Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns." Angela Carter: New Critical Readings. Ed. Andermahr Sonya, Phillips Lawrence, London: Continuum, 2012. 44-55.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "'But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male’: Transgender als Passing von Jackie Kays Trumpet (1998) zum neoviktorianischen Bildungsroman." Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hrg. Broders Simone , Gruß Susanne, Waldow Stephanie, Würzburg:: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 191-213.
BibTeX: Download - Broders, Simone, Susanne Gruß, and Stephanie Waldow. "Phänomene der Fremdheit – Fremdheit als Phänomen: Einleitung." Phänomene der Fremdheit - Fremdheit als Phänomen. Hrg. Simone Broders, Susanne Gruß, Stephanie Waldow, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 9-24.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "The Diffusion of Gothic Conventions in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003/2007)." Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Ed. Berndt Katrin, Steveker Lena, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 39-53.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Sex and the City? Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright and Bernardine Evaristo." Local Natures, Global Responsibilities. Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures. Ed. Volkmann Laurenz, Grimm Nancy, Detmers Ines, Thomson Katrin, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2010. 321-336.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "'A few flowery phrases and he thinks I’m his’ – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film." High and/versus Popular Culture. Ed. Coelsch-Foisner Sabine, Flothow Dorothea, Heidelberg: Univ.-Verl. Winter, 2009. 45-57.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "'The Flesh Made Word’: Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts." Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings. Ed. Eckstein Lars, Reinfandt Christoph, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 57-66.
BibTeX: Download - Gruß, Susanne. "Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara (2006)." Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation. Ed. Säckel Sarah, Göbel Walter, Hamdy Noah, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009. 223-238.
BibTeX: Download - Freiburg, Rudolf, and Susanne Gruß. "Introduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy." But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man: Literature and Theodicy. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruß, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2004. 13-48.
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Papers (selection):
- (2020) “‘Toxic’ Masculinity, Effeminacy and Necrophilia in Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy and Massinger’s The Duke of Milan.” Invited lecture, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 29 June.
- (2020) “‘That cunning writ’: Epistolary Proof and Revenge in James Shirley’s The Cardinal.” Epistolary Culture in the English Restoration, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 27-28 March.
- (2019) (with Lena Frommer & Verena Rissmann) “Literarische Piraten in der Hochschuldidaktik: Studentische Konferenzen als Einstieg in die Forschungspraxis.” Forschung und Lehre – Widerspruch oder Synergie? Interdisziplinäres Symposium: Methoden in der Hochschullehre, LMU München, 09-10 October.
- (2019) “From Law-and-Literature to Law and the Humanities, Law and Culture… and Beyond?” Literature and …? Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity, Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig University, 22-25 September.
- (2019) “Black, Queer, Victorian? The Precarious Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Prince Alemayehu.” (Neo‑)Victorian ‘Orientations’ in the Twenty-First Century, University of Málaga, Spain, 15-17 May.
- (2018) “Marston’s Tragi-Comic Revenge Trio: Testing Generic Boundaries in the Antonio-Plays and The Malcontent.” Writing Renaissance Experience – Experiencing Renaissance Writing, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 05-06 July.
- (2018) “Refracturing Victorian Masculinity: The Curious Case of Dr James Miranda Barry.” De/Constructing Masculinities? Critical Explorations into Affect, Intersectionality, and the Body, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 22-23 June.
- (2018) (with Marcus Hartner) “Introduction: Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers.” Buccaneers, Corsairs, Pirates and Privateers: Connecting the Early Modern Seas, international symposium, Bielefeld University, 13-14 April.
- (2017) “Walking London, Walking the Past: Michèle Roberts’s The Walworth Beauty (2017).” Reading Michèle Roberts, University of Łódź, Poland, 07-08 September.
- (2017) “Jane Austen and ‘Jane Austen’: Regency Literature, Janeites and Darcymaniacs.” Invited lecture, University of Basel, Switzerland, 18 May.
- (2016) “Pirates and Their Daughters: Strangeness, Genre and the Law in The Double Marriage and The Unnatural Combat.” Strangeness in Early Stuart Performances, 1603-1649, Saarland University, 03-05 November.
- (2015) “‘Clermont must author this just tragedy’: The (In)Justices of Early Modern Revenge Tragedy.” Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts (Connotations Symposium), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, 26-30 July.
- (2015) “Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change.” Transforming Cities, TU Braunschweig, 03-04 July.
- (2014) “Jane Austen 2.0 – Immersion, Sequels, Mash-Ups.” Ringvorlesung Populärkultur, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 02 June.
- (2013) “Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus.” Ringvorlesung Classics of the English Canon, Johannes. Gutenberg University Mainz, 18 July.
- (2013) “Jacobean Drama.” Gastvorlesung, Universität Basel, 02 May.
- (2013) “Philip Massinger for the Middle Temple? The Queen of Corinth, The Fatal Dowry and the Genre of Legal Learning.” Renaissance Men at the Middle Temple, Birbeck College, London, 01-02 February.
- (2012) “Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies.” Topographies of Britain, Universität Basel, 22-24 November.
- (2012) “From Bollywood to Hollywood and Back Again: Transcultural Adaptation.” Inderdisciplinary lectureseries Understanding India, Universität Germersheim, 09 July.
- (2012) “What Early Modern Literature Learnt from the Law – and Vice Versa.” Can Literature Learn from Law? Münster Symposium on Law and Literature, Universität Münster, 21-22 May.
- (2011) “‘Thou monster of cruelty, forbear!’: Women and ‘Gothic’ Monstrosity on the Early Modern Stage.” The Monster Inside Us, The Monsters Around Us: Monstrosity and Humanity, De Montfort University, Leicester, 18-20 November.
- (2011) “Jacobean Gothic and the Law: Revengers and Ineffectual Rulers in Middleton and Massinger.” Gothic Limits / Gothic Ltd. 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. Universität Heidelberg, 02-05 August.
- (2011) “‘Whose hand presents this gory spectacle?’: Monstrous Rulers on the Early Modern Stage and the Breakdown of the Law.” Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society, LMU München, 01-03 July.
- (2011) “Wilde Crimes: Biographilia, the Art of Murder and Decadent (Homo)Sexuality in Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde-Series.” Neo-Victorian Art and Aestheticism, University of Hull, 26 March.
- (2010) (mit Nadine Böhm) “Introduction.” Fashioning the Neo-Victorian: Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 08-10 April.
- (2009) “‘But there was something very appealing about that Fe-Male’: Transgender und Passing im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman.” Ringvorlesung Phänomene der Fremdheit, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 17 December.
- (2009) “Thomas Middleton’s Gothic Nightmares: The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Bloody Banquet and The Lady’s Tragedy.” Gothic Renaissance, Universität Köln, 03-04 December.
- (2009) “Carter’s Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns.” Angela Carter: A Critical Exploration, University of Northampton, 05-07 June.
- (2008) “‘The Flesh Made Word’ – Sensuous Religion in the Works of Michèle Roberts.” Anglistentag 2008, Universität Tübingen, 05-08 October.
- (2008) “Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara.” Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation, University of Stuttgart, 17-20 July.
- (2007) “‘A few flowery phrases and he thinks I’m his’ – (Re)Appropriations of Wordsworth in Contemporary Literature and Film.” 18th British Cultural Studies Conference – High Culture and/versus Popular Culture, Universität Salzburg, 22-24 November.
- (2007) (mit Nadine Böhm) „Post-Colonial Shakespeares – Ein Unterrichtsexperiment.“ Workshop Anglistische Hochschuldidaktik: Alternative Lehr-/Lernformate, Universität Bielefeld, 04-06 October.
- (2007) “‘…into the Shadows’: The Frailty of Masculinity in Angela Carter’s ‘Bristol Trilogy’.” Men and Madness: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern and Contemporary Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, 28-30 June.
- (2007) “Sex and the City? (Re)Empowering mistresses, muses and prostitutes.” ASNEL – Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 17-20 May.
- (2006) “Jane Austen in Kholiwood? Bride and Prejudice at the Crossroads of Hollywood and Bollywood Aesthetics.” Bollywood and Beyond. Contemporary Indian Cinemas and Globalisation, TU Dresden, 23-24 June.