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On 20 June 2011, I gave a guest lecture titled '"Young Men Must Live": Hal, Harry, Henry, and Shakespeare's Politics of Age' at the Ruhr-University, Bochum.
In May 2011, I co-organized a conference on 'Poetry and the Unpoetic' with a focus on 20th and 21st-century poetry and Peter Barry from Aberystwyth and Alexander Nemerov from Yale as keynote speakers.
Current Research Interests
I am currently working on various smaller projects, including an interpretation of a poem by Weldon Kees, some remaining issues regarding Nietzsche's philosophy of language, and a collaborative essay on George Eliot's Middlemarch. My long-term interest is in literary constructions of generational and age group identities, with regard to which I would naturally love to hear from fellow scholars in the field.
Thesis Supervision
I am happy to offer thesis supervision on most post-1500 English literature but am particularly interested in topics involving Victorian and twentieth-century novels, poetry (any period), scientific discourse, sociological theory and its relation to literature, and questions from analytical philosophy.
Academic Background
Although I began my studies in Heidelberg and Berlin, my degrees are from Cambridge (MPhil in European Literature at King's College) and Oxford (MSt and DPhil in English Literature at Corpus), where I spent most of my student life and ended up doing my doctoral research. Then, from 2005-2007, I worked at Harlaxton College, the British study abroad campus of the American University of Evansville, team-teaching various classes of pretty lively students and also helping to set up a new Centre for British Studies. Since the winter semester of 2007, I have been university lecturer of English Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies here at the University of Amsterdam.
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