Anja Hartl
Ass.-Prof. Dr.
Room: 40323
Office hours: Thursdays, 10.15-11.15am
Please sign up for a slot via e-mail.
Research and teaching interests
- Victorian Fiction
- Shame, Affect Theory, History of Emotions
- Contemporary British Drama; Political Theatre
- Bertolt Brecht
- Adaptation Studies
- William Shakespeare
- Border Studies
Current research projects
- The Politics of Shame in the Victorian Novel (second book project/Habilitationsprojekt)
- Dramaturgies of Shame in Contemporary British Theatre
Administration
All key information on Erasmus partnerships, the application process, and requirements is available on our Studies Abroad website.
Please review these resources before contacting me. I am happy to answer specific follow-up questions; questions already addressed on the website will not be answered individually!
CV
Since 2023: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Innsbruck
2019: PhD Thesis: “Experiential Brecht: Dialectical Theatre on the Contemporary British Stage” (summa cum laude)
2015-2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies, University of Konstanz, Germany
Selected Publications (ORCiD: 0000-0001-9629-3482)
1) Co-editor of the Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Agitations series
2) Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today. Bloomsbury, 2021. (available as Open Access)
3) "Claiming Space: Directing Medea on the Twenty-First-Century British Stage." The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Eds. Marissia Fragkou and Rebecca Benzie. Bloomsbury, 2025. 53-66.
4) “History and/as Adaptation: MacBeth and the Rhizomatic Adaptation of History.” Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Lissette Lopez Szwydky and Glenn Jellenik. Palgrave, 2023, 91-111.
5) “Experiencing Textures: The Materiality of Illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's No Name.” Victorian Materialisms. Spec. issue of European Journal of English Studies (eds. Ariane de Waal and Ursula Kluwick). 26.1 (2022): 105-23. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825577.2022.2044155
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