Research

Research Interests

- British Romanticism

- Mary Shelley and her circle

- literary space

- depictions of work in contemporary literature

Publications

Book

"A Different Earth": Literary Space in Mary Shelley’s Novels. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019.

As Editor

Mary Shelley: "Was wurde aus den Geistern?" Texte der Frankenstein-Autorin. Ed. Rebekka Rohleder. Wiesbaden: S. Marix, 2022.

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Ed. Martin Kindermann and Rebekka Rohleder. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Post-Coca-Colanization: Zurück zur Vielfalt? Ed. by Sophia Komor and Rebekka Rohleder. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2009.

Essays

"Endliche Zeiten, Räume und Ressourcen in Mary Shelleys The Last Man." Figuren der Endlichkeit in der Europäischen Romantik. Ed. Jakob Christoph Heller, Erik Martin und Sebastian Schönbeck. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111426129-012

"'Anyone can be a Relative:' Creating Communities Beyond Work Society in Novels From the 2010s." Selected Papers from the 2022 Conference of the German Association for the Study of English. Ed. Leonie Jungen and Sarah Wegener. Spec. issue of Anglistik 35.1 (2024). 183-159. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/1/16

Review of Joanna Rostek. Women’s Economic Thought in the Romantic Age: Towards a Transdisciplinary Herstory of Economic Thought. JSBC 30,1 (2023): 126-29.

"Mediated Nature in Mary Shelley’s Keepsake Stories." Romantic Ecologies: Selected Papers from the Augsburg Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Ed. David Kerler and Martin Middeke. Trier: wvt, 2023. 201-213.

"Class and Education in David Lodge’s Nice Work and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty." British Fictions of Class since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the 21^st Century. Ed. Katrin Becker, Benjamin Kohlmann, and Felix Sprang. Spec. issue of Anglistik 34,1 (2023): 125-138.

Einleitung. Mary Shelley: "Was wurde aus den Geistern?" Texte der Frankenstein-Autorin. Ed. Rebekka Rohleder. Wiesbaden: S. Marix, 2022. 9-13.

"‘I Just Wanted to Say my Piece’: Black Mirror, Attention, and the Problem of Critique." Anglistik 33.2 (2022): 245-56.

"Destabilising Boundaries: Terrorism and the Politics of Urban Fear in Simon Stephens’s Pornography (2007)." JSBC 28,2 (2021): 225-236.

"‘Happy People at Work’: The Normal and the Marginal in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last." Work: The Labors of Language, Culture and History in North America. Ed. J. Jesse Ramírez and Sixta Quassdorf. Spec issue of SPELL 40 (2021). 187-203.

"Transformations: Image and Narration in Mary Shelley’s Keepsake Stories." Anglistik 32,1 (2021): 159-78.

"Nachwort: Pest und Politik." Mary Shelley. Der letzte Mensch. Transl. Irina Philippi. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2021. 560-71.

"Im/Possible Prisons: News from the Future of Work." Im/Possibility: On the Production, Distribution, and Articulation of the Possible and the Impossible. Ed. Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Cord-Christian Casper, Emmanuel Tristan Kugland, and Marlon Lieber. Spec. issue of Coils of the Serpent 8 (2021). 34-53. Web.

Review of Martin Garrett. The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Anglia 138,4 (2020): 722-725.

"Displacing Conflict: Work, the Self and the City in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen." The Literary London Journal 16, 1 (2020): 56-69. Web.

"Introduction: Exploring the Spatiality of the City Across Cultural Texts." Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Ed. Martin Kindermann and Rebekka Rohleder. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 1-22 [with Martin Kindermann].

"Finding Causes for Events: The City as Normative Narrative." Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Ed. Martin Kindermann and Rebekka Rohleder. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 283-299.

"Nachwort: Mary Shelley in Italien". Mary Shelley. Streifzüge durch Deutschland und Italien in den Jahren 1840, 1842 und 1843. Transl. Nadine Erler. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Corso, 2018. 241-251.

"Nachwort: Ein Fenster ins neunzehnte Jahrhundert". Mary Shelley. Streifzüge durch Deutschland und Italien in den Jahren 1840, 1842 und 1843. Transl. Nadine Erler. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Corso, 2017. 241-251.

"‘Quite of recent origin’: Literatur und/ als Raumpraxis um 1800". Innovation – Konvention: Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu einem kulturellen Spannungsfeld. Ed. by Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Stefanie Kadenbach and Martin Kindermann. Bielefeld: transcript, 2013. 23-46.

"Einleitung". Post-Coca-Colanization: Zurück zur Vielfalt? Ed. by Sophia Komor and Rebekka Rohleder. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2009. 9-25 [with Sophia Komor].

 "Der Wal und das Millennium: Dogside Story, Whale Rider und die Globalisierung". Post-Coca-Colanization: Zurück zur Vielfalt? Ed. by Sophia Komor and Rebekka Rohleder. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2009. 131-149.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

"Narrating Spaces – Reading Urbanity". Conference at the University of Hamburg, September 6-8, 2012. Organisers: Martin Kindermann and Rebekka Rohleder

"Post-Coca-Colanization – Zurück zur Vielfalt?". Series of Lectures, University of Hamburg, summer term 2008. Organisers: Sophia Komor and Rebekka Rohleder