Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit dem Forum für Transregionale Studien, Berlin

Der Vortrag wird Ihnen präsentiert im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Ägypten und der Nahe Osten im Spiegel der Berliner Wissenschaft", einer gemeinsamen Veranstaltung des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts und des Verbindungsbüros der Freien Universität Berlin in Kairo.  

Sabine Schülting is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the English Department of Freie Universität Berlin. Before coming to Berlin in 2002, she taught at the University of Erfurt. She is deputy director of Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies and member of the executive board of the German Shakespeare Society. Her research interests include Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture (with a particular focus on cultural encounters), Gender Studies, and Victorian England. She is currently conducting a research project on performativity in Anglo-Ottoman contacts in the 16th and 17th century as well as a project on the German reception of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. She is general editor of Shakespeare Jahrbuch; her book publications include Wilde Frauen, fremde Welten: Kolonisierungsgeschichten aus Amerika (Reinbek 1997), Geschlechter-Revisionen: Zur Zukunft von Feminismus und Gender Studies in den Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften, co-edited with Sabine L. Müller (Königstein 2006). She is currently finishing a monograph on 19th century material culture.