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

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 21st 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