Early Modern Research Team

Isabel Karremann is a specialist for the literature and culture of the Renaissance and the long Eighteenth century. She is currently busy putting together two essay collections on memory, affect and space in early modern drama, and has launched a new book series from the research project on the Feminist Enlightenment. The Robinson-Library project allows her to indulge her interest in the literary history of globalization and the digital humanities.

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar specialises in early modern prose and poetry in its political, religious and cultural contexts. She completed her Habilitation in 2023 entitled ‘Envisioning Words in the long Seventeenth Century’ which focused on John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Reformation image debates.

Anne-Claire Michoux specialises in eighteenth-century and Romantic British and Irish literature, with a particular focus on women’s writing. Her research interests include, among others, the novel, theatrical culture and literary coteries. Her current project explores the ways in which female speech was represented on the British and Irish stage and how women participated in and shaped the theatrical culture of the long eighteenth century. She is the project leader for the innovative teaching project “The Robinson-Library: Literature in Digital Mediation”.

Ann-Sophie Bosshard is a PhD-student in the DramaSCAPEs-project. Her disseration project focuses on playtexts from the period between the 1580s and 1642 and investigates how representations of mobility on the early modern stage forged affective and cognitive communities, and how such communities responded to mobile people, objects, and ideas in ethical terms.

Jifeng Huang  is a PhD student focusing on the intersection of the Medical Renaissance, disability studies, and early modern epistemology in England’s theatre culture. His dissertation investigates how particular social conceptions and material conditions of disability give shape to disabled characters’ subjectivities in early modern drama, as well as the ways in which these characters remap their physical and social environments.

Lukas Arnold holds a BA and MA degree in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zurich, where he wrote his master’s thesis on commoner politics and the performance of social justice in Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody (1605).

Olivia Lanni is a PhD student interested in early modern literature and performance. Her research project focuses on questions of embodiment and ecologies in early modern drama. Other fields of interest include sleep and sleepwalking as well as the role of the early modern fool on stage, which she wrote her MA-Thesis on. She is also a doctoral assistant to Isabel Karremann.

Timothy Holden is a PhD-student in the DramaSCAPEs-project. His PhD-project explores sensations in early modern playhouses, particularly in Shakespeare. It studies the related sensations of “proprioception” and “kinaesthesia” to understand how the perception of emplacement and of motion shape physical, intersubjective, and social experiences of embodiment. 

Olena Morenets holds a BA in Italian Philology as well as an MA in Italian Language and Literature, and English Language (including translation). Before starting her PhD in English Literature, she worked as a translator (Italian, English ⇆ Ukrainian) and interpreter (Italian ⇆Ukrainian). As an English linguist, she collaborated with IT platforms working with natural language processing and speech recognition systems, among which was Amazon Alexa. She also taught at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Now she focuses on English literature and olfactory studies.

Nadia Teh’s interests lie in gender studies, the history of sexuality, feminism, postcolonialism, and contemporary literature. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Guelph in Canada and an MA in English Literature from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Currently, she is focusing her Ph.D. project on the genre of Historical Romance and its ever-changing representation of marginalised groups to be the main love interests

Wilmari Claasen has completed her BA in English and German Literature and Linguistics and is currently pursuing her Master's in Literary Studies. She is a student assistant to Isabel Karremann.

Ren Schnüriger completed their BA in English Literature and Linguistics as well as General and Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich. They are currently pursuing an MA degree in the same fields. As part of the Early Modern Team, they are working as a student assistant to Isabel Karremann.

Larissa Bison has completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics and Biomedicine at the University of Zurich and is currently pursuing her Master’s in the same fields. She is a student assistant to Dr. Anne-Claire Michoux for the Robinson Library project. 

Noemi Lussy has completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics and Modern History at the University of Zurich and is currently pursuing her Master’s in these fields. She is a student assistant to Isabel Karremann for the DramaSCAPEs project.

Beatrice Montedoro
Isabelle Koch