Anja Hartl

Ass.-Prof. Dr.
Room: 40323
Office hour during the semester break: 13 February, 10.30-12.30 (online or in person, please sign up 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
Administration
Please consult the information on our Studies Abroad website (in particular the FAQ section) before getting in touch with me via e-mail.
Please direct any initial enquiries about your Erasmus+ application to Barbara Stöckl.
B.A. Reading List Exam Dates (literary studies)
Postdoctoral Research Project (Habilitationsprojekt)
The Politics of Shame in the Victorian Novel
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