PD Dr. Marlena Tronicke

Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)
PD Dr. Marlena Tronicke

Johannisstr. 12-20, room 323
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-24642

Consultation Hours

I currently hold an interim professorship at the University of Cologne. During this time, I do not offer regular office hours and am unable to supervise theses.

  • Information for Students

    I am happy to supervise theses at both BA and MA/MEd level, but please note that I cannot agree on any supervision without knowing what you would like to work on. So before reaching out…

    1. Make sure that the suggested topic falls within the area of British studies.

    2. Before signing up for my office hours, please send me a short abstract of your proposed project (ca. 300 words) that describes the text(s) you would like to work with, sketches a rough theoretical framework, and articulates a tentative research question. We can then discuss your ideas in more detail and make adjustments where necessary.

  • Publications

    Monograph

    • Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. *Reviewed in Shakespeare Jahrbuch 155 (2019); SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 59.2 (2019); Renaissance Quarterly 73.3 (2020).

    edited works

    • Black Neo-Victoriana. Ed. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2021. *Reviewed in Neo-Victorian Studies 14.1 (2022); Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29.2 (2022).
    • Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Ed. Caroline Koegler, Pavan K. Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke. London: Routledge, 2021. *Reviewed in Journal of British Studies 61.4 (2022); Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2023).
    • Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters, Special Issue Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1 (2020). Ed. Caroline Koegler and Marlena Tronicke.
    • Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, Special Issue Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5 (2020). Ed. Caroline Koegler, Pavan K. Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke.
    • Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Romeo and Juliet in Excerpts – Teachers’ Book. Ed. Rainer Gocke and Marlena Tronicke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch, 2017.
    • Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Romeo and Juliet in Excerpts. Ed. Rainer Gocke and Marlena Tronicke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch, 2016.
    • Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Othello in Excerpts – Teachers’ Book. Ed. Rainer Gocke and Marlena Tronicke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch, 2015.
    • Shakespeare on Stage and Screen: Othello in Excerpts. Ed. Rainer Gocke and Marlena Tronicke. Paderborn: Schöningh-Schulbuch, 2015.

    journal articles

    • ‘Precarious Bodies: Locating Spectatorship in the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival Series.’ In International Theatre Research 48.1 (2023): 52–66, Special Issue Presence, Politics, Resistance − Tendencies in (Post-)Pandemic Performance and Theatre. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883322000402.
    • ‘“Through the pen to begin with”: Anticolonial Resistance in Tanika Gupta’s Adaptation of Great Expectations.’ In Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10.2 (2022): 283–301, Special Issue Tanika Gupta. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2022-0022.
    • ‘Heterotopian Disorientation: Intersectionality in William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth.’ In Humanities 11.1 (2021), Special Issue Neo-Victorian Heterotopias. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010013.
    • ‘“For other than for dancing measures”: Jigs at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Politics of Shakespearean Performance.’ In Shakespeare Seminar 17 (2020): 59–71.
    • ‘Neo-Victorianism’s Queer Potentiality: Livability and Intersectional Imaginaries.’ In Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1 (2020): 1–43, Special Issue Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters. (with Caroline Koegler)
    • ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ In Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5 (2020): 662–675, Special Issue Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.181844.
    • ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ In Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56.5 (2020): 585–592, Special Issue Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440. (with Caroline Koegler and Pavan Malreddy)
    • ‘“What are you doing”? Reclaiming Juliet’s Agency in the YouTube Series Sassy Gay Friend.’ In Shakespeare en Devenir 14 (2019), Special Issue Romeo and Juliet: From Page to Image,  https://shakespeare.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=1806.
    • ‘Terror by Candlelight: The Affective Politics of Fear in Tanika Gupta’s Lions and Tigers.’ In Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7.1 (2019): 58–71, Special Issue Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2019-0005.
    • ‘What Condition of England? Re-Imagining the “Two Nations” in David Lodge’s Nice Work.’ In Neo-Victorian Studies 10.1 (2017): 110–132, Special Issue Neo-Victorianism and the Discourses of Education.
    • ‘The Pain of Others: Silencing Lavinia in Titus Andronicus.’ In Shakespeare Seminar 13 (2015): 39–49.

    Book Chapters

    • ‘“Keep the secrets of the past buried”: Taboo’s Saltwater Hauntings.’ In Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions, Heterogeneities, Knowledges, Materialities, ed. Sukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka, Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Kerstin Knopf. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023. 397–413.
    • ‘Blackness and Neo-Victorian Studies: Re-Routing Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, ed. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2021. 1–30. (with Felipe Espinoza Garrido and Julian Wacker)
    • ‘“A Natural Tint”: Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet and Archive of Black Victorian Theatre.’ In Black Neo-Victoriana, ed. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2021. 96–119.
    • ‘“I Have Shown You Milk”: Performing Legal Truths in Nina Raine’s Consent and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin.’ In Law and Literature, ed. Franziska Quabeck. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 135–152.
    • ‘Imperial Pasts, Dystopian Futures, and the Theatre of Brexit.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, ed. Caroline Koegler, Pavan K. Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke. London: Routledge, 2021. 78–91.
    • ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.’ In Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, ed. Caroline Koegler, Pavan K. Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke. London: Routledge, 2021. 1–8. (with Caroline Koegler and Pavan Malreddy)
    • ‘“A Bootless Inquisition”? – Searching for Imaginary Homelands in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.’ In Symbols of Diaspora, ed. Florian Kläger. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 183–197.

    handbooks and encyclopedias

    • ‘Critique and Contestation.’ In Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, ed. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2024. (forthcoming 2024)
    • ‘Critical Race Theory.’ In Handbook of Neo-Victorianism, ed. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2024. (forthcoming 2024)
    • ‘Trial Scenes in Anglophone Theatre.’ In Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Thomas Gutmann, Eberhard Ortland and Klaus Stierstorfer (2022). https://lawandliterature.eu/index.php/en/content-en?view=article&id=5&catid=10.
    • ‘Gerichtsszenen im englischsprachigen Theater.’ In Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur, ed. Thomas Gutmann, Eberhard Ortland and Klaus Stierstorfer (2022). https://lawandliterature.eu/index.php/de/inhalt?view=article&id=9&catid=11.
    • ‘London.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, ed. Günther Butzer and Joachim Jacob. 3. Aufl. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler, 2021. 373–375.
    • ‘England.’ In Metzler Lexikon Literarische Symbole, ed. Günther Butzer and Joachim Jacob. 3. Aufl. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler, 2021. 144–146.

    book reviews

    • ‘Sophie Duncan, Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine.’ In Shakespeare Jahrbuch 160 (forthcoming 2024).
    • ‘Stephen Guy-Bray, Shakespeare and Queer Representation.’ In Shakespeare Jahrbuch 159 (2023): 191–192.
    • ‘Alan Read, The Dark Theatre: A Book About Loss.’ In Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 10.2 (2022): 397–400.
    • ‘Kate Aughterson and Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama.’ In Shakespeare Jahrbuch 158 (2022): 226–228.
    • ‘Othello (dir. Michael Thalheimer), Berliner Ensemble, 2019.’ In Shakespeare Bulletin 38.1 (2021): 121–125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2020.0007.
    • ‘Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures, ed. Christina Flotmann-Scholz and Anna Lienen.’ In Journal for the Study of British Cultures 27.1 (2020): 101–104.
    • ‘Die Fremden/Der Kaufmann von Venedig (dir. Stefan Otteni), Theater Muenster, 2018.’ In Shakespeare Bulletin 36.2 (2018): 345–349. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2018.0031.
    • ‘Antonija Primorac, Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women.’ In Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 18 (2018): 213–217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580822-018.