Lena Steveker’s research interests are early modern English drama, pamphlets of the English civil wars, and news cultures of early modern England as well as contemporary British fiction and popular culture. She is currently working on practices of collaborations in early modern English drama and on representations of posthuman subjectivities in twenty-first-century fantasy and speculative fiction. Together with Susanne Gruss (University of Bamberg), she is reviews editor of ‘Shakespeare Jahrbuch’. Since 2023, she has been the president of the
German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen).