Assoc. Prof Lena STEVEKER

Lena Steveker is Associate Professor in English Studies. She is the Head of the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences (DSHSS) at the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.

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).

Lena Steveker teaches courses in early modern studies, literary history, contemporary British fiction and adaptation for the Bachelor of European Cultures. She also offers research seminars for the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Before joining the University of Luxembourg in September 2020, Lena Steveker worked at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, at Universität des Saarlandes and at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. She was also a visiting research fellow at the University of Sussex.

An alumna of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Lena Steveker holds a doctoral degree from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. A member of the DFG-funded research training group “Kulturhermeneutik im Zeichen von Differenz und Transdifferenz”, she wrote her PhD thesis on identity and cultural memory in the fiction of A.S. Byatt (published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2009).