About
Simone Broders teaches English Literature and Culture at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has held interim professorships at the universities of Cologne and Koblenz and has worked as a member of staff at the OVGU Magdeburg.

Her research interests include English literature and culture of the “long” 18th century in relation to 19th-century discourses; curiosity, periodisation, Romanticism, and late Enlightenment, English literature and culture of the 19th to 21st centuries, with a focus on contemporary literature, memory studies, post-imperialism, gender, and representations of knowledge and ignorance, popular culture (inculding contemporary Shakespeares), Gothic fiction, and fantastic literature as cultural crystallisation points of social and cultural debates.
This page is currently being updated. Meanwhile, please refer to my site at FAU:
https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/enst/lit/staff/simone-broders