Dr. Jonas Kellermann

• Early Modern English Drama
• Theater and Performance Studies
• Affect and Emotion Theory
• Music and Dance Studies
• Contemporary British and American Novels
• Queer Studies

 Postdoc Project: Queer Spectralities in Contemporary Anglophone Novels

2021

City of Konstanz Prize to Promote Early Career Researchers at the University of Konstanz

 

2020 

Dr.phil. (summa cum laude)
English Literature, University of Konstanz
Thesis: “‘Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel: Dramaturgies of Amorous Emotion in Romeo and Juliet”      

2017 

Martin Lehnert Award by the German Shakespeare Foundation
(Deutsche Shakespeare-Stiftung) for the Master’s Thesis “‘Think anon it lives’: Oscillating Perceptions in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale” 

Since 10/2016 

Research Assistant and Lecturer (Akademischer Mitarbeiter)
English Literature (Prof. Dr. Christina Wald)
University of Konstanz

2014-2016 

Master of Arts
English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin

2010-2014 

Bachelor of Arts
English Philology, Theatre Studies
Freie Universität Berlin, University of Edinburgh

Memberships:

• Deutscher Anglistikverband
• Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
• European Shakespeare Research Association
• Shakespeare and Dance Project
• German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult)
• International Shakespeare Conference
• The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

• ZKF Public Talk: Throuple Plots: Narrative Infrastructures of Queer Kinship, 08. November 2023.
• Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet now available in paperback: Link
• Shakespeare Academy, 20./21. April 2023
• ZKF Public Talk: New Developments in Queer Studies, 23. November 2022

• “Notes on Shakespearean Ballet and Seriality”, “Then fate o’erruled”: Change in Shakespeare – Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, Pázmány Peter Catholic University Budapest, 6-9 July 2023.

• "The Non-Finality of the You: Deconstructed Love in Troilus and Cressida", Liebesgeflüster und Wutgeschrei: Affektkommunikation in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, University of Osnabrück, 12-14 October 2022.

• "'She don't speak, but she remembers': Shakespearean Echoes in A Song of Ice and Fire", Women's Rights and Global Adaptations of Shakespeare, Freie Universität Berlin, 25-26 November 2021.

• "Gestures of Loving: Mutual Self-Recognition in Christian Spuck's Romeo and Juliet", “The art itself is nature”: Shakespeare’s Nature | Art | Politics - ESRA Online Conference 2021, 3-6 June 2021.

• "Facing the Other: Ambiguous Story Worlds in the Novels of Susanna Clarke", Ambiguity and Narratology: Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Perspectives, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 22-24 April 2021.

• "Pas de Deux, Pas d’amour: Duological Love in Balletic Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare and European Geographies: Centralities and Elsewheres – Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, Roma Tre University, 9-12 July 2019. 

• "A Lover's Discourse: Emotive Speech Force in Romeo and Juliet", Making Connections: Early Modern Texts and Cultures - London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare's Globe Inaugural Graduate Conference, King's College London, 23-24 February 2018.

• "'I defy you stars': The Silent Solo in Sasha Waltz's Roméo et Juliette", Shakespeare and European Theatrical Cultures: AnAtomizing Text and Stage – Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, University of Gdansk, 27-30 July 2017.

• "Languages of Emoting in Hector Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette", Shakespeare and European Theatrical Cultures: AnAtomizing Text and Stage - Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, University of Gdansk, 27.-30.07.2017.

• "'Holy palmer's kiss': Affective Iconography in Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare and the Reformation, Shakespeare Seminar at the conference of the German Shakespeare Association (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft), Weimar, 20-23 April 2017.

• "The Sound of Silence: Affective Contagion in Sasha Waltz's Roméo et Juliette", International Conference of Young Researchers on Theatre Studies (CIJIET), Universidad de Murcia, 02-04 November 2016.

• "'I have drunk and seen the spider': Fears of Illegitimacy in The Winter's Tale", Shakespeare's Europe - Europe's Shakespeare(s) - Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, University of Worcester, 29 June – 02 July 2015.

• "Faith Awakened: The Suspension of (Dis-)Belief in The Winter's Tale, 17th British Graduate Student Conference, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon Avon, 04-06 June 2015.

Monographs

• Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet: Word, Music, and Dance. Routledge, 2021. Publisher

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Facing the Other: Ambiguous Story Worlds in the Fiction of Susanna Clarke”, Ambiguity and Narratology, ed. by Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein and Julian Wagner (de Gruyter, 2024): 189-216. Link
• “In Perfect (A)Synchrony: Queer Style in The Line of Beauty”, Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games, ed. by Juan F. Belmonte-Avila and Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo (Routledge, 2024): 19-34. Link
• “Queering Infrastructures of Romance” (co-authored with Anja Hartl und Christina Wald), Rethinking Infrastructures Across the Humanities, ed. by Aaron Pinnix et al (Transcript, 2023): 191-200. Link
• “‘She don’t speak, but she remembers’: Shakespeare’s Silent Specters in A Song of Ice and Fire”, Adaptation 16:3 (December 2023), 263-280. Link
• "'Like an old tale': The Winter's Tale on the Balletic Stage", Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021), 162-179.
• "Witnessing Trauma in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life", Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62:3 (2021), 334-346. Link
• “A breach of silence: affective soundscapes in Sasha Waltz’s Roméo et Juliette“, Cahiers Élisabéthains 102:1 (July 2020), 38-53. Link
• "Dramaturgies of Reciprocity in Romeo and Juliet", Shakespeare en devenir 14 (2019), n.pag. Link
• “‘Holy Palmer’s Kiss‘: Affective Iconography in Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare Seminar 15 (2017), 53-65. Link

Performance Reviews

• “Wie die Mutter, so die Tochter? Das Globe Ensemble Berlin spielt Romeo und Julia”, Review, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 156 (2020), 226-229.
• "'Eine Geschichte zweier Ballette: Nacho Duatos Romeo und Julia an der Staatsoper Berlin", Review, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 155 (2019), 199-203.
• "'I am not what I am': Versucher der (postmigrantischen) Dekonstruktion in Berlin", Review of Ophelias Zimmer at Schaubühne Berlin, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 153 (2017), 196-200.
• "Ein Totentanz der Liebenden: Roméo et Juliette an der Deutschen Oper Berlin", Review, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 152 (2016), 185-188.

Miscellanea

• “Formen der Liebe”, Program of Dido & Aeneas, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, May 2022.
• “Forscherin der Formen: Über Sasha Waltz und Dido & Aeneas”, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, May 2022, Link. 

Conference Reports

• “‘Shakespeares Odysseen’: Jahrestagung in Bochum, 22. – 24. April 2022”, Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 159 (2023), 227-229.
• “‘Shakespeare und Politik’: Jahrestagung in Weimar, 12. – 14. November 2021", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 158 (2022), 254-257. [Reprint in ALG Umschau 66 (March 2022), 24-25.]
• "'Romeo und Julia': Online Herbsttagung, 20.-22. November 2020", Shakespeare Jahrbuch 157 (2021), 277-279.
• “‘Shakespeare und Übersetzung’: Shakespeare-Tage in Weimar, 26. – 28. April 2019”, Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 156 (2020), 322-324.
• "'Othello': Herbsttagung in Bochum, 23.-24. November 2018", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 155 (2019), 287-289.
• "'Flucht - Exil - Migration': Shakespeare-Tage in Weimar, 20.-22. April 2018", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 155 (2019), 284-287. 
• "'Shakespeare und die Reformation': Shakespeare-Tage in Weimar, 20.-23. April 2017", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 154 (2018), 263-266.
• "'Shakespeare's Green Worlds': Shakespeare-Tage in Bochum, 22.-24. April 2016“, Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 153 (2017), 267-270.
• "'Shakespeare's Endgames - Poetiken des Schlusses': Herbsttagung in Weimar, 25.-26. November 2016", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 153 (2017), 270-271. 
• "'Helden und Heldinnen bei Shakespeare': Shakespeare-Tage in Berlin, 23.-26. April 2015", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 152 (2016), 273-275.
• "'Krieg und Gedenken': Shakespeare-Tage Bochum, 14.-16. November 2014", Report, Shakespeare Jahrbuch 151 (2015), 288-289.

Winter Semester 2024/25:
Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies
Bending Gender, Bending Time

Summer Semester 2024:
British Literature and Culture I
Modernism (Re-)Imagined

Winter Semester 2023/24:
Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies
Victorian Closets

Summer Semester 2023:
British Literature and Culture I
Queering Shakespeare

Winter Semester 2022/23:
AIDS Fiction
Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies

Summer Semester 2022:
(Post)Modern Gender Narratives
Shakespeare’s Odysseys

Winter Semester 2021/22:
Queer Trauma: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies

Summer Semester 2021:
Style as Substance: Alan Hollinghurst and the "Gay Novel"

Winter Semester 2020/21:
Neo-Victorian Literature
Postmodern Pastiche: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Summer Semester 2020:
Suspension of Disbelief in Shakespearean Romance

Winter Semester 2019/20:
Shakespeare and Dance
The Myth of the Star-Crossed Lovers

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