Dr. Angelika Zirker is an assistant professor at the English
Department of Tuebingen University. After studying English, French
and German at the Universities of Saarbruecken (Germany), Metz
(France), and Cardiff (Wales), she completed her PhD in English
Literature on The Pilgrim as a Child: Concepts of Play, Language
and Salvation in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books in July 2009
(published by LIT in 2010). Her current project deals with the
relations between poetry and the stage during the Early Modern
period.
Angelika Zirker is an associate member of the postgraduate
programmes Dimensions of Ambiguity and Sacred Texts, part of
project A2 "Interpretability in Context" of SFB 833, and one of the
co-editors of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. Her
research interests include Shakespeare, Early Modern Poetry,
children’s literature and concepts of childhood, literature and
ethics, as well as nineteenth-century literature and culture, with
a strong emphasis on the novel. She is also the co-founder of an
interdisciplinary project on Wordplay and of
www.annotating-literature.org.
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/bauer/zirker_e.htm