Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann
principal investigator
Isabel Karremann has been Professor for Early Modern Literature in English at the University of Zurich since 2019. She is particularly interested in the ways literary texts are part of the world: situated in specific historical, political and socio-cultural contexts; shaped by material conditions as well as cognitive, affective and aesthetic perception habits; taking form in theatrical performances, adaptations, re-writings; and working as acts of communication that create communities, shape identities, negotiate conflicts and allow us to understand better the world we live in. She has recently edited two essay collections that explore the conceptual groundworks of the DramaSCAPEs project: Shakespeare / Space (Bloomsbury, 2024) and, with Jonathan Baldo, Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge, 2023).
Contact: karremann@es.uzh.ch
UZH website: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/team/ikarremann.html
Ann-Sophie Bosshard, M.A.
doctoral researcher
Ann-Sophie Bosshard is a doctoral researcher in the DramaSCAPEs-project. Her thesis is entitled “Travel-Scapes: Mobility, Community, and the Ethics of Emplacement in Early Modern Drama”. She completed her BA in German, English and History at the University of Zurich (with additional courses in Bern and Basel) and her MA in German and English at the University of Zurich and the University of Tübingen.
Contact: ann-sophie.bosshard@es.uzh.ch
UZH website: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/team/asbosshard.html
Timothy Holden, M.A.
doctoral researcher
Timothy Holden completed his BA in English and History at the University of Würzburg and was a visiting student at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. He completed his MA in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich. His PhD-project is entitled “Sense-Scapes: Proprioception and Kinaesthesia in Shakespeare’s Playhouses”.
Contact: timothy.holden@es.uzh.ch
UZH website: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/team/Timothy-Holden.html
Noemi Lussy
project assistant
Noemi Lussy has completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics and Modern History at the University of Zurich and is currently pursuing her Master’s, working on her thesis on old age and communities of care surrounding the elderly in the early modern period. She is a student assistant in the DramaSCAPEs projects.
Francesca Nocita
project assistant
Francesca Nocita completed her undergraduate studies in English and Italian Literature and Linguistics at the University of Zurich, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the same fields. Her research interests include sensory perception, distributed cognition, extended subjectivity and affective economies in early modern drama. As a student assistant to Isabel Karremann, she is involved in the DramaSCAPEs project while also working at the Early Modern Studies Chair at UZH.
ASSOCIATED RESEARCHERS
Lukas Arnold, M.A.
doctoral researcher
Lukas Arnold holds a BA and MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zurich, where he wrote his master’s thesis on commoner politics and the performance of social justice in the two parts of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody (1605). His dissertation project “Environmental Justice and Affective Communities in Early Modern English Literature” is funded by a Doc.CH scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Project 214675).
Contact: lukas.arnold@es.uzh.ch
UZH website: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/team/larnold.html
Dr. Jifeng Huang
post-doctoral researcher
Jifeng Huang has successfully completed his PhD in July 2026. His dissertation project “Cripistemology: Disabled Bodies and Alternative Knowledges in Early Modern Drama” was funded by a Doc.CH scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (project 214720) and focused on the intersection of the Medical Renaissance, disability studies, and early modern epistemology in England’s theatre culture. He holds a BA in English and an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Zurich.
Contact: jifeng.huang@es.uzh.ch
UZH website: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/team/jhuang.html
Olena Morenets, M.A.
teaching and research assistant
Olena Morenets is a teaching and research assistant at Prof. Dr Isabel Karremann’s Chair of Early Modern Literatures in English. Her thesis, entitled “Smelling New Worlds”, examines smell in early modern English travel writing, with particular attention to smellscapes, olfactory material culture and olfactory heritage. She completed her BA in Italian Philology and her MA in Italian and English Language and Literature at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Before her PhD, she worked as a translator and interpreter, and as an English linguist on speech recognition systems, including Amazon Alexa.
Contact: olena.morenets@uzh.ch