Prof. Isabel Karremann:

Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she teaches early modern and eighteenth-century literature, focussing on questions of memory, affect, space and gender.

She is the author of a monograph on The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare’s History Plays (Cambridge, 2015), has co-edited several collections on questions of religious conflict, memory and literature and is currently preparing two collections on Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England (for CUP) and on Shakespeare/Space (for Bloomsbury).In 2021 she was appointed general editor of the Shakespeare Jahrbuch.

Prof. Karremann’s other field of study is eighteenth-century culture and literature, the history of feminist thought in the Enlightenment, and the literary history of globalization, for which Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe proves a key text. Having published several articles on this novel, she is now planning a monograph entitled Other Robinsons that draws on the rich reception history of Defoe’s novel as it becomes materially manifest in the Robinson-Library – a unique archive that holds about 4’000 historical editions, translations and adaptations in over 25 languages, as well as objects of art and popular culture, that has found a home in a museum for contemporary art near Zurich.