Dr. Valentina Finger

Seit 2023: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Tobias Döring

2023: Promotion in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft (summa cum laude; 0,5); LMU München
(Titel der Dissertation: Specular Stages of Shakespeare and Beyond: Mirrors in Early Modern English Plays and Playhouses)

2022: Visiting Research Student am King’s College London

Seit 2020: Co-Organisation des Studierendenworkshops „Shakespeare Academy“ begleitend zu den Jahrestagungen der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft

2019–2023: Doktorandin am SFB 1369 „Vigilanzkulturen“; LMU München

2019: Master of Arts in Allgemeiner und Vergleichender Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik); LMU München

2017–2019: Studentische Hilfskraft von Prof. Dr. Anne Enderwitz (jetzt: HU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Martin von Koppenfels; Prof. Dr. Elfi Bettinger; Prof. Dr. Robert Stockhammer

2017: Bachelor of Arts in Allgemeiner und Vergleichender Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik); LMU München

2015–2016: ERASMUS-Aufenthalt am King’s College London

2013: Diplom in Modejournalismus/Medienkommunikation (AMD Akademie Mode & Design München)

2024: Martin-Lehnert-Preis der Deutschen Shakespeare-Stiftung (Dissertationspreis)

Deutscher Anglistikverband
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
European Shakespeare Research Association
International Shakespeare Association

• Shakespeare und das Drama der Frühen Neuzeit
• (Ver)Kleidung und Kosmetik in Literatur und Kultur
• Literarische Konstruktionen des ‚Weiblichen‘

Vested Ideals: Dress in Utopian Prose Fiction (Arbeitstitel)

• Fashion and Cultural Studies
• Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
• King Richard II: Staging Politics in/with Shakespeare (Shakespeare Academy)
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Odysseys in/of Shakespeare (Shakespeare Academy)
• The Tempest: Pages and Stages in/of Shakespeare (Shakespeare Academy)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Popular Shakespeare(s) (Shakespeare Academy)
• Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare: Renaissance Stage-Fashioning
• Painted Faces: Cosmetics in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Magic Mirrors on the Renaissance Stage
• Women in White: Gender and Dress in Literature
• Fashion and/as Literature

Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama: Power, Gender and the Magic of the Theatre, Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama, London: Bloomsbury (2026).

„‚I’ll draw it nearer by a perspective‘: Prognostic Mirrors in Jacobean Drama“. In: Anglistik 36:3 (2025).

„A head for a hand: Storytelling und Spurenlese in Shakespeares Titus Andronicus”. In: Eric Achermann und Sebastian Speth (Hgg.): Vergeltung und Verfahren: Zur Verbrechensdarstellung vor der klassischen Kriminalliteratur, Stuttgart: Metzler 2025, S. 227–242.

„Fashioning Falstaff: Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor“. In: Sophie Chiari und Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Hgg.): The Ecologies of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2024, S. 163-177..

„‚As Brittle as the Glory‘: Imperial Mirrors and Their Inversions in Richard II“. In: Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 26:1/2 (2022), S. 18–35.

„To see or not to see: Hamlet und der vigilante Blick“. In: Vigilanzkulturen, 03/02/2021, https://vigilanz.hypotheses.org/1075.

„Not Moving a Foot: The Dancefloor as an Amorous Battleground in Love‘s Labour‘s Lost. In: Shakespeare Seminar 17 (2020): Shakespeare and Dance, S. 3–16.

2024:
- „Power to the Plants: (Un-)Natürliche Machtkulturen bei Shakespeare“, Staging Nature: Berührungspunkte von Natur und Bühnenwerken, 08.11.2024, LMU München
- „Unpin Me and Cut my Lace: Textile Communities in Othello and Antony and Cleopatra“, The 39th International Shakespeare Conference: Shakespeare and Communities, 23.–26.07.2024, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon

2023:
- „‚I‘ll draw it nearer by a perspective‘: Prognostic Mirrors in Jacobean Drama“. Anglistentag 2023 (Sektion: Early Modern Futures), 24.–26.09.2023, Universität Siegen, Siegen
- „(Re-)Locating Mirrors on the Early Modern English Stage“. BSA (British Shakespeare Association) 2023: Re-locating Shakespeare, 25.–28.08.2023, University of Liverpool, Liverpool

2022:
- „Taking in Shadows with a Glass: Natural-Magic Mirrors in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist“. Literature, Medicine and Science: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 12.10.2022, Birkbeck, University of London, London
- „Penetration of the Powder Room: Specular Spaces of Femininity in The Duchess of Malfi and The Devil’s Charter“. London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare’s Globe Third Graduate Conference: Home and Early Modernity, 24.–25.02.2022, King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe, Online

2021:
- „‚Enter King Edward in his sute of Glasse’: Shattering Specular Exemplarity in George Peele’s Edward the First“. The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad) 2021, 23.–27.08.2021, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Online
- „Imperial Mirrors and Suits of Glass: Sovereignty and Specularity on the Early Modern English Stage“. Mirror in Theory and Practice: New Perspectives on Old Questions, 17.–18.06.2021, Universität Wien/Alanus Hochschule, Online
- „Glassy Glory and Burnish’d Steel: Specular Utopias in George Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois“. ESRA Virtual Conference 2021, 03.–06.06.2021, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/European Shakespeare Research Association, Online
- „Fashioning Falstaff: Dress and Disguise in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor“. Strange Habits: Clothes, climes, and the environment in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, 21.–22.01.2021, Université Clermont Auvergne, Online

2020:
- „Not Moving a Foot: The Dancefloor as an Amorous Battleground in Love’s Labour’s Lost“. Herbsttagung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (Shakespearetage), Online
- „Bankrupt of Majesty: Shakespeare’s Monarchs and Mirrors of Masculinity“. The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad) 2020, 14.–20.09.2020, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Online
- „Mirrors of Princely Semblance: Reflecting Boundaries in Shakespeare’s History Plays“. London Shakespeare Centre and Shakespeare’s Globe Second Graduate Conference: Negotiating Boundaries, 14.–15.02.2020, King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe, London

2018:
„Crossing Canals, Crossing Gender: Venice and the Topos of Disguise in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice“. CEMS Postgraduate Conference: Space, Place and Interface, 23.–24.05.2018, University of Exeter, Exeter