Annegret Schäffler

2018–2023 Studies in English and German Philology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Completed with Bavarian State Examination.

Thesis on Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Middle High German Mären (supervised by Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichlin and Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk)

2019–2024 Studies in Philosophy/Ethics for the State Examination at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Completion of the university qualification necessary for admission to the state exam.

2019–2022 Student Assistant to Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

2022–2023 ERASMUS Exchange at King’s College London.

Since August 2023: Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate, CRC 1369 “Cultures of Vigilance”, Project C08 “Unknowingness and Vigilance in Shakespeare” (Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk).

2026 Academic Visitor, Department of English and Related Literature / Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS), University of York.

Publications

“Workshop Report. Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity.” Mitteilungen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1369 Vigilanzkulturen, 1 (2025). [co-authored with Claudia Olk].

Conference Papers

“In Plain Style: Performing Truth and Epistemic Uncertainties in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.” Shakespeare Seminar, Frühjahrtagung Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (Spring Conference of the German Shakespeare Association) 2026: ‘Shakespeare und Wahrheit’ (Shakespeare and Truth), Bochum, 24–26 April 2026

“Fictions of Empathy: Uncertain Understanding and Dissimulation in Henry Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman.” Revisiting Empathy, University of California, Berkeley, 3–4 Oct. 2025.

“Under a Black Veil: Dissimulation and Emotional Ambiguity in John Webster’s The Devil’s Law-Case.” Shakespeare and Gesture, BSA (British Shakespeare Association) 2025 Conference: ‘Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons’, University of York, 25–28 June 2025 [seminar contribution].

“Veiled in Shadows of the Masque: Illusory Obscurity and Dissimulation in The Revenger’s Tragedy.” The British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad) 2025, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 19–21 June 2025.

“‘Honest in nothing but his clothes’: Dissimulation and Uncertainty in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.” Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity, CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance, Project C08, LMU Munich, 5–6 Dec. 2024.

German Shakespeare Society (DSG)

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

British Shakespeare Association (BSA)