My eighteenth-century research interests are:
- History of war in the German-speaking lands, 1756-1815 (The Seven Years’ War, the Bavarian Wars of Succession, The Napoleonic Wars)
- Literary constructions of national identity before political unification
- Poetry concerning political topics e.g. war and social inequality
- 18th-century ideologies of gender
- The policing of female sexuality, especially the issue of infanticide as a result of illegitimate pregnancy
- Women’s writing
- Print cultures in the Enlightenment period
- German Romanticism
I have explored this research in several articles, and in 2020, with Dr Dagmar Paulus, I co-edited the volume Nationalism Before the Nation-State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871).