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.

Membership

• German Shakespeare Society (DSG)
• Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
• British Shakespeare Association (BSA)

Publications

• “In Plain Style: Performing Truth and Epistemic Uncertainties in William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.” Shakespeare Seminar, vol. 23, 2027 [submitted].
• “‘Honest in nothing but his clothes’: Dissimulation and Uncertainty in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.” Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity, edited by Claudia Olk, Cord-Christian Casper, and Nikolina Hatton, De Gruyter [forthcoming].
• “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.