Elected 1992
Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.
British, western European and colonial literary, bibliographical and cultural studies; reading, library, and book trade history, the history of the novel, comparative global bibliography, Scandinavian studies.
Intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, specialising in political thought and the reception of ancient philosophy; history of humanism and the Latin literature of the Renaissance
