Strategies of Ambiguity

Matthias Bauer is Professor of English Philology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. His fields of research include early modern English literature (with an emphasis on metaphysical poetry), nineteenth-century English literature (with an emphasis on Dickens), the language of literature, and literature and religion. He was the chair of the Research Training Group 1808 "Ambiguity: Production and Perception," and he co-chairs several further research projects on interpretability in context and reading competence, as well as co-creativity in early modern English literature. He is the co-founder and editor of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate and co-editor of Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch.

Angelika Zirker is Associate Professor of English Literatures and Cultures at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. After completing her PhD on the Lewis Carroll’s Alice books (The Pilgrim as Child: Play, Language, and Salvation) in 2010, she published her second book, titled William Shakespeare and John Donne: Stages of the Soul in Early Modern English Poetry, in 2019 with Manchester University Press. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature, with a special focus on Charles Dickens, as well as early modern poetry and drama. She is involved in various interdisciplinary research projects, and she is the co-editor of two journals, Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch and Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.