DR. ANNA-ROSE SHACK

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room: Werthmannstr. 6, Room 00 006
Office phone number: –
Email: anna-rose.shack@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Anna-Rose Shack is a postdoctoral researcher working on the ERC-funded DERIVATE project. Within this project focused on literary retellings, her research examines the Trojan War mythos in contemporary theatre.

Anna-Rose completed her NWO-funded PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2025 with a thesis entitled, “The Poetics of Vulnerability: Early Modern Women’s Poetry, 1560-1665.” She previously studied Literary Studies, and English and Theatre Studies at the universities of
Amsterdam and Melbourne. She also holds a Certificate in Speech and Drama: Performance Studies (PCertLAM) from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Anna-Rose has spent time as a visiting researcher at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington (2024) and has also held a Global Sentimentality fellowship at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2024). She has taught a range of BA, MA, and academic writing courses at the universities of Groningen and Amsterdam. In 2023, she was a finalist for the Faculty of Humanities Education Prize (University of Amsterdam) for the course Authors in Focus: Renaissance Women Writers, co-taught with Dr. Kristine Johanson.

Anna-Rose is passionate about bringing literature to life through the curation of literary events and performances. If your research interests overlap or you would like to discuss possible collaborations, please do get in touch!

Research interests:

  • Contemporary theatre (retellings of the Trojan War mythos)
  • Theatre and pedagogy
  • Early modern women’s poetry
  • Women’s mobility and travel writing
  • Shakespeare
  • Vulnerability studies
  • Affect theory
  • Care ethics

List of Publications

Book Chapters

  • “‘We hope sometimes to see you on these Coasts’: Affective Encounters in Katherine Philips’s Sea Poems.” Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain, edited by Lisa Hopkins and Bill Angus, Edinburgh University Press, accepted/forthcoming spring 2026.

Journal Articles

  • ““I Walked Out”: Perambulatory Poetics, Authorial Independence, and Isabella Whitney’s Poetic Voice in A Sweet Nosgay”. Women’s Writing, vol. 31, no. 1, 2024, pp. 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2284053. Winner of the 2025 Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize.
  • Brown, Alistair, Anna-Rose Shack, and Douglas Virdee. “Prestige and Gatekeeping in Postgraduate Journals: The Case of Postgraduate English.” Interscript, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.2398-4732.1191.

Edited Issues of Journals

  • Special issue co-edited with Zoë Van Cauwenberg and Fauve Vandenberghe: “Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women’s Writing, 1600-1800.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 15, no. 2, 2026, http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.15.2.1446. 

  • Journal co-edited with Kashish Madan: “Special Feature.” Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, no. 40, Aug. 2020. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/issue/view/48. 

Edited Poems

  • With Kristine Johanson: “An Old Man, A Stripling, and an Ass,” by Hester Pulter (Poem 119, Amplified Edition). The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, edited by Leah Knight and Wendy Wall, 2018. 2023. http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu.

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