Heidi Lucja Liedke

Heidi Lucja Liedke (Dr.) is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Koblenz-Landau. In her postdoctoral project, she examines the aesthetics of live theatre broadcasting and how it oscillates between the poles of spectacle, materiality and engagement. She completed her PhD in 2016 at the University of Freiburg and published her monograph based on it as The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850-1901 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Heidi Liedke was a Postdoctoral Humboldt Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London from 2018-2020. In her research, she focuses on Victorian travel and idling, contemporary British theatre and media, and spectator studies.

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