Dunja Haufe is a PhD candidate in English Philology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She holds a M.A. in British and North American Cultural Studies from the same university, where she graduated in 2020 with distinction. Her master thesis focused on the representation of the supernatural in the lays of Marie de France, while her current research examines the figure of the shapeshifter in medieval English romances, both from a literary as well as a cultural studies perspective.

Research interests:

• Medieval literature and culture
• Magic and the Supernatural
• Monster Theory, Animal Studies, Ecocriticism
• Medievalism, Gender Studies