Isabel Karremann studied English and Comparative Literature in Munich and at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Having taught at the universities of Tuebingen and Frankfurt, she returned to Munich University where she is now a senior lecturer in English Literature and Shakespeare Studies. Recent publications include articles on Shakespearean history plays and on cultural memory; she has edited a volume on negotiations of confessional conflicts in early modern Europe, entitled Forgetting Faith (2011). Her current research project is entitled Practices of Forgetting in Shakespearean Historical Drama and Early Modern Culture, and examines the ways in acts of forgetting (as well as of remembering) shaped English cultural and historical memory, and how Shakespeare’s plays stage this process of formation and transformation.