Dr. Steven Howe

Associate Director & Research Fellow

Dr. phil.

T +41 41 229 54 23 
steven.howe@unilu.ch

Frohburgstrasse 3, Postfach 4466, 6002 Luzern, Room 4.A34

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Steven Howe is lecturer and senior research fellow at the University of Lucerne, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies. He read German Studies (BA) at the universities of Manchester and Hamburg, and holds an MRes and a PhD in European Languages and Cultures from the University of Exeter – both funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Alongside regular modules at the universities of Lucerne and Exeter, he has taught guest seminars at the University Roma Tre, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, and the Australian National University in Canberra. He also frequently convenes international workshops on interdisciplinary topics around law, the humanities and critical theory. Currently, his teaching and research focus on the intersections of law, art and politics across various contexts. Recent publications include articles on legal cinema in Weimar Germany, on clemency and statehood in nineteenth-century drama, and on representations of law and violence in the works of Kleist and Shakespeare, as well as a special issue of the journal Pólemos on “Law and Art in the Aftermath” (edited with Laura Petersen, 2022). In 2018, Steven was a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. In 2022, he was awarded a large-scale grant by the SNSF to lead the interdisciplinary project “Imagining Justice: Law, Politics and Popular Visual Culture in Weimar Germany.”