Knowledge, dialogue, and understanding are key concepts for me as academic teacher. Giving classes in literary studies resembles, in my experience, being on a never-ending group excursion through times, thoughts, and texts. As literary scholar I activate a broad range of problems and perspectives: literature as language game, genre questions, intertextuality, myth theory, reception history, moral normativity, the intersection of man and animal, etc. To the centres of my research belong the works of the Swedish fin-de-siècle poet Gustaf Fröding and the history of the Aesopic fable in early modern Europe; in an ongoing project I investigate the role of the Roman god Mercury in early European news press. Of daily importance to me are my international networks, springing partly from working periods as Swedish lecturer at the university in Cracow and as guest researcher at the university in Munich, partly from engagement in scholarly associations such as International Reynard Society.