Her research focuses on slavery and forensic theatricality in the early Spanish empire, the development of human rights, alternative visions of European modernity, world literature seen from the Spanish empire etc. She has an extensive network within the study of human rights and literature, colonialism and slavery and early modernity.

Anne Sophie’s research focuses on early modern literature and drama – especially Shakespeare – and on the history of emotion. She has worked on compassion, melancholy and other emotions and their expression in early modern culture. She also works on the reception of classical antiquity in the early modern period and on contemporary receptions of Shakespeare, including in contemporary teaching contexts and public engagement. She has appeared on Danish and British TV programmes and regularly gives talks in different contexts.