Working Title: Making Kin Beyond Blood: Poetic Belonging in 18th- and 19th-Century Lyrical Poetry

In my second book project I examine how 18th- and 19th-century lyric poetry enacts forms of kinship through practices of care, revealing how poetic texts imagine and perform relational ties – human, nonhuman, and multispecies – beyond the bounds of blood, family, and life forms.

Hybrid Workshop “Temporal Intensities: Ephemeral Media, Practices, and Archives”, First meeting of the planned Research Network “Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters”, University of Tübingen, 27.-28.10.2025.  www.ephemeralnetwork.com (funded by the Excellence Strategy)

• Poetics of Belonging Otherwise: Families, Queer Kin, and Earthly Relations (2025/26 Winter term)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (2025/26 Winter term)
• African Comics (2025 Summer term)
• Contested Irish Identities on Stage and Screen (2025 Summer Term)
• Poetics of Kinship and Coexistence in the Long Nineteenth Century (2024/25 Winter term)
• Aquatic Environments in Postcolonial Literature (2024/25 Winter term)
• Victorian Poetry (2024 Summer term)
• Writing Neighbourhood (2024 Summer term)
• Internet Aesthetics and Digital Subcultures (2023/24 Winter term)
• Sensations, Sideshows, Spectacles: Victorian Popular Culture (2023/24 Winter term)
• Real and Imagined Geographies: Literatures of the Environment (2023 Summer term)
• The Intimate Materiality of the Medium ‘Zine’: Methods, Theories, Topics (2023 Summer term)

• Fleeting Forms: Aesthetics and Theories of Ephemerality (2025/26 Winter term)

• Reading Group: Affect and Emotion in Literature and Literary Theory (2020/21 Winter term)
• Seminar: Imagined Spaces: Self and Place in Twenty-First Century Writing (2019 Summer term)
• Tutorial: Introduction to Literary Studies (2016/17 Winter term)

Monograph

• Self-Published Psychogeographies: Zines, DIY Communities and the 21st Century Drifter. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes

• “Imagining the Arctic: Visual-Verbal Representations of the Polar North in Periodicals of 19th-century Britain.“ IN VIA. Zeitschrift für historische Reisekulturforschung, vol. 1, no. 1, forthcoming 2025.
• “Drawing (from) Life: Reading Autobiographical Comics as a Form of Visual-Verbal Literacy.” Blog of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen (2023)
• “Binge Watching the World: Travel Television in the Age of Streaming.” In: Travel, Writing, and the Media: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Routledge Studies in Cultural History (2022)
• “Journeying the Page: The Psychogeography of Text and Image in the Zine.” Mobile Culture Studies Vol. 8 (Graz: University of Graz, 2020)

Reviews

• “Irmtraud Huber: Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 73, no. 1, 2025, pp. 115-118.
• “Worlds of Knowledge in Women’s Travel Writing: Edited by James Uden.” Studies in Travel Writing, vol. 27, no. 2, 2024, pp. 192-95.
   

• “Proximities of Care: More-Than-Human Domesticities as Alternative Kinships in Digital Aesthetics.” Workshop: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 31. October – 1. November 2025. (accepted)
• “Bodies on/as Paper: State Bureaucracies and the Violence of Administrative Authorship in Comics of Refugee and Displacement Experience.” International Symposium: “Files, Forms, Fictions: Literary Lives of Bureaucracy from Ledgers to Algorithms”, University of Bonn, 16.–17. October 2025
• “‘Eternal Kin’? Ephemerality, Vulnerability and Multispecies Kinship in John Clare’s Poetry.” Environmental Humanities Networking Workshop: “Fragility – Instability – Vulnerability”, University of Tübingen, 29.–30. September 2025.
• “Materiality-Aware AI? Ephemera, Ethics, and Multimodal Narrative.” Workshop: “Aligning AI with Society: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Conversation”, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 25.-26. September 2025.
• “Towards a Poetics of Proximity: Lives under Threat and the (Re-)Imagining of Kinship in (Ephemeral) Cultural-literary Practices.” Anglistiktag, University of Duisburg-Essen, 23. September 2025.
• “Penciled Proximities: Witnessing Conflict and Building Peace in Documentary Comics of the Global South.” Spring School “Proximate Worlds from the South”, Panel on Peacebuilding, 8. April 2025.
• “Travel(ling) Zines: DIY-Assemblages of Small Forms on the Move.”, Guest Lecture at the Research Group “Small Forms”, 03.07.2023, Humboldt University of Berlin
• “Printed Psychogeographies: Walking, Writing and Self-Publishing as Practices of Dissent.” Conference “Key Themes in Travel Research”, State Library Eutin, 1. June 2023.
• “Comics and Zines as Refugee Literature”, Guest lecture in the Seminar “Refugee Literature in the 21st century” (by invitation of Prof. Dr. Miriam Nandi), 13. April 2023, University of Leipzig
• “New Travel – New Media: Medialised Forms of Contemporary Travel”, Workshop talk with Barbara Korte, 15. June 2022, State Library Eutin
• “New Psychogeography.” Video-Essay im Rahmen der Summer School “Travel and Media Past and Present”, hostet by the State Library Eutin and the Graduate Research Group “New Travel – New Media”, online, 20.–21. May 2021.
• “Imagining the Arctic: Visual-Verbal Representations of the Polar North in Mid-Victorian Britain.” Conference “Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland, Iceland, Faroes”, State Library Eutin, 20.–21. September 2019.
• “Feet, Street and Concrete: Expressing Corporeality through Psychogeographical City Walks in Oliver East’s Trains Are … Mint Comics.” Conference “Body in Motion, Travelling Bodies in Anglophone Literature”, Université Paris 8/Saint-Denis, 24.–25. May 2019.
• “‘Walking Makes for Content’: Psychogeographical Walks in London between Materiality and Discourse.” Conference “Touristification of Urban Spaces”, University of Freiburg, 22. May 2019.
   

• The Cotter Scholarship, Gladstone’s Library (June 2023)
• Alumni Award for Outstanding MA Thesis, Freiburg University Alumni Association (January 2019)
• Research Scholarship, Bodleian Library/ Jesus College, University of Oxford (September 2018)
• Scheffel Award for Outstanding Achievement in German Studies, Literary Society Karlsruhe (June 2012)

• German Association for the Study of English
• German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
• Work Group Comics Studies of the German Association for Media Studies
• British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
• European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment
• Irish Studies Centre Tübingen