Dr. Davina Höll

Intersectional Perspectives on Medicine and Life Sciences, Medical Humanities (Pandemics, Microbiome Studies, Reproduction),  North American/British/German Literatures/Cultures/Media of the 19th-21st Centuries, Gothic Studies, More-Than-Human Studies, Environmental Humanities, Transfer of Science and Society, Popular Culture/Popular Science

• since 2024: Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Certificate “Gender and Diversity” at the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen
• since 2024: Lecturer at the English Department, University of Tübingen
• since 2024: Associate member of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
• since 2024: Sub-Project Leader (PI) of the project “Troubled Waters - Fluid Knowledges: Indigenous Ecocritical Approaches towards Epistemologies of Water in Times of Climate Change”, research initiative Rheinland-Pfalz
• since 2023: Coordinator of the German-American Exchange Program of the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
• since 2023: Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI), University of Tübingen
• 2023: Certificate for University Didactics (Baden-Württemberg Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik)
• 2022-2024: Research Associate (Assistant Professor) at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
• 2021-2022: Lecturer at the English Department, University of Tübingen
• 2021-2022: Deputy Member of the Ethics Committee of the Baden-Württemberg Medical Association
• 2021-2022: Clinical Ethics Consultant at the University Hospital of Tübingen
• 2021-2023: Sub-project Leader (PI) of the Cluster of Excellence 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI), sub-project “The Popular Microbiome”, University of Tübingen
• 2021: Certification as Ethics Adviser in Health Care (Zertifizierung als Ethikberaterin im Gesundheitswesen: K1, Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin)
• 2020-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher of the Cluster of Excellence 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI), University of Tübingen
• 2017-2019: PhD Student at the Interdisciplinary DFG Research Training Group “Life Sciences - Life Writing”, University of Mainz
• 2017-2019: DFG Research Training Group Fellowship “Life Sciences - Life Writing”, University of Mainz
• 2014: M.A. German Literature, University of Marburg
• 2011: B.A. European Literatures, University of Marburg

Monographs

• Das Gespenst der Pandemie. Politik und Poetik der Cholera in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2021. Publisher's Website

Edited Volumes

• Ed. with Mita Banerjee. Special Forum: Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2023. Publisher's Website
• Ed. with Leonie Bossert. Special Issue: The Microbiome and its Challenges for the Environmental Humanities. Endeavour, 2022. Publisher's Website

Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes

• with Leonie Bossert. „On the Values of Microbes: An Ethical Investigation of Relational Values Associated with the Microbial World." People and Nature. Volume 7, Issue 2, 2025. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70007.
• "'Vollkommene Organismen': The Beginnings of a Literary Imagination of the Microbiome." The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Health Humanities in German Studies. Ed. Stephanie M. Hilger. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 405-419.
• with Leonie Bossert. "Narrating the Pandemic Trias - Uncanny Imaginations of Microbe, Animal, and Human Entanglements." Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics. Ed. Heike Härting and Heather Meek, London: Routledge, 2024. 233-250.
• with Mita Banerjee. "Introduction. Diagnosing Migrant Experience: Medical Humanities and Transnational American Studies." Special forum of Journal for Transnational American Studies 14.2 (2023): 71-90.
• "Migration in Times of Pandemic: Mark Twain's Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes." special forum of Journal for Transnational American Studies 14.2 (2023): 141-164.
• "Translating Microbiomic Thinking across Time, Space and Genre." The Polyphony (2023).
  "'Perfect Scene of Horror': Cholera, Race, and Pandemic Injustice in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)." American Studies 67.4 (2022): 437-455.
• "The Specter of the Pandemic: Politics and Poetics of Cholera in 19th-Century Literature - An Introduction." Journal of Transnational American Studies 13.2 (2022): 51-91.
• with Leonie Bossert. "Introducing the Microbiome: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." Endeavour 46.1-2 (2022): 100817.
• with Leonie Bossert. "'What would a microbe say?': Shifting paradigms through multispecies knowledge." Multiple Knowledges. Learning from/with Other Beings. Ed. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec and Paweł Piszczatowski. Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies, 2022. 103-118.
• "Mikrobiom und Ethik" Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg 76.6 (2021): 320-323.
• "Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature." Haunted Nature. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. 21-42.
• with et al. "Universitäre Medizin in Mainz: Eine kurze Geschichte von Rationalitäten, Mentalitäten und Institutionen". 75 Jahre Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz in der Demokratischen Gesellschaft. Ed. Georg Krausch, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2021. 180-191.
• "Zu Einer Ethik der Ästhetik in Pandemischen Zeiten." Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8.1 (2021): 181-208.
• "‘Der Tod ist hundertfach in jedem Mundvoll Luft, den wir einatmen’: Unheimliche Grenzgänge zwischen Mensch und Umwelt. ‘Ecogothic’ in Ricarda Huchs Erinnerungen von Ludolf Ursleu dem Jüngeren." Das (Un)Menschliche im Menschen. Zu einer anthropologischen Thematik in der Literatur von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Agnieszka Haas. Starogard Gdański: STUDIA GERMANICA GEDANENSIA, 2019, 218-227.
• "Das ‚orientalische Gespenst’ im Labor Lyrik. Lyrik der Cholera im 19. Jahrhundert." Lyrik und Medizin. Eds. Florian Steger and Katharina Fürholzer. Heidelberg: Winter-Verlag, 2019. 41-61.
• "Berthold Auerbach und Walter Scott. Studien zu Berthold Auerbachs Romandebüt ‘Spinoza’" Literaturkritik.de 14.3 (2012): 118-122.
• "Berthold Auerbauch und Walter Scott. Studien zu Berthold Auerbachs Romandebüt ‘Spinoza’". Das Berthold Auerbach-Projekt. Ed. Jutta Osinski. Marburg: Literaturwissenschaft.de, 2012. 55-78.

Reviews

•  "Review of Gut Anthro. An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes by Amber Benezra." Anthropos. International  Review of Anthropology and Linguistics, Bd. 119 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 616–18.