PD Dr. Gero Bauer
Managing Director
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Center for Gender and Diversity Research
Wilhelmstr. 56 (Lothar-Meyer-Bau)
D-72074 Tübingen
Germany
Tel.: +49 7071 29 75674
E-Mail: gero.bauerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Research Interests
Victorianism, Modernism, 21st-century anglophone literature, film and series, gender and queer studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, post-/decolonial studies, literary and cultural history
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2022: Associate Professor of English, University of Tübingen
- since 2017: Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen
- 2024: Shortlisted ('Zweiter Listenplatz') for the position of Professor of English Cultural Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2023-2024: Interim Professor of English, University of Dortmund
- 2022: Habilitation at the University of Tübingen; 'venia legendi' for English Literature and Cultural Studies
- 2021: Visiting Professor at the Department of English and Scholar in Residence at the Honors College, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2017-2020: Academic Coordinator of the research training group "The Persistence of Gender Binaries"
- 2014-2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen
- 2014-2015: Visiting Researcher at the Department of English, King's College London
- 2015: Doctoral Award of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tübingen
- 2014: Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies (University of Tübingen) and Prof. Mark Turner (King's College London); summa cum laude
- 2012-2014: Doctoral Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- 2012-2014: Visiting Lecturer of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the English Department, University of Tübingen
- 2013: Visiting Researcher at the English Faculty, University of Cambridge
- 2010-2012: Freelancer at theatres and archives in Stuttgart, London, and Tübingen
- 2010: Scholar of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme
- 2008-2009: Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- 2008-2009: Research Assistant at the Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften and the English Department, University of Tübingen
- 2006-2009: Degree (Staatsexamen) in English and History, University of Tübingen
Publications
Monographs
- Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging. New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Publisher's Website
- Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. Publisher's Website
Edited Volumes
- Ed. with Nicole Hirschfelder and Fernando Resende. Un-Mapping the Global South. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. Publisher's Website
- Ed. with Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann and Lean Haug. Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. Publisher's Website
- Ed. with Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder and Katharina Luther. Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020. Publisher's Website
- Ed. with Regina Ammicht Quinn and Ingrid Hotz-Davies. Die Naturalisierung des Geschlechts: Zur Beharrlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018. Publisher's Website
Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes
- "Reading for Connection: Fictional Reading Communities in Contemporary Mulitmodal Metafiction." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) (Special Issue "Social Reading and Reading Communities in Diachronic Persective", Ed. Dorothee Birke, Helga Schwalm). [forthcoming]
- "Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality, and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees." Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage, and Screen. Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt. London: Routledge, 2025. [forthcoming]
- "Open Borders - Open Wounds: The Ambivalence of Pain and Narration in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 72.4 (2024). [forthcoming]
- "Who May Speak on Whose Behalf: Queer Representation in India." Un-Mapping the Global South. Ed. Gero Bauer, Nicole Hirschfelder, Fernando Resende. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. 116-133.
- with Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Inken Köhler, Ruth Scoralick, and Susanne Weitbrecht. "Von der Frauenbeauftragten zum Forschungszentrum: Gleichstellungspolitik, Geschlechter- und Diversitätsforschung an der Universität Tübingen." Queer durch Tübingen: Geschichten vom Leben, Lieben und Kämpfen. Ed. Evamarie Blattner, Wiebke Ratzeburg, Udo Rauch. Exhibition Catalogue. Tübingen: Universitätsstadt Tübingen. Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur, 2021. 298-303.
- with Sebastian Engelmann. "Politische Hochschuldidaktik, Queer Theory und Antidiskriminierungspraxis: Eingreifende Bemerkungen." Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Ed. Gero Bauer, Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann, Lean Haug. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. 111-127.
- "Visão glocal – mirada colonizadora: Territorialidade, corpos e afetos em Sense8." Modos de ser sul: Territorialidades, afetos e poderes. Ed. Fernando Resende, Roberto Robalinho, Diego Amaral. Rio de Janeiro: E-papers, 2020. 279-298.
- with Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Luther. "Kinship and Collective Action: A Conversation." Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Ed. Gero Bauer, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, Katharina Luther. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020. 271-286.
- with Sebastian Engelmann. "Queer(ed) Pedagogies: A Critical Perspective." Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie (ZPT) 72.1 (2020): 18-29.
- "Queere Identität und Ökonomie in den Filmen Xavier Dolans." Vom Liebespfand zur Singlebörse: Über die ökonomische Rhetorik der Liebe. Ed. Inga Baumann, Slaven Waelti. Berlin and Münster: LIT, 2019. 255-279.
- "Hope and Kinship in AMC's "The Walking Dead"." Ethik in Serie: Eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Uta Müller. Ed. Cordula Brand, Simon Meisch. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing, 2018. 121-132.
- "Die (De-)Naturalisierung von Homophobie." Die Naturalisierung des Geschlechts: Zur Beharrlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. Ed. Gero Bauer, Regina Ammicht Quinn, Ingrid Hotz-Davies. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018. 135-151.
- "The Dreadfulest and Most Universal Judgement: Natural Philosophy, Morals, and Politics in Daniel Defoe's Writings on the Great Storm of 1703." Extremwetter: Konstellationen des Klimawandels in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit. Ed. Simon Meisch, Stefan Hofer. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. 123-137.
- "'The odd and gory things in life': Roy Raz' Music Videos and Camp Aesthetics." The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina. Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Georg Vogt, Franziska Bergmann. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. 41-55.
- "Paranoid Masculinity in a Woman's Mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern Papers"." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 65.1 (2017): 19-34.
- "Marriage, Sex, and Ethics in Ursula K. Le Guin's "Unchosen Love" and "Mountain Ways"." Ethik in den Kulturen - Kulturen in der Ethik: Eine Festschrift für Regina Ammicht Quinn. Ed. Cordula Brand, Jessica Heesen, Birgit Kröber, Thomas Potthast. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2017. 213-220.
- "'The Wisdom of God': Das Erdbeben von Jamaika 1692 im Kontext von John Rays Physikotheologie." Von Amtsgärten und Vogelkojen: Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2011-2012. Ed. Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2014. 1-25.
Reviews
- Review "María J. Lopez / Pilar Villar-Argáis (eds.). Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 70.1 (2022): 115-117.
- Review "Doris Feldmann / Christian Krug (eds.). Viktorianismus: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) 39.1 (2014): 89-92.
'Grey Literature'
- "Gewalt und Begehren." Edward II. Programme. Tübingen: Zimmertheater Tübingen, 2016.
- Strafgericht Gottes oder Teil der Ordnung? Frühneuzeitliche Erdbebenliteratur im Kontext der physikotheologischen Bewegung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Zulassungsarbeit, 2009.
Conference Papers and Lectures
- 09/2024: "Das instabile 'Ich': Autosoziobiographie und queeres Erzählen"; paper at the VIIth conference of the Middle-European Association of Germanists in Bucharest, 18 - 21 Sep 2024. [invited talk]
- 09/2024: "Revisiting the 'Fleshly School': Genre and Affect in Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Legacy"; paper at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistikverband) at the University of Augsburg, 15 - 18 Sep 2024.
- 06/2024: "Facing the Present: Narrative and Critical Moods in Times of Crisis"; paper at the conference "Languages of the Anthropocene" in Rome, 18 - 20 Jun 2024. [invited talk]
- 04/2024: with Ludger Engels. "Dialog und Differenz: Ein Gespräch"; input at the conference "Across Differences: Speaking. Writing. Acting. Directing" of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research and the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg, 26 Apr 2024.
- 04/2024: "Erzähle ich von mir, erzähle ich von der Welt: Autosoziobiographie und Gegenwartsliteratur"; lecture in the Studium Generale series "Schreiben und Forschen über Grenzen und Unterschiede: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven" at the University of Tübingen, summer semester 2024.
- 11/2023: "Queer Temporality and Ideological Closure in André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name and Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles"; paper at the conference "Untimely Encounters: Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity" at the University of Giessen, 02 - 03 Nov 2023. [invited talk]
- 10/2023: "Gender Studies in Germany: 'Anti-Genderist' Challenges"; paper at the workshop "The Institutional and Cultural Contexts of Gender Studies" at Doshisha University, 07 Oct 2023.
- 09/2023: "Metafictional Materialities: Fictional Reading Communities After the Turn to Reconstruction"; paper at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistenverband) at the University of Siegen, 24 - 26 Sep 2023.
- 05/2023: "Hoffnung und Kinship in AMC's The Walking Dead"; lecture in the Studium Generale series "Ethik in TV-Serien" at the University of Tübingen, summer semester 2023. [invited talk]
- 02/2023: "Vom Genuss der Vieldeutigkeit: Queere Literatur und die Ambivalenz der (Un-)Sagbarkeit"; talk in the context of the sITZung at the Institut für Theatrale Zukunftsforschung im Zimmertheater Tübingen, 22 Feb 2023. [invited talk]
- 11/2021: "How to Get Distracted: On Interdisciplinarity"; keynote lecture at the Honors College Citation Ceremony, University of Maryland, College Park, 04 Nov 2021. [invited talk]
- 11/2021: "Less Tomorrow, More Today: Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction"; paper at the Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, 04 Nov 2021. [invited talk]
- 04/2021: "A Criticism for the Here and Now: Queer Theory, Temporality, and Contemporary Criticism"; paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, online, 08 - 11 Apr 2021.
- 11/2019: with Rebecca Hahn and Gerrit Kaschuba. "Identitätspolitiken und (Anti-)Feminismus"; input at the Gender Studies Salon of the Tübinger Institut für gender- und diversitätsbewusste Sozialforschung und Praxis (tifs), 04 Nov 2019. [invited talk]
- 09/2019: "Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality, and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees"; paper at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistenverband) at the University of Leipzig, 22 - 25 Sep 2019.
- 11/2018: "Von harten Kerlen und weichen Jungs: Cowboys und Männlichkeit"; talk in the context of the sITZung at the Institut für Theatrale Zukunftsforschung im Zimmertheater Tübingen, 21 Nov 2018. [invited talk]
- 07/2018: "Naturkatastrophen & Gottesfrage: Erdbeben aus historischer Sicht"; paper at the conference "Erdbeben. Träume: Eine Oper von Toshio Hosokawa und Marcel Beyer" of the Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg Stuttgart and Opera Stuttgart, 14 Jul 2018. [invited talk]
- 03/2018: "Affective Dystopia / Reparative Utopia: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life"; paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association at the University of California, Los Angeles, 29 Mar - 01 Apr 2018.
- 10/2017: "Glocal Vision - Colonising Gaze: Territoriality, Bodies, and Affect in Sense8"; paper at the conference "Modes of Being South: Territorialities, Affects and Powers" at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 03 - 06 Oct 2017.
- 08/2017: "Auf der dunklen Seite des Camp: Musikvideos und queere Ästhetik"; lecture at the music summer school of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Brixen, 28 Jul - 06 Aug 2017. [invited talk]
- 07/2017: "It Is Neither Good Nor Bad to 'Be Different': The Moral Value of 'Diversity'"; paper at the Tübingen Symposium on Ethics "The Value of [Not] Being Diverse" at the University of Tübingen, 24 - 26 Jul 2017.
- 05/2017: "Die Ästhetik des Camp im Musikvideo"; lecture in the series "Vorhang auf! Populäre Gender- und Diversitätsdiskurse und deren Reflexion in der Literatur" at the German Department of the University of Tübingen, summer semester 2017. [invited talk]
- 09/2016: "Giving Voice from Without: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy and Minal Hajratwala's Out! Stories from the New Queer India"; paper at the conference "Rethinking Gender from the Global South" at the Universidad National Autónoma de México, 26 - 29 Sep 2016.
- 07/2016: "Diversity in the Context of Forced Migration Studies"; paper at the International Berghof Summer School for Young Peacebuilders, Berghof Foundation Tübingen, 15 - 22 Jul 2016. [invited talk]
- 06/2016: "Sodomy and the State: Über Sexualität"; introductory talk to Christopher Marlowe's Edward II at the Zimmertheater Tübingen, 15 Jun 2016.
- 06/2016: "Passion and Power: Über das Königsbild"; introductory talk to Christopher Marlowe's Edward II at the Zimmertheater Tübingen, 14 Jun 2016.
- 12/2015: "Homophobie im Alltag"; lecture in the Studium Generale series "Gender: Aufregung um eine Analysekategorie" at the University of Tübingen, winter semester 2015/16.
- 07/2015: "Queere Identität und Ökonomie im filmischen Werk Xavier Dolans"; paper at the XXXIVth Romanistentag at the University of Mannheim, 26 - 29 Jul 2015. [invited talk]
- 05/2015: "Männlichkeit oder Männlichkeiten: Aktuelle Diskurse um das Thema 'Mann' aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive"; paper at the 5th FemFest Würzburg, 30 - 31 May 2015. [invited talk]
- 05/2014: "Paranoid Masculine Secrecy: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White"; paper at the conference "The Secret in Contemporary Theory, Society, and Culture" at the University of Kent, 30 - 31 May 2014.
- 01/2014: "Paranoid Masculinity in a Woman's Mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern Papers""; paper at the conference "Domestic Imaginaries: Homes in Literature, Film and Popular Culture" at the University of Nottingham, 21 Jan 2014.
- 11/2013: "Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: The Spatiality of Masculinity from the Gothic Novel to Henry James"; paper at the Doktorandenforum of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) in Cologne, 11 - 14 Nov 2013.
- 10/2013: "The Failure to Perform: Unliveable Masculinities in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret"; paper at the winter school "Exploring Texts: Literary Figurations of Failure" at the University of Tübingen, 11 - 12 Oct 2013.
Teaching
- WiSe 2024/25: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Literature of the Fin de Siècle"
- SuSe 2024: Lecture course Literature / Cultural Studies "British Literary and Cultural Avant-Gardes: 1850-1950"
- WiSe 2023/24: Seminar (graduate) Literature and Culture Didactics "Teaching Queer Young Adult Fiction" (Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Dortmund)
- WiSe 2023/24: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Cruel Britannia: In-Yer-Face Theatre on Page and Stage" (Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Dortmund)
- WiSe 2023/24: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "E. M. Forster: The Novels" (Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Dortmund)
- WiSe 2023/24: Seminar (undergraduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "British Modernism and the Short Story" (Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Dortmund)
- SuSe 2023: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "The Pre-Raphaelites: Poetry - Art - Crtiticism"
- SuSe 2023: Seminar "Diversity - Subjectivity - Storytelling" (in the context of the summer semester kick-off "Living Diversity" of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg)
- WiSe 2022/23: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies / Classical Archaeology "Queer Antiquity and Modern Reception" (with Stefan Krmnicek)
- SuSe 2022: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Ecofiction and Ecocriticism"
- WiSe 2021/22: Seminar (advanced undergraduate - level 300) Literature "Queer Modernisms" (Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park)
- WiSe 2021/22: Seminar (advanced undergraduate - level 200) "Queer Outlooks in Contemporary Theory and Fiction" (Honors College, University of Maryland, College Park)
- WiSe 2020/21: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Trauma and Literature"
- SuSe 2019: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature "The Story as Narcissist: Contemporary Metafiction"
- WiSe 2018/19: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the 21st Century"
- WiSe 2017/18: Seminar "Failure: A Queer Art?" (in the context of the workshop "There Is No Success Like Failure" of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation [Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes])
- SuSe 2017: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Cultural Studies "Queer Theory and Its 'Others'" (with Zairong Xiang)
- WiSe 2016/17: Seminar "Approaching Diversity in European Literature and Culture" (in the context of the International & European Studies Program at the University of Tübingen)
- SuSe 2016: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "The Shakespearean Tragedy"
- WiSe 2015/16: Seminar (graduate) Literature / Cultural Studies / Ethnology "Living in the In-Between: Liminality in Literature and Culture" (with Stefanie Kicherer)
- SuSe 2015: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature "The Modernist Short Story"
- SuSe 2014: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature "'Preaching to the Nerves': Victorian Sensation Fiction"
- WiSe 2012/13: Seminar (undergraduate) Literature "Introduction to Literary Studies"
- SuSe 2012: Seminar (advanced undergraduate) Literature / Cultural Studies "Constructing Queer Sexual Identities in 20th Century Literature and Culture" (with Susanne Jung; supported by the TEAching Equality Program of the Equal Opportunities Office at the University of Tübingen)
Committee Work
- 2023-2025: Elected deputy member of the Academic Senate, University of Tübingen
- 2022-2025: Elected deputy member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Academic Senate, University of Tübingen
- 2021-2022: Elected deputy member of the Academic Senate, University of Tübingen
- 2019-2022: Elected full member of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Academic Senate, University of Tübingen
Academic Memberships
- German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistikverband)
- European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
- German Association for American Studies (GAAS)
- German Gender Studies Association (Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien)
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS), University of Tübingen
Referee Work
- since 2013: Committee member at selection workshops of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- 2024: Reviewer for the Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien (fzg)
- 2024: Reviewer for Czytanie Literatury
- 2022: Reviewer for the Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA)
- 2021: Reviewer for the Internet Policy Review (special issue "Feminist Data Protection")
- 2019: Reviewer for Verge: Creative Writing
- 2019: Reviewer for TATuP: Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
- 2018: Reviewer for Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique
- 2018: Reviewer for the Open Gender Journal
- 2017: Reviewer for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) P.R.I.M.E. programme (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience)
Event Organisation, Chairing, Panelist, Discussant
- 04/2024-07/2024: Organisation and Chair - "Schreiben und Forschen über Grenzen und Unterschiede: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research in the context of the Studium Generale, Summer Semester 2024.
- 06/2024: Organisation und Moderation - "(Non-)Reproductive Matters: Global Perspectives on Religion, Gender and Procreation", international conference of the Center for Gender and Divesity Research, the Center for Religion, Culture and Society, the Methods Center at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, and the Global Encounters Platform, 12 - 14 June 2024.
- 04/2024: Organisation and Chair - "Across Differences: Speaking. Writing. Acting. Directing", conference of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research and the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg, 26 Apr 2024.
- 04/2023-07/2023: Organisation and Chair - "Gender und Diversität in der Medizin: Perspektiven aus den Madical Humanities", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research in the context of the Studium Generale, Summer Semester 2023.
- 04/2022-07/2022: Organisation and Chair - "Gender und Diversität als Forschungszugänge: Beiträge zur Versachlichung der Diskussion", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research in the context of the Studium Generale, Summer Semester 2022.
- 05/2022: Chair - Panel "Beyond Homing" and Screening "Era o Hotel Cambridge", "Haunted by Homes", symposium of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, and TRAVESSIA at Universidade Federal Fluminense, 05-06 May 2022.
- 10/2021: Discussant - "America's Black Queer History", Head-to-Head: A Meeting of Inspired Minds, event of the American Academy in Berlin, in cooperation with the Evanglisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart and the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum Stuttgart, 13 Oct 2021.
- 07/2020: Organisation, Chair and Panelist - Panel "Pagers, Zines, and Dating Apps: Queer Community Media and Health Communication in China", "Wellbeing and Subjectivities across the Global South", international forum of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 09 Jul 2020.
- 12/2019: Organisation and Chair - "Literatures and Cultures of Homes in the Making", international workshop of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, and the Department of English Language and Literature, Alexandria University, 12 - 14 Dec 2019; funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
- 10/2018-01/2019: Organisation and Chair - "Diskriminierung / Antidiskriminierung", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the Department of Education, and adis e.V. in the context of the Studium Generale, Winter Semester 2018/19.
- 12/2018: Organisation, Chair and Panelist - Panel "Facing Trouble: (Anti-)Queer Cosmopolitanisms", "Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend", international conference of the research training group "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" (University of Potsdam, HU Berlin, FU Berlin) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 06 - 08 Dec 2018.
- 11/2018: Organisation and Chair - "Strata of Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture", international conference of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the Department of English, 08 - 09 Nov 2018.
- 09/2017: Organisation and Chair - "Getting to Know Diversity: Ethnographie und ihre Grenzen", international summer school of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 14 - 15 Sep 2017; supported by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, ZUK 63).
- 05/2017-07/2017: Organisation and Chair - "Stimmen aus der 'Muslimischen Welt': Gender, Kunst und Aktivismus / Voices from the 'Muslim World': Gender, Art and Activism", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Summer Semester 2017; supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
- 07/2017: Organisation and Chair - "Vorhang auf! Zur Popularisierung von Diversitätsdiskursen in Drama und Theater", workshop of the German Department and the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 12 Jul 2017.
- 02/2017: Organisation and Chair - "Women in Phoenician Society", workshop of the Institute for Classical Archaeology, and the Center for Gender and Diversity Research in the context of the TEA Visiting Professorship, 23 Feb 2017.
- 07/2016: Organisation and Chair - "Re-Ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement", international summer school of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the CRC 923 "Threatened Order", and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen), 04 - 08 Jul 2016.
- 06/2016: Chair - Panel "Reproduction", "The Ontology of the Couple", symposium at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 09 - 10 Jun 2016.
- 10/2015-02/2016: Organisation and Chair - "Gender: Aufregung um eine Analysekategorie", lecture series of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the Queere Hochschulgruppe Tübingen in the context of the Studium Generale, Winter Semester 2015/16.
- 01/2016: Organisation and Chair - "The Future of Diversity? Approaches, Intersections, Innovations", international winter school of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 14 - 15 Jan 2016; supported by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, ZUK 63).
- 12/2015: Organisation and Chair - "Confronting Gender and Faith", international conference of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 10 - 11 Dec 2015.
- 03/2015: Organisation and Chair - "'Ich glaube an Mann und Frau': Geschlecht als Glaubenssystem?", workshop of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, 02 - 03 Mar 2015.
- 11/2013: Organisation and Chair - "Kollektion, Kreation, Kakophonie: Wissensgenerierende Prozesse im Spannungsfeld zwischen Material und Methode", graduate conference of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tübingen, 23 Nov 2013; supported by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, ZUK 63).