Academic Pathway

• Doctor of Arts, English Literature (University of Tubingen)

April 2024 onwards

PhD Project: Disgust and the Language of Belonging

The dissertation is placed at the intersection of (working) class politics and affect studies. It aims to interrogate how language and narratives around disgust reveal the inner workings of the psyche as it relates to identity, enabling a more nuanced understanding of disgust through texts which illuminate identities in crisis, and the transformative journeys through the engagement with disgust.

• Master of Arts, Literary and Cultural Theory (University of Tubingen)

Master Thesis:
In Search of Meaning: Mapping Frames of Cultural Memory Formation in News After George Floyd’s Extrajudicial Killing

Grade – 1.30

April 2020 – January 2024 

• Bachelor of Arts, English and Japanese Studies (University of Tubingen)

Fields of Academic Interest and Research

• Affect Studies, New Materialism
• Fascist Studies
• Queer and Gender Studies
• Critical Media Literacy and Media Pedagogy
• Fantasy and Sci-Fi Literature
• US American and Japanese Popular Culture

Recent Courses 

• Gender Identities and Cultures
• News and Media Literacy
• Game of Stereotypes: Representations in Media