since 2023: Assistant Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Tübingen
07/2023: PhD (English Literature), University of Freiburg
2018 – 2022: Research Fellow at Graduate Research Group “New Travel – New Media”, University of Freiburg
Studied Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies and German Literature at the University of Freiburg, with periods of study at Ulster University and the University of Oxford (Jesus College).
Research Interests
Kinship and Modes of Being-In-Relation
Spaces, Borders and Embodied Mobilities (esp. Walking)
Media Cultures, Graphic Narratives and Intermediality (esp. in Comics, Social Media)
Ephemerality and Minor Forms (Zines, Digital Ephemera, Street Art)
Environmental Humanities, Posthuman/More-than-Human Bodies, and Affective Ecologies
Postcolonial Literatures (esp. Irish and Northern Irish)
Autobiography (Life Narratives of Trauma, Precarity and Disaster)
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)
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.
