since 03/2023: Assistant Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Tübingen
07/2023: PhD (English Literature), University of Freiburg
10/2018 – 12/2022: PhD student at Graduate Research Group “New Travel – New Media”, University of Freiburg
09/2018: Research Scholarship at the Bodleian Library and Jesus College, Oxford University
10/2016 – 08/2018: Master of Arts in British and North American Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg (with distinction from the Alumni Association)
10/2012 – 09/2016: Bachelor of Arts in English and American Studies, University of Freiburg and Ulster University, Northern Ireland
Research Interests
Space, Travel and Mobility in Literature
Kinship and Modes of Being-In-Relation
19th-Century Poetry
Media Aesthetics and Intermediality
Autobiography and Life Writing
New Materialisms and Posthumanism
Ephemera (Zines, Digital Ephemera, etc.)
Teaching
University of Tübingen (Seminars)
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)
University of Freiburg
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)
Awards and Scholarships
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)
Publications
Self-Published Psychogeographies: Zines, DIY Communities and the 21st Century Drifter. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2024.
“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 2024.
“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)
Papers
“Travel(ling) Zines: DIY-Assemblages of Small Forms on the Move”, Lecture at the Research Group “Small Forms”, 3. July 2023, Humboldt University of Berlin
“Printed Psychogeographies: Walking, Writing and Self-Publishing as Practices of Dissent”, Paper at the Conference “Key Themes in Travel Research, 1. June 2023, State Library Eutin
“Comics and Zines as Refugee Literature”, Guest lecture in the Seminar “Refugee Literature in the 21st century” (Prof. Dr. Miriam Nandi), 13. April 2023, University of Leipzig
“New Travel – New Media: Medialised Forms of Contemporary Travel”, Workshop talk with Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte, 15. June 2022, State Library Eutin
“New Psychogeography”, Paper in the form of a video-essay at the Summer School “Travel and Media Past and Present”, 20.-21. May 2021, hosted by the State Library Eutin and the Graduate Research College “New Travel – New Media”, Online
“Imagining the Arctic: Visual-Verbal Representations of the Polar North in Mid-Victorian Britain”, Conference “Representations of the West Nordic Isles: Greenland, Iceland, Faroes”, 20.-21. September 2019, State Library Eutin
“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”, 24-25 May 2019, Université Paris 8/Saint Denis
“‘Walking Makes For Content’: Psychogeographical Walks in London between Materiality and Discourse”, Conference “Touristification of Urban Spaces”, 22-24 May 2019, University of Freiburg
“Breaking Self-Surveillance through Psychogeography (in the Comics of Oliver East)” at the Master Student Workshop “Experiencing Surveillance in Fiction and Theory”, 9 June 2018, University of Freiburg
Memberships
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
