In my second book project I am exploring modes of belonging and making kin within and beyond consanguinity in 18th and 19th century poetry, including multispecies and more-than-human kinships. 

“Ephemeral Encounters and Epistemologies”, Hybrid Workshop at the University of Tübingen, October 27, 2025. Call for Papers available here: www.ephemeralnetwork.com

• African Comics (2025 Summer term)
• Contested Irish Identities on Stage and Screen (2025 Summer Term)
• 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)

• 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)

• Self-Published Psychogeographies: Zines, DIY Communities and the 21st Century Drifter. Palgrave Macmillan, 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 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)

• “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

• 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)

• 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