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• Since 2019| Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the Chair for English Literary Studies, University of Augsburg
• 2024| 2-month stay as visiting scholar at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
• 2019| PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude), University of Augsburg (Dissertation: “The Fiction of Infinity: Ethics in the Contemporary Novel”)
• 2013| State exam (teaching degree) in English and mathematics
• 2007-2013| Undergraduate/graduate studies at the University of Augsburg and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne: English (literature and linguistics), mathematics and educational science

Scholarships and Awards

• 2022| Prize of the Société internationale des recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité (Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality) for the best paper presented by an early career researcher
• 2021| Doctoral Dissertation Award (German Association for the Study of English / Deutscher Anglistikverband)
• 2019| PhD dissertation award, Augsburg University Foundation (Wissenschaftspreis der Universitätsstiftung Augsburg)

• 2008-2013| Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• 2007-2013| Max Weber-Program of the State of Bavaria

Post-doc project: Metaphysical Intensities: Affect and Poetic Matter in 17^th-Century Poetry.

Edited collection (co-edited with Martin Middeke): Handbook of Literary Ethics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025 (Handbooks of English and American Studies). Forthcoming.

• 17th-century poetry / metaphysical poetry
• affect theory
• literary ethics
• environmental humanities
• contemporary Anglophone narrative fiction
• contemporary British drama
• narratology

• "Narrative Infinity: Conceptual and Aesthetic Preconditions." Narrative 2024. Newcastle upon Tyne, 19 April 2024.

• “Textual Performances of Affect in John Donne.” Reception and Emotion: The Thirteenth Biennial ANZAMEMS Conference, Perth / online, 27-30 June 2022.

• “Impossible Fictions of Infinity: Reading Beyond Boundaries in 21st-Century Novels.” Impossible Fictions. 2nd International Congress of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies / Société internationale d’études sur la fiction et la fictionnalité (ISFFS/SIRFF). Chicago, 2–5 March 2022. [Awarded with the ISFFS/SIRFF Prize]

• [with Leila Michelle Vaziri:] “Ecology in a Loop: Cyclical History and Alternative Epistemologies in Ella Hickson’s Oil.” Anticipatory Environmental Histories. Online, 24-25 February 2022.

• “Ecology and the Ethical Milieu: Reading Contemporary Eco-Drama with Levinas.” Philosophy and Literature Symposium. University College Dublin, 8 October 2021.

• [with Martin Middeke]: "Critical Theatre Ecologies: Opening Remarks." CDE Conference: Critical Theatre Ecologies. Augsburg, 3 June 2021.

• “Satire, Revolution and the Problem of Staging Dissensus: Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. and Marlene Streeruwitz’s Mar-a-Lago. oder. Neuschwanstein.” Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century. Charles University Prague, 5–6 February 2021.

• [with Eva Ries:] “This Narrator Nothing Affirmeth, Therefore He Lieth? Constructions of (Un)Truth in Teju Cole’s Open City.” Lying and Related Fictions. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15–16 February 2019.

• Panel Chair: Panel on "Tragedy and Cultural Revisions". Tragedy in American Drama and Theater: Genre, Mediality, Ethics. Universität Augsburg, 1-3 June 2017.

• [with Korbinian Stöckl:] "The Aesthetics of Materiality in debbie tucker green’s Cosmopolitan Plays." GAPS Conference: The Postcolonial and the Material. Augsburg, 5 May 2016.

• [with Korbinian Stöckl:] "Cosmopolitan Mobilization in debbie tucker green’s Theatre." CDE Conference: Theater and Mobility. Eichstätt, 29 May 2016.

• Panel Chair: Panel on „Genre/s in Poetry”. Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre. Universität Augsburg, 1-3 October 2015.

• “Vulnerability and Precariousness in David Greig’s The Events.” University of Barcelona, 16 September 2014.