Research Interests

• Reproductive justice, feminist criticism, and non-motherhood
• Environmental humanities, climate fiction, and ecological antinatalism  
• Travel writing and cultural mobility studies
• African American culture and literature
• Postcolonial studies and critical race theory
• American cultural studies and popular culture

Current Research Projects

• Non-Motherhood in American Literature and Culture (postdoctoral project)
• Associate member of the interdisciplinary research training group (GRK 2726)  “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics”
• Member of the research group ReCAP – Reproduction: Critical Approaches and Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non-)Parenthood

Administrative Functions

Study advisor (American Studies) for studies abroad
Webmaster (American Studies/Prof. Paul)

Education

Dr. phil. in English and American Literature, Justus Liebig University Giessen (2020)
M.A. in International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau (2013)

Employment

Since 2023: Senior lecturer in American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2021-2023: Scientific coordinator of the “Schelling-Forum,” Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2020-2021: Research Assistant at the Department of English and American Studies, LMU Munich
2015-2019: Research Assistant at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, JLU Giessen

Fellowships, Grants, Awards

• 2026: William H. Helfand Fellowship for American Medicine, Science, and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
• 2025: Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship sponsored by the German Association for American Studies and the American Antiquarian Society (virtual fellowship)
• 2024: Dartmouth Stipend from the Bavarian American Academy for the Summer Institute “Futures of American Studies” at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
• 2023: BAA Fellowship for the 12th International Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy in Lexington, Kentucky
• 10/2019–03/2020: Doctoral completion grant, FAZIT Foundation
• 2018: Dr.-Herbert-Stolzenberg Award for Excellence in Higher Education Teaching, JLU Giessen
• 2015: Yale University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship of the Bavarian American Academy

Service to the Profession

• Representative of the non-professorial teaching staff of English and American Studies (2024–)
• Elected Member of the Council for Academic Staff, Department of English, American, and Romance Studies (2023–2025)
• Elected representative of the research management team of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in the Board of Directors (2017–2019)
• Member of the editorial team of On_Culture – The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (2016–2018)

Teaching

• Lektürekurs: American Civilization (FAU)
• Grundseminar Culture/Culture A (FAU)
• Banned Books: Freedom and Censorship in the US (FAU)
• Politics & Culture: America in the 1950s (FAU)
• Eco-Apocalypse, Extinction, and Endings in American Literature and Culture (FAU)
• American Journeys: Travel in Literary and Cultural Texts (FAU)
• Introduction to Climate Change Fiction (University of Passau)
• American Travel Writing (University of Passau)
• Slavery and Resistance in African American Literature and Culture (University of Passau and JLU Giessen)
• Introduction to Transatlantic North American Studies (JLU Giessen)

Publications