Current Ph.D. project: “(In)Sanitary Science. The Discourse of Mental Hygiene as Tacit Knowledge in Antebellum Literature”
Literary Theory
History of Knowledge/Knowledge Production in Literature and Science
Mythology and Mythopoeia
Gothic Fiction
Medicine and Literature
CV
Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies (since October 2016)
Fellow of AriadnePhil mentoring program, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (since 2016)
Participant of the BAA Summer Academy on “Material Cultures” (Miami, 2016)
Doctoral fellow of the DFG graduate program 1718 “Presence and Tacit Knowledge” (since 2015)
Studied German Philology, Comparative Literature, Book Studies, and English Literary Studies at University of Vienna, Johannes Gutenberg- University of Mainz, and University of Aberdeen (2010-2014)
Memberships
Member of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and the forum for postgraduates (PGF) of the DGfA (since 2015)
Member of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society (since 2015)
“The Battle for Authority: Literary and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America.” HCA Spring Academy 2017, Heidelberg (March 2017)
“Timeless Madness? Temporal Strands of a Literary Topos.” (De-)Konstruktionen von Zeitlichkeit: Optimierung – Wahrnehmung – Erzählung, Konferenz des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 1718 „Präsenz und implizites Wissen“, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Oct. 2016)
“Self-Help and Self-Improvement: The Reception of Phrenology and Neuroscience.” Neurocultures: Brain Imaging and Imagining the Mind, Department of English Studies, University of Bielsko-Biala (Sept. 2016)
“Phrenology and the Mind-Body Problem in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Body and Pseudoscience in the Long Nineteenth Century, Newcastle University (June 2016)
“A Strange Sympathy betwixt Soul and Body“ – Material(ist) Psychiatry in The Scarlet Letter.” Material Cultures, BAA Summer Academy, Miami (June 2016)
“The Politics of Madness – Psychiatry as a Tool of Social and Self-Control.” Defining and Defying the Concept of Deviance and Degeneration in the British Isles and North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Journée d’études, Université Lyon II (Jan. 2016)
“Heredity and Insanity in The Scarlet Letter.” Annual Postgraduate Conference of the German Association of American Studies, University of Bamberg (Nov. 2015)
“Domesticity as a Cure for Mental Illness in The House of the Seven Gables.” Homeliness, Domesticity, and Security in American Culture, Polish Association for American Studies, University of Warsaw (Sept. 2015)
Teaching
Antebellum (Pseudo) Science and Literature (Undergraduate Seminar)
