Publications

Monographs

‘Taking Back Control’ of the Nation and Its History? Contemporary Fiction’s Engagement with Nostalgia in Brexit Britain. Paderborn: Brill | Fink, 2023.

 

Edited Volumes

Das unheimliche Venedig. Edited by Sahar Daryab, Jörn Glasenapp, Dennis Henneböhl, Claudia Lillge. Paderborn, Brill | Fink, 2025 (forthcoming).

 

Essays and Articles

Articles

“Negotiating between Traditional Irishness and Modern Global Identities: Narratives of Glocal Irish Community in Contemporary Fiction.” Anglistik, vol. 36, no. 1, 2025 (forthcoming).

“Exploiting Britain’s Imperial History: The Polarising Effects of the British Culture War and the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Rhetoric.” AMNIS – Revue d’études des sociétés et cultures contemporaines, Special Issue 5, 2024 (with Matthias Göhrmann).

“The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet.” Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 3, 2023.

“Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Cosmopolitan Elite’? – The Brexit Novel’s Engagement with New Class Discourses.” Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 1, 2023.

“Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019 (with Merle Tönnies).

 

Book Contributions

“Nostalgic Narratives about Britain’s Post-War Decline in the Netflix Series The Crown.” Welcome to Retrotopia? Placing Visions of ‘Britishness’ in the Long Twentieth Century, edited by Julia Wiedemann. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2025 (forthcoming).

“Venedig als Stadt der Geister und Alchemie in Wilkie Collins’ The Haunted Hotel.” Das Unheimliche Venedig, edited by Sahar Daryab, Jörn Glasenapp, Dennis Henneböhl, and Claudia Lillge. Paderborn: Brill | Fink, 2025 (forthcoming).

“Instrumentalising National Identity and Adapting Nostalgia in Current British Political Rhetoric: Imagining National Futures.” (Re-)Imagining Britain: Present, Past and Future, edited by Lisa Suckert, Merle Tönnies, and Richard Toye. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025 (with Merle Tönnies) (forthcoming).

“Utopian Past and Dystopian Present? Nostalgia in Brexit Britain.” 21st-Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre, edited by Merle Tönnies and Eckart Voigts. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

 

Shorter Texts

Reviews

“Benjamin Kohlmann (2021), British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 30, no. 1, 2023.

 

Conference Reports

“Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, March 11–13, 2021.” Utopian Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2022 (with Luciana Tamas).