• Dr. phil. in Amerikanistik, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland
  Dissertation: "Reading Green in Black: Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature, 1830s-1920s"

• M.A. in Intercultural Anglophone Studies, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland

• B.A. in Germanistik, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland

• B.A. in Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland

• Contemporary North American Fiction and Film

• 19th and 20th Century U.S. Literature and Literary History

• Ethnic American Literatures

• African American Culture

• Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

• Narrative Theory

laufendes Semester: WS 2024/2025

Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (Open access)

"African American Literature, Racial Vulnerability, and the Anthropocene: Rereading W.E.B. Du Bois' The Quest of the Silver Fleece in the Twenty-First Century." JAAAS, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022 (2024), pp. 131-152. https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v4i1.152.

"Frederick Douglass, 'Niagara.'" The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, vol. 30, 2022 (2023), pp. 100-110. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48752432.

"Wenn der Mars von der Erde erzählt. The Martian als Anthropozänes Kino." Film-Konzepte, vol. 67, no. 3, 2023, pp. 65-81.

"Resisting (through) the Elements of Race: A Fugitive Humanist Reading of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik ZAA, vol. 70, no. 1, 2022, pp. 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2022-2048.

"Canines and Tricksters in Atlanta." Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama, edited by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue, University of Mississippi Press, 2024, pp. 125-138.

"Unveiling Subjection, Practicing Subjectivation: Race, Power, and Strategies of Rewriting the Self in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition." Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education: Perspectives of English Studies, edited by Marta Degani and Werner Delanoy, Narr, 2023, pp. 215-232.

"Time(s) of Race: Narrative Temporalities, Epistemic Storytelling, and the Human Species in Ted Chiang." Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikic, and Mario Grill, Routledge, 2022, pp. 39-57.

Hannes Bajohr, ed., Der Anthroposophie im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung. Ecozon@, 2022, pp. 216-218.

Christian Eilers, Paul Austers autobiographische Werke: Stationen einer Schriftstellerkarriere. JAAAS, 2022, pp. 93-96.

Konferenzvorträge

Versional Narration in African American Literature: Kiese Laymon's Long Division and Percival Everett's Telephone.
2024, International Conference on Narrative, Newcastle, UK

The Politics of Versional Narration in Contemporary African American Fiction.
2024, Recentering Form(s) in and of the Margins: The Politics of Self-Reflexivity, Brussels, Belgium

Versional Narration, Social Justice, and the Anthropocene.
2023, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Montreal, Canada

Kill me Maybe: Versional Narration and Multiplied Death in Life after Life and Russian Doll.
2022, International Conference on Narrative, Chichester, UK

The Politics and Pedagogy of Versional Narratives: On Paul Auster's 4321.
2022, Annual Meeting of the DGfA/GAAS, Tübingen, Germany

Reforming (through) the Sublime: Antebellum African Americans, Antislavery, and Niagara Falls.
2022, NCSA Conference Radicalism and Reform, Rochester, NY, United States

Underground Railroad Narratives beyond the Human.
2022, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

The Anthropocene, Race, and African American Literature.
2022, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, United States

Environmental Dimensions of the Underground Railroad.
2022, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, United States