since 2021
Research assistant for Cultural Studies at University of Rostock

2018-2021
Scholarshipholder of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Sachsen-Anhalt

2018-2021
Lecturer at the department of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

2017-2024
PhD student at the department of English Literary and Cultural Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

November 2017
Winner of the faculty award 2016/17: Best Graduates
  
2014-2017
Master’s degree English Literary and Cultural Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
  
2012-2013
Bachelor’s study course English Literature, Bath Spa University, Great Britain
  
2010–2014
Bachelor’s degree English Literary and Cultural Studies and European History, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

My current research project (Habilitationsprojekt) investigates different material artifacts (e.g., dolls, period products, reproductive technologies, and medical instruments) and how they shape cultural conceptions of femininity and the female body.

In 2024, I defended my dissertation, which provides a critical study of how Anglo-American wildlife and nature documentaries mediate environmental crises and their particular materialities.

My research interests include

• Anglophone Cultural Studies
• Environmental Humanities
• Material Culture Studies
• Gender and Feminist Studies
• film and other visual media
• zombies, vampires, post-disaster narratives, and the horror genre

Articles

"Of Immortal Heroes and Decaying Flesh: Heroes, Zombies, and Last Men in the Corona Pandemic and Other Crises." Theorising Zombiism II, edited by Linda Flored and Conor Heffernan. University of Wales Press, forthcoming in 2024.

with Kylie Crane, "Zwischen idyllischen Seerosen und gefräßigen Krokodilen: Val Plumwoods Reflektionen übers Beutesein und gefressen werden im Kontext des New Nature Writing." Welche Natur? Und welche Literatur? Zu Perspektiven des Nature Writing in Zeiten des Anthropozän, edited by Tanja van Hoorn und Ludwig Fischer. Springer, 2023.

"Controlling and Liberating the Womb: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Overpopulation, Reproductive Technologies, and Anti-Natalism." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30.2 (2023): 193-209.

“Lonely Futures? From the Last Man to Posthuman Collectivity.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 7 (2020): 51-72.

Reviews

Rev. of Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology, by Roman Bartosch. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 27.2 (2020).

Rev. of The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, and Wang Chi, and New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetry, and Documentary Theory, by Dara Waldron. MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2019): 421-24.

Rev. of Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction, by Lars Schmeink. MEDIENwissenschaft 2-3 (2018): 208-10.

Presentations

“Visual Technologies as Extractivist Practice: Media and Matter in the Anthropocene.” Workshop Cultural Studies and the Nonhuman, Universität Leipzig, 21.-22. April 2023.

“Inhabiting Virtual Environments: Representations of the Ocean on Google Earth.” Workshop Critical Uninhabitations, Universität Rostock, 23.-25.Juni 2022.

„Die Studierendenkonferenz als alternative Prüfungsform.“ Weiterbildungsseminar der BritCult, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, 06.-07. Mai 2022. 

“Of Immortal Heroes and Decaying Flesh: The Abject Body of the Zombie as a Counter Narrative to the Pandemic-Hero.” Conference Theorizing Zombiism II: Undead Again, University of Gothenburg (Schweden), 29.-31. Juli 2021

„Empathetic Encounter or Naive Encounter? Timothy Treadwell in Werner Herzog’s Drama Documentary Grizzly Man.” Gastvortrag. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 9. Januar 2020.

„Vorstellung des Dissertationsprojektes Screened Encounters: The Nature Documentary in the Anthropocene.” Postgraduierten Forum der BritCult. Universität Hildesheim, 21. November 2019.

„Environmental Hollywood: Ecocritical Perspectives on Film.” campusdateLIVE. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 2. Juni 2018.

“Posterpräsentation Documenting the Anthropocene: The Nature Documentary in the 21st Century.” Forschungsmesse der Fakultät für Humanwissenschaft. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, 23. Mai 2018.

Wintersemester 2024/25
Contructing and Controlling Black, Female, Disabled, and Animal Bodies in the Long 19th Century (University of Rostock)
Enigmatic Depths: Exploring Human Interactions with Aquatic Environments (University of Rostock)
Grundkurs: Introduction to Cultural Studies (University of Rostock)

Summersemester 2024
Cultures of Contagion: Diseases, Viruses, and Pandemics in the Cultural Imagination (University of Rostock)

Wintersemester 2023/24
Constructing of Children and Childhood Grundschule (University of Rostock)

Summersemester 2023
Constructing and Controlling Black, Female, Disabled, and Animal Bodies in the Long 19th Century, BATS (University of Rostock)

Wintersemester 2022/23
Suicidal Lemmings, Man-Eating Bears, and Motherly Cheetahs: Animals in Documentaries (University of Rostock)

Summersemester 2022
Mudbloods, Noughts, and Mockingjays: Constructions of Race, Class, Gender, and Species in Young Adult Fiction (University of Rostock)

"I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way!" - Heroes and Superheroes in American Popular Culture (University of Rostock)

Wintersemester 2021/22
Encounters with the Undead: The Zombie Imagination as a Reflection of Crises and Anxieties (University of Rostock)

Summersemester 2021
Woman in Visual Culture (University of Rostock)

Wintersemester 2020/21
Post-Human, Post-Capital, Post-Apocalypse: The World in Atwoods MaddAddam Trilogy (OVGU Magdeburg)
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Cultural Engineering (OVGU Magdeburg)

Summersemester 2020
Ecocritical Perspectives on Monsters and Monstrosity (OVGU Magdeburg)
Student Conference Imagining the Monster and the City in Contemporary Fantasy and Horror (OVGU Magdeburg)

Wintersemester 2019/20
The Human, Non-Human, and Posthuman (OVGU Magdeburg)
Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten (OVGU Magdeburg)

Wintersemester 2018/19
Why Look at Animals? Exploring Magdeburg Zoo (OVGU Magdeburg)

Summersemester 2018
Eco-Desaster Narratives: Fiction in the Anthropocene (OVGU Magdeburg)

Wintersemester 2016/17
Tutorium "Introduction to Cultural Studies" (OVGU Magdeburg)