2024 PhD (Dr. phil.) in British Literature, University of Rostock; title of dissertation: "'Something to do with polar bears': Climate Crisis in 21st-Century British Fiction" (publication in preparation)

2006 University of East Anglia, UK: M.A. Studies in Fiction
  
2005 Universität Rostock: B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik & Romanistik

• literary representations of contemporary crises
• ecocriticism and econarratology; climate change fiction
• marginalised voices in children's literature
• picturebooks and critical literacy

WS 2025/26
Proseminar: Anticipating Disaster, Living through Crisis: Sarah Moss's Fiction
Proseminar: Children's Literature and Critical Literacy: An Introduction to Literary Studies (LA Grundschule)  

WS 2024/25
Proseminar: Analysing Picturebooks: Themes, Perspectives, Criticism (LA Grundschule)
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies
Übung: Teaching (With) Pictureboosk: Context, Competences, Criticism

SS 2024
Hauptseminar: Spaces of Encounters and Exclusion: Gardens in Contemporary British Novels

WS 2023/24
Proseminar: Of Gentle Dragons and Fierce Princesses: Literary Representations of (Not) Fitting In
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies

SS 2023
Hauptseminar: The Doomstead in Climate Change Fiction: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives
Grundkurs: Introduction to Literary Studies

WS 2022/23
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

WS 2021/22
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

SS 2021
Proseminar: “Wait till your father gets home”? Family Constellations, Class and ‘the norm’ in English Literature
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

SS 2020
Proseminar: Simple texts, Complex issues? Genres, the Climate Crisis, and the Classroom.
Kolloquium: Berufsvorbereitendes Lektüremodul (Lehramt an Regionalen Schulen und an Gymnasien

WS 2019/20
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

SS 2019
Proseminar: The Secret Garden: Applying and Exploring Race, Class, Gender and Eco-Criticism

WS 2017/18
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Reading the 'Uber-novel': David Mitchell's Fiction

SS 2017
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Bursting the Bubble? Confronting Bigotry in British Literature

WS 2016/17
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: "The eigth story": Potter on Stage 

WS 2015/16
Proseminar: A Study of British Short Stories

SS 2015
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

WS 2014/15
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Climate Change on Stage: Ecocriticism and Theatre 
Proseminar: Jane Austen's Novels 

SS 2014
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: Portraits of Britain: The Novels of Maggie Gee 

WS 2013/14
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

SS 2013
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft

WS 2012/13
Proseminar: Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders – Text, Context & Criticism

SS 2012
Grundkurs: Einführung in die britische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Proseminar: The End of the World – or not quite? Post-apocalyptic Fiction 

WS 2011/12
Proseminar: Floods, Arks, and Pirates: Drowned Worlds in 21st-century Young-Adult Fiction

SS 2011
Proseminar: A Question of Perspective: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

WS 2010/11
Proseminar: Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Postmodern

Journals

With Sebastian Berg and Christian Schmitt-Kilb (eds.), Hard Times: The Ecological Crisis in Britain. Vol. 106, 2022.

Articles

“Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction”. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 12(3), 2026, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.23660

With Sebastian Berg and Christian Schmitt-Kilb, "Editorial: The Ecological Crisis in Britain". Hard Times Vol. 106, 2022, i-iv.

"‘how YOU can help’: The Climate Crisis in Children’s Picture Books". Hard Times Vol. 106, 2022, 46-58.

"Climate Change and the Novel: Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Robert Edric’s Salvage". Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 22.1, 2015, 59-72.

Reviews

"Louise Westling, The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language". Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 22.1, 2015, 119-122.

"Susanne Gruss, The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter". Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 19.1, 2012, 106-108.

"Wolfgang Hallet & Birgit Neumann, Hg., Raum und Bewegung in der Literatur: Die Literaturwissenschaften und der Spatial Turn". Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 17.2, 2010, 185-186.

"Annette Kern-Stähler, ‘A Missionary Zeal’: Besatzung, Entnazifizierung und Umerziehung als Aktionsfeld und im Geschichtsbewusstsein britischer Literaten". Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 17.1, 2010, 87-89.

Presentations

"'We can’t tame the Forest – it’ll hate us forever': Vicious Vines and Scary Water in Contemporary Children’s Literature". “Join the Orca Uprising!” Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice; 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference. Utrecht University, 04/2026.

"'In the end, we always choose ourselves': Doomstead Cohabitations in Climate Fiction". The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 10/2025.

"'they don’t write protest anthems about well-off retired people feeling a bit sad': Staying Healthy as Patriotic Duty in Sarah Moss’s The Fell". Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies, Universität Bamberg, 09/2025.

“‘One Day You Are Going to Change the World’: Environmental Activism in Picturebooks on the Ecological Crisis”. The Social Impact of Climate Fiction, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 05/2025.

"'I can be patient': Gardening as Gendered Care Work in Contemporary Picturebooks". Teaching (With) Picturebooks: Context, Competences, Criticsm. Universität Rostock, 11/2024.

"Artificial Islands: Offshore Rigs in Postapocalyptic Climate Novels". Re-Reading British and Irish Landscapes in the 21st Century: Nature, Networks, Identities, University of Mannheim, 06/2024.

"A ‘Green Man’ and the ‘Jasmine Spirit’: Anthropomorphized Plant Guardians in Children’s Literature". Growing Futures: Vegetal Encounters in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Ecofiction, University of Cologne, 04/2024.

"A Fresh Start? The ‘Doomstead’ in Postapocalyptic Climate Fiction". Critical Uninhabitations Workshop, Universität Rostock, 06/2022.

"Climate Change and Literature". Metaphora: Übergänge ins Universitätsleben, Universität Rostock, 09/2021.

"The Novel in (Climate) Crisis? Contemporary British Fiction and the Anthropocene". Cultural Responses to Environmental Change (CuRE), Universität Greifswald, 11/2019.

"Floods, Arks and Climate Change in Contemporary Fiction". Eco-poetry Now! Reading, Writing and Understanding Poetry in an Age of Environmental Crises, NUI Galway, Ireland, 01/2012.

"‘It appears … that this is your real name’: The meanings of Max – author presence in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz". W.G. Sebald: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference”, UEA Norwich, UK, 09/2008.