• The English novel (18th - 21st centuries)
• Literature and Science (especially risk theory)
• Gender Studies
• Postcolonial Studies (with special focus on anglophone Indian, Canadian, and African literatures and cultures)
• Transcultural adaptation studies
• 21st century studies (Postmodernism and its legacies)
• Posthumanism
• ‘Climate cultures’ and the environmental humanities
• Literature and art forms (especially dance)

• 06/2018 Habilitation (Venia legendi: English Literary and Cultural Studies); Habilitation dissertation: Risk and the English Novel From Defoe to McEwan
• 2014 - 2018 Managing Editor for "Horror und Grusel", Boys & Books, Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Christine Garbe. www.boysandbooks.de.
• from 11/2010 to 07/2019 Research Assistant (LS Prof. Antor)
• 07/2010 Dr. Phil., PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude)
• since WS 07/08 Lecturer at the English Department I, University of Cologne
• 08/2007 to 08/2010 Assistant at the Deanary Office of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne (Examinations office, Student counselling)
• 09/2006-07/2007 Reader, University of Cambridge (Murray Edwards College)
• 02/2006 M.A., Magister Artium (English Literature, Theater- Film and Television Studies, Philosophy), University of Cologne
• General Editor Anglistik: International Journal for English Studies

Monographs

Risk and the English Novel from Defoe to McEwan. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: DeGryuter (2019, forthcoming). (Habil.) 

Tackling the Morality of History: Ethics and Storytelling in the Works of Amitav Ghosh. Anglistische Forschungen 482. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011.(Diss.)

Editorships

(mit Roman Bartosch). Teaching the Posthuman. Anglistik & Englischunterricht. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019.

(mit Nina Engelhardt). Representations of Science in 21st Century Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

(mit Christine Garbe et al.). Attraktive Lesestoffe (nicht nur) für Jungen - Erzählmuster und Beispielanalysen zu populärer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Baltmansweiler: Schneider Verlag, 2018.

Journal Special Issues

(mit Nina Engelhardt) "Doing Science." Special Issue Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3 (2017).

"Focus on 21^st Century Studies." Special Issue Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.2 (2015).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

"Realism for the Post-Truth Era. Politics and Storytelling in Recent Fiction and Autobiography by Salman Rushdie." Special Issue "Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives." Eds. Jan Alber and Alice Bell. European Journal of English Studies 23 (2019) (under Review).

"Breaking the Cycle of Heathcliff: Precarious Subjects from Emily Brontë to Caryl Phillips." Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World. Eds. Monika Gymnich, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Klaus Schneider. Cross/Culture Series. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi (forthcoming).

"Posthuman Lessons For the Pst and the Future: Narrating Otherness Between History and Technology." Teaching the Posthuman. Eds. Bartosch and Hoydis. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. 191-223.

(mit Roman Bartosch). "Introduction: Teaching Otherwise? Towards a Posthuman(ist) Pedagogical Practice." Teaching the Posthuman. Eds. Bartosch and Hoydis. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. 5-21.

(mit Nina Engelhardt). "Introduction: Connectivities Between Literature and Science in the Twenty First Century." Representations of Science in 21st Centruy Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-17.

"Horror- und Gruselliteratur.“ Attraktive Lesestoffe für Jungen – Erzählmuster und Beispielanalysen zu populärer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Eds. Christine Garbe et al. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag, 2018. 107-120.

"Einleitung (II): Zum Genre – und Erzählmusterbegriff." Attraktive Lesestoffe für Jungen – Erzählmuster und Beispielanalysen zu populärer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Eds. Christine Garbe et al. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag, 2018. 35-54.

(with Nina Engelhardt.) "Editorial: Doing Science." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3 (2017): 225-226.

"A Darker Shade of Justice: Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death." Postcolonial Justice. Eds. Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. 2017. 177-197.

"All's Turning Black? Multiracial Identity Politics and (Post)Apocalyptic Fantasy in Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos." Proceedings des Deutschen Anglistentags 2015. Eds. Merle Tönnies, Christoph Ehland, Ilka Mindt. Trier: WVT, 2016.135-146.

"Historicizing Diaspora. Multiculturalism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke." Shaping Indian Diaspora. Eds. Cristina M. Gámez and Veena Dwivedi. Lanham, ML: Lexington Books, 2015. 79-92.

"Fantastically Hybrid: Race, Gender, and Genre in Black Female Speculative Fiction."Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.2 (2015): 71-88.

"Introduction: Focus on 21^st-Century Studies." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.2 (2015): 5-14.

"Fragile Fictions: Ethics and Politics in Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai." Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives. Eds. Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion and Irina Goloubeva Rasmussen. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishin, 2014. 143-170.

"Only the Dance is Sure: Dance and the Construction of Gender in Modernist Poetry." (Con)Sequences. Dance - Gender - Ethnicity. Gender Forum 36 (2011). http://www.genderforum.org/issues/consequences/only-the-dance-is-sure/.

"A Palace of Her Own: Feminine Identity in the Great Indian Story." Passages to India. Literary and Socio-Political Perspectives on Gender Concepts in India. Gender Forum 38 (2012). http://www.genderforum.org/issues/passages-to-india/a-palace-of-her-own/.

Reviews

"Claudia Lillge. Arbeit. Eine Literatur- und Mediengeschichte Großbritanniens. Wilhelm Fink, 2016.” Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Eds. Joachin Jarst, Christian Moster, und Linda Simonis. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2018. 282-285.

"Hadassah Stichnothe. Der Initiationsroman in der deutsch- und englischsprachigen Kinderliteratur.” International Research in Children’s Literature. Edinburgh University Press 11.2 (2018): 214-215.

"The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction by Jean-Michel Ganteau." ANGLIA 135.2 (2017): 384-388. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0036

"Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable." The British Society for Literature and Science. 14 June 2017. http://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/general-and-theory/amitav-ghosh-the-great-derangement-climate-change-and-the-unthinkable/ 

"Narrating 'Precariousness' by Barbara Korte and Frederic Régard." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.1 (2015): 184-185.

"Kontingenz und Literatur im Prozess der Modernisierung. Diagnosen und Umgangsstrategien im britischen Roman des 19.-21. Jahrhunderts by Stella Butter." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.1 (2015): 172-174.

"Twenty-First Century Fiction by Peter Boxall." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 25.2. (2014): 183-185.

"South Asian Literatures. Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources Vol. 1 by Gerhard Stilz and Ellen Dengel-Janic." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 22.2 (2011): 201-203.

Didactic Materials

"Horror- und Gruselliteratur. Unheimlicher Nervenkitzel. boys&books April 2014. 1-8 <http://www.boysandbooks.de/fileadmin/templates/images/PDF/Erzaehlmuster_Horror_und_Gruselliteratur.pdf>.

"Chris Priestely: Mr Creecher." Review. Boys & Books. November 2014. 1-4. <http://www.boysandbooks.de/fileadmin/templates/images/PDF/Musterrezension_Horror_und_Grusel_Mister_Creecher.pdf>

"Andreas Schlüter: Der Werwolf und Ich." Review. Boys & Books. November 2014. 1-4. <http://www.boysandbooks.de/fileadmin/templates/images/PDF/Musterrezension_Horror_und_Grusel_Der_Werwolf_und_Ich.pdf>

SUMMER 2019

PSMP: Literary Genres in Theory and Practice

OS: Readings in Literature

WINTER 2018/2019

Robinsonades

Forschungskolloquium

Lecture series "Gender Fictions - Now" (with Roman Bartosch and Elisabeth Gilbert)

SUMMER 2018

Victorian Fiction and Film

Unreliable Narration

WINTER 2017/2018

Frankenstein, Sherlock, and Dr. Moreau - Classics of 19th Century Fiction

Colonial Beginnings - Slavery, Race and the Early Novel

Lecture series "How now! What news?" Current (Political) Developments and/of Anglophone Studies (with Roman Bartosch and Elisabeth Gilbert)

SUMMER 2017

Postcolonial Adaptations

Time and (Neo-)Modernist Narration: Variations of Mrs. Dalloway

WINTER 2016/2017

Introduction to Genre

Great Fictions – Rewritten

SUMMER 2016

Late-Victorian Fiction

Science Plays

WINTER 2015/2016

Twice Round the Clock: 24h Novels

(Post)Humanism?: Narratives of Women and Other Animals

SUMMER 2015

The Post 9/11-Novel

Race, Colonialism, and the Rise of the Novel

WINTER 2014/2015

Introduction to Victorian Literature and Culture

21^st-Century Dystopia

SUMMER 2014

Chance and Probability in English Fiction

Postcolonial Science Fiction

WINTER 2013/2014

Money Rules: Fiction, Gender, Value(s)

Tales of Rape

SUMMER 2013

Gothic Fiction

The Industrial Novel

WINTER 2012/2013

Spies, Soldiers, Superbombs: Early 20^th-Century British Fiction

English Satire

SUMMER 2012

Introduction to Canadian Studies

"Time Present and Time Past": Aesthetics and Politics of Modernist Poetry

WINTER 2011/2012

Shocking Classics of British Fiction and Their Film Versions

George Eliot and Thomas Hardy

SUMMER 2011        

South-Asian Travel Writing

Literature and Science

WINTER 2010/2011

"The Power and the Glory": British Catholic Novelists

"Girl Meets Boy": Female Rewritings of Classical Myths

SUMMER 2010        

"How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?": Dance and Modernist Poetry

SUMMER 2009

"Romances of the Archive": Postimperial British Fiction

WINTER 2008/2009

"Only Connect": The Novels of E. M. Forster

SUMMER 2008        

Narrating Terror and Violence

WINTER 2007/2008

Amitav Gosh and the Ethics of Storytelling

Memberships

• GAPS – Gesellschaft für anglophone postkoloniale Studien /Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies

• Deutscher Anglistenverband

• BRITCULT – German Association for the Study of British Cultures

• Deutscher Hochschulverband

• BSLS - The British Society for Literature and Science

 Committee work / Academic administration

• since April 2018: Member of the Board at the English Department; Representative for academic mid-level faculty

• November 2015-September 2017: Member of the board of examiners for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne

• since April 2015: Member of the Board: Group 5 Modern languages and Culture, University of Cologne

Didactic training

NRW-Certificate “Professionelle Lehrkompetenz für die Hochschule”, Zentrum für Hochschuldidaktik, Köln. 200 hours, Module III: Innovative teaching project – lecture series “How Now! What News? Current (Political) Developments and/of Anglophone Studies” (completed in November 2018)