Since 2020/11

Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for American Literature and Culture
Englisches Seminar I (University of Cologne)
2024/03: Positive Intermediate Evaluation

2018/11 – 2020/10

Research Assistant and Lecturer in American Studies                                
Chair of American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2019/10 – 2020/09

Program Manager
Women's Office of the University of Bamberg

2019/10 – 2020/09

Research Assistant and Lecturer in French Literature
Chair of French Literature (University of Bamberg)

2016/05 – 2018/10

Research Assistant
DFG-funded Project: “The Environmental Imagination of Mobility: Umwelt und Migration in der Amerikanischen Gegenwartslyrik,” led by Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt, Chair of American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2012/04 – 2016/04

Research Assistant and Lecturer in American Studies                                        
Chair of American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2011/04 – 2012/03

Student Assistant
Chair for American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2010/09 – 2012/03

Lecturer for English as a Foreign Language for Erasmus Students
Language Center (University of Bamberg)

2009/09 – 2010/06

Teaching Assistant/Writing Assistant
Center for Writing, Rhetoric and Information Technology (Dartmouth College, USA)

2008/03 – 2008/09

Teaching Assistant (Tutor) for the Introduction to French Literature
Chair of French Literature (University of Bamberg)

2007/10 – 2008/09

Teaching Assistant (Tutor) for the Introduction to English and American Literature
Institute for English and American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2018/09

Ph.D. in American Studies (University of Bamberg)
Dissertation: „Poetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry” (summa cum laude)

2016/09 – 2016/10

6-week Research Stay at Dartmouth College (USA), funded by the DFG

2013/09 – 2013/10

6-week Research Stay at Duke University (USA), funded by the BAA

2013/04 – 2013/06

3-month Research Stay at Dartmouth College (USA), funded by the DAAD

2012/03

M.A. English and American Studies (University of Bamberg)

2010/05

M.A. Comparative Literature (Dartmouth College, USA)
Focus Area: Anglophone and Francophone Postcolonial Literatures

2008/09 – 2009/06

Study Abroad (Dartmouth College, USA)
Focus of Studies: English and French Literature, Comparative Literature

2006/10 – 2008/09

Undergraduate Studies in English, French, and Spanish Language, Literature, and Linguistics
Teacher Training Program (University of Bamberg)

2005/09 – 2006/08

Gap Year Abroad as Au Pair (Tours, France)

2005/06

Abitur (Gymnasium Alexandrinum, Coburg)

Monographs

• Fantasies of a (Non-)Violent State: Single-Sex Societies in American Speculative Fiction (AT, in preparation)
• Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry. transcript: 2023.
  • Publication Date: August 27, 2023 (Print & Open Access)
    https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6934-3/ecopoetic-place-making/

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

• Early Career Researchers IX. Co-edited with Sara Tewelde-Negassi and Alexandra Novakov with an Introduction by Sara Tewelde-Negassi. Spec. Issue of gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 22.1, 2023.
• Speculative Fiction and Ethics. Spec. Issue of Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung 10.1 (2022). Co-edited with an Introduction with Lorena Bickert, and Sara Tewelde-Negassi.
• Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (II). Spec. Issue of gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 82 (2022). Co-edited with an Introduction with Marta Usiekniewicz.
• Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (I). Spec. Issue of gender forum: an Internet Journal for Gender Studies 80 (2021). Co-edited with an Introduction with Marta Usiekniewicz.
• Gender in Gesellschaft 4.0.: Kolloquium Forschende Frauen 2020. Edited with an Introduction by Judith Rauscher et al. Bamberg UP. 2021.
• Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design. Special Issue of Ecozon@ 19.2 (2019). Edited with an Introduction with Franca Bellarsi.
• Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 17.1 (2016). Edited with an Introduction with Laura Oehme, Theresa Roth und Mareike Spychala.

Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters

Forthcoming

• Witchcraft and Warfare: Individual Agency, Institutions, and the (Un-)Radical Feminism of Motherland: Fort Salem. (AT) in preparation
• with Nora Castle and Burak Sezer. "Grit in the Machine: Multinational Institutions, Rogue Geoengineering, and the Future of Global Infrastructure in American Science Fiction." EJES: European Journal of English Studies. [2025], submitted for review
• “Queere Ökologien.” Handbuch Literatur und Ökologie. Edited by Solveig Nitzke and Frederike Middelhoff. De Gruyter. Handbücher zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Philologie. [2025], submitted
• “Poetry as Feminist Critique.” Handbook of American Poetry. Edited by Sabine Sielke. De Gruyter. [2022] De Gruyter Handbooks in English and American Studies.[2024], in print

Published

• "Louise Glück." Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur – KLfG. . Edition text + kritik, 2023. pp. 1-12.
• "Introduction." Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (II). Ed. Judith Rauscher and Marta Usiekniewicz. Special Issue of Gender Forum 82 (2022): 3-11.
• "Introduction." Gender, Violence, and the State in Contemporary Speculative Fiction (I). Ed. Judith Rauscher and Marta Usiekniewicz. Special Issue of Gender Forum 80 (2021): 3-7.
• “Gender in Gesellschaft 4.0: Eine Hinführung.“ Gender in Gesellschaft 4.0: Bamberger Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung. FORSCHEnde Frauen 2020. Ed. Judith Rauscher et al. Bamberg UP, 2021. pp. 1-8.
• “Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery.” Context is for Kings: An Edited Collection on Star Trek: Discovery. Ed. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP: 2020. pp. 243-264. DOI: doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv131btmh.16.
• “‘She moves through deep corridors’: Mobility and Settler Colonialism in Sharon Doubiago’s Proletarian Eco-Epic Hard Country.” Ecozon@ 11.1 (2020): 115-133.
• With Franca Bellarsi. “Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design: An Introduction.” Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design. Spec. issue of Ecozon@ 19.2 (2019): 1-23.
• “From Planar Perspectives to a Planetary Poetics: Aeromobility, Technology, and the Environmental Imaginary in Contemporary American Poetry.” A World on the Move. Ed. Christine Gerhardt and Christa Grewe-Volpp. Spec. issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.4 (2016): 445-467.
• “Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry.” Geocriticism and Ecocriticism. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. pp. 189-206.
• “Canadian Petro-Poetics: Masculinity, Labor, and Environment in Mathew Henderson’s The Lease.” Energy in Literature: Essays on Energy and Its Social and Environmental Implications in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Texts. Ed. Paula A. Farca. TrueHeart Press, 2016. pp. 99-112.
• “On Common Ground: Translocal Attachments and Transethnic Affiliations in Agha Shahid Ali's and Arthur Sze's Poetry of the American Southwest.” Transnational Approaches to North American Regionalism. Spec. issue of the European Journal of American Studies 9.3 (2014). pp. 1-16.

Miscellaneous

Forthcoming

• "Affective Practices of Ecological Citizenship," Forum "Perspectives on Environmental Citizenship," Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations, edited by Katja Sarkowsky, Sylvia Straub, and Linda Hess, Winter [2025]. submitted

Published

• "Where Are the Men? Single-Sex Societies in American Literature." The Trans-Atlanticist/ Lady Fiction #13. A Podcast with Stefanie Schäfer. 26 May, 2022.

Reviews

Book Reviews

• Review of "Pitts, Michael. Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man. Lexington Books: 2021." Utopian Studies 36.1 [2024/25].
• Review of “Robert T. Tally, Jr.: Topophrenia. Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.” Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research 36 (2020), 363-369.

Article Reviews for

• Atlantic Studies
• Canadian Literature
• Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
• College Literature
• WiN: The EAAS Women's Network Journal

2019/07

Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American-Academy

2019/03

Travel Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to attend the biannual conference of the American Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), UC Davis (June 2019)

2018/11

Dissertation Award of the University of Bamberg for the Humanities (sponsored by the Rotary Clubs Bamberg Schloss Geyerswörth)

2018/06

Travel Grant of the Bavarian American-Academy (BAA) for the participation in the Summer Institute „The Futures of American Studies,“ Dartmouth College (USA)

2016/06

Travel Grant of the Bavarian American-Academy for the BAA Summer Academy 2016, Florida International University (USA)

2015/10 – 2017/03

Participation in the Mentoring-Program feRNet of the University of Bamberg; Mentor: Prof. Dr. Colleen Boggs, Dartmouth College

2014/06

BAA Travel Grant of the Bavarian American-Academy for the BAA Summer Academy 2014, Texas State University (USA)

2013/09 – 2013/10

Duke Post-Graduate Fellowship of the Bavarian American-Academy, Duke University (USA)

2013/07 – 2013/09

Step by Step Research Stipend of the Women’s Representatives of the University of Bamberg

2013/04 – 2013/06

DAAD Research Stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service, Dartmouth College (USA)

2009/09 – 2012/06

Full Stipend for the one-year M.A. Program in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College (USA)

2008/09 – 2009/06

Fulbright Travel Grant to study abroad at Dartmouth College (USA)

2008/09 – 2009/06

Full Stipend of the Verband Deutsch-Amerikanischer Clubs (VDAC) to study abroad at Dartmouth College (USA)

Current Positions at the University of Cologne

Since 2023/10

Member of the Advisory Board of the M.A. Comparative Literature at the University of Cologne

Former Positions in University Committees

2021/06 - 2023/05

Member of the Advisory Board of the Studiobühne and Filmwerkstatt of the University of Cologne

2020/04 - 2020/07

Deputy Chairperson of the Election Committee of the Faculty o of Humanities at the University of Cologne, coordination of the nomination and election process

2019/10 - 2020/10

Representative of Mid-Level Faculty at the Faculty of Humanities (GuK); Membership in the GuK general council and in the general council of mid-level faculty at the University of Bamberg

2017/10 – 2019/09

Women’s Representative of the Faculty of Humanities  Membership in the GuK general council, participation in accreditation procedures and hiring committees, programing for women’s advancement, counseling (in cases of harassment)

2015/10 – 2017/09

Deputy Women’s Representative at the Faculty of Humanities

2015/10 – 2017/09

Voting Member for the faculty of Humanities in the general council of mid-level faculty at the University of Bamberg

Deputy Representative of Mid-Level Faculty in the Standing Committee for Teaching and Student Affairs (LuSt) and the Committee for the Assurance of the Quality of Study Programs and Teaching (AQSL)

Former Positions in Professional Organizations

2018/06- 2022-05

Postgraduate Representative in the Advisory Board of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA)

 2017/11- 2022-05

Speaker of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and PGF Liason to the Diversity Caucus of the DGfA

2017/06 - 2020/10

Social Media Coordinator of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE)

2015/06 - 2016/06

Organizational Team of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/ DGfA)

2023/10

 “Feminist Publishing: Shifts & Intersections," mit Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß und Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil, Networking DAAD-Workshop Mobile Feminisms: Frameworks in Publishing, Organizing, Working in (and around) the Academy," Universität Würzburg

2023/09

“Speculative History, Human Exceptionalism, and Graphic Violence in the Comic Series Manifest Destiny," Panel on “Green Popular Culture Studies: (In)Visibility, Affordances, Affects,” organized with JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma (U of Freiburg) at the 8th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG) on Popular Cultures, U of the Saarland

2023/08

"Single-Sex Societies in Pulp Era American Science Fiction and the Im/Possibility of Disruption," Joint Annual Conference of the SFRA and GfF on "Disruptive Imaginatoins," TU Dresden

2023/06

"History, Violence, and Progress: Single-Sex Societies in Pulp Era American Science Fiction," invited talk at the American Studies Section, Universität Augsburg

2022/11

"Ecopoetries of Migration," 13th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium (GISFOH): “Agency and global crises: environment, inequality, borders” (Jerusalem, Israel); Humboldt-Stiftung und Israelische Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2022/10

"Gemeinwohl und Staatsgewalt in amerikanischer Spekulativer Fiktion," Tagung "Umkämpftes Gemeinwohl: Deutungen im Streit um das gemeinsame Wohl," DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Deutungsmacht," University of Rostock

2022/06

“Imagining Future Pedagogies: Representations of Formal Education in American Speculative Fiction," Workshop "Critical Future Studies: SF as Pedagogy between Imagination and Activism," at the Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), University of Tübingen

2022/07

"Collective Agency, Individual Responsibility, and the Poetics of Dis/Entanglement in Contemporary Ecopoetry about Hawai’i" Conference," Corporations/ Communities/ Crowds," Volkswagenstiftung, Hannover

2022/02

"Fictions of a (Non-)Violent State: Technoscience, Origin Myths, and Single-Sex Societies in American Culture," invited talk at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin

2021/12

"Of Birds, Bulldozers, and Boeings: Nature and Mobility in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr," invited talk at the Chair of North American Literature and Culture (University of Bielefeld)

2021/10

"Precarious Indigenous Knowledges and Participatory Reading: Teaching Pacific Islander Poetry about Environmental Displacement," Workshop "Narrating Environmental Displacements," University of Augsburg

2021/06

“Creating Space(s) for Complexity: Teaching American Popular Culture and the Environment,” Panel “Participation in/ through Language, Literature and Culture (Education),” DGfA Conference 2021

2021/05

“She who laughs last: Satirical Dystopias by Women and the Ends of Parody,” Symposium “Funny Women” (Bavarian-American Academy, Munich

2021/05

„(Un)Radical Feminism: Witchcraft, Militarism, and the Limits of Female Empowerment in Motherland: Fort Salem (2020-),” invited talk, Institute for the Study of Film, Theater, Media and Culture, Johannes Gutenberg University Main

2021/04

“Sentimental Ecologies: Negotiating Landownership, Citizenship, and Affect in Maria Ruíz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don (1885) and S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema (1891),” with Linda Hess; virtual EAAS Conference 2021

2020/12

“Social(ist) Darwinism and the Pandemic Imagination: Jack London‘s The Scarlet Plague (1912),” Vorlesung “Pandemic Literatures,” Universität zu Köln

2019/06

"Post-Mobility and Queer Ecological Empathy in the Poetry of Etel Adnan," ASLE Konferenz 2019, UC Davis (USA)

2019/02

“Teaching Comparative Cultural Studies Courses on Race in Germany.” KLLB Konferenz ‘Herausforderung Kulturelle Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung,’ Universität Bamberg

2018/11

“‘In a Mirror Darkly’: Border-crossing and Imperial Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery.” AAAS Jahrestagung, Universität Wien (Österreich)

2018/09

“Groundwork, Fieldwork, Topopoetics: Reading Lorna Goodison’s ‘The Garden of St. Michael in the Seven-Hilled City of Bamberg.’” EASLCE Konferenz, Universität Würzburg

2018/01

“‘Entfernung gilt nichts’: Walt Whitmans Dichtung und poetisches Erbe." Gastvortrag in der Vortragsreihe ‘Amerika,’ VHS Coburg

2017/06

“Mobility and/as Recovery in the Materialist Ecofeminist Poetry of Sharon Doubiago.” ASLE Konferenz, Wayne State University (USA)

2017/03

“Teaching Intersectional Feminism in Transatlantic Contexts.” EAAS Women’s Network Symposium ‘Transnational Feminism and/in American Studies,’ Université de Lausanne (Schweiz)

2016/11

“Conflicted Territorialities and Archipelagic Environments in the Poetry of Craig Santos Perez.” Konferenz ‘The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry,’ Universität Bamberg

2016/11:

“The Poetics of Postmodern Witness and the Ethics of Genre.” Symposium ‘Comparative Literature 20th Anniversary Celebration,’ Dartmouth College (USA)

2016/06

“Paying the Price for an Impossible Love: Etel Adnan's Defiant Ecopoetics of Hope.” Konferenz ‘Dwellings of Enchantment,’ Université de Perpignan (Frankreich)

2016/06

“Bodily Perspectives without Lyric Subjects: Materiality and Mobility in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr.” BAA Summer School ‘Material Culture,’ Florida International University, Miami (USA)

2016/02

“Of Spaceships and Ocean Planets: The Ethics of Mobility in Joan Slonczewski’s Pragmatic Utopias,” Konferenz ‘Maritime Mobilities: Critical Perspectives from the Humanities,’ Universität Wien (Österreich)

2015/10

“From Identity Politics to a Poetry of Postmodern Witness in Contemporary American Poetry of Migration.” Konferenz ‘Poetry and Genre,’ Universität Augsburg

2014/06

“Dwelling in Diaspora: The Environmental Politics of Displacement in Arthur Sze’s The Gingko Light.” Jahrestagung der DGfA, Universität Würzburg

2014/06

“Translocal Attachments and Transethnic Affiliations in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali and Arthur Sze.” BAA Summer School, Texas State University, San Marcos (USA)

2013/05

“From Ecocriticism to Geocriticism and Back: Place in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry.” ASLE Konferenz, University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA)

2013/04

“Place and Displacement in the Poetry of Derek Walcott and Agha Shahid Ali.” ACLA Konferenz, University of Toronto (Canada)

2012/11

“Planetary Perspectives: Technological Visions of the Natural World in the Poetry of Ed Roberson.” (Poster) Konferenz ‘Risk - Effects and Affect: Technology and Narrative in the 21st Century,’ Universität Bayreuth

2012/11

“The Place-Conscious Nomadic Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali.” Postgraduate Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Universität Marburg

2011/11

“Junot Díaz's Oscar Wao: Hero, Anti-Hero or Alternative to the 'American Hero'?” SCIAS Student Conference in American Studies, LMU München

2010/04

“The Ritual of Nation-Building in Léonora Miano's L'intérieur de la nuit.” GAFIS Graduate Student Conference, University of Madison-Wisconsin (USA)

Conferences

2021/09

“Speculative Fiction and Ethics,” Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GfF), with Lorena Bickert (U of Bamberg), Mareike Spychala (U of Bamberg), and Sara Twelde-Negassi (U of Cologne)

2016/11

“The Environment and Human Migration: Rethinking the Politics of Poetry;” International Conference, with Christine Gerhardt

2015/11

Conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA); with Laura Oehme (U of Bayreuth), Theresa Roth (U of Bamberg), Mareike Spychala (U of Bamberg)

Symposia

2021/03

“Critical Environmental Education and Popular Culture: Local Practices and Transatlantic Conversations,” with Betsy Wheeler (U of Oregon)

2014/07

“Whitman Across Genres,” Annual Symposium of the Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA), with Christine Gerhardt (U of Bamberg)

2014/01

“Nature – Mobility – Literature: The Environmental Imagination of Migration,” Symposium, with Christine Gerhardt (U of Bamberg)

Summer School

2014/07

 “7th International Walt Whitman Week,” Summer School der Trans-atlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA), with Christine Gerhardt (U of Bamberg)

Conference Workshop

2023/09

“Green Popular Culture Studies: (In)Visibility, Affordances, Affects,” organized with JProf. Dr. Maria Sulimma (U of Freiburg) at the 8th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG) on Popular Cultures, U of the Saarland

2017/06

“Queer Modernities – Queer Mobilities,” Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Hannover; with Linda Hess (U of Augsburg)