since 2021

Adjunct Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities

2020

GASt dissertation prize for her PhD thesis "The Adolescent Country: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film” (Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln 2018)

since 2020
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Heinz Antor, University of Cologne & Assistant Editor of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies

2018
PhD in English Literature (summa cum laude): The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film

2014
DAAD Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Melbourne

2012-2020
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

2012
M.A., Magister Artium in Theatre-, Film- and Television Studies, English Studies and German Studies, University of Cologne

Books:

• The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021.
  • Review: Xu, Daozhi. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies vol. 33, no .2, 2022, pp. 276-277.
  • Review: Johnson, Benjamin T. Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, vol. 36, 2022, pp. 73-75.
• Nature and Environment in Australia (eds. with Boris Braun and Beate Neumeier). Trier: WVT, 2018.

Journal Articles / Articles in Edited Books:

• “‘Boat people’ in Australian Cinema: The Missing Boat in Khoa Do’s Mother Fish (2009).” Migrant Australia: From Botany Bay to Manus Island, edited by Katrin Althans et al. WVT, 2022, pp. 133-145.
• “Queering the Dreaming: Representations of the ‘Other’ in the Indigenous Australian Speculative Television Series Cleverman.” Gender Forum: Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality in Australian Speculative Fiction, edited by Bettina Burger, David Kern, and Lucas Mattila, no. 81, 2021, pp. 30-47.
• ““Listen to your tribal voice”: Embodying Locality in German-Australian Music Encounters. The Case of Peter Maffay and Yothu Yindi.” Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, vol. 35, 2021, pp. 145-155. DOI: 10.35515/zfa/asj.35/2021.12.

• “Narrating Lives – Telling (Hi)stories: Transcultural Readings: Essays In Memory of Kay Schaffer.” with Beate Neumeier. Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, vol. 35, 2021, pp. 7-12. DOI: 10.35515/zfa/asj.35/2021.01.

• “Environmental Violence in Australia: The Effects of Mining and Its Representation in the Indigenous Australian Film Satellite Boy.” Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World, edited by Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca, Routledge, Research in Postcolonial Literatures Series, 2021, 201-213. DOI: 10.4324/9781003110231-11.

• “Fatal Equilibrium: Air and the End of a Universe in Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”.” with David Kern. Venti: Air, Experience, and Aesthetics, vol. 2, no. 1, Summer 2021, online access.

• “Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016).” with David Kern. Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent, edited by Beate Neumeier and Helen Tiffin, Rowman&Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019, pp. 235-249.

• “Reassessing Aboriginal Self‐Determination in Rolf De Heer’s Charlie’s Country (2014).” ... and there’ll be NO dancing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Governmental Policy Impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007, edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp and Elisabeth Bähr. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017, pp. 228-242.

• “‘Rights of Passage’: Exploring the Liminal Position of Indigenous Australian Youth in Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (2009) and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah (2011).” Postcolonial Justice. Reassessing the Fair Go, edited by Gigi Adair and Anja Schwarz. Trier: WVT, 2016, pp. 151-162.

• “‘The Sapphires’ (2012) and ‘One Night the Moon’ (2001): Song, History and Australian Aboriginality.” gender forum - An Online Platform for Gender and Women's Studies, no. 46 (2013).

Reviews:

• Jennifer Debenham. Celluloid Subjects to Digital Directors: Changing Aboriginalities and Australian Documentary Film, 1901-2017. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2020. Australian Studies Journal | Zeitschrift für Australienstudien, no. 33/34, 2019/20, pp. 167-171. DOI: 10.35515/zfa/asj.3334/201920.12.

• Narrating Postcolonial Australia (B-Seminar, SoSe 12)
• The Works of David Lynch: Exploring Film Theory (B-Seminar, WS 12/13)
• Coming of Age Stories (B-Seminar, SoSe 13)
• In the Wake of First Contact: Australian Postcolonial Narrative (B-Seminar, WS 13/14)
• Hitchcock's Place in Film Theory (B-Seminar, SoSe 14)
• Australian Cultural Studies (co-teaching, eLearning seminar, University of Potsdam, SoSe 14)
• Youth and Identity - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies (B-Seminar, WS 14/15: taught as Blockseminar in Jan/Feb 2015)
• Formative Landscapes – the Shaping of Australian Culture (B-Seminar, SoSe 15)
• Lost Highways – Road Movies and their cultural contexts (B-Seminar, SoSe 15)
• Film Theory in Practice: The Works of David Lynch (B-Seminar, WS 15/16)
• Surfers, Soldiers, Bushrangers: Concepts of Masculinity in Australian Narrative (Proseminar SP/B-Seminar, SoSe 16)
• Psychoanalytic Film Theory (Proseminar SP/B-Seminar, SoSe 16)
• Australian Studies: Nature and Environment (co-teaching, Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, SoSe 16)
• Narratives of the Desert (Proseminar SP/B-Seminar, WS 16/17)
• Concepts of Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial Context (Proseminar MP/Übung, SoSe 17)
• Techno-Somatics: Human-Machine-Hybrids in Literature and Film (Proseminar SP/B-Seminar, SoSe 17)
• Film Theory in Practice: Reading the Classics (Proseminar SP/B-Seminar, WS 17/18)
• Postcolonial Science Fiction (Proseminar SP, SoSe 18)
• Stories of Migration, Settlement and First Contact (Proseminar SP, SoSe 18)
• The Cinematic Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Film Theory (Proseminar MP, WS 18/19)
• Stories of Migration (Proseminar SP, SoSe 19)
• Film Theory in Practice: David Lynch (Mittelseminar, SoSe 19)
• Decolonizing the Future: Introduction to Postcolonial Science Fiction (Proseminar SP, WS 19/20)
• Introduction to Australian Cinema - Onlineseminar (Proseminar SP, SoSe 20)
• Narratives of Migration (Mittelseminar, SoSe 20)
• Hitchcock's Place in Film Theory (Proseminar, WiSe 20/21)
• Memories of Migration (Mittelseminar, WiSe 20/21)
• Gendering the Nation: Australian Masculinities (Proseminar, SoSe 21)
• Narratives of Deserts and Oceans: Ecocritical Concerns (Mittelseminar, SoSe 21)
• Unreliable Narration in Literature and Film (Proseminar, WiSe 21/22)
• Global Frankenstein (Mittelseminar, WiSe 21/22)
• Indigenous Australian Theatre and Performance (Proseminar, SoSe 22)
• Going Underground: The Extractive Industries in Literature and Film (Mittelseminar, SoSe 22)
• Introduction to Australian Cinema (Proseminar WiSe 22/23)
• Border Narratives (Mittelseminar WiSe 22/23)

During the semester

Tuesdays, 12-13pm via Zoom

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Philosophikum, First Floor, Room 1.106

Memberships:

• On the Editorial Board of Peter Lang Series: Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (editor: Anne Brewster)
• On the Executive Board of InASA  - International Australian Studies Association
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
• GASt - Gesellschaft für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Association
• Public Relations Coordinator at the Centre for Australian Studies