since 2020
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Heinz Antor, University of Cologne

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

2009-2012
Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne

Books:

• [with Boris Braun and Beate Neumeier]. Nature and Environment in Australia, WVT, 2018.
• The Adolescent Nation: Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film. Anglistische Forschungen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Forthcoming.

Journal Articles / Articles in Edited Books:

• “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. Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield, Ecocritical Theory and Practice-Series, 2019, in print.
• “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, edited by Beate Neumeier, e-journal, 46 (2013).

• 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)

During the semester

Wednesdays, 12pm - 1pm via Zoom.

During the semester break

27.07.2020, 10:00-13:00

12.08.2020, 10:00-12:00

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Philosophikum, First Floor, Room 1.106

Memberships:

• On the Executive Board of InASA  - International Australian Studies Association
• Deutscher Anglistenverband
• GASt - Gesellschaft für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Association