Research Interests
- Film Studies
- The Horror Film
- Coming of Age Films
- Colourscape in Cinema - The American Gothic
- Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Teaching
| Winter Term 2025 | PSSP: American Gothic, U of Cologne |
| Spring Term 2025 | Guest Lecture on “The American Coming of Age FIlm” in PSSP Coming of Age in American Literature taught by PD Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil, U of Cologne |
| Fall Term 2024 | Guest Lecture on "The Monstrous Feminine: The Horror Film, Female Sexuality and the Abject" in The Old and The New Weird taught by Dr. Burak Sezer, TU Dortmund |
| Fall Term 2022 | Elementary German, Department for Modern Languages and Cultures, U of Rochester, NY, USA |
| Spring Term 2023 | Elementary German, Department for Modern Languages and Cultures, U of Rochester, NY, USA |
Education
| 2021 - 2024 | Graduate Studies in North American Studies University of Cologne, Degree: M.A. (1,6) |
| 2022 | Graduate Cerificate in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, University of Rochester |
| 2022-2023 | Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature, University of Rochester, Degree: M.A. (GPA 4.0 (1,0)) |
| 2016-2021 | Undergraduate Studies in English Studies and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Degree: B.A. |
Membership
| Since 2025 | Mentee in the EGP+ Mentoring Programm | |
| Since 2024 | BAFTSS: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies | |
| Since 2023 | ENCS: European Network for Cinema and Media Studies | |
| Since 2022 | SCMS: Society for Cinema and Media Studies | |
| 2023 | Susan B. Anthony Center: Student Advisory Board. Planned A Screening of "The Hunting Ground" (2015) for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (04/23), and took part in a Social Media Campaign for Black History Month (02/23) and Women's History Month (03/23) | |
| Since 2021 | North American Studies Student Union: Collaborated with fellow students on organizing campus events and addressing student concerns. |
Talks
| 09/2025 | Conference Talk: “Sipping or Starving: Female Hunger and Repression of Appetite in the Contemporary Vampire Film”, POPCRN!, Austrailia's Popular Culture Research Network, Online. | |
| 11/2024 | Master Thesis Presentation: "Is It Human To Starve? Hunger, Satiability and Excess in Contemporary American Horror Films", SCMS Horror SIG Work-in-Progress Symposium, Online | |
| 03/2023 | Research Presentation: "The University Campus as a Playground for the Sexual Predator", Graduate Research Symposium, University of Rochester | |
| 10/2022 | Graduate Writing Collective Presentation: "In Need Of A Scapegoat: How Robert Eggers Alienates the Coming-Of-Age Process in His 2015 Horror Film The Witch," Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Rochester |