Multimodal and transmedial forms of narration (especially picturebooks and spoken word)
Afrodiasporic literatures
Postcolonial Studies and their intersections with Gender Studies, Queer Theory and Ecocriticism
Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Narratology
Profile
Education
Since 2024 Doctoral student at ISEK – Popular Cultures (supervised by Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichl: Afropean Imaginaries. Poetics and Politics of (E)Motion in Twenty-First Century Anglophone and Germanophone Black Diasporic Literatures On and Off the Page)
2021-2023 Doctoral student at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
2014-2020 MA – Deutsche Philologie (University of Vienna)
2014-2019 MA – Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (University of Vienna)
2010-2014 BA – Deutsche Philologie (University of Vienna)
2010-2014 BA – English and American Studies (University of Vienna)
Jobs
Since 2023 Assistant for Popular Cultures and Media at ISEK – Popular Cultures, University of Zurich (Professur Lötscher)
Since 2018 Lecturer at the Department of German Studies, University of Vienna (u:find)
Since 2015 Contributor and reviewer for the journal 1001 Buch
Since 2021 Courses for librarians and teachers in the area of children’s and young adult literature and media (focus on topics such as diversity, gender, race, queerness)
2019-2023 Director of Literarischen Kurse (Vienna) und editor of the «Fernkurs für Literatur» (correspondence course for literature)
2016-2023 Research assistant at STUBE – Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Vienna)
2015-2019 Research and administrative assistant at Literarischen Kurse
2017 Student assistant at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna (Alexandra Ganser)
Memeberships
German Children’s Literature Research Society (Gesellschaft für Kinder und Jugendliteraturforschung, GKJF)
Co-founder of the Forum Children’s and Young Adult Media (Forum Kinder- und Jugendmedien, FKJM) for early career researchers
Austrian Research Society on Children’s and Juvenile Literature (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung, ÖG-KJLF)
Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, GAPS)
2022–2023 Research member of the project «Childhood Imag(inari)es: Innovatives Strategies of Narration in Children’s and Young Adult Literature» (a collaboration between the University of Vienna and the University of Ústí nad Labem)
