Who am I?
I am a researcher and lecturer at the Department of English Literature and Culture at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. In 2025, I earned my PhD, which focused on poetic representation of maternity, female bodies, reproduction and birth in female-authored poetry from the-Victorian period.
My research interests include:
- Literature of the long nineteenth century
- Poetry and poetic form(s)
- Science and literature
- Literary representations of bodies and materiality
- Gender Studies
- Environmental fiction and ecocriticism
What do I teach?
Apart from introductory courses, my teaching focuses on poetry and poetic forms as well as the literature of the long nineteenth century, including but not limited to women’s writing, Gothic literature, children’s literature, literary representations of gender and bodies. I also teach on literature and science, ecocriticism, contemporary eco-fiction and cultural studies classes on urbanism.
What theses do I supervise?
I supervise B.A./M.A. and B.Ed./M.Ed. theses, especially those relating to my research interests.