About

My academic career began at the University of Bamberg, where I earned my master's degree. I subsequently pursued doctoral research on the reception of Immanuel Kant's philosophy in England under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fiona Stafford at Balliol College and the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. In my doctoral thesis, Coleridge and the Early Transmission of Kantian Ideas, 1796–1817, I situated Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with Kant's philosophy within the public debates on pantheism and political reform of the 1790s. In doing so, I challenged the prevailing view that Kant's philosophy prompted Coleridge's withdrawal from politics in the early nineteenth century.

Furthermore, my research focuses on cognitive literary theory, affect, and narrative. I have been researching the project titled “The Visceral Novel Reader” (DFG 422574378) since 2016. Key concepts in this work include Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s sensory perception and the lived body, as well as Paul Ricoeur’s concept of refiguration. I have developed a reception model in which refiguration analyses the process by which literary works alter the perception of the real-life readers to visceral effects. 

I was a founding member of the Lund Environmental Humanities Hub in Sweden. Within this interdisciplinary framework, I collaborated with colleagues from the fields of philosophy, history, archaeology and literary studies while also pursuing independent research on elegies about bodies of water in contemporary English-language poetry. As part of my commitment to research-led teaching, I co-taught the interdisciplinary course ‘Environmental Humanities’ in autumn 2025, together with fellow members of the Hub. In summer 2026, I co-organised the conference “Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming”.