2020   Habilitation (post-doctoral degree), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2010   PhD., Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
2005  First state exam, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

2013 – 2019   DFG Principal investigator and lecturer at the Obama Insitute for Transnational American Studies, JGU Mainz
2011 – 2013   Lecturer at the American Studies Program, Department of English and Linguistics, JGU Mainz
2009 – 2011  Coordinator of the international PhD program "Literary and Cultural Studies," International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, JLU Giessen
2006 – 2010  Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Department of English, JLU Giessen
2002 – 2005  Staff member and tutor at the Institute for the International Education of Students and the International Office; Freiburg

• Indigeneity
• Settler- and postcolonialism
• Decolonial theory
• Biopolitics
• Autobiography and life writing
• Theories of the (post-)apocalypse
• American poetry after 1945
• American literary and cultural history
• Transnational and transcultural studies
• Interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies

Revising and Remembering (after) the End: American Post-Apocalyptic Poetry since 1945 from Ginsberg to Forché. Trier: WVT (MOSAIC 45), 2012.

Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence. Edited with Kerstin Knopf. [Under contract with Duke University Press]

Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways. American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue. 42.2 (2018).

A History of American Poetry: Contexts-Developments-Readings. Edited with Oliver Scheiding und Clemens Spahr. Trier: WVT (Academic Handbook Series), 2015. 

Lost or Found in Translation? Interkulturelle/Internationale Perspektiven der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften. Edited with Daniel Smilovski und Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2011.

“‘Pando/Pando’ Across the Americas: Transnational Settler Territorialities and Decolonial Pluralities.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 11.1 (2020). Special issue on “American Territorialities,” guest editors Nicole Waller and Jens Temmen. escholarship.org/uc/item/6g60x78r

“The Biopolitical Logics of Settler Colonialism and Disruptive Relationality.” Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies 17.1 (2017), 67-77. Special issue on “Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies,” guest editors Aimee Carillo Rowe and Eve Tuck.

“Made to Move, Made of this Place: Into America, Mobility, and the Eco-Logics of Settler Colonialism.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.4 (2016): 507-26. Special issue on “Environmental Imagination on the Move: Nature and Mobility in American Literature and Culture,” guest editors Christine Gerhard and Christa Grewe-Volpp.

“Secret Spheres from Breaking Bad to The Americans: The Politics of Secrecy, Masculinity, and Transgression in 21st-Century U.S. Television Drama.” Transgressive Television, eds. Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser, and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2015. 195-216.