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

since 10/2022 Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
07/2022 - 09/2022 Academic Coordinator of the DFG Research Training Group "Contradiction Studies, University of Bremen
2021-2022 Academic Coordinator of the KU Center for Advanced Studies "Dialogical Cultures", Catholic Universtiy of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
2020-2021 Lecturer at the Department of English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen
2016 Guest Scholar at the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA
2013 – 2019   DFG Principal investigator of the Project "Biopolitics and Indigenous Life Writing" 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
 

• North American Indigenous literatures and cultures
• American autobiography and life writing
• Modern and contemporary American poetry
• American short fiction
• U.S. TV series
• The (post)apocalypse in U.S. literature and culture
• Settler Colonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies
• Biopolitics, Geopolitics
• Environmental Humanities

Monographs, edited volumes, special issues

Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence. Edited with Kerstin Knopf. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. www.dukeupress.edu/biopolitics-geopolitics-life

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. 

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

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

Articles and book chapters

“Introduction: Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities.” Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence.

“Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and 21^st Century Indigenous Literatures.” Cambridge Companion to Race in American Literature, ed. John Ernest. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. [Forthcoming]

“‘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.

(Together with Mirjam Horn). “Experimental Short Fictions of the 1960s: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Entropy’ and Robert Coover’s ‘The Babysitter’.” A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Develoments – Model Interpretations Eds. Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2011. 323-340.

Winter Term 2024/25

Überblick amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis Ende 19. Jahrhundert

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis Ende 19. Jahrhundert - Übung und Staatsexamensvorbereitung

Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies

American Modernism: Literature, Film, Visual Arts

Threats to Democracy Beyond Trump: Social Collapse and Totalitarianism in U.S. Literature and Media

Academic Writing Colloquium: Final Theses / Abschlussarbeiten

Summer Term 2024

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Ende 19. Jahrhundert bis heute

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Ende 19. Jahrhundert bis heute - Übung und Staatsexamensvorbereitung

Futurism and Speculative Fiction

Blackness and Indigeneity in the U.S.

From Text to Screen: American Drama and Its Films

American Short Stories

American Poetry

Academic Writing Colloquium: Final Theses / Abschlussarbeiten

Winter Term 2023/24

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis Ende 19. Jahrhundert

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis Ende 19. Jahrhundert - Übung und Staatsexamensvorbereitung

Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies

Crime and American Media

The Present-Day U.S. Novel - With Author Event

Academic Writing Colloquium: Final Theses / Abschlussarbeiten

Summer Term 2023

Überblick Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Teil 2: Vom Realismus bis zur Gegenwart

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

Überblick Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart - Übung und Staatsexamensvorbereitung

C19 - Histories, Literatures, Perspectives, or: Not Your Grandparents' Nineteenth Century!

American Cinema 1970-2020: Tracking US Film from New Hollywood to the Present

Genres and Histories of the American Short Story

Academic Writing Colloquium: Final Theses / Abschlussarbeiten

Winter Term 2022/23

Literary and Cultural History II: "American Literature and Social Movements”

“Literature und Media (MA): "21st Century Indigenous Literature and Media”

“Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies“

Überblick Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Teil 1: "Von den Anfängen der amerikanischen Literatur bis ins 19. Jahrhundert“

2025

“Ice to Water: dg nanouk okpik’s Poetic Cartographies of a Shifting Arctic”

Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Siegen

2024 

„Forms of Citizenship in Present-Day North American Indigenous Literature” 

The Indian Citzenship Act at 100, Conference at the  Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne

“Here not Here”: Arctic Time-Spaces and Shifting Poetics in dg nanouk okpik’s Poetry”

Annual Conference of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Assocation, Bodo, Norway

“Sovereign Voices and Intimate Relations: Indigenous Podcasts in the 21st Century Media Ecology"

Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Oldenburg

“Can Race Ever Be Represented? Race in American Literature”

Biannual Concerence of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Pasedena, Roundtable

2023

 “Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and 21^st Century Indigenous Literatures.” 

 Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies, Rostock

2022

„Podcasts and the Indigenous Digital Mediascape.” 

Indigenous Print Cultures, Media, and Literatures, Conference at the Obama Institute, JGU Mainz

“Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and 21^st Century Indigenous Literatures.” 

IPP 20^th Anniversary Keynote Lecture Series, JLU Giessen