I am a former doctoral candidate and research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities and the Graduate School for North American Studies. I received my bachelor's degree in English Studies from the University of Bonn and my master's degree in American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Doctoral Research Project: 

Rewriting the Past, Imagining the Future: Science Fiction as a Self-Writing Genre Community (2019–2023)

Publications

"Institutions and Personal Conceptions of Reality in HBO's The Wire: Spatial Transgressions and Their Consequences". In: Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Edited by Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser, and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015, pp. 145-164

Conference Presentations

"Attached You Find My Proposal: Forms of Serial Scholarship". Presentation at the Conference "The Revolution Will Not Be Peer-Reviewed" at the Graduate School for North American Studies, FU Berlin, 5-6 May 2017

"Show, Don't Tell: What the Aesthetic Choices of HBO's The Wire Tell Us about Negative Liberty". Presentation at the Conference "Transgressive Television: Politics, Crime, and Citizenship in 21st-Century American TV Series" at the University of Vienna, 1-3 October, 2014.