In the winter term 2024/25, I teach as Interim Professor of English Literature at the University of Tübingen, substituting for Professor Matthias Bauer.
I teach English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. My work is situated at the intersection of Modern British and American literary studies and guided by theoretical interests in authorship, concepts of character, and rhetoric. My first book on The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe: Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric came out in 2017 with DeGruyter.
I am currently working on my second book based on my Habilitationsschrift on In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Modern Narratives of Invisibility (LMU 2023). The book traces the modern history of the motif of invisibility and offers readings of authors from Eliza Haywood, Susanna Rowson, and Anna Letitia Barbauld to John Keats, James Forbes Dalton, Fitz-James O’Brien, and H.G. Wells, to G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, China Miéville, and Jennifer Egan.
Besides Freiburg and Munich, I taught at the universities of Giessen, Siegen, Paderborn, Ghent, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I guest-edited several special issues, including a recent one on Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility for Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2024) and a forthcoming issue of Poe Studies on Poe and Science. I contributed to a number of edited collections and handbooks, and my articles appeared in such venues as Forum for Modern Language Studies, Scholarly Editing, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, and Anglistik. I make as much of my work available as I can on this website but if you miss something, please let me know.
Institutional website at LMU Munich