I teach English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany. 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.
My second book on In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century will be published in October 2025 by Palgrave Macmillan. The book traces the modern cultural history of the literary 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.
I held guest professorships at the Universities of Tübingen, Freiburg and Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I also taught at the Universities of Giessen, Siegen, Paderborn, and Ghent. I guest-edited several special issues, recently one on Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility for Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2024) and one on Poe and Science for Poe Studies (2024). 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.
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