I teach English Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany. I am currently at work on a project on critical aesthetics in the age of generative AI at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, a short monograph on Crime Fiction and Artificial Intelligence, and a Handbook of Gothic Literature, co-edited with Stephan Karschay and under contract with DeGruyter. In general, my work focuses on literature and culture since the eighteenth century and is guided by theoretical interests in authorship, character, genre, and rhetoric.
Upcoming events I (co-)organize include a workshop on Anglophone Studies in the Age of Generative AI: Scholarship, Criticism, Teaching at FRIAS and an international conference on Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility at the University of Amsterdam.
My second book on In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century was published in November 2025 from 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. My first book on The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe: Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric appeared in 2017 with DeGruyter.
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). My articles appear in such venues as Forum for Modern Language Studies, Scholarly Editing, Children’s Literature in Education, Études britanniques contemporaines, Connotations, 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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