Last week my postdoctoral dissertation, the Habilitationsschrift, was accepted by the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at LMU Munich and I was awarded the degree of Dr. phil. habil.! This qualifies me to teach English Literature as an associate or full professor in German-language academia (the so-called venia legendi, or right to teach).

The manuscript deals with In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Modern Narratives of Invisibility, ranging from the eighteenth-century novel through Romantic poetry, Victorian Gothic fiction, and the modernist text to contemporary literary responses to surveillance capitalism. I am now working on turning the manuscript into a book and will next present some of its eighteenth-century readings at an invited lecture at the University of Siegen on 8 July, 2024.