CV
- Since summer 2024: Professor of English Cultural Studies at HU Berlin
- 2024: Habilitation in English Literary and Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund (Lehrbefähigung/Lehrbefugnis für Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglistische Kulturwissenschaft)
Habilitation thesis: "Precarious Temporalities: Prefigurations of the Future between Utopianism and Pessimism in Cultural and Literary Studies" (cumulative, including the book Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst)
Shortlisted for the 2025 Habilitation Prize of the German Assocation for the Study of English
Winner of the 2025 BritCult Award of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
- 2015-2024: Assistant professor at TU Dortmund
- 2016-2019: Postdoctoral Stuart Hall Fellowship at the Stuart Hall Foundation and TU Dortmund
- 2016: Completion of doctoral degree at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Doctoral thesis: British White Trash: Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King.
Winner of the 2019 Rudolf-Chaudoire-Preis, TU Dortmund
- 2011-2014: Doctoral assistant at Universität Mannheim; sessional teacher Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 2005-2011: B.A. and M.A. in English and American Studies and Comparative Literature at Ruhr-Universität Bochum