1/2022-3/2002

Part-time Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago

4/2017-3/2020                          

Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature Department at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2015-3/2017                          

Postdoctoral Fellow Paid Direct, Department of English, University of Chicago

10/2013- 9/2015                        

Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2012-9/2013                        

Lecturer, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

4/2009-9/2011                         

Lecturer, Literature Department at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin

University of Chicago

1/2022-3/2002

Part-time Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago

Freie Universität Berlin        

                                                                                                                                                                                             MA -Hauptseminar "Crime and Punishment" (Sommersemester 2024)  

BA-Colloquium Literature/Culture, (Wintersemester 2023/24)

MA-Hauptseminar "Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies" (mit Prof. Winfried Siemerling) (Wintersemester 2019/20)

BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2019/20)      

MA-Hauptseminar "Narrative Theory" (Sommersemester 2019)

BA -Vertiefungsseminar "Life Writing: Exploring the Self" (Sommersemester 2019)    

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Nature Writing: Romanticism and Environmentalism" (Wintersemester 2018/19)

BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2018/19)

MA-Hauptseminar "Law and Literature" (Sommersemester 2018)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Race and American Literature" (Sommersemester 2018)

MA-Hauptseminar "Postwar American Poetry" (Wintersemester 2017-18)

BA-Orientierungsmodul "Introduction to Literary Studies I" (Wintersemester 2017-18)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Detective Fiction" (Sommersemester 2017)

MA-Seminar "Revisiting the American Renaissance" (Sommersemester 2017)

BA-Aufbauseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Wintersemester 2013/14)

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

MA-Hauptseminar "War and Literature" (Sommersemester 2013)

MA-Hauptseminar "The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era" (Sommersemester 2013)

BA-Qualifikationsseminar "Whitman and Dickinson" (Sommersemester 2013)

BA-Proseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Sommersemester 2013)

MA-Hauptseminar "U.S. Literary Geographies, 1780-1860" (Wintersemester 2012/13)

MA-Hauptseminar "American Environmental History" (Wintersemester 2012/13)

BA-Qualifikationsseminar "Writing the Nation: The Literature of Revolutionary America" (Wintersemester 2012/13)

BA-Qualifikationsseminar "20th Century Poetry: Modernism to Postmodernism" (Wintersemester 2012/13)

BA-Proseminar "Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft" (Wintersemester 2012/13)

Freie Universität Berlin                

BA-Aufbauseminar "Darwin’s Novel: Literature and Evolution" (Sommersemester 2012)

BA-Aufbauseminar "American Poetry: The Age of Whitman and Dickinson" (Sommersemester 2011)

BA-Colloquium der Abteilung Literatur und Kultur (Sommersemester 2011)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Modes of Modernism: American Writing, 1910-1950" (Wintersemester 2010/1)

BA-Aufbaukurs "Introduction to Literary Studies" (Wintersemester 2010/1)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Fictions of the Future: Utopias and Dystopias" (Sommersemester 2010)

MA-Hauptseminar "American Topographies: Space and Place in Literature, 1820-1900" (Sommersemester 2010)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "20th Century Poetry: Modernism to Postmodernism" (Wintersemester 2009/10)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Writing the Nation: The Literature of Revolutionary America" (Wintersemester 2009/10)

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "War and the American Novel" (Sommersemester 2009)

BA-Aufbauseminar "U.S. Literary Geographies: 1776-1865" (Sommersemester 2009)

Europa-Universität Viadrina                

BA-Vertiefungsseminar "Krieg und amerikanische Literatur: Vom Bürgerkrieg bis zum ‚War on Terrorism’" (Sommersemester 2008)

• Law and Literature
• Environmental Aesthetics
• Literature and Politics
• Critical Theory

Monograph

Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784-1866 (Landscape and Territory: American Literature, Expansion, and National Crisis, 1784-1866). Paderborn: Fink, 2014.

Articles

“Causation” in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Simon Stern and Robert Spoo. Cheltenham: Elgar, forthcoming.

“Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane.” In Handbook of American Poetry, edited by Sabine Sielke. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.

“‘Oracles of the Law’: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Legal Futurism.” Law & Literature (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2023.2213576.

“‘Shedding a Little Ink’: Melville’s Victorian War Poetry.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 21:3 (2019): 115-132.

“Settler Colonial Statistics: Jefferson, Biopolitics, and Notes on the State of Virginia.” Early American Literature 54:1 (2019): 69-96.

“‘The Spectre of Uncertainty’: Chance in Bellamy’s Utopian Fictions.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 60:4 (2015): 417-434.

“Melville’s Battle-Pieces and the Environments of War.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60:4 (2014): 495-532.

“Die Politik des Perfektionismus” (“The Politics of Perfectionism”). In Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell (Happy Days: Wisdom after Cavell), edited by Kathrin Thiele and Katrin Trüstedt. Paderborn: Fink, 2009: 187-191.

“Helen Levitt: 10 Photographs.” PhiN: Philologie im Netz 25 (2003): 1-30, http://www.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin25/p25t1.htm

Reviews

Justice in the New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America, edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross. ALH Online Review 30:1 (2022): 1095–1098, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac082.

Beyond the Civil War Hospital: The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882, by Kirsten Twelbeck. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 138:1 (2020): 194–197.

Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence, by Sonja Schilling. ZAA/Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 67:2 (2019): 235-8.

Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis, by Joel Pfister. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.1 (2018). https://amst.winter-verlag.de/data/article/8017/pdf/101801008.pdf

American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production 1500 - 1900, edited by Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Amerikastudien/American Studies 55:1 (2010): 165-167.

Translations

Martin Harries. “Das Ende einer Trope der Welt” (“The End of Trope for the World”). In Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett ( ‘If Then the World a Theatre Present’: Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England), edited by Björn Quiring. Berlin: August Verlag, 2012: 61-87, from the English.

Andreas Höfele. “Porträts der Hydra: Das Theater und die vielköpfige Menge” (“Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-headed Multitude”). In Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett ( ‘If Then the World a Theatre Present’: Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England), edited by Björn Quiring. Berlin: August Verlag, 2012: 191-217, from the English.