• Children’s and young adult literature and media
• Multimodal and transmedial forms of narration (especially picturebooks and spoken word)
• Afrodiasporic literatures
• Postcolonial Studies and their intersections with Gender Studies, Queer Theory and Ecocriticism
• Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Narratology

Education

• Since 2024 Doctoral student at ISEK – Popular Cultures (supervised by Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Reichl: Afropean Imaginaries. Poetics and Politics of (E)Motion in Twenty-First Century Anglophone and Germanophone Black Diasporic Literatures On and Off the Page)
• 2021-2023 Doctoral student at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
• 2014-2020 MA – Deutsche Philologie (University of Vienna)
• 2014-2019 MA – Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (University of Vienna)
• 2010-2014 BA – Deutsche Philologie (University of Vienna)
• 2010-2014 BA – English and American Studies (University of Vienna)

Jobs

• Since 2023 Assistant for Popular Cultures and Media at ISEK – Popular Cultures, University of Zurich (Professur Lötscher)
• Since 2018 Lecturer at the Department of German Studies, University of Vienna (u:find)
• Since 2015 Contributor and reviewer for the journal 1001 Buch
• Since 2021 Courses for librarians and teachers in the area of children’s and young adult literature and media (focus on topics such as diversity, gender, race, queerness)
• 2019-2023 Director of Literarischen Kurse (Vienna) und editor of the «Fernkurs für Literatur» (correspondence course for literature)
• 2016-2023 Research assistant at STUBE – Studien- und Beratungsstelle für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Vienna)
• 2015-2019 Research and administrative assistant at Literarischen Kurse
• 2017 Student assistant at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna (Alexandra Ganser)

Memeberships

• German Children’s Literature Research Society (Gesellschaft für Kinder und Jugendliteraturforschung, GKJF)
• Co-founder of the Forum Children’s and Young Adult Media (Forum Kinder- und Jugendmedien, FKJM) for early career researchers
• Austrian Research Society on Children’s and Juvenile Literature (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung, ÖG-KJLF)
• Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, GAPS)
• German Studies Association (GSA)
• Interdisciplinary research platform «Mediatised Lifeworlds. Young People's Narrative Constructions, Connections and Appropriations» (YouthMediaLife)
• Interdisciplinary research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies
• Member of the jury for the Frau Ava-Literaturpreis

Projects

• 2022–2023 Research member of the project «Childhood Imag(inari)es: Innovatives Strategies of Narration in Children’s and Young Adult Literature» (a collaboration between the University of Vienna and the University of Ústí nad Labem)

see German cv