Academic Career
- since 2023: research group member in the Horizon Europe-Projekt „The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe“, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
- 2019–2026: postdoctoral research associate in German literature and cultural studies and subsequently substitute professor for literary and cultural studies (winter term 2025/26), University of Vechta; Habilitation for Modern German Literature in July 2025
- 2017–2018: Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, Duke University
- 2015–2017: Core Lecturer, Dept. of Germanic Languages, Columbia University
- 2015: Ph.D., Germanic Languages, Columbia University
Research Interests
- literatures and cultures of the global and the planetary
- class, precarization and intersectionality
- literature and politics
- sociology of literature / social history of literature
- Afro-diasporic popular music
Selected Publications
- Weltentwürfe in Kurzprosa. Gegenwartsliteratur zwischen Globalisierung und Klimakrise. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming 2026).
- „An Autofictional Intervention into Working-class Literature: Karin Struck’s Klassenliebe and the Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt“, in The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020, ed. Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica. London: Bloomsbury 2024, 181–198.
- „The Transnational and Multilingual Feature Song in German Rap Music“, in German Studies Review 44.1 (2021), 107–125.
- Proletarische Welten. Internationalistische Weltliteratur in der Weimarer Republik. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019.
- „Labor-Movement Modernism: Proletarian Collectives between Kuhle Wampe and Working-class Performance Culture“, in Modernism/modernity 25.2 (2018), 327–348.
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