Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)

Academic career

since 06/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin] at KWI, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
10/2019-05/2023: Researcher and lecturer [wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin], Institute for German Language and Literature, LMU Munich
11/2020: Doctor of philosophy, Graduate School Language & Literature, Class of Literature, LMU Munich
09-12/2017: Visiting scholar, German Department, New York University
2016–2019: Doctoral scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF]
studied German literature (major), history and philosophy (minors) in Munich and Amsterdam

Research interests

German literature and culture (18th to 21st century), and film
literature and knowledge (incl. governmentality/political economy, labour/class, medicine/illness, law, authorship and gender)
cultural techniques and techniques of the body
comedy in literature, theatre and film
gender, performance and affect studies
theories of literature, media and culture

Current projects

Project lead of the DFG-network Comic Literacies – Cultural Techniques of Comedy
Co-PI of the VW-project Towards a Genealogy of Guilty Pleasures: Performing Reflexive Consumption
Stumble, trip and tumble. Functions, aesthetics and mediality of comedic falling
Tischgespräche [conversations around the table]

Publications (selection)

Books

2025: Keck, Annette/Phillips, Roxanne (eds.): figurationen: gender – literatur – kultur 26/1, special issue: Komische Fälle/Funny Cases. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7788/figu.2025.26.issue-1.
2022: Die Regierung der Menschen erzählen. Figurationen der Gouvernementalität bei Streeruwitz, Meinecke und Mora, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (=Studien zur Kulturpoetik 28).