I am a scholar and writer, currently working on two research projects. One is situated in the growing field of ecocriticism and ways in which current Anglo-American cultural productions imagine human and nonhuman entanglements. The other one analyses the applicability of speculative fiction to address identity questions relating to migration. In general, I am interested in the role of fantasy in processes of moral and social emancipation. With my teaching and research I aim to raise critical questions about symbiosis, cohabitation, and adaptation with regard to questions of race, class, and gender.

Currently, I am an interim professor at the University of Marburg and a guest professor at Bard College Berlin. Most of my academic career I have spent as an assistant professor at the University of Würzburg (2012-2021), where I was teaching classes in U.S. American literature and culture at all levels. Prior to going to the University of Würzburg, the various homes for my teaching and research were: Free University Berlin (John F. Kennedy Institute), Humboldt University Berlin, New York University, Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, and University College Dublin.