I am an American Studies scholar with research and teaching experience in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, the UK, Italy, and Brazil. In October 2023, I was appointed professor of Anglophone Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Education Upper Austria. I am currently also a part-time senior postdoc in American Studies in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna.

From September 2021 until May 2024 I was a Senior Researcher and Vice-PI in the ERC/FWF funded project Poetry Off the Page (PI Assoc. Prof. Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak) dealing with British Literary History and the Spoken Word (1965-2020).

If you are interested in collaborating across and beyond cultural and institutional borders, please send an email to: [email protected]

My research and teaching interests include:

• U.S. American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies: from the 19th to the 21st centuries
• New Trajectories in Teaching Literature
• U.S. Poetry and British Poetry (incl. performance poetry, poetry slams, poetryfilms, E-poetry)
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick and Popular Culture
• Transnational Studies and Transcultural Studies
• Popular Culture, Visual Culture, Sound Studies
• Adaptation Studies and Reception Studies
• Digital Archives and Digital Databases
• Protest Cultures
• Identity Politics (‘race’/ethnicity, class, gender; intersectionality)