Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions and Research Experience

since 01/2026

Research Fellow (Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), based at the University of Cambridge, UK (Jesus College)
hosts: Prof. Dr. David D. Kim (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) and Prof. Dr. Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge)

07/2023–12/2025

Postdoctoral Researcher, Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, Research Area 5 “Building Digital Communities” (headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer), Freie Universität Berlin
Including a postdoctoral research project: “Activism and Literature”
Including a teaching appointment (Lehrauftrag), Freie Universität Berlin, Winter Semester 2023/24 – Winter Semester 2025/26

10/2021–06/2023

Postdoctoral Researcher, Project: “Archiving, Indexing and Researching Born-Digitals” (Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association), Research Department, German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA Marbach)
Including a teaching appointment (Lehrauftrag), Universität Stuttgart (03/2022–06/2023)

01/2019–09/2021

Doctoral Candidate, Universität Stuttgart, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

10–12/2018

Research Fellow, Herzog Ernst Fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gotha Research Library and Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt

09/2017–09/2018

Academic Coordinator, Cluster of Excellence Initiative “Understanding Understanding” (coordination of the full proposal; directed by Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer and Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter), Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen / University of Stuttgart
Including a teaching appointment (Lehrauftrag), Universität Stuttgart

2014–2017

Research Assistant and Student Assistant, University of Stuttgart (Digital Humanities, Literary Studies), German Literature Archive Marbach (Research Department)

2025

Best Poster Award, for "Kafka in Games", Digital Humanities Day Leipzig (with Manuel Burghardt and Mark Schwindt)

2024

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Hebbel-Förderpreis der Hebbelstadt Wesselburen und der Hebbel-Gesellschaft für wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs (for the dissertation “Poetische Ökonomie im Drama. Einakter im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert”)

2021

CLARIAHde “Best Pitch Award” for the project “Database of German-language One-Act Plays” (sponsored by TextGrid e.V.)

2019

Doctoral Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2018

Herzog Ernst Fellowship, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gotha Research Library and Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt

2021

Ph.D., Faculty of Humanities, University of Stuttgart
Dissertation: Poetic Economy in Drama. German-language One-Act Plays in the 18th and early 19th Centuries [Poetische Ökonomie im Drama. Einakter im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert]
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Sigrid Köhler (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen)
[submitted: 19 October 2021; defended: 08 December 2022; book published: 23 May 2024]

2015-2017

2016-2017

Teaching German as a Foreign Language Certificate (Berufsqualifizierendes Universitätszertifikat "Deutsch als Fremdsprache lehren lernen"), University of Stuttgart

2012-2015

since 2024 | Co-Coordinator of Arbeitskreis Politische Ästhetiken (Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus)
12/2024 | Peer Reviewer for Academic Manuscripts, De Gruyter Brill
2020-2024 | Founding member and co-speaker "Junge deutsche Schillergesellschaft"
04/2022-06/2023 | Member of the editorial board "Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften" (ZfdG)
10/2021-07/2023 | Contributor to Project Ko-Kreation kurzer narrativer Texte mit Künstlicher Intelligenz: Effekte auf Textrezeption und -produktion (assisted with literary studies-related questions) at Leibniz Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen
since 12/2022 | Selection Committee of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
10/2021-06/2023 | Evaluator, German Literature Archive Marbach (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), Research Fellowship Programme: Provided peer reviews and evaluations for fellowship applications, assessing scholarly merit and project feasibility
10/2020-07/2022 | Mentor in "StartScience" (Mentoring Program for Female Students, Universität Stuttgart)
List of organised conferences and events

2025 | [with Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer] Levent Lohse: "The uncanny – How Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ and ‘The Stanley Parable’ use narrative structure and player/reader agency to create a sense of the uncanny" (BA's Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Englische Philologie)
2025 | [with Prof. Dr. Gabriel Viehhauser] Hakan C. Öztürk: "Navigating the Digital Narrative: Ergodic Literature, Emergence, and Meaningful Choice in cRPG Design" (Master's Thesis, Universität Stuttgart, Digital Humanities)
2024 | [with Prof. Dr. Gabriel Viehhauser] Hanna Weimann: "Narrativ eines Videospiels.Eine Analyse von Let’s Plays des Videospiels 'Hades'" (Master's Thesis, Universität Stuttgart, Digital Humanities)

2020-2021 | Volunteer in the project "Stuvus Corona Helfer - Helferpool der Uni Stuttgart" (voluntary work at the Stuttgart food bank, quarantine stations, and in mask production)
Since 07/2018 | Volunteer at the German Red Cross (local association Winnenden) (training: paramedic completed 10/2019; rescue assistant completed 10/2020)
06/2018-09/2018 | Member of the environmental project "Planet or Plastic" of the Change Lab of the University of Stuttgart.
10/2016-02/2017 | Volunteer teacher in the project "Teaching Tandem for International Students" of the Welcome Club of the City of Stuttgart.
Since 09/2017 | Volunteer interviewer of the Statistical Office of the City of Stuttgart for election day surveys.
10/2015-07/2017 | Volunteer language mentor in the project "Language Mentors for Refugees" of the University of Stuttgart
07/2013-04/2014 |Member of the student council/chair of the student council of German Studies/University of Stuttgart