Research Interests
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- Road Narratives and Automobility
- Literary Mobility Studies
- Transcultural English Studies
- Literature and Globalisation
- Petrofiction, Petrocultures
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Education
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since 2018 |
PhD "Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives," Department of New Literatures in English and Culture, Institute of British and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler; Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt |
2018 |
MA History of Art, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 |
MA Moving Cultures – Transcultural Encounters, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
2017 |
BA History of Art and English Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
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Academic CV
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Since 10/2023 Research Associate, New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
10/2020 – 04/2024 PhD Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
04/2021 – 03/2023 Adjunct Lecturer, New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
09/2016 – 01/2017 Research M.A. Comparative Literary Studies, ERASMUS+ Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
11/2014 – 03/2016 Student Assistant, New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
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Funding and Awards
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- PhD Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
- Grant from Goethe University’s Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film”
- Grant from Deutsch-Französische Hochschule for the organisation of the international conference “Representing Automobility in Literature and Film”
- Grant from Goethe University’s Faculty of Modern Languages (Forschungsförderung am FB10) for the participation in Harvard University’s Institute for World Literature Summer School
- Grant from Goethe University’s GRADE for the workshop “Publishing in the New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures”
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Commission of Trust
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2023 Guest Editor, Matatu. Brill. Guest Editor, The Journal of Transport History (JTH). SAGE. Guest Editor, The European Journal of English Studies (ejes). Taylor and Francis. Reviewer, English Studies in Africa. Taylor and Francis.
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Professional Memberships
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- GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies)
- EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
- Deutscher Anglistenverband
- ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
- GRADE (Goethe Graduate Academy)
- Co-Chair of the Working Group “Transcultural Narratives” at GRADE
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Teaching
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- "Drive! Representing the Road in Anglophone Texts from the 1960s to the Present,” Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2023/24.
- "Changing Narratives of Automobility", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2022/23
- "'Running from both the Living and the Dead’: Imagining Environmental and Mobility Justice in Transcultural Anglophone Texts", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2022. Co-taught with Dr Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell.
- "Petroficiton", Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Winter 2021/2022
- "Around the World with the Road Narrative: Identity, Automobility and Transculturality in Contemporary Anglophone Road Novels and Road Movies”, Proseminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Summer 2021.
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