Personal profile

Research overview

I am a PhD-student in Comparative Literature at the universities of Bonn and St Andrews under the joint supervision of Prof. Christian Moser and Prof. Sean Allan. The topics of my dissertation are the theatricality of the self and the imaginative worlds unfolding on the stage of the mind in selected works by Novalis, Jean Paul, De Quincey and Nerval. My research is funded by a Global-PhD Scholarship Bonn/ St Andrews.

Academic/Professional Qualification

  • 10/2012 - 09/2016: Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn (with Distinction) 
  • 10/2016 - 10/2020: Master of Arts in Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn (with Distinction)
  • 09/2018 - 06/2019: Exchange at the University of Geneva
  • Since 01/2023: Co-Tutelle-PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn and the University of St Andrews

Teaching activity

  • Summer term 2023: Romantische Wissenspoetik. Zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Wissen(schaft) seminar at the University of Bonn
  • Winter term 2023/24: Enzyklopädisches Schreiben vom Barock bis zur Romantik seminar at the University of Bonn

External positions

Committee member, National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies