Areas of Research
- Modern and contemporary art and visual culture
- Narratology
- Image theory
- Aesthetics
- Comics Studies
- Dis/ability Studies
- Holocaust Studies
Focus of Research
- Relationality of the arts
- Specificities of material and media
- Visual and tactile qualities of narrations
- Intersectionality of categories of identity and difference
- Construction of meaning through sensual perception
- Methodological interconnections (analysis and theory, history and present)
PostDoc Project
Dissertation
Organization (selection)
2024
Lecture series “Aktuelle Fragen der Comicforschung: Kulturelles Gedächtnis”, together with the Research Network Comicforschung am Rhein (Universities Bonn, Dusseldorf, Cologne), summer term 2023, online
2023
Workshop “Translating Embodiment”, together with Aminata Diouf, Anna Krämer, Sandra Kurfürst and Julia Willms, 6-7/07/2023, University of Cologne
Lecture series “Aktuelle Fragen der Comicforschung: Zeit”, together with the Research Network Comicforschung am Rhein (Universities Bonn, Dusseldorf, Cologne), summer term 2023, online
Series of events “Ästhetiken der Zugänglichkeit. Barrierefreiheit in Kunst, Kultur und Forschung”, summer term 2023University of Cologne. Video recordings
2022
Lecture series “Aktuelle Fragen der Comicforschung: Räume”, together with the Research Network Comicforschung am Rhein (Universities Bonn, Dusseldorf, Cologne), summer term 2022, online
2018
13th Annual Conference of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor) „Spaces Between – Gender, Diversity and Identity in Comics“ and the exhibition “SuperQueeroes”, together with Véronique Sina and Christine Gundermann, 17-19/09/2018, University of Cologne (UoC)
2017
Series of lectures “Holocaust in Kunst, Kultur und Medien”, together with Véronique Sina, 05-09/2017, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
Workshop “Formen der Selbstreflexivität im Medium Comic”, Committee for the Comics Studies (AG Comicforschung) at the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), together with Véronique Sina, 02-03/2017, UoC
2015
Series of workshops „Comics als Metageschichte, Ästhetik, Medialität und Zirkulation“, together with Felix Giesa, Sylvia Kesper-Biermann, Stephan Köhn and Arno Meteling, 04–07/2015, UoC
2014
Series of lectures „Repräsentationen des Holocaust“, together with Véronique Sina, winter term 2014/15, RUB
Exhibition „Holocaust im Comic“, together with Véronique Sina, 10/2014–01/2015, RUB
Series of workshops „Holocaust im Comic“ at the Alfried-Krupp-Schülerlabor, together with Véronique Sina, 11–12/2014, RUB
2010
Curatorial assistance at the exhibition „Anonymous Sculptures. Video and form in Contemporary Art“, under the direction of Sylvia Martin, 03–10/2010, Haus Esters/Kunstmuseen Krefeld