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)
SoSe 2022
Lecture series “Aktuelle Fragen der Comicforschung: Räume”, together with the Research Network Comicforschung am Rhein (Universities Bonn, Dusseldorf, Cologne)
17-19/09/2018
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, University of Cologne (UoC)
05-09/2017
Series of lectures “Holocaust in Kunst, Kultur und Medien”, together with Véronique Sina, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
02-03/2017
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, UoC
04–07/2015
Series of workshops „Comics als Metageschichte, Ästhetik, Medialität und Zirkulation“, together with Felix Giesa, Sylvia Kesper-Biermann, Stephan Köhn and Arno Meteling, UoC
Winter term 2014/15
Series of lectures „Repräsentationen des Holocaust“, together with Véronique Sina, RUB
10/2014–01/2015
Exhibition „Holocaust im Comic“, together with Véronique Sina, RUB
11–12/2014
Series of workshops „Holocaust im Comic“ at the Alfried-Krupp-Schülerlabor, together with Véronique Sina, RUB
03–10/2010
Curatorial assistance at the exhibition „Anonymous Sculptures. Video and form in Contemporary Art“ under the direction of Sylvia Martin in Haus Esters/Kunstmuseen Krefeld