Research & Projects

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

The category dis/ability as research tool. Body norms in arts and aesthetics of the long 19th century

Dissertation

Handling and Comprehending Comics. Aesthetic experience through visual-tactile narration in Chris Ware’s Building Stories

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