2021: Doctorate at the University of Oldenburg

Since 2018: Research assistant in the Department of Children's and Youth Literature (University of Oldenburg)

2015-2018: Research assistant in Modern German Literature at the chair of Prof Dr Sabine Kyora (University of Oldenburg)

2013-2015: Teaching staff for special tasks in Modern German Literature at the University of Oldenburg

2005-2011: Studied German Studies and History at the University of Oldenburg (degree in 2011: M.Ed.)

Books

Monograph

• Authorship, genres and digital media. Sibylle Berg, Markus Heitz, Cornelia Funke and Michael Köhlmeier in the literary field of the present (2010-2020), Bielefeld: transcript 2023 (dissertation).

anthology

• together with Fujiwara, Misa/La Manna, Federica/Maierhofer (eds.): Narrative psychischer Krisen. Depression, Suicide and Trauma in German Literature since 2000, Bielefeld: transcript 2025.

Essays

• Introduction, in: Karnatz, Ella Margaretha/Fujiwara, Misa/La Manna, Federica/Maierhofer, Waltraud: Narrative psychischer Krisen. Depression, suicide and trauma in German-language literature since 2000, Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 9-22.
• TikTok made me buy it! Young- and New Adult novels about anxiety, depression and love, in: Karnatz, Ella Margaretha/Fujiwara, Misa/La Manna, Federica/Maierhofer, Waltraud: Narrative psychischer Krisen. Depression, suicide and trauma in German-language literature since 2000, Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 43-68.
• A means of enlightenment and destigmatisation or merely a 'dramaturgical vehicle'? Depression of parental figures in contemporary children's and youth literature, in: Huber, Till/Kyora, Sabine (eds.): Figuren der Diagnostik. Literature and Medicine, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025, pp. 103-124.
• "How do you tame the black dog?" On the representation of depression and its treatment in Michael Köhlmeier's novel "Zwei Herren am Strand", in: Huber,Till/Nover,Immanuel (eds.): Ästhetik des Depressiven in der Literatur der Moderne/Postmoderne, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2023, pp. 115-136.
• Cornelia Funke as a storyteller and reteller of fairy tales using the example of her Spiegelwelt universe, in: Boyken, Thomas/Stemmann, Anna: Von Mund- und Handwerk. Oral and written narration in texts for children and young adults, Berlin/Heidelberg 2022, pp. 203-218.
• "'I can't write a book at all'. Writerly stagings in German late-night shows", in: Kyora, Sabine (ed.): Subjektform 'Autor'? Stagings of authors as practices of subjectivation, Bielefeld: transcript 2014, pp. 267-280.

Multimedia contributions

• together with Frederike Schmidt: On the popularity and topicality of the Heidi figure. Vidcast for the Oldenburg Children's and Young Adult Book Fair 2023 "Grüezi! KIBUM meets Switzerland". Section: Science in ten minutes: https://www.kibum.de/kibum-fuer-erwachsene-2023/vidcasts-2023/
• The Rico, Oskar book series and its media adaptations - a research overview. Vidcast for the Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Fair 2022 "Mehr als krach & bumm! KIBUM, comics and graphic novels". Area: Science in ten minutes https://www.kibum.de/kibum-fuer-erwachsene/vidcasts-2022/
• together with Frederike Schmidt: "Because it was very important to say that, and to be that. There. Always." Judgements and values in "Sankt Irgendwas" by Tamara Bach. Vidcast for the Oldenburg Children's and Young Adult Book Fair 2021 "Gedankensprünge! KIBUM philosophises". Area: Science in ten minutes: https://www.kibum.de/kibum-2021/wissenschaft-in-zehn-minuten/

Talks

• Andreas Steinhöfel and Elisabeth Steinkellner on the podcast – Positions within the field of (children’s and young adult) literature, University of Oldenburg, November 2023.
• Authorial Representations in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, lecture at the workshop ‘Research into Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Methodological Stock-takes’, University of Oldenburg, January 2023.
• Andreas Steinhöfel’s novel *Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten* (2008) and its media adaptations. A lecture in the *TheaterWissen* series, Oldenburg State Theatre, March 2022.
• ‘[I] would describe myself more as a storyteller than as a writer’. Oral and transmedia storytelling as part of author Cornelia Funke’s poetological self-conception’, lecture at the digital conference ‘Of the Mouth and the Craft. Oral and Written Narrative in Children’s and Young Adult Literature”, University of Bremen and University of Oldenburg, July 2021.
• “Churchill, Chaplin and the ‘black dog’. On Michael Köhlmeier’s ‘Zwei Herren am Strand’ (2014)”, lecture in the lecture series organised by the Goethe-Gesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. at the Oldenburg State Library, May 2019.
• ‘“Genre authors” and their presence in the contemporary German-speaking literary field’, lecture at the German-Polish research colloquium for early-career researchers, Magdeburg 2018.
• ‘On the Analysis of Writers’ Websites – Methodological Considerations’, lecture at the conference ‘Contemporary Literary Practices. Authorship and Autofictional Writing in the Digital Space’, September 2018 (funded by the DFG Research Training Group ‘Selbst-Bildungen’).
• ‘How does one tame the “black dog”? On (writing) techniques for dealing with depression and suicidal tendencies in Michael Köhlmeier’s *Zwei Herren am Strand*”, lecture at the workshop “Aesthetics of the Depressive” at the University of Oldenburg, December 2017.
• “Self- and Other-Staging by German-speaking Authors around 2000 – a Project Outline”, lecture at the International Doctoral Conference at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, October 2012.
• ‘“I can’t write a book at all”. Literary self-presentations on late-night shows’, lecture at the international conference ‘The Subject Form “Author”. Performances by Authors as Practices of Subjectification” at the University of Oldenburg, September 2012 (funded by the DFG Research Training Group “Self-Formations”).

Events (discussions and moderated sessions)

• Discussion with suicide researcher Prof. Dr Thomas Niederkrotenthaler on narratives of mental health crises, IVG Congress in Graz, July 2025.
• Organisation of podcast recordings as part of the Oldenburg Poetics Talks on children’s and young adult literature:
  • Episode 1 with Elisabeth Steinkellner: https://uol.de/olfoki/seismograf-oldenburger-poetikgespraeche-ueber-kinder-und-jugendliteratur/gespraeche-mit-elisabeth-steinkellner-21-und-22-juni-2023 (June 2023).
  • Episode 2 with Tamara Bach: https://uol.de/olfoki/seismograf-oldenburger-poetikgespraeche-ueber-kinder-und-jugendliteratur/gespraeche-mit-tamara-bach (June 2024).
• Presentations as part of the LiteraTour Nord: Fatma Aydemir’s *Dschinns* (January 2023), Milena Michiko Flašar’s *Oben Erde, unten Himmel* (December 2023), Katerina Poladjan’s *Goldstrand* (March 2026).
• Reading from *Der Fuchs, der ein Reh sein wollte* by Kirsten Boie at the Children’s Campus of the University of Oldenburg, April 2024.
• Zoran Drvenkar visits a German Studies seminar. Reading and discussion, University of Oldenburg, sponsored by the Literaturhaus of the City of Oldenburg, December 2022.
• Panel discussion on the topic of ‘Diseases of the Age’ with Dr Frank Degler, Dr Till Huber and Miriam Zeh as part of the event ‘Mental Health and Literature’. Literature Forum at the Brecht-Haus, April 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCb0rrMvZQU

Current project

• Mental Health and Children's and Youth Literature. Discourses, theories and basic patterns of storytelling about anxiety and depression

Completed project

• "Authorship, genres and digital media. Michael Köhlmeier, Sibylle Berg, Cornelia Funke and Markus Heitz in the German-language literary field of the present (2010-2020)". University of Oldenburg. Dissertation project (submission and defence 2021)