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/

Lectures

• Andreas Steinhöfel and Elisabeth Steinkellner in the podcast - Positionierungen im (kinder- und jugend-)literarischen Feld, University of Oldenburg, November 2023.
• Autorinszenierungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, lecture at the workshop "Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung: Methodologische Bestandsaufnahmen", University of Oldenburg, January 2023.
• Andreas Steinhöfel's novel "Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten" (2008) and its media adaptations. A lecture in the series TheaterWissen, Staatstheater Oldenburg, March 2022.
• "[I] would describe myself more as a storyteller than a writer". Oral and transmedia storytelling as part of the poetological self-image of the author Cornelia Funke", lecture at the digital conference "Von Mund- und Handwerk. Oral and written narration in children's and young adult literary texts", University of Bremen and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, July 2021.
• "Churchill, Chaplin and the 'black dog'. On Michael Köhlmeier's 'Zwei Herren am Strand' (2014)", lecture in the lecture series of the Goethe-Gesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. at the Landesbibliothek Oldenburg, May 2019.
• "'Genre authors' and their presence in the contemporary German-language literary field", lecture at the German-Polish research colloquium for young academics, Magdeburg 2018.
• "Zur Analyse von Webauftritten von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern - methodische Überlegungen", lecture at the conference "Literarische Praktiken der Gegenwart. Autorschaft und autofiktionales Schreiben im digitalen Raum", September 2018 (funded by the DFG Research Training Group "Selbst-Bildungen").
• "How to tame the 'black dog'? Über (Schreib-)Techniken zum Umgang mit Depressionen und Suizidalität in Michael Köhlmeiers Zwei Herren am Strand", lecture at the workshop "Ästhetik des Depressiven" at the University of Oldenburg, December 2017.
• "Selbst- und Fremdinszenierungen deutschsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren um 2000 - eine Projektskizze", lecture at the International Doctoral Candidates Conference at the Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, October 2012.
• "'I can't write a book at all'. Writerly stagings in late-night shows", lecture at the international conference "Subjektform 'Autor'. Inszenierungen von Autorinnen und Autoren als Praktiken der Subjektivierung" at the University of Oldenburg, September 2012 (funded by the DFG Research Training Group "Selbst-Bildungen").

Events (talks and moderations)

• Talk with suicide researcher Prof. Dr Thomas Niederkrotenthaler on narratives of psychological crises, IVG Congress in Graz, July 2025.
• Together with Sandra Eilts, Theresia Remmert, Julian Götz and Tom Reinhardt: Podcast "Seismograf - Oldenburger Poetikgespräche über Kinder- und Jugendliteratur". Episode 2 with Tamara Bach, University of Oldenburg, June 2024. uol. de/olfoki/seismograf-oldenburger-poetikgespraeche-ueber-kinder-und-jugendliteratur/gespraeche-mit-tamara-bach
• Reading from "Der Fuchs, der ein Reh sein wollte" by Kirsten Boie at the children's campus of the University of Oldenburg, April 2024.
• Moderation of Milena Michiko Flašar's "Above Earth, Below Sky". Reading and discussion as part of the LiteraTour Nord, December 2023.
• Together with Simge Bilgiç, Kimet Tunc and Artur Bischler: Podcast "Seismograf - Oldenburger Poetikgespräche über Kinder- und Jugendliteratur". Episode 1 with Elisabeth Steinkellner, University of Oldenburg, June 2023. uol. de/olfoki/seismograf-oldenburger-poetikgespraeche-ueber-kinder-und-jugendliteratur/gespraeche-mit-elisabeth-steinkellner-21-und-22-juni-2023
• Moderation of Fatma Aydemir's "Dschinns". Reading and discussion as part of the LiteraTour Nord, January 2023.
• Zoran Drvenkar visits German studies seminar. Reading and discussion, University of Oldenburg, sponsored by the Literaturhaus der Stadt Oldenburg, December 2022.
• Panel discussion on the topic of "Epoch Diseases" with Dr Frank Degler, Dr Till Huber and Miriam Zeh as part of the event "Mental Health and Literature". Literature Forum in the Brecht House, 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)