08/2024 Positive mid-term evaluation of the junior professorship

Since 10/2021 Junior Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

09/2019–09/2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Trier

04/2016–08/2019 Doctoral Researcher, International Research Training Group "Diversity," University of Trier

10/2011–07/2012 Graduate Research Student, Jesus College, Oxford University

02–07/2010 Erasmus Student, University of Liège

10/2007–06/2015 Studies of English, French and International Relations, University of Trier

Edited Collections

"Remembering the Reproductive Body: Narratives of Historical Transmission, Eugenics, and Epigenetics." Special Issue of Memory Studies Review. Ed. Alys Weinbaum and Julia Wurr. (In preparation.)

"Childlessness and the Female Nigerian Bildungsroman." The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics and Aesthetic Reinventions. Ed. Arnab Dutta Roy and Paul Ugor. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. (Forthcoming.)

"Science and Biocapitalist Reproduction: Commercial Surrogacy in Joanne Ramos' The Farm." Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives. Ed. Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. (Forthcoming.)

"Surrogacy and Dystopian Positionality: Narrative Reproduction between Speculative Fiction and Chick Lit." Special Issue on "Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct." Ed. Manali Karmakar and Binu Sahayam D. Asian Journal of Medical Humanities 3.1 (2024): 1–15.

25 Oct. 2024: "Refiguring the Reproductive Body: Reproduction and Replacement in Postcolonial Theory and Text." Reconsidering the PostColonial Symposium, Columbia University, USA. (Online. By invitation of the organising committee.)

26 April 2024: "Between 'Remigration' and Reproductive Medicine: Reproductive Racial Capitalism, Neoliberal Repronationalism and Current Demographic Discourse in Germany." Reproductive Racial Capitalism and Global Histories of Abortion, University of Washington, USA. (By invitation of Alys Weinbaum.)

1 Feb. 2024: "Surrogate Fictions: Literature and the Potential Legalisation of Altruistic Surrogacy in Germany." Kolloquium Familie und Verwandtschaft. University of Münster. (By invitation of Silvia Schultermandl.)

6 Sept. 2023: "(Not) Treating Cancer as a Metaphor: An Intersectional Analysis of Natasha Brown's Assembly." Health Humanities. Faculty Development Programme, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. (Online. By invitation of Manali Karmakar.)

24 June 2023: "Postcolonial Gender Studies in Germany." Impulse Keynote at the Summer School Dialogues for Responsible Gender and Queer Studies – Experiences from the South of Africa and Germany, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. (By invitation of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies.)

19 May 2023: "Identity, Inequality and Infrastructure in Natasha Brown's Assembly." Postcolonial Infrastructure. Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, University of Konstanz, Germany.

25 Feb. 2023: "Surrogacy and the Dystopian Double Standard: Generic Tensions and the German Embryo Protection Act." Fictions of Reproduction, UC Berkeley, USA. (Online.)

10 Feb. 2023: "Social Reproduction and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Temporalities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa and Natasha Brown’s Assembly." British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference 2023, Georgia Southern University, USA. (Online.)

7 Dec. 2022: "Wer (re)produziert die Zukunft? Transnationale kommerzielle Leihmutterschaft aus Sicht der Postcolonial und Gender Studies." Ringvorlesung Gegenwärtigkeit. Inter- und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. (By invitation of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies.)

3 Nov. 2022: "Surrogate Knowledge: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Partial Knowledge and Knowing Partially in Fictional Representations of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy." The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on the Limits of Research, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany. (By invitation of Anna Auguscik.)

8 Sept. 2022: "Postcolonial Perspectives in and on Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park." Presentation as part of the teacher training workshop Race, Religion and Rock’n Roll: Sarfraz Manzoor’s Memoir Greetings from Bury Park as an Example of Postcolonial Literature, organised with Sylke Bakker at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

20 July 2022: "Literatur und Leihmutterschaft. Eine postkoloniale Perspektive." Lecture series Diagnosen der Gegenwart? Literaturtheorie im 21. Jahrhundert, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.

29 May 2022: "Reproductive Agency and Victimhood: Visible Absences in Fictional Representations of Commercial Surrogacy." Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.

10 July 2021: "Anti-Natalism, the Dystopian Double Standard and the Anthropocene." Humanities for the Anthropocene: Values, Principles, and Practices, University of Puget Sound and University of Victoria.

May 2021: "Between the Metrics of Terror and the Terror of Metrics: The 2015 Paris Attacks in Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s Survivre." Le Malaise contemporain. Société et subjectivité dans la littérature française (1990–2020), Abtei Neumünster, Luxemburg (postponed until December 2021).

26 Feb. 2021: "On the Danger of Security: Neo-Orientalism and the Poetics of Insecurity." Sicherheit und Differenz in historischer Perspektive, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen.

16 Nov. 2018: "Knowledge, Power, and Security: Orientalism and Securitisation in Contemporary Francophone Fiction." Orientalism and the Francophone Postcolonial World: Legacies of Edward W. Said. Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference, University of London.

10 Nov. 2017: "Literary Perspectives on the 'Arab Spring': A Post-Orientalist Window of Opportunity?" Dialogues interculturels à l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale. Représentations littéraires et culturelles – Orient, Maghreb et Afrique occidentale (de 1830 à nos jours), German Historical Institute, Paris.

21 July 2017: "Translating Fear and Alterity: Neo-Orientalist Poetics of In_Security in Post-'Arab Spring' Fiction." Translating Fear. 10th Colloquium on Translation Studies in Portugal, Lisbon.