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CV

April 16, 2021: PhD viva (summa cum laude).
Title of the dissertation: Ruptured Affections. The Pathos of Anti-Pathos in Shoah Literature and Historiography

Since October 2020: researcher at The Institute for German Literature and Literary Theory (RWTH Aachen University) with a research focus on German-Jewish literature and culture.

2015-2019: PhD researcher at Graduate School 1767 Factual and Fictional Narration (University Freiburg).

2008-2014: studies in German and English linguistics and literature as well as Comparative Literature and European Studies at Ghent University and King’s College London.

 

Prizes

Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz 2020-2021 (PhD thesis)

 

Research interests

• Literature and Historiography of the Shoah
• German-Jewish literature and culture (18th-21st century)
• Romanticism
• Documentary literature and art
• Memory studies
• History of Emotions
• Ecocriticism and migration

 

Publications

Monograph

• Pathos and Anti-Pathos: Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (2023) [= Media and Cultural Memory 36]

Edited volumes

• (mit Urania Milevski und Lena Wetenkamp) Literatur und Erinnerung – Transphilologische Analysen / Literature and Memory – Transphilological Readings. Beiheft von PhiN. Philologie im Netz 29 (2022). http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft29/b29i.htm.
• (with Daniela Henke) Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoagedenkens– Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (2020) [=Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung 2]

Book chapters and articles

• Literatur und Erinnerung. Einleitung zu transphilologischen Studien. In: Literatur und Erinnerung – Transphilologische Analysen / Literature and Memory – Transphilological Readings. Beiheft von PhiN. Philologie im Netz 29 (2022). Ed. Urania Milevski, Tom Vanassche, Lena Wetenkamp. 1-9.
• Cold Countermemory? Narrative Empathy and Processes of Memory in Alexander Kluge's Prose. In: Literatur und Erinnerung – Transphilologische Analysen / Literature and Memory – Transphilological Readings. Supplement of PhiN. Philologie im Netz 29 (2022). Ed. Urania Milevski, Tom Vanassche, Lena Wetenkamp. 57-73.
• “Borderland Auschwitz. Lagerszpracha in Dieter Schlesak’s Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker and its translations.” In: From Sarmatia to Mare Nostrum (ed. Sabine Egger, Stefan Hajduk, Britta Jung). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021. 445-462. [=Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien 25]
• “Probing the limits of co-memoration. Edgar Hilsenrath’s rhetoric of commemoration”. In: Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoah-Gedenkens (ed. Daniela Henke, Tom Vanassche). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (2020). 59-80 [=Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung 2]
• “Screaming silences. Screen Memories and Postmemories of the Resistance and the Shoah in Two French Contemporary Novels” In: Special issue of Status Quaestionis (June 2020). 64-83.
• “Intertextualität in Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker. Interferenzen zwischen Fiktivität, Fiktionalität, Faktualität.” In: Interferenzen – Dimensionen und Phänomene der Überlagerung in Literatur und Theorie (ed. Sebastian Donat, Martin Fritz, Monika Raič, Martin Sexl). Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2018. 123-134. [=Comparanda 17]
• “Hiding one’s feelings. ‘Emotionless’ rhetoric in Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung.” In: Writing Emotions. Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature (ed. Susanne Knaller et al.). Bielefeld: transcript 2017, 311-329 [= Lettre].

Reviews

• (review essay, with Martin Hinze) “Theatre as Courtroom: The NSU protocols in Freiburg”. In: Getuigen. Tussen geschiedenis en herinnering / Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire (123) October 2016. 18-22. https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner/4990.
• “To War. A Journey Along the Front of World War I (review)”. In: Getuigen. Tussen geschiedenis en herinnering / Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire (118), September 2014. 195-196. https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner/856.

 

Conferences and Workshops

• Conference Ko-Erinnerung/Co-memoration (Freiburg, April 19-21, 2018)
  • co-organised with Daniela Henke
  • funded by the DFG (German research council)
• 2nd Graduiertenworkshop Erzählen im Wandel. Den Fokus verschieben. (Freiburg, October 27-28, 2017)
  • co-organised with Ulrike Ackermann, Thorsten Glückhardt, Sebastian Kleinschmidt
  • funded by the DFG (German research council)
• Neue dokumentarische Tendenzen in der Literatur, (Ghent, May 9, 2014, followed by a visit to the Rimini-Protokolle at Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels)

• co-organised with Gunther Martens

 

Grants

TORCH: travel grant Post-War: Remembrance, Recollection, Reconciliation (Oxford, 26 May 2018).

DAAD, Strategic Partnership U4 Network: research grant for attending the Dariah International Digital Humanities Summer School (Göttingen, 17-30 August 2014).