2021–ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Cluster of Excellence Beyond Slavery and Freedom ∙Postdoctoral project: “Black Atlantic Ecologies: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Black Life Writing beyond the Colonial Anthropocene”
2023: Visiting Scholar · University of Melbourne (AUS)
2022: Visiting Scholar · Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow (UK)
2020: Visiting Scholar · Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (IND)
2020: ERASMUS+ Visiting Scholar · Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (UK) (travels cancelled due to the pandemic)
2017: Visiting Scholar · Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (IND)
2016–2020: Project Assistant · Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives, bilateral DAAD and UGC (University Grants Commission) programme within the initiative IGP (Indo-German Partnerships), PIs: Prof. Isabel Karremann and Prof. Sauagta Bhaduri
2014–2020: Doctoral researcher and lecturer · Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg ∙ Department for English Literature and British Cultural Studies ∙ PhD project: “Be/longing: At the Intersections of Love and Space in Contemporary Afro-Diasporic Women’s Writing”
2010–2011: ERASMUS Scholarship · King‘s College, London (UK): German Literature, English Literature, American Literature, Comparative Literature and Film Studies
2008–2013: B.A./M.A. (Magister) · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich: English Literature, American Literature and Comparative Literature ∙ MA Thesis: “Letting the Subaltern Speak: Female Voices in A. S. Byatt's Possession and Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love”
Research Grants
2024: Funding by the DFG (German Research Foundation). Organisation of Interdisciplinary, International Workshop on “Maroon Ecologies, Maroon Imaginaries.” With Henry Ivry (Glasgow).
2023–2024: Funding by the DAAD within the Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP) with the Republic of India. 2-year project “Mobile Feminisms: Gender, Social Media, Transnational Interactions”. Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher. PIs: Mary-Ann Snyder Körber (JMU Würzburg) and Simi Malhotra (Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi, India).
2023–2024: Funding by the Bonn-Melbourne Research Excellence Fund. 2-year project “Water as Method: Reading the Hydrocolony in Global Literature”. Principal Investigator. Co-PIs: Keyvan Allahyari (Melbourne), Katharina Fackler (Bonn) and Tyne Daile Sumner (Melbourne).
2022: Funding by the Deutsche Anglistenverband (The German Association for the Study of English). Organisation of Online Workshop “DACH Victorianists: Ecocritical Perspectives.” With Stefanie John (Braunschweig).
2022: Funding by the DFG (German Research Foundation). Travel grant for the conference “Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.” Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany).
2021: Funding by the DFG (German Research Foundation). Organisation of international conference “Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration: Intermedial Perspectives.” With Miriam Wallraven (Würzburg) and Frederike Middelhoff (Frankfurt).
2021: Funding by the Universitätsbund Würzburg: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Public reading and performance by the writer Olumide Popoola.
2019: University of Würzburg Doctoral Travel Grant Award. Conference Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water. University of Bremen (Germany).
2019: Funding by the Volkswagen Stiftung. Travel grant for the conference In/Visibility and Opacity: Cultural Productions by African and African Diasporic Women. Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover (Germany).
2018: Funding by the University of Würzburg Jubiläumsstiftung. Research stay at the British Library, Goldsmiths University and the London Metropolitan Archives.
2017: Funding by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Travel grant for the Annual African Literature Association Conference. Yale University, New Haven (US).
2017: Funding by the DRV (Deutscher Romanistenverband) and the Universitätsbund Würzburg: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Summer School “The Self and the Other: Afro-Diasporic Literatures”. With Gabriella Lambrecht, Julius Goldmann and Julien Bobineau (all Würzburg).
2016–2020: Funding by the DAAD and the UGC (University Grants Commission) within the initiative IGP (Indo-German Partnerships). 4-year project “Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives”. Project Assistant. PIs: Prof. Isabel Karremann and Prof. Sauagta Bhaduri.
2016: University of Würzburg Doctoral Travel Grant Award. Conference Global Meeting of the Diasporas Research Stream: A Culture, Traditions, Societies Project. Mansfield College, Oxford University (UK).
2015: University of Würzburg Doctoral Travel Grant Award. Conference Igbo Womanhood, Womanbeing and Personhood. The 4th Annual International Igbo Conference. SOAS University of London (UK).
2013: Excellence Award, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich for achieving the highest GPA among 2013 graduates in the arts and humanities.
2010–2011: ERASMUS Scholarship. King’s College London, UK.
Professional Memberships
GAPS (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien)
PSA (The Postcolonial Studies Association)
CWWA (The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association)
ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment)
EASLCE (European Association for Studies for Literature, Culture & Environment)
NCSA (The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association)
DACH Victorianists
Deutscher Anglistikverband (German Association for the Study of English)
Peer Review
Journals: Anglistik, Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, New West Indian Guide, Textpraxis: Digitales Journal für Philologie, Victorian Network Journal, Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing.
Publishers: Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Routledge, Oxford University Press.
Academic Service
2023–ongoing: Member of Anti-Discrimination Team · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2023–ongoing: Member of Working Group “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2022–ongoing: Member of Steering Committee · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2022–ongoing: Elected Representative of Research Area A: Semantics – Lexical Fields – Narratives · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2021–ongoing: Co-Founder of Working Group “Ecologies of Dependency” (with Zeynep Gökce) · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2021–ongoing: Co-Founder of Working Group “Life Writing” (with Pia Wiegmink) · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2021–ongoing: Member of the Group of Research Group Leaders and Postdoctoral Researchers · Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn
2017–2021: Member of the B.A. Examining Board · Department for English Literature and British Cultural Studies and Linguistics, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2016–2021: Project Assistant in the DAAD/IGP-funded project Literature in a Globalised World: Creative and Critical Perspectives · Department for English Literature and British Cultural Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg
2014–2020: Coordination of Student Tutorials for the Introductions to English Literature and British Cultural Studies · Department for English Literature and British Cultural Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2015–2017: Member of the Appointments Committee for Junior Professorship Positions · Faculty of Arts (Historical, Philological, Cultural and Geographical Studies), Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2015-2017: Participant in the Mentorship Programme “Mentoring in den Geisteswissenschaften” · Frauenbüro, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2015–2016: Organisation of interdisciplinary PhD forums in the humanities for early career researchers · Department for English Literature and British Cultural Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2011–2013: Student Assistant and Tutor for the Introduction to English Literature Seminars · Department for English Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
2012: Web-Coordination and development of the Intercultural Project Databank · Department for English Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich