Publications and lectures

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Publications

Monographs

  • [Together with Franziska Schößler: Introduction to Gender Studies. In collaboration with Lucas Alt and Sarah Thiery. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded ed. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2022.
  • Between Autonomy and Heteronomy. The problem of bourgeois identity in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's dramatic work. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2021.

 

Editing and collaboration

  • [together with Silke Horstkotte and Julia Schöll:] Identity politics in contemporary German-language literature. Thematic issue of the Journal for Intercultural German Studies, 15th vol. 2024. Bielefeld: transcript 2025 [peer review].
  • [together with Matthias Luserke-Jaqui:] Heinrich Leopold Wagner. New studies on his work. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020.

  • Handbook Sturm und Drang. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. With the collaboration of Vanessa Geuen and Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017.

Essays and handbook articles

  • Telling 'femininity' differently. Gender stereotypes and their deconstruction in Lou Andreas-Salomé's story Fenitschka, in: Section Naturalism - 'Female'? On the Critique of Heteronormative 'Unambiguity' in School and University Teaching. Edited by Susanne Balmer, Annette Bühler-Dietrich and Gaby Pailer. Congress file IVG Graz 2025, Vol. 6. Graz: Universitätsverlag [submitted].
  • Fragile Promises of Advancement and Fear of Social Exclusion in Kristine Bilkau's Die Glücklichen and Deniz Ohde's Streulicht, in: Klassen.Gefühle.Erzählen. Eds. Sophie König, Lara Tarbuk, Robert Walter-Jochum Jana Maria Research. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2025 [in print; peer review].
  • The longing for fashion and cheerfulness. Marieluise Fleißer's colorful picture book Im Wirtshaus ist heut Maskenball, in: Marieluise Fleißer. Text+Kritik, new edition issue 64, edited by Gustav Frank and Stefan Scherer. Munich 2025 [in print, peer review].
  • Consumer culture and commodity frenzy in Vicki Baum's Der große Ausverkauf, in: Prekärer Konsum. Historische Ökonomie - Gender und prekärer Konsum - Luxus und Prekariat. Edited by Maximilian Bergengruen and Elisabeth Research-Sinn. Freiburg: Rombach 2025 [submitted, peer review].
  • [together with Silke Horstkotte and Julia Schöll:] Introduction: Identity politics in contemporary German-language literature, in: Identitätspolitik in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Issue of the Journal for Intercultural German Studies, 15th vol. (2024). Ed. together with Silke Horstkotte and Julia Schöll. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 11-18 [peer review].
  • Multidimensional Negotiations of European Identification and Differentiation in Merle Kröger's Novel Havarie, in: Identitätspolitik in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Thematic issue of the Journal for Intercultural German Studies, vol. 15 (2024). Ed. together with Silke Horstkotte and Julia Schöll. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 83-99 [peer review].
  • Americanization, in: Handbuch Literatur und Kultur der Wirtschaftswunderzeit. Edited by Nicole Mattern and Stefan Neuhaus. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2024, pp. 207-218.
  • Precarious Lives and Social Decline in Marlene Streeruwitz's Jessica, 30. and Kristine Bilkau's Die Glücklichen, in: Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film. Edited by Sophie Duvernoy, Karsten Olson and Ulrich Plass. New York, London: Bloomsbury 2023, pp. 277-295 [peer review].
  • Eighteenth-Century #MeToo: Rape Culture and Victim Blaming in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin(1776), in: German #MeToo. Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020. Edited Volume by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson. Camden House 2022, pp. 35-58 [peer review].
  • The 'new social question' in contemporary literary discourse. Representations of precarity from an intersectional perspective in Anke Stelling's Schäfchen im Trockenen and Selim Özdoğan's Der die Träume hört, in: Reclaim! Postmigrant and Resistant Practices. Edited by Jara Schmidt and Jule Thiemann. Berlin: Neofelis 2021, pp. 187-201.
  • 'Goethe's youthful comrade' forgotten, misunderstood ... and rediscovered. An overview of Heinrich Leopold Wagner research, in: Heinrich Leopold Wagner. New studies on his work. Ed. together with Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020, pp. 9-20.
  • Bourgeois identity and subject constitutions in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's sensitive comedy Der wohlthätige Unbekannte (1775), in: Heinrich Leopold Wagner. New studies on his work. Ed. together with Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020, pp. 61-79.
  • Gender Studies as an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective of cultural studies, in: Germanistik - eine interkulturelle Wissenschaft. ed. by Nicole Colin, Rolf Parr, Catherine Teissier and Joachim Umlauf. Heidelberg: Synchron-Verlag 2020 (Amsterdam German Studies), pp. 51-58.
  • From Discrimination to Intersectionality, from Disability Studies to Transdisciplinary Literary Studies. Or: The crux of normativity and the necessity of an intersectional perspective, in: Literary Disability Studies. Theory and Practice in Literary Studies. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2019, pp. 115-145.
  • Gender constructions and the narrative of romantic love in Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga TwilightandE L James' Shades of Grey trilogy, in: Liebesgeschichte(n). Identity and Diversity from the 18th to the 21st Century. Edited by Frank Becker and Elke-Reinhardt-Becker. Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2019, pp. 363-381.
  • Media, power and #MeToo. On the context of a current debate, in: Männeraufbruch 2019. Das Jahrbuch für Männer in der Gegenwart. Edited by Boris von Heesen. Darmstadt: MensLit Verlag 2018, pp. 122-129.
  • Die Reue nach der Tat [H.L. Wagner], in: Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. With the collaboration of Vanessa Geuen and Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 386-392.
  • The Life and Death of Sebastian Sillig [H.L. Wagner], in: Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. With the collaboration of Vanessa Geuen and Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 491-495.
  • Neuer Versuch über die Schauspielkunst (Mercier/ H.L. Wagner), in: Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. With the collaboration of Vanessa Geuen and Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 516-522.
  • Wagner, Heinrich Leopold, in: Handbuch Sturm und Drang. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui. With the collaboration of Vanessa Geuen and Lisa Wille. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 179-185.

Lectures and events

Lectures

  • Ludwig Philipp Hahn (18th century) - Forgotten man of the Sturm und Drang. Keynote lecture on September 29, 2025 as part of the seminar Literaturgeschichte intersektional weitererschreiben at the 49th Annual German Studies Association Conference in Arlington, USA.
  • Bourgeois determination and individual self-determination in Lou Andreas-Salomé's story Fenitschka. On July 25, 2025 in the section Naturalism - 'feminine'? On the critique of heteronormative 'unambiguity' in school and university teaching at the XV IVG Congress at the University of Graz.
  • Literary (self-)reflection and the topos of crisis in Erich Kästner's novel Fabian. The story of a moralist. On July 23, 2025 as part of the section Crisis Discourses as a Medium of Self-Reflection in Classical Modernism (1880-1930) at the XV IVG Congress at the University of Graz.
  • Popular continuities, bestsellers and consumer culture in the context of Americanization (1920-1960). Project presentation on February 7, 2025 as part of the compact phase at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg.
  • Bestseller. Keynote lecture on October 26, 2024 as part of the workshop "Souterrains der Literatur". Play Forms of Entertainment with Kracauer at the Campus Berlin de FernUniversität Hagen.
  • Literary historiography in crisis? Reflections on a revision and reassessment of the years 1925-1959. Lecture on September 5, 2024 as part of the conference Crisis: Between Catastrophe and Renewal at the University of Trier.
  • Fragile Promises of Advancement and Fear of Social Exclusion in Kristine Bilkau's Die Glücklichen and Deniz Ohde's Streulicht. Lecture on June 14, 2024 as part of the conference Klassen.Gefühle.Erzählen at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the FU Berlin.
  • Literary-social explosiveness: The infanticide discourse in Sturm und Drang. Guest lecture on June 4, 2024 at the Sturm und Drang seminar at the Institute of German Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
  • Sturm und Drang, Gender and Disability in Ludwig Philipp Hahn. Lecture on 16 April 2024 at the workshop Literary Symbolizations of Disability: Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century of the DFG Network Inclusive Philology. Literary Disability Studies in German-speaking countries at the University of Greifswald.
  • Mass media consumer narratives and precarious commodity fetishes in Vicki Baum's Pariser Platz 13 and Der große Ausverkauf. Lecture on April 11, 2024 at the conference Precarious Consumption at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
  • Consumer culture and commodity frenzy in Vicki Baum. Guest lecture on March 26, 2024 at the Department of German at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
  • Behind the scenes, between the lines. Gender studies in literary studies. Lecture on February 9, 2024 as part of the exhibition Alte Meister que(e)r gelesen der Hessen Kassel Heritage.
  • Americanization in the Mirror of Consumer Culture. An examination of the Weimar Republic and the German post-war period from a literary and cultural studies perspective. Project presentation on February 2, 2024 as part of the research colloquium Leseszenen at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg.
  • Americanization in the Mirror of Consumer Culture. An examination of the Weimar Republic and the German post-war period from a literary and cultural studies perspective. Guest lecture on December 20, 2023 at the Institute Colloquium for Modern German Literature at the Philipps University of Marburg.
  • Heinrich Leopold Wagner's The Child Murderess and the offensive boundaries of what can be said and shown. Guest lecture on November 28, 2023 as part of the IAS Seminar (Institute of Advanced Study) at Durham University (UK).
  • Gender perspectives in literary studies. Guest lecture on November 2, 2023 as part of the lecture series Introduction to Gender Studies at the University of Basel.
  • New conditions, old topics? Consumption and media 'before' and 'after the currency reform' in Irmgard Keun's novel Ferdinand, der Mann mit dem freundlichen Herzen (1950). On September 21, 2023 as part of the workshop Fünfziger Jahre: Kultur- und medienpoetische Lektüren at the University of Münster.
  • Consumption, commodity and the great sell-out (1937) with Vicki Baum. On May 4, 2023 as part of the conference Narrative Economies (1850-2023) at the University of Zurich.
  • Self-Staging in the Glamour: The Feh as a Consumable Promise of Happiness in Irmgard Keun's The Artificial Silk Girl. On August 14, 2022 as part of the conference Con/Figurations of Female Adventure. Dynamics, Spaces, and Alliances at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
  • Literary Negotiations of Consumer Culture in the 20th Century. Guest lecture on April 29, 2022 at the Department of German at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
  • Luxury steamer versus refugee boat. The Mediterranean as an intercultural border and transitional space in Merle Kröger's Havarie (2015). On April 19, 2022 in the context of Section II. Migration, Trauma and Taboo at the conference of the Society for Intercultural German Studies at the University of Zadar [online].
  • Intersectional precarity in contemporary literature. Guest lecture in the seminar Neueste Dramatik on November 26, 2021 at the University of Trier, FB II - Germanistik.
  • Representations of Social Precarity in Contemporary German Literature: Marlene Streeruwitz' Jessica, 30. (2004) and Jens Eisel's Bevor es hell wird (2017). On October 4, 2020 as part of the panel Representations of Social Precarity: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives (4) at the 44th German Studies Association (GSA) Conference [online].
  • The 'new social question' in contemporary literary discourse. Representations of precarity from an intersectional perspective. On September 17, 2020 as part of the interdisciplinary conference Reclaim! Postmigrant Discourses of Appropriation at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg.
  • Between social repression and sexualized violence: H.L. Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (1776) re-read in the context of #MeToo. On January 22, 2020 as part of the seminar German Literary History in Excerpts - The 19th and 20th Centuries at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Kassel.
  • On the Tense Relationship between Economy and Gender. A critical examination from a literary studies perspective. On November 28, 2019 as part of the lecture series Gender machted Queer at TU Darmstadt.
  • Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (1776) in the context of #MeToo. Between Rape Culture and Victim Blaming. On October 4, 2019 as part of the panel German #MeToo: Representations and Realities of Sexual Violence, Abuse, and Harassment (1) at the 43rd German Studies Association (GSA) Conference in Portland, Oregon.
  • Romantic love ideals in Twilight and Shades of Grey. On December 7, 2018 at the 26th Scientific Symposium for Psychotherapy on Love and Partnership at the LWL University Hospital Bochum.
  • Literary studies as cultural studies: The significance of literature and gender. On November 30, 2018 as part of the international conference German Studies - an intercultural science? at the University of Aix-Marseille.
  • Literary notions of love in the 21st century. Vampirism, sadomasochism and the narrative of romantic love. On September 22, 2017 as part of the international conference Liebeserfindungen, Liebesempfindungen. Semantics of love between continuity and change - from the Baroque to the present atthe University of Duisburg-Essen.
  • Concepts of individuality and autonomy in H.L. Wagner. On August 24, 2017 as part of the Research Colloquium on Modern German Literature at the Institute for Linguistics and Literary Studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
  • "I! I who am everything to myself, since I know everything only through myself!" Goethe and the Sturm und Drang. On May 23, 2017 as part of the TU Darmstadt Day at Tongji University, Shanghai.

 

Event organization and panel moderation

  • together with Oliver Völker (JGU Mainz): Conflict and Contradiction: Constellations of Irreconcilability in the Age of Enlightenment . Workshop at the TU Darmstadt, February 26-27, 2026.
  • together with Mary Helen Dupree (Washington, DC): Sturm und Drang revisited: New Perspectives at this year's German Studies Association Conference in Montréal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023.
  • together with Jeannette Oholi (Gießen): Un/ambiguities: Ambiguity and Plurality in Contemporary Literature at the 27th German Studies Conference in Paderborn on September 28, 2022.
  • Organization of the interdisciplinary lecture series Gender machted Queer in the winter semester 2019/2020 together with the Institute for Theology and Social Ethics at the TU Darmstadt [URL]

  • Organization of the reading and discussion with the author Margarete Stokowski on 22 May 2019 at the TU Darmstadt in cooperation with the Literaturhaus Darmstadt and the Centralstation as part of the cultural festival Sex@TheCity. [URL]

  • Organization of the reading and discussion with the author Anne Wizorek on 02 February 2017 at the TU Darmstadt [URL]

 

Moderation, panels and science communication

  • Radio interview on gender stereotypes and the narrative of romantic love in Twilight and Shades of Grey on Deutschlandfunk Nova, program Ab 21, topic Wie im Film. This is how romantic we really are. on July 26, 2019 [URL]
  • Moderation of the reading Rotlicht with Nora Bossong on June 5, 2019 at Galerie KRZWL, Darmstadt. Organized by the Centralstation Darmstadt.
  • Moderation of the reading Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats and participating panel discussion with Margarete Stokowski on May 22, 2019 at the TU Darmstadt.
  • Participated in the panel discussion on 100 years of women's suffrage - Women's General Assembly 2018 on March 8, 2018 at TU Darmstadt.
  • Moderation of the reading Weil ein #Aufschrei nicht reicht and panel discussion with Anne Wizorek on February 2, 2017 at TU Darmstadt.