Research

Main research areas

Dream and fictional narrative in literature, film and visual arts

Transmedia narration and narratology

Fantasy and postmodernism

Intertextuality and intermediality - literature, film, photography, visual arts

Time and narration, film time

Classics of Austrian literature

Literature from the late 18th to the 21st century (especially Romanticism, Vormärz, Realism, turn of the century, literature after 1945, contemporary literature)

Experiments and/or transmedia explorations in the arts
(literature, theater, film, music, visual arts)

Research project

"Mirrored narration - mirror of narration"

DFG third-party funded projects

April 2015 to February 2017:
Vice-speaker of the Saarbrücken DFG Research Training Group "European Dream-Cultures (European Dream-Cultures)" (GRK 2021) - Duration of the first funding period: April 2015-Sept. 2019
- since March 2017 associated member of the Research Training Group at the University of Kassel

April 2015-March 2018:
Member of the DFG network "The nocturnal self. Dream Knowledge and Dream Art in the Century of Psychology (1850-1950)" under the direction of Dr. Marie Guthmüller (Bochum);
research contribution: "Filmic dream representations in the change of cinematographic possibilities (1895-1950)"

2015-2018:
Associate member of the film studies DFG network "Proper time in film. Concepts, effects and interrelations" under the direction of PD Dr. Susanne Kaul and Dr. Stephan Brössel (Münster)

Research/working groups

Since 2014 member of the international research group "The Cultural History of Dreams. A Network of Studies" under the direction of Dr. Marie Guthmüller (Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Galway) - www.culturaldreamstudies.eu

since 2014 Member of the "IDLA Research Committee "Literary and Cultural History of the Dream" under the direction of Prof. Dres. Bernhard Dieterle (Mulhouse) and Manfred Engel (Saarbrücken)

2011-2013 Member of the "Film & TV Reading Group" as part of the "Initiative for Interdisciplinary Media Research" at the Faculty of Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover

2006-2009 Member of the interdisciplinary working group "Aesthetic Processes" on the topic of "Experiment" at Leibniz Universität Hannover; participants include: Prof. Dr. Lutz Hieber (sociology), Prof. Dr. Eva Koethen (art science), Dr. Nina Noeske (music science), Prof. Dr. Florian Vaßen (performing arts), J.-Prof. Dr. Nikole Wilk (Linguistics)

2005-2007 Member of the "Frankfurter Arbeitskreis Phantastik" (FrAPh)

2003-2006 Spokesperson for Section 10 "Fantastic Worlds" of the Giessen Graduate Center for Cultural Studies (GGK) initiated by Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning; cooperation with the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar