Academic Profile

Presentations & Talks

26. “Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse in Literature from the 19th Century to the Present.” Fantastic Climates, 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Fantasy Research, University of Kassel, 5-7 Sept. 2024.

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25. “Silicon Bodies: Multisensory Exploration of AI in Literature.” From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media, International Symposium, Marie Jahoda Center, Ruhr-University of Bochum, 6 June 2024.

24. “Beyond Transparency: Body Agency and Synesthetic Resistance in Speculative Novels.” Surveillance in an Age of Crisis, 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-31 May 2024.

23. “Narrating Nature: The Intimate Relationship between Literature and Ordinary Science.” International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science (BSLS, CoSciLit and SLSAeu), University of Birmingham, UK, April 10-13, 2024.

22. “The Role of Literary Studies in Unveiling Nonhuman Sentience.” How Can Literary Studies Contribute to a Just Transition to Sustainable Society? Online Symposium, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK, and Dubai, UAE) and the Commission on Science and Literature (DHST/IUHPST), Nov. 8, 2023.

21. “Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Nonhuman and the Synesthetic Aesthetic in Literature.” Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling. University of Augsburg, American Studies Department, July 13-15, 2023.

20. “Academia, Capitalism, and the Intimate Outsider.” Bridging the Ivory Tower and the Streets: Academia and Activism in Times of Crisis Ordinariness. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, June 8-10, 2023.

19. “Approaching the Nonhuman through the Senses: Literary Synesthesia in Contemporary Novels and Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Mark on the Wall’.” Literature and Science: 1922-2022, Sapienza University of Rome, March 31, 2023.

18. “Life as a Universalist Principle? From the ‘Greater Good’ to Ordinary Life in Contemporary North American Science Novels.” Crises of the Universal in Anglophone Literatures and Criticism (19th-21st centuries), Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Paris, March 30, 2023.

17. “Margaret Atwood’s (Happy) New World: From the Promise of Bliss to Feeling Alive.” International Symposium (Brave) New Worlds, CETAPS, Nova University Lisbon, Nov. 4, 2022.

16. “What Does It Mean to Feel Alive? Embodied Awareness in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story.” Postcolonial Narrations Forum 2022, University of Bonn, October 20-22, 2022.

15. “Science Communication in the Age of Self-Help: ‘My Stroke of Insight’.” The Lure of Science and Technology in American Culture and Literature: Past, Present, Future. Online Graduate Conference, American Studies Departments of Turkey, Hacettepe University in collaboration with the American Studies Departments of Ankara University, Atatürk University, Başkent University, Bilkent University, Dokuz Eylül University, Ege University, Haliç University, and İstanbul University, April 28-29, 2022.

14. “Happy Confessions? Science Communication and Reading in the Age of Self-Help.” Autobiography, Memoir, Self-Writing. Advanced Seminar led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, January 13, 2022.

13. “Literary Synesthesia and Human-Nonhuman Interactions in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” International Online Conference Artpolitical - Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics, University of Erfurt and Georg-August University of Goettingen, October 14-16, 2021.

12. “Wissenschaft trifft Selbsthilfe: Selbst-Bekenntnisse in TED Talks.” Online History Club Sitzung, Vigilanzkulturen: Private Aufmerksamkeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Gymnasium Ismaning, June 16, 2021.

11. “From Self-Help to Human Enhancement: Contemporary North American Science and Fiction.” Oberseminar für Doktoranden unter Leitung von Prof. Uwe Lübken, PD Dr. Charlotte Lerg und Dr. Andreas Etges, Ludwing Maximilian University of Munich, February 5, 2020.

10. “Vigilance and Self-Improvement in Contemporary North American Science and Fiction.” Colloquium for doctoral and postdoctoral students led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, January 16, 2020.

9. “The Uses of Literary Synesthesia in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Novels.” Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces, International Conference, Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, University of Warsaw, Poland, December 5-7, 2019.

8. “The SpaceTime of Survival Stories and the Literary Chronotope of NowHere in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” SpaceTime, 13th European Conference of the Society for Science, Literature and the Arts, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, June 25-28, 2019.

7. “Stories of Human Enhancement in Contemporary North American Science Fiction.” Representation in the Time of the Posthuman: Transhuman Enhancement in 21st Century Storytelling, 16th International Conference on Contemporary Narratives in English, University of Zaragoza, Spain, May 29-31, 2019.

6. “Enhancement Discourses in Contemporary Science and Literature.” ScienceHumanities International Summer School, Cardiff University, Wales, May 20-25, 2019.

5. “Reading Literature as Life Science: Human Enhancement in Contemporary North American Science Fiction.” Current Topics and Methods in English and American Literary Studies Workshop, IBZ Munich, May 3-4, 2019.

4. “Genetic Enhancement, TED Talks and the Sense of Wonder.” Global Genetic Fictions Symposium, University of Leeds, UK, April 25-26, 2019.

3. “The Digital Future of the Enhanced Self and Contemporary Science Fiction.” Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, Essen, Nov. 8-10, 2018.

2. “The Affective Stance in Postcritical Readings of Life: The Affect of Aliveness.” Lesen, Messen und Vergleichen im Zeitalter der Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Innsbruck, Austria, April 27-28, 2018.

1. “Affective Enhancement in a Genetic and Digital World: Richard Powers’ Generosity: An Enhancement.” Postgraduate Conference on Life Writing in the Digital Age, Quantification, Optimization, and the Self, Mannheim, Sept. 29-30, 2017.