Areas of interest
I am interested in intersections between literature and science, and in how literature experiments with scientific knowledge. Most recently, I wrote about the history of temperature as a literary, scientific, and cultural obsession around 1900 (see, for example, Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain). I am currently researching German participation in European colonial expansion, in works of fiction and non-fiction.
Teaching
- GM1TG (Texts and Genres)
- GM1IMG (Icons of Modern Germany)
- GM3WOS (War on Screen)
- ML2GF (Fantastic Fiction)
- German literature and film
- European cultural history and the history of science and medicine
- Teaching (and learning!) foreign languages
Research centres and groups
Colonial and Postcolonial Technoscience Working Group (LSE)
Academic qualifications
- PhD (Princeton University)
- MA (Princeton University)
- BA (Johns Hopkins University)
