I received my B.A. in American Studies and Philosophy and my M.A. in American Studies from the University of Leipzig. I have been a lecturer, Ph.D. candidate, and research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute for American Studies since 2023. At the institute, I teach in the undergraduate SHP (social and cultural history) track as well as in the graduate practical skills module iCAN (aspeers).
Very broadly speaking, my research is located in the field of US and transnational cultural history, investigating histories of masculinity, the body, and emotion in twentieth-century America. In my Ph.D. project, I am interested in the gendered, embodied, and culturally mediated dimensions of the development of discourses and practices of male social care in post-1960s Germany and the United States—particularly the ways in which these discourses were negotiated in the transnational ‘New Wave’ cinema of the time. Probably triggered by my lifelong enthusiasm for cycling and alpinism, I also have a growing interest in the global history of sports.
Apart from that, I have been working as a literary critic and commentator for various German media (e.g., 54books, DLF Kultur, FAZ) since 2019.
“American Crisis as World Cinema: A Global History of the 1960s and 1970s ‘New Hollywood,’” Handbook American Globalization Projects, eds. Frank Schumacher et al., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2026 [forthcoming].
“Self-Reflexivity, Enfreakment, and Critique of Rural Exploitation in Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970),” Enfreakment in Transnational North American Culture, eds. Katja Kanzler et al., 2026 [forthcoming].
“Crisis and Resilience in American Literature, Culture, History, and Politics,” Organization of the 35th Annual Conference of the DGfA/GAAS Postgraduate Forum, with Annika Schadewaldt et al., Leipzig University, Nov. 6-8, 2025.
Review of Das gespaltene Haus: Eine Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von 1950 bis heute, by Manfred Berg, H-Soz-Kult, 14 Oct. 2025, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-155677.
“Lust, den Schwur von damals zu erneuern,” Report on the 71st Annual Conference of the DGfA/GAAS, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 Jun. 2025, p. N5.
“Imaginationen von Blut und Sorge: Der US-Kriegsheimkehrerfilm The Deer Hunter (1978) im zeitgenössischen Diskurs um die männliche Pflegekrise,” 15th Conference of the Working Group AIM Gender, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 13 Dec. 2024.
“Ostflimmern: Wir Wende-Millennials,” Panel Discussion, Literarischer Herbst: Leipziger Festival für Literatur, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, 22 Oct. 2024.
“Gegenwartsgeschichten,” Ostflimmern: Wir Wende-Millennials, ed. Annekathrin Kohout, MDV 2024, pp. 99-109.
“Nostalgic Americanism and the Psychedelic World: The ‘New Hollywood’ as Cinema of Globalization,” Workshop American Globalization Projects, SFB 1199 Leipzig, 11 Jul. 2024.
Review of Das Private in der Sicherheitsgesellschaft: Umstrittene Freiheitsrechte in den USA 1963–1977, by B.J. Neuroth, H-Soz-Kult, 9 Apr. 2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-140733.
“Reconsidering the ‘Me Decade’: 1970s Caring Masculinity as Cultural History,” Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA, Erfurt University, 4 May 2024.
“'How Patricia Highsmith Became Hip': Anmerkungen zur Highsmith-Industrie der Gegenwart,” Kriminalerzählungen der Gegenwart: Zur Ästhetik und Ethik einer Leitgattung, eds. Sandra Beck and Johannes Franzen, Rombach Wissenschaft 2022, pp. 61-77.
“Introduction to Discourse Analysis” (BA-level; WS 2020/21)
iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2021/22)
iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2022/23)
“American Masculinities since 1945” (BA-level; SS 2023)
“African-American Cultural History since the Civil War” (BA-level; WS 2023/24)
“Terror in American History and Culture” (BA-level; SS 2024)
iCAN/aspeers (MA-level; WS 2024/25)
“The New Deal Order, 1930-1980” (BA-level; SS 2025)
“African-American Cultural History since the Civil War” (BA-level; WS 2025/26)
- Gender history as cultural and social history (esp. masculinities)
- Film theory and history (esp. post-1945)
- Transnational cultural history (esp. America and West/East Germany)
- The body and emotion (esp. in kinship studies and sports studies)