Publications
Current Publications
Migration meets Bildung
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone
with Lilla Balint
Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, vol. 46.1, 2022
‘Meine eigene Geschichte’
Identity Construction through Reading in Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder
TRANSIT Journal, vol. 13.1, 2021
Migration Narratives in Europe
Recorded Panel discussion of this special edition of Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature
Conference papers and lectures
March 20-22, 2025
Medieval Studies as Futures Studies. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Harvard University.
January 24, 2025
‘Wer hât mich guoter ûf getân?’ Imagining the Reader in German Medieval Literature. Medieval Convivium, Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
June 14, 2024
Imaginative Reading in Medieval Literature. Zukunft der Leseforschung, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
January 5, 2024
On the Futurity of the Past: Modern Conceptualizations of the Medieval Future. MLA, Philadelphia, PA.
March 9-11, 2023
Images of a Reading Mystic. Margaret Ebner between Practice and Icon. Women Read. Differently?: Reading Practices in Medieval Women Convents from the 13th to 15th Centuries, University of Freiburg.
September 16, 2022
The Future of and in Medieval Central Europe. German Studies Association, Houston, TX.
February 10, 2022
Migration Narratives in Europe. Invited panel discussion for Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, virtual.
July 19, 2021
Disrupted Scenes of Reading and Their Poetic Potential. Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy: ‘I would prefer not to.’ Negation, Verweigerung, Verzögerung, University of Cologne.
June 7, 2021
A Courtly Poetics of Reading in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein. Transatlantic Colloquium in Medieval German Studies, virtual.
Nov. 7, 2019
Darstellung von Lesen in populären Medien. Dimmensionen des Lesens, Hannover, Germany.
Aug. 20, 2019
Reading as a Physical Practice: The Legatus divinae pietatis and the Community at Helfta. Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy: Form des Übens, University of California, Berkeley.
May 10, 2019
Reading with the Entire Body. 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
October 25, 2018
Reading Metaphors and Metaphors of Reading in Mystical Texts. The Colloquium on Medieval German Studies, University of Toronto
February 2, 2018
Dialogizing the Voices in The Flowing Light of the Godhead. Medieval Meetings: Berkeley/Stanford Medieval Graduate Student Conference, Stanford University.