About

I studied English, History and Philosophy at the University of Mannheim and Swansea University, Wales, graduating in July 2016. My final thesis focused on Richard Powers’s Orfeo, and investigated the “Social, Political and Philosophical Implications of Bioart.” Since August 2016, I hold a position as PhD student and instructor of American Literature at the University of Mannheim. My dissertation project is concerned with posthumanist conceptions of consciousness in American Poetry after World War II. Therein, I address the question of how poetry provides alternative and fruitful perspectives on the nature of consciousness. The first results of my research in the form of an article entitled “‘Sing[ing] of the Middle Way:’ Michael McClure’s Venture for a New Mode of Thought Between Science and Mysticism” have been published in May 2018 with COPAS.