Research
Research Profile
- literary representations/negotiations of social inequality and social class
- literary and cultural theory at the intersection of text/context, form/politics
- British fiction & poetry since 1945
- history of ideas
Ongoing PhD Project
Class and Classlessness in Narratives of Black Women’s Social Climbing: Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo, Natasha Brown
Organised Events
International Workshop: British Fictions of Class since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, University of Siegen / Online, Germany, 18-19 June 2021 (with Felix Sprang and Benjamin Kohlmann)
Guest Lecture: Dr. Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University), “‘They only want your Body and Soul’ – The Poetics of Rebellion and Resistance in Contemporary Tory Britain.” Seminar: Living Poetry: Lesung, Slam, Vlog (co-teaching with Felix Sprang and Jörg Döring, Winter Semester 2019/20)
Conference Papers
"'Up. Overcoming, Transcending, et cetera.' Class and Classlessness in Contemporary Black-British Novels of Women's Social Climbing." Re-imagining Class: Working-Class Identity and Intersectionality in Contemporary Culture, KU Leuven, Belgium, 5-6 May 2022
"Coming of Age, Coming of Class: Subjectivities of Migration in Zadie Smith’s NW (2012) as Second/Third-Generation Bildungsroman." Subjectivities of Migration – Poetics and Genre in the Literary Imagination of Migrant Experience since 1989, Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin, Germany, 13-14 September 2021
"'… just sparks, tiny parts of a bigger constellation.’ Reading Kae Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos in Light of the Lukácsian-Brechtian Realism Debate." BACLS-WHN 2021 Virtual Conference, 2-3 September 2021
"What Were the Chances? Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and NW as 'All About Class' and 'Classlessness'." British 'Fictions of Class' since 1945 – Revitalising Class In the Twenty-First Century, University of Siegen, Germany, 18-19 June 2021
"White = Middle Class?! – The Intersection of Ethnicity and Class in Post-Colonial Fictions by Contemporary British Novelists." The Intersections of Whiteness, Ruhr-University Bochum and TU Dortmund University, Germany, 11-13 January 2017