Previous Projects

PhD project (2016-2020): Speculative Subjects Surviving Somehow – Speculative Survival Narrative and Neoliberal Intelligence Politics in the 21st Century 

Conference Papers and Guest Lectures

"Survival and the Speculative Imagination: Neoliberal Intelligence Politics and The Walking Dead." Guest Lecture, University of Osnabrück, 2023.
“‘Rise Up’: Class Conflict and Neoliberal Speculative Survival in The Walking Dead.” Guest Lecture, University Cologne, 2022.
“Speculative Survival in the 21st Century: Zombies, Hunger Games, and Neoliberal Intelligence Politics.” Guest Lecture, University of Augsburg, 2020.  
 “Speculative Survival in the 21st Century: Zombies, Hunger Games, and Neoliberal Intelligence Politics.” Lecture series Popular Culture, Media, and Politics in the US, Freie Universität Berlin, 2019.
“AMC’s The Walking Dead as Neo-Western and the Perennial Survival Aesthetics of the Frontier.” 66th annual conference of the GAAS: U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture, University of Hamburg, 2019.
“Negotiating the Exhaustion and Regeneration of Intelligences in the Post-Apocalyptic World of AMC's The Walking Dead.” ExRe(y) 2018: Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, University of Lublin, Poland, 2018.
“Robots vs. Zombies, High-Tech vs. No-Tech – The Production of Humanness through Neoliberal Intelligence Politics in I, Robot and The Walking Dead.” Annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2018.
“Negotiating Humanness in a Zombie World – The Walking Dead's Politics of Intelligences and Challenging Progress.” Follow the Yellow Brick Road? Challenging Approaches to Progress, 2018 GSNAS Graduate Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, 2018.  
“The Cultural Politics of Intelligences in 21st-Century Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Survival Narrative.” Annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies, Humboldt University Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin, 2017.
“The Cultural Politics of Intelligences in 21st-century Survival Narratives.” Early Career Workshop in American Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017.
“‘It ain't rocket science’ – The Cultural Politics of Survival Intelligences in Contemporary Dystopia.” Symposium Dystopia Now at Birkbeck, University of London, 2017.
“Slavery and the African American Experience in Antebellum America.” Lecture series Understanding America: Cultural Theory and American Studies, University of Freiburg, 2016.
 “The Cultural Politics of Intelligence in Dystopian Fiction.” EUCOR Trinational Master and PhD Conference at the University of Strasbourg, France, 2016.
“‘He was a Man!’ – The Heroification of Toussaint Louverture in Abolitionist Discourse.” EUCOR Trinational Master and PhD Conference at the University of Freiburg, 2013.