Teaching
I have taught English Literature and Cultural Studies at undergraduate and graduate level, including introductory lecture courses, seminars, and interactive critical reading and historical survey classes in the fields of my research and beyond.
English Literature & Cultural Studies
Select Courses
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Introduction to Digital Humanities
(Hybrid) lecture series, session on “Auden Musulin Papers: Digitally Editing Letters and Literary Papers“ (with Timo Frühwirth and Simon Brenner); winter term 2022.
Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts
Literary and Cultural Theories and Concepts
(Online) lecture series, session on “Life Writing, Celebrity, and Cultural Memory“ (with Julia Lajta-Novak); summer term 2021 & winter term 2021/22.
Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives
Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives
Distinguished online lecture series organised with Sylvia Mieszkowski and Monika Pietrzak-Franger, featuring talks by Ann Heilmann, Patricia Duncker, Kate Mitchell, Charlotte Boyce, and Ruth Padel. University of Vienna, winter term 2020/21.
Biografication! Life Narratives across Media
Biografiction! Life Narratives across Media
Cultural Studies Seminar for Language Teachers, University of Vienna, winter term 2019/20.
Life-Writing and Celebrity
“Life Writing” special option, MSt English Literature, University of Oxford, Hilary Term 2020.
The Politics of Celebrity
The Politics of Celebrity
graduate lecture course, University of Zurich, summer term 2018.
Icon and Commodity: Writing the Author in (Neo)Victorian Author Fiction
Icon and Commodity: Writing the Author in (Neo)Victorian Author Fiction
BA seminar, University of Zurich, winter term 2017.
Textual Analysis
undergraduate seminar, University of Zurich, winter term 2017 & summer term 2018.
Literature Survey II: English Literature(s) from the 18th Century to the Present
Literature Survey II: English Literature(s) from the 18th Century to the Present
undergraduate lecture course, University of Vienna, winter term 2016/17 & summer term 2017.
The Author as Celebrity
The Author as Celebrity
undergraduate seminar, University of Vienna, summer term 2016.
Critical Readings in Literature: Concepts of Selfhood
Critical Readings in Literature: Concepts of Selfhood
undergraduate close reading class, University of Vienna, summer term 2016.
Cultures of Celebrity
interdisciplinary lecture series, featuring talks by Richard Dyer, Tom Mole, Diane Negra, and Ruth Scobie; English Department, University of Vienna, winter term 2015/16.
Wild(e) Imaginings: Oscar Wilde on the Contemporary Stage
interactive graduate class, University of Vienna, summer term 2013.
Critical Readings in English Literature
undergraduate close reading class, University of Vienna, winter term 2012/13 & summer term 2013.
From 'Land of Hope and Glory’ to ‘Land of Hope and Curry’: Images of Empire in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature
undergraduate seminar, University of Vienna, summer term 2012.
(Re)Imagining the Victorian Age
undergraduate seminar
Introduction to the Study of English Literature
undergraduate introductory lecture course
(Re)Imagining the Victorian Age
undergraduate seminar, University of Vienna, winter term 2011/12.
Introduction to the Study of English Literature
undergraduate introductory lecture course, University of Vienna, summer term 2012 & winter term 2012/13.
Supervision (selection)
"'Some day the truth will have to be known': A Reading of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis as a Vehicle of Public Vindication"
Viktoria Jaksch, MA thesis, University of Vienna
"'Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?' Hamilton: An American Musical as an Act of Reshaping Cultural Memory or a Marketing Coup
Melanie Zeiler-Rausch, BEd thesis, University of Vienna
"The Use and Disuse of Biographical Content for the Purposes of Environmental Activism: The Example of Greta Thunberg"
Janine Englhart, BEd thesis, University of Vienna
"Autobiographical Discourses as a Marketing Strategy in the Contemporary Beauty Industry: The Case of Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star"
Diana Steinlechner, BEd thesis, University of Vienna
"'To many she is a hero': An Analysis of Biographical Picture Books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
Klaudia Indyk, BEd thesis, University of Vienna
"The Woman Question and Female Agency in the Ghost Stories of Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edith Nesbit"
Kirsten Drysdale, diploma thesis, University of Vienna
"'Now as I look back, I understand it better' - Neo-Victorian Authorship in Sebastian Barry's Andersen's English."
Fiona Muller, BA thesis, University of Zurich
"Widowhood and the Woman Question in Fin-de-Siècle British Drama"
Marlene Bakke, MA thesis, University of Vienna