Publications

“Monarchs, Mountains, and Queer Kinship in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” in ISLE – Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Literature. Forthcoming.

“Solidarity and Critical Whiteness in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” in Herausforderung Solidarität. Konzepte – Kontroversen – Perspektive. Transcript, 2024.

“Guilt, Shame, and the Generative Queer in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go.” COPAS - Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies, vol.19, no.1, 2018. 10.5283/copas.301 

October 2022: Wortlaut Festival (in cooperation with the city of Hannover), “Love, Power, and Academia,” in conversation with porn scholar Dr. Madita Oeming

July 2020: “The GAAS in 2030: Imagining Future Practices of Critical Diversity Work,” Workshop conference of the GAAS Diversity Roundtable at Freie Universität Berlin

May 2020: Literarischer Salon of Hannover, event chair, “Erinnern stören. Der Mauerfall aus migrantischer und jüdischer Perspektive.” Conversation with Lydia Lierke und Massimo Perinelli about German commemoration culture regarding the fall of Wall from the perspective of immigrant and Jewish communities

March 2019: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, event chair, “Sisterhood?! Über Begegnungen und Grenzen Feministischen Aktivismus,” with Prof. Paula-Irene Villa (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München), Saboura Naqshband (German Research Center for Integration and Migration), Janine Sachs (Trans* in Lower Saxony)

September 2016: Summer School, “Inside/ Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective,” International Summer School, funded by the VW-Foundation