I am an interdisciplinary scholar in American Studies, holding a double degree in Politics and English Literature. Currently, I am working as a research assistant in the Department of American Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin.
My doctoral research examines how contemporary American theatre and performance responds to the epidemic of mass shootings, with a particular focus on affect, public discourse, and the staging of violence. Drawing on performance and affect theory, I explore how theatre functions as a space for negotiating collective trauma and ideological conflict.
Alongside my academic work, I am actively involved in student theatre as part of Hubbub. I have worked as assistant director and in stage lighting for productions such as Emma and Wyrd Sisters, staged at the ACUD Theatre in Berlin. More recently, I joined Stephanie Mercedes’ queer gun-destruction opera Never in Our Image in Linz, Austria, as part of STWST84x12 Haunted during the Ars Electronica Festival.
My publications include work on Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan, queer futurism in Becky Chambers, American masculinity in James Herne’s Margaret Fleming, and the biopolitics of antebellum America.
My research and teaching interests include contemporary US American drama and performance, graphic novels, life writing, as well as the intersections of theatre, politics, and cultural history.
