ADVISING

I have successfully advised and mentored students at all levels, serving as a thesis advisor, external reader, internship supervisor and project mentor across the fields of English & American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Media Studies, Global Studies and International Relations (more details below).

I am available to advise and mentor students at all levels across the arts and humanities. I am especially interested in projects that transgress disciplinary boundaries and use experimental, creative and mixed methods. To work with me, please email me with a short overview of your project.

I am especially interested in advising students working on any topic across the following fields:

  • English & American Studies (esp. US cultural history, North American social movements and subcultures, contemporary literature, creative writing, visual culture, media studies)

  • Gender & Sexuality Studies (esp. queer/decolonial/feminist science studies, queer ecofeminisms, queer/trans/feminist body theories, queer and trans studies, intersectional feminisms)

  • Science & Technology Studies (esp. queer/decolonial/feminist STS, history of STS, comparative epistemologies, history of ideas, history and philosophy of biomedicine)

  • Environmental Justice (esp. queer ecologies, interspecies studies, environmental aesthetics)

  • Disability Justice(esp. disability literature and culture, health activism and disability rights movements)

  • Visual and Media Culture (all topics)

  • Global Studies (all topics esp. postcolonial/queer/trans/feminist perspectives)

  • Transdisciplinary Methods (esp. artistic research and mixed methods)

  • Lydia Epp Schmidt

    PhD Dissertation in American Studies. Kansas State University. External Advisor (expected date of completion: 2024).

  • Ruby Gross

    Thesis in Gender Studies. Humboldt University. Co-Supervisor (expected date of completion: 2024).

  • Vasiliki Adamopoulou

    Erasmus Research Assistance Traineeship. Supervisor (November 28, 2022 – February 28, 2023).

  • Elizabeth Berman

    Thesis in Gender Studies. “Bones, Soil, Ghosts. Colonial Entanglements, Queer Ecologies, and Deathly Materialisms in a Post- Shoah Memorial,” Humboldt University. Co-Supervisor (Completed: December 2020).

  • Magdalena Riegler

    Archival Research in Media Studies. “Repräsentationen von trans*gender Youth in filmischen Darstellungen,” University of Vienna. Archival Research Supervisor (January-June 2020).

  • Victoria Kravtsova

    Thesis in International Relations. “Between the ‘Posts’: Feminist Discourses in Post-Soviet Spaces,” Freie Universität, Humboldt Universität, Universität Potsdam. Co-Supervisor (Completed: June 2020).

  • Sophie Derks

    Thesis in Gender Studies. “How Am I? An Autoethnographic Account of Complexified Embodiment in Relation to Chronic Health Problems,” Utrecht University. Second Reader (Completed: August 2019).

  • Lydia Epp Schmidt

    Thesis in English & American Studies. “‘Virginia,’ 1619: The Arrivals, Becomings, and Orientations of Settler Colonialism,” Humboldt University of Berlin. Co-Supervisor (Completed: August 2019).

  • Lukas Kofoed Reimann

    Thesis in Gender Studies. “Living Trans* Lives – A Resonant Reading of S. Bear Bergman’s Essays on Trans* Kinship,” Humboldt University of Berlin. Co-Supervisor (Completed: August 2019).

  • Julia Finst

    Thesis in Global Studies. “Places of Trangression – The Mainstreaming of Sex-Positive Spaces in Berlin,” Humboldt University of Berlin / University of Buenos Aires. Advisor (Completed: August 2019).

  • Eleni Maria Poulopoulou

    Gender Studies Internship. Utrecht University. Internship Supervisor (Berlin, Feb 18 – April 26, 2019).