My research interests are in comparative twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, with a particular focus on Holocaust and Jewish literature, Afro-German, Black and postcolonial literature, aftermath writing, literary theory, and intersections between literature and science. I am currently writing a book on Kafka’s intertextual afterlife in works by authors and theorists responding to human limit experiences: genocide, (post)colonialism, racism, terrorism, environmental collapse.

I teach undergraduates at Exeter, Merton and Pembroke Colleges, in German translation and German literature from the eighteenth century to the present, with a special interest in modernist, post-1945 and contemporary writing. Prescribed authors offered include Thomas Mann, Kafka and Bachmann. I supervise graduates in German and Comparative Literature across a range of areas related to my research interests.