“The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet.” Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 3, 2023 (forthcoming)

“Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Cosmopolitan Elite’? – The Brexit Novel's Engagement with New Class Discourses.” Anglistik, vol. 34, no. 1, 2023 (forthcoming)

“Utopian Past and Dystopian Present? Nostalgia in Brexit Britain.” 21st-Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre, Merle Tönnies und Eckart Voigts (eds.), De Gruyter, 2022

“Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, March 11–13, 2021” (Conference Report). Utopian Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2022 (with Luciana Tamas)

“Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019 (with Merle Tönnies)

24.-27.09.2023: “Negotiating between Traditional Irishness and Modern European Identities: Narratives of Glocal Irish Community in Contemporary Fiction.” Anglistentag 2023, Universität Siegen, Sektion: Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives (upcoming)

05.-06.05.2023: “Creating Uncertainty and Distrust in Science: Conspiracy Theories, Anti- and Pseudoscientific Attitudes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist.” 2023 SAUTE Conference. Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies. Université de Fribourg (Switzerland) (upcoming)

13.04.-15.04.2023: “Performativity and the Construction of Cultural Authority: Literary Representations of Victorian Science.” 2023 Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, Edinburgh Napier University (UK) (upcoming)

17.-19.02.2023: “(Re-)Evaluating Conflicts and Avoiding Partisanship: The Troubles in Northern Irish Historical Fiction after Brexit.” Historical Fictions Research Conference 2023: Values in Historical Fiction, Online Conference

17.-19.11.2022: “Documenting History and Engaging with Populist Discourses: Contemporary TV’s Medialisation of Classed British Identities.” 2022 BritCult Conference: British Identities Medialised, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria)

20.-21.10.2022: “Exploiting Britain’s Imperial History: The Polarising Effects of the British Culture War and the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Rhetoric.” Political Polarization in 21st Century Societies: What It Is and Why It Matters, University of Rouen (France), ERIAC Research Centre (with Matthias Göhrmann)

19.05.2022: “‘The Troubles’ in Recent Historical Fiction: Constructing History and National Identity.” Guest lecture in the seminar “Ireland and Europe: Imagined Communities” by Dr. Sara Strauß, Universität Paderborn (as part of the Jean Monnet Module EU-IRL-CULT).

18.-20.02.2022: “‘The Best Way to Find Out Where Britain’s Heading Is to Look Behind Us’ – Challenging Dominant National Narratives in the Mockumentary Cunk on Britain.” Historical Fictions Research Conference 2022: Communities, Online Conference.

14.01.2022: “Northern Ireland, Brexit, and Europe in Contemporary British Political Rhetoric.” Guest lecture in the seminar “Ireland, Europe and Brexit: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” by Dr. Sara Strauß, Universität Paderborn (as part of the Jean Monnet Module EU-IRL-CULT).

13.-15.10.2021: “Instrumentalising National Identity and Nostalgia in Current Political Messages: The Rhetoric of Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Imagining Britain – Past, Present, and Future, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln (with Merle Tönnies).

18.-19.06.2021: “Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Elite’? – The Brexit Novel’s Engagement with New Class Discourses.” British ‘Fictions of Class’ Since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, Universität Siegen (digital).

05.-07.05.2021: “The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’”. Border Narratives: Brexit, Europe, and the UK, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (digital).

11.-13.03.2021: “The Past as Utopia: Nostalgia in Brexit Britain.” Dystopian/ Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld (digital).

18.-20.02-2021: “Deconstructing Dominant Narratives about the Second World War: Their Finest as (Self)-Reflective Historical Fiction.” Historical Fictions Research Conference 2021: Remembering Catastrophe, Online Conference.

12/2020-02/2021: “Preserving the Past or Progressing towards the Future? A Case Study of Brexit as Representing Restorative Nostalgia.” Bridges and Barriers: Perspectives of Progress and Preservation, An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn (digital).

21.-22.02.2020: “Fragmentation, Intertextuality and Metafictionality: Theorising New Forms of Narrating the Past in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’”. Historical Fictions Research Conference 2020: Forms of History, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria).

22.01.2020: “Brexit and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Literature and Media: Middle England (2018) and Darkest Hour (2017).” Guest lecture in the seminar “Rule Britannia? – Britain Beyond Brexit” by Matthias Göhrmann, Universität Passau.

21.11.2019: “Nostalgia in Contemporary British Culture and Society.” Postgraduate Forum at BritCult - Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, Universität Hildesheim.

03.-04.05.2019: “Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit.” 2019 SAUTE Conference: Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity, Universität Basel (Switzerland) (with Merle Tönnies).

26.-27.04.2019: “(Re)Writing the Past for the Purposes of the Present: Darkest Hour (2017) as a Mythscape.” Deception, Dishonesty, and Duplicity: An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn.