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I am a physician, educator and literary scholar and work at the intersection of mental health, medical humanities, gender studies, and German studies. My career has developed along the disciplinary borders of medicine, science, and literature. I studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg, Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Paris and conducted neuroimmunological research, first at the Charite University Hospital in Berlin and later as postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. I also gained clinical experience working in psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy and psychiatry at the University Hospitals of Ulm and Tübingen. Combining my interest in medicine and literature I earned a Ph.D. in German literature and Feminist Theory and Research at the University of California, Davis. My projects have been funded by the UC Humanities Research Institute, the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute, the Coalition of Women in German, the Stanford University Medical School and the German Academic Exchange Program. My interdisciplinary research asks how medical and cultural discourses are entangled and seeks to broaden societal discussion on healthcare, medicine and medical education. As an educator, I have taught in a wide range of fields, from neuropathology and gender studies to German as a foreign language. In the past years, I have focused on approaches in narrative medicine and have taught literature, comics and film to medical students.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS |
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UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW Postdoctoral Researcher Center for Interdisciplinary Research into Health and Illness |
2022–2024 |
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UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN Assistant Professor Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine |
2021–2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | |
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Research Fellow (Dissertation Year Fellow, Andrew and Florence White Scholar) Department of German and Russian |
2012–2018 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | |
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Research Fellow (DAAD Scholar and Stanford Medical School Fellow) Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences |
2009–2012 |
| CHARITE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BERLIN |
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Doctoral Fellow and Clinician Scientist Neuroimmunology Research Institute |
2008–2009 |
EDUCATION
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | |
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Ph.D. in German and Feminist Theory "Becoming-Ill: Materiality and Chronic Illness in Life Narratives in Contemporary Germany" |
2018 |
| Master of Arts in German |
2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ | |
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Dr. med. "Development of New Efficient Therapy Strategies for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with Glatiramer Acetate by Using the Animal Model of Multiple Sclerosis" |
2011 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG | |
| Staatsexamen Medizin | 2008 |