MENTAL HEALTH CARE
	I have clinical experience in various health care institutions in Germany and abroad. As a medical student, I trained during longer and shorter international internships in Neurology in Paris, Emergency Medicine in Toronto and Hypnosis at Stanford Medicine. Later, I became a resident in psychosomatic medicine, first at a large psychiatric community hospital near Ulm and then at an academic teaching hospital in Tübingen. My clinical and psychotherapeutic practice strives to meet patients in their contexts and histories and to work together to reconnect each individual to their resources while facing the uncertainties and challenges of the contemporary world. It aims to include an eclectic range of perspectives and interventions, drawing on my background in feminist, intersectional and narrative theories and my ongoing training in cognitive and behavioral therapy.
	MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES
	My research critically assesses questions relating to medicine and healthcare in German contemporary literature and the visual arts and falls under the umbrella of the critical medical humanities. My book project engages with autobiographical narratives of chronic illness and dying in contemporary German literature, (digital) culture and visual arts. This book project examines the ways through which these pathographies re-envision subjectivity and agency in health care under the predicament of the posthuman. It seeks to reflect on the way we think about chronic illness, and to use illness narratives about chronic illness to sharpen our thinking about the future of healthcare. Related to this project I have published in BMJ Medical Humanities and Literature and Medicine.
	CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE AND (VISUAL) CULTURE
	I focus mainly on questions raised by the genre of life writing. Together with Elisabeth Krimmer, I have edited a volume on Life Writing and German Culture, which was published with Camden House in 2021. It investigates various forms of German-language life writing, including memoirs, interviews, letters, diaries, and graphic novels, and examines how authors construct and negotiate notions of the self relative to sociopolitical contexts, cultural traditions, genre expectations, and narrative norms. I have also published an article on contemporary medical romance and autofiction in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. I am also working on an article for a volume on comics and trauma with a focus on autofictional comics, trauma and nature, to be published by Camden House.
	GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
	My research is influenced by an intersectional feminist methodology and a focus on issues of gender and sexuality. I am particularly interested in the relations of gender, sexuality, body and illness in literature and film. This research has been published in Humanities. I have also written on the role of photography and the digital sphere in engaging in questions of embodiment and sexuality (Women, Gender and Research). My latest article  questions gendered notions of the good death in women's end-of-life narratives (Literature and Medicine).
	TRANSDISCIPLINARY TEACHING
	As a teacher, I am interested in developing transdisciplinary and intersectional teaching methodologies and approaches in and beyond the medical field. In the past years, I have taught literature, comics and film to premed and medical students and experimented with creative writing in the medical context. Currently, I am developing and teaching literary texts to nursing students with the goal to bridge between secondary language teaching and what could be called the "nursing humanities." To engage with and reflect on new technologies, I have also developed a bilingual and digital module on artificial intelligence, ethics and media for STEM students. Beyond the academic sphere, I am also a founding member of German Network of Narrative Medicine that serves as a hub for education, reflection and research of literary and cultural studies approaches in medical education and practice.
	Past Project: TRANSLATIONAL NEUROIMMUNOLOGY
	My laboratory research focused on neuroimmunological diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica that predominantly affect women and often lead to disability. The goal of my project was to develop new pharmaceutical treatments for these conditions by working with and developing animal models for Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica. In my doctoral research I investigated the benefit of a green tea component (EGCG) in combination with the approved drug Glatiramer acetate in the animal model of Multiple Sclerosis and in a clinical study. This research has been published in Plos One, Multiple Sclerosis and Science Translational Medicine. This work has been funded by the Stanford University Medical School Postdoctoral Fellowship and the German Academic Exchange Program.