Research

Research Areas

• North American Indigenous Arts and Literatures
• Indigenous Futurisms
• Death Studies/ Thanatology
• Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction
• Horror and Fantasy Literature
• Utopian Studies
• Slipstream and the New Weird
• Postcolonial Studies
• Postmodern Culture
• Poststructuralist and Semiotic Studies

Current Projects

since 2019: Mortality, Death, and Bereavement in American Literature and Culture (Habil-Projekt)

since 2019: Knowing Tomorrow 2.0: Twenty-First Century Native North American Archives of Futurity (with Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes; funded by the German Research Foundation/ DFG)

since 2013: Signifying Futures: Future Imaginaries in Indigenous North American Literatures an New Media Arts (dissertation project; defended in March 2019)