Dissertation Topic: My dissertation asks how forgetting functions as an analytical concept that demonstrates how narrative texts work. I articulate this “Narratology of Forgetting” through readings of major works of prose fiction — from the end of German realism at the threshold of the modernist revolution (c. 1870–1910), from the height of German modernism (c. 1900–1930), and from late German modernism in a postmodern world (c. 1980–2010) — that highlight the ways in which forgetting shapes narrative temporal relations, modalities of narrative representation, and narratorial perspectives. This situates my project at the crossroads of narratology and cultural memory studies, formulating, within the context of German Studies, an alliance between structural textual analysis and the functions of forgetting.

Research Methods: Textual Analysis, gender theory, narratology, discourse analysis, structuralist, and poststructuralist approaches

Areas of interest: Central to my academic work is the interrelation of identity and its representations. I have published articles on colonial femininity and its representation in the German colonial project around 1900, ‘deviant’ masculinity in the works of German realist writer Wilhelm Raabe, strategies to uncover colonial usurpations of autobiographical accounts in contemporary German literature, identity and non-places, and autofiction in the context of Turkish migration to Germany in the 1970s.

Education: 2018–present: Ph.D. Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; 2021: M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; 2015–2018: M.A. in Literary Studies, Universität Bielefeld; 2012–2015: B.A. in German Languages and Literature, History, and Education, Universität Bielefeld

Languages: German (native speaker) and English

Additional Information: I like baking, cooking, and being outdoors.

Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His