• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature
• Sensation novels and sensation novelists
• Gender studies
• History of science and medicine

2023. ESPRIT Fellowship (FWF)

2015. uni:docs Fellowship (University of Vienna)

2014. Student Award (Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna)

"Sensationalisting Sexual Selection: Unequal Marriages and Eugenic Discourse in James Payn's Married Beneath Him (1865) and Cecil's Tryst (1872)." The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction. Eds. Beller, A.-M. & MacDonald, T. Routledge, 2025. (forthcoming)

Review of Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction, by Abigail Boucher. BAVS Newsletter 24.2 (2024), 12-13.

"Sensational Contagion: Sin, Disease and Religious Fervour in Wilkie Collins's Armadale (1866) and Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867)." Victorian Network 11 (2023).

Review of Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders, by Gretchen Braun. Victoriographies 13.3 (2023).

Review of Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning, by Wieland Schwanebeck. English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature (2021).

Review of Das englische Drama und Theater von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne, ed. Bernhard Reitz. AAA - Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 42 (2017), 159-161.

"'Jaded Appetite and Perverted Taste': The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food. Eds. Piatti-Farnell, L. & Brien, D. New York: Routledge, 2018. 31-42.

"Dangerous Literary Substances: Discourses of Drugs and Dependence in the Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel Debates." Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900. Eds. Roxburgh, N. & Henke, J. Palgrave, 2020. 69-89.

2021. Vulnerability and Resilience in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. Vulnerability and Resilience in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century Conference, Online, 16-17 December.

2021. Love and Sexual Selection in Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely, but Too Well. Rhoda Broughton and Her Contemporaries: A Centenary Conference, Online, 11 September.

2021. Discourses of Determinism in British Sensation Novels of the 1860s and 1870s. Annual Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, Online, 7-10 April.

2018. Addictive Reading: Sensation Fiction and Substance Abuse. Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century Conference, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England, 13-14 September.

2017. Conflict in the Mid-Victorian Press: Sensationalism and its Foes. Conflict in the Periodical Press. 6th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit), Milan, Italy, 28-30 June.

2016. An Unconventional Explanation for a Conventional Ending: Lady Audley and the Transgression of the Boundaries of Sanity. ESSE Conference, Galway, Ireland, 22-26 August.

2016. Sensational Self-Defeat: The Case of Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely, but Too Well. 33rd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts, Université de Reims, Reims, France, 29 June - 4 July.

2015. The Fateful Qualities of Love and Conventional Morality in Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely, but Too Well. The International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW). From Brontë to Bloomsbury Second International Conference: Reassessing Women's Writing of the 1860s and 1870s, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK, 6-7 July.

2015. Resisting the Urge to Cross Moral Boundaries: The Transgressive yet Conventional Heroine of Rhoda Broughton's Not Wisely, but Too Well. Cultural Crossings: Postgraduate Conference on Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of English, University of Vienna, Austria, 27 June.

2015. Free Will and Fatalism in Thomas Hardy's Tragic and Pastoral Novels: A Comparative Analysis. "Destiny - Coincidence - Contingency" International Interdisciplinary Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 18 May.

Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS)
Member of the Austrian Society for Eigtheenth-Century Studies (ÖGE18)
Member of the Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF)
Member of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS)
Member of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA)
Member of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)