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PhD in English Philology
Freie Universität Berlin

2021-2025

Dissertation: Victorian Jewish Medievalism

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting

Master of English Studies

Freie Universität Berlin

2018-2020

Thesis: Feminine Futures in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting

Graz International Summer School Seggau

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

July 2019

Theme: Radical (Dis)Engagement

Seminar: Narrative-Based Research and Research-Based Life Writing

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer

Paper: If You're Into That, I Guess: Refiguring Male Patients in the Study of Hysterical Vibrators

NEW FACES Summer School

NEW FACES Partnership

June 2019

Seminar 1: Laboratories of Identity

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Attila Kiss

Seminar 2: “With Such Large Discourse”

Instructor: Dr. Richard Chapman

Paper: Eliding Abjection: The Victorian Visual Semiotics of John Gilbert's Illustrations for Titus Andronicus

International Academic Exchange

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

2018

Department: Department of English and American Studies

Graz International Summer School Seggau

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

July 2018

Theme: Meditating and Mediating Change

Seminar: Narratives of Culture and Religion

Instructor: Dr. Thomas Nolden

Paper: Fear and Repentance and Death Eroticism: Sex Mediates Memory in Maxim Biller's Harlem Holocaust

Bachelor of Arts in English, with Honours

University of Prince Edward Island

2013-2018

Thesis: "Thou Art Troubled Morgane: The Southern Politics of Morgan le Fay in Madison Cawein's 'Morgan le Fay' and 'Accolon of Gaul'"

Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Innes-Parker

Secondary School Diploma

Western Canada High School

2010-2013

High school diploma.

Master Module Papers

Academic Writing I "Michael Litwak's 'Araby': Power in the Self-Portrait of Childhood Interiority" (1,0) 

Academic Writing II "Kink in the Time of Sexology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to 'Abnormal Sexuality' in Victorian Culture" (1,0)

 

Minor Modernists "The Romantic Modernist Manifesto: Plural Modernisms, Plural Romanticisms, and Madison Cawein's 'Waste Land'" (1,7)

Shakespeare in Adaptation "Erotic Appropriation and Cultural Capital in shakespearekink.livejournal.com" (1,3)

 

Laboratories of Identity "A Bloodless Lavinia: The Victorian Visuals of John Gilbert's Illustrations for Titus Andronicus" (1,0)

 

Reading the (Man) Booker Prize "The Curse Begins Already, and We Haven't Even Got to the Noses Yet: The Postcolonial Nose in Midnight's Children" (1,0)

Reading the (Man) Booker Prize "The Failed Reconciliation of Second World War Prison Camp Writing with Australian Military Nationalism in The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (1,3)

Awards and Honours

2021-Present

Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium
Berlin University Alliance, Berlin, Germany

2o18

Henry Havelock MacFarlane Memorial Award
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
Vice-Rector's Scholarship for History and Gender
Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria
2017
MacLauchlan Award for Effective Writing
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
Danielle Handrahan Memorial Award
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
Dorothy Cullen Memorial Award
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
Dean's List Award for Academic Excellence 2016-2017
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
2016
Dr. Samuel N. Robertson Classics Scholarship
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada
Dean's List Award for Academic Excellence 2015-2016
University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada

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