About me
I am a researcher in Comparative Literature with a background in German and English literature. My research interests lie at the intersection of Literature and the History of Science, with a particular focus on ecocritical perspectives in travel writing, speculative fiction (especially early science fiction), and the imaginative aspects of scientific texts from the nineteenth century. My PhD dissertation explored how nineteenth-century travel writing influenced ecological thought, analysing the intertextual connections between the travelogues of Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Ernst Haeckel, and how these authors balanced their sensual and scientific understandings of ecological relationships within the genre of travel writing. My postdoctoral research here in Gießen will focus on scientific creation stories in the long nineteenth century and the imagining of new modes of 'coming into being' that followed biological findings during this time.
Originally from Denmark, I completed my MA (Hons) in German and English at the University of Aberdeen in 2020 before beginning my PhD in Comparative Literature at the same institution. I studied abroad at the University of Bonn from 2017 to 2018, and for my PhD research, I spent four months at the University of Jena conducting archival research at the Ernst-Haeckel-House under the Professorship of History and Philosophy of Life Sciences. In the summer of 2025, I was an affiliate and colloquium leader at the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University.
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8044-5178