“Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry.” America and Ownership: Territory, Bondage, Jubilee, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Nikita Vasyltsov, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025, pp. 323-338. Amerikastudien/American Studies – A Monograph Series, vol. 326.
“What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction, edited by Caroline-Isabelle Caron and Kristin Noone, McFarland, 2024, 159-173.
"War and Conflict." The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Eds. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch, Routledge, 2022, pp. 322-331.
“Not Your Daddy's Star Trek: Exploring Female Chara2cters in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 287-306.
with Sabrina Mittermeier “‘Never hide who you are’: Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 331-350.
“’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” War and Trauma in Past and Present: Conference Proceedings, edited by Lina Strempel, Chiara Manghi, and Mareike Spychala, Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, 2019, pp. 181-191.
"American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Kolloquium Forschende Frauen 2016 und 2017. Eds. Ute Franz und Iris Hermann, et al. U of Bamberg P, 2018, pp. 109-129.
Essays in Scholarly Journals
“Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry.” Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies (In Progress)
“Military SF für das 21. Jahrhundert.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2020, edited by Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 143-149.
“‘It’s a work in progress, but so’s life.’ Frauen in Star Trek: Discovery und Doctor Who.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2019, edited by Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 333-340.
05/2025: “Life Writing and the War on Terror: Military Femininities in Love My Rifle More Than You and I'm Still Standing.” Guest lecture at the University of Zurich. (Prof. Dr. Katharina Gerund, American Literature and Culture).
09/2024: “Telepathic Aliens, Ship's Doctors, and Female Captains: Star Trek's Ambivalent Feminism.” Guest Lecture as part of the Mobile Feminisms Project, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
05/2024: "'You can't be what you can't see:' Vielfalt und Inklusion am Beispiel des Black History Months, Diversity Day Guest Lecture, HS Coburg.
07/2023: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations? Queere Repräsentation in Star Trek." Queer Geforscht - Event organized by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the University of Bamberg.
06/2023: “Forever Wars – Wars Forever? Military Conflict in American Speculative Narratives.” Guest lecture at the University of Cologne (J.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher, American Literature and Culture)
06/203: "Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt's Poetry." Presentation during the 69th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies at the University of Rostock.
11/2022: "Counterpedagogy in Sarah Piatt‘s 19th-Century Magazine Poetry." Presentation during the 32nd Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS) at the University of Regensburg.
10/2022: "Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes: Female Superheroines in The Old Guard (2020)." Presentation during the international conference "Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture" at the University of Vienna.
07/2022: "Bürgersoldat*in und trans Frau: Transgender Life Writing in Kristin Becks Warrior Princess." Queer Geforscht - Event organized by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the University of Bamberg.
04/2022: “What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), online.
06/2021: “Military Femininities in Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More Than You.” Presentation during the Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, USA. Online.
01/2021: “War Posters and Propaganda.” Guest lecture in the Proseminar “Experiencing, Remembering and Processing the Great War in British Literature” (Dr. Münderlein, Chair for English Literature Studies, University of Bamberg).
05/2020: “’visions of war:’ Resisting the Iraq War in Laila Halaby’s Post-9/11 Poetry” - Guest lecture in the Hauptseminar "Contemporary Arab American Literature" (Prof. Dr. Gerhardt and Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi).
06/2019: "Images of War: U.S. Popular Culture as Militainment." Workshop as part of the annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) with Dr. Katharina Gerund, Universität Hamburg.
04/2019: "Transgressing Gendered Boundaries: Kristin Beck’s Autobiography Warrior Princess." Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Washington, D.C., USA.
12/2018: "'The Witch of Wurna Minor:' Gender, Sexuality, and the Mirror Universe in the Star Trek Franchise." Worlding SF. University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
11/2018: "Honor Flights, Veterans, and Military Pilgrimages in American Popular Culture." 45th Austrian Association for American Studies Conference: American Im/Mobilities. Universität Wien, Österreich.
10/2018: "The Canon and its Discontents - Questions of Genre, Canon, and Narrative in Star Trek: Discovery." Screening and Discussion. University of Birmingham, GB.
09/2018: "Illustrating War: Gender, Violence, and War in Photographs in Female Veterans' Autobiographies." Writing Her/Self in Text and Image in Anglophone Women's Life Writing. Université Paris Nanterre, France.
09/2018: “Judging a Book by its Cover: Gender, Violence, and War on the Covers of Female Veterans' Autobiographies.” War, Literature, and the Arts Conference: Representing and Remembering War, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
03/2017: “’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” Century of Conflict: Dialogues on Women, Gender, Intersectionality and Militarism – 2017 Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
10/2016: "From Vietnam to Iraq - Female Veterans' Writing About War." Postgraduate Forum of the Association for American Studies, University of Hamburg.
06/2016: "American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Colloquium „FORSCHEnde Frauen" organized by the Women's Representatives of the University of Bamberg.
03/2016: "Gender in the Auto/Biography of the Iraq War and Popular Culture.“ Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Seattle, Washington (USA).
01/2014: "We only think we're American": Being an American Jew in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. Student Conference "Connect the Dots: Structure-Networks-Systems", University of Bayreuth.