I am Senior Lecturer of English and American Literature and Lecturer of English Language Practice in the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Hamburg. I’m an educator with nearly two decades of university teaching experience in language, literature, and cultural studies, including at Rutgers University (where I completed my PhD in 2011), at the University of Oldenburg, and at the University of Siegen.In my work as literary and cultural historian, I have many research interests — pertaining to economics, science, and politics — with a special focus on improving our understanding of collective value, which is the topic of my second book in progress on rethinking aesthetic disinterestedness. I’ve published widely on a variety of topics from the seventeenth century to the present, including a monograph titled Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject (Routledge, 2016). My essays can be read in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Mosaic, and in many other journals and edited collections. I’m also co-editor of Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900 (Palgrave, 2020). In addition, I help coordinate the DFG-funded network “Forms in Dialogue.”