• Early Modern Drama and Poetry
• Ecocriticism
• Environmental Justice
• Affect Theory
• Community

I am a PhD student in English Literature under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann. My dissertation project, “Environmental Justice and Affective Communities in Early Modern English Literature,” investigates the period’s collective notions of justice through the lens of four of its most pressing environmental issues: dearth, deforestation, enclosure, and natural catastrophes. In doing so, my study combines new developments in affect and ecological theory to explore the interactions between community, environment, and discourses of law and justice. Literary works, I contend, played a vital role in these ecological enmeshments, as their narratives created diverse emotional affordances that enabled their audiences to consider questions of justice through their collective experience as an affective community. This project is funded by a Doc.CH scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Environmental Justice and Affective Communities in Early Modern English Literature).

I hold a BA and MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zurich, where I wrote my master’s thesis on commoner politics and the performance of social justice in the two parts of Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody (1605).