Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Sulimma

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Sulimma sie/ihr

Lehrstuhl Nordamerikastudien

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Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022                                                                                             Tenure-Track Professor for North American Literature and Cultural
                                                                                                                               Studies
                                                                                                                   English Department | University of Freiburg

2018 – 2022                                                                                           Postdoctoral Researcher 
                                                                                                                   Research Group “Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic
                                                                                                  Interventions“ cityscripts.de | University of Duisburg-Essen                                                                                          

2016 – 2018                                                                                            Faculty Member/Lecturer
                                                                                                                   Department of Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies
                                                                                                    | Freie Universität Berlin                                                                                                                                             

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Lehre im SoSe 2026

Hauptseminar 19th-century Women Writers
Hauptseminar Reality Television: Storytelling, Genre, and Practices
LitCult Colloquium

Promotionen

Laufende

Valerie Caillet „Hopeful Futures: Affective Imaginaries of Political Figures in Contemporary US Storytelling“
Kit Schuster „Conceptions and Expansions of the Human in Trans Speculative Future Fiction“
Nicolai Schiffman „Auto(sozio)biographische Herkunftserzählungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur“ (Zweitbetreuung)

Abgeschlossen

Kübra Askay „Playing the Codex: Reading, Writing, and Remediation in Video Games“ 2026 (Zweitbetreuung)
Christopher Sautter „The History of Muralism from the rediscovery of Pompeiian Frescos c. 1730 to 1931 San Francisco“

Publikationen

Monographien

• Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television. Edinburgh: University Press, 2021.
• Die anderen Ministerpräsidenten – Geschlecht in der printmedialen Berichterstattung über Berufspolitik. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014.

Herausgeberschaften/Editionen/Übersetzungen

• City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures. Co-edited with Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr, The Ohio State University Press, 2023.

Artikel und Aufsätze

• With Anthony P. McIntyre, Diane Negra, and Eleanor O’Leary. “Puppy Power: Mapping Modes of National Canine Cuteness and Patriotism” ASAP/Journal 9:3 (2025): 531-558.
• “Dilemma as Technique: Sarah Schulman’s Queer Detective Fiction and Gentrification” English Studies, 2025.
• With Eva von Contzen, Stefan Pfänder, and Uta Reinöhl. “Repetition, again. Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Practices and Forms of Repeating.” Diegesis 13.2 (2024): 138-159.
• With Hanna Henryson. “Nothing was solved, only accelerated: Contemporary Berlin Novels as Gentrifictions.” Narrative 32:1 (2024): 60-79.
• “Gender Studies meets Seriality Studies: Fernsehen und Intersektionale Geschlechtlichkeit.“ Handbuch Televisuelle Serialität, edited by Sven Grampp and Olga Moskatova. Springer, 2024.
• “Urban Backwardness: Fantasies of the Village in the City.” Dossier “Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change,” edited by Kathleen Loock and Ruth Mayer. Amerikastudien / American Studies 68.3 (2023): 319-321.
• with Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr. “City Scripts in Urban Literary and Cultural Studies.” City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures, edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma, Ohio State University Press, 2023. 1-24.
• “To the Bodega or the Café? Microscripts of Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction.” City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures, edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma, 2023. 138-155.
• ‘“To live in a city is to consume its offerings’: Speculative fiction and gentrification in Ling Ma’s Severance (2018).” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Special Issue “Representing Urban Change beyond Gentrification,” 10:1 (2023): 95–112.
• “‘I am not by any stretch a gardener, just curious’: Feminist Gentrifier Memoirs and an Ethics of Urban Gardening.” Ecozon@, Special Issue “Gardening (against) the Anthropocene,” 14.1 (2023): 70-86. Open access.
• With Julia Leyda. “Pop/Poetry: Dickinson as Remix.” Arts 12.2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020062. Open access.
•  “Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies.” Companion of Literary Urban Studies, edited by Lieven Ameel. Routledge, 2023. 87-102.
• “Scripting Urbanity through Intertextuality in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became: I’m Really Going to Have to Watch Some Better Movies about New York.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 63.5 (2022): 571-586.
•  “Needs to Be More Explicit about the Methodologies…: Reluctance, Collaboration, and Vulnerability in Research Processes.” Dossier “Method as Practice,” edited by Ilka Brasch and Alexander Starre. Amerikastudien / American Studies 67.1 (2022): 14-16.
• “Sorting through Feminist Cabinets with Clare Hemmings’s Why Stories Matter (2011).” Culture^2: Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol.1, edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. transcript, 2022. 127-142. Open Access. 
• “Wieviel Hitze verträgt ein Trinkwasserspender? Zur gegenderter Kanonbildung, Legitimität und einer kritischen Sphäre des Fernsehens.” Realität in Serie: Realitätsbehauptungen und -effekte in Fernsehserien, edited by Katja Kanzler, Stefan Schubert, and Sophie Spieler. Springer, 2022. 105-127.
• “Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise.” Playing the Field II: American Studies, Video Games, and Space, edited by Dietmar Meinel. De Gruyter, 2022. 223-240.
• “The Plane, the City, the Chase: Killing Eve and European Aviation Culture.” Dossier “Contemporary US Television and/in the Banal Anthropocene,” edited by Diane Negra and Julia Leyda. Screen 62.1 (2021): 107-115.
• “Defined by Distance: The Roadtrip and Queer Love in Alice Isn’t Dead.” Special Issue “Feminism, Gender, and Podcast Studies,” edited by Julia Hoydis. Gender Forum 77 (2020): 69-89. Open Access.
• with Julia Havas. “Through the Gaps of My Fingers: Genre, Femininity, and Cringe Aesthetics in Dramedy Television.” Television & New Media 21.1 (2020): 75-94.
• “‘Sir, she can hear you‘: The Mute White Woman as Cinematic Meditation on Gender, Communication, and Heterosexual Romance.” American Counter/Publics, edited by Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, and Birte Wege. Winter, 2019, 325-341.
• “Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics.” Hysterical! Women in American Comedy, edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant. University of Texas Press, 2017. 379-401.
• “Simultaneous Seriality: On the Crossmedia Relationship of Television Narratives.” Special Issue “Serial Narratives,” edited by Kathleen Loock. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1-2 (2014): 127-143.
• with Bettina Soller. “‘It’s a great time to be a woman in politics!‘ –  Serielle Verhandlungen von Politikerinnen als Protagonistinnen von US-Fernsehserien.“ Indes – Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft 4 (2014): 78-88.
• “Ein Aufschrei ohne Konsequenzen?“ Politische Kultur in der Krise: Jahrbuch des Göttinger Instituts für Demokratieforschung, edited by Alexander Hensel, Roland Hiemann, Daniela Kallnich, Robert Lorenz, and Katharina Rahlf. ibidem, 2014. 275-277.
• “‘Did you shoot the girl in the street?‘ –  On the Digital Seriality of The Walking Dead.” Special Issue “Digital Seriality.”Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 8 (2014): 83-100. Open Access. 

Rezensionen und Sonstiges

• Kevin R. McNamara (ed.). “The City in American Literature and Culture.” Amerikastudien / American Studies (forthcoming).
• “Stefan Schubert. “Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary Popular Culture.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69.2 (2020): pp. 191-194.
• Rubén Cenamor and Stefan Brandt (eds.).  “Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction.” Anglia – Journal of English Philology 138.1 (2020): 207-211.
• Judith Kohlenberger. “The New Formula For Cool: Science, Technology, and the Popular in The American Imagination.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65.2 (2017): 231-234.
• “Amanda Lotz. “Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1-2 (2014): 212-213.
• Podcast Review “Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century (Amanda Lotz).” Critical Studies in Media Communication Podcast Series, March 2015. https://audioboom.com/boos/2944592-cable-guys-television-and-masculinities-in-the-21st-century.
• “Conference Report Internationale Konferenz der DFG Forschergruppe Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität, 2013.” Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Aug. 2013): www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/index.php?TID=93.
• Annika Bach, Katharina Fritsche, and Margreth Lünenborg. “Migrantinnen in den Medien -Darstellungen in der Presse und ihre Rezeption.” Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 2 (2012): 198-200.
• “Trinkhallen Photography. The Many Visual Lives of the Ruhr Region’s Neighborhood Institution.” KWI-BLOG, July 2022. https://doi.org/10.37189/kwi-blog/20220706-0830.
• “COVID-19 and the Script of Urban Flight.” Theme Week “Scripting Urban Space during COVID-19.” In Media Res, Jan. 2021. https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/covid-19-and-script-%E2%80%9Curban-flight%E2%80%9D.
• with Bettina Soller. “I can’t identify myself as a woman! People can’t know that! – Female Protagonists in Current Political Drama and Comedy.” Theme Week “Representing Democracy.” In Media Res, Nov. 2014. http://mediacommons.org/imr/2014/10/27/i-cant-identify-myself-woman-people-cant-know-female-protagonists-current-political-drama.
• “The Fanboy next Door: Whedon and his Appeal to Self-Professed Geeks.” Theme Week “Much Ado About Joss Whedon.” In Media Res, Oct. 2013 (re-published Dec. 2013 as Retrospective Staff Selection). http://mediacommons.org/imr/2013/09/23/fanboy-next-door-whedon-and-his-appeal-self-professed-geeks.

•  Focus. Dec. 2021. „Die neuen Fünfziger: Sex and the City Revival.” (interview: Birgit Querengäßer)
• Bayrischer Rundfunk. June 2021. “Herrscherinnen: Geschichten von Frauen und Macht.“ (interview: Vanessa Schneider)
• Die Rhein Pfalz Zeitung.“ Jan. 2018. Lange von Weißen Männern geprägt: Mediathek-Interview mit Maria Sulimma.“ (interview: Anne Lenhardt)
• PULS – Das junge Programm des Bayrischen Rundfunks. April 2017. “Spielwiese: Flashbacks auf der Couch: Warum Serien so besessen sind von der Vergangenheit.“ (interview: Verena Fücker)
• Deutschlandfunk Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. March 2014. “Schwerpunktthema: Frauen an der Macht.“ (interview: Christian Forberg)
• ER MAG – Geschichten über Männer (Konrad Adenauer Foundation). Nov. 2013. “Besorgte Versorger – die neuen alten TV-Väter.“ (interview: Dorothee Barsch)

Vorträge

• “The Trivial, the Micro, the Marginal: Exploring Gentrification through Literary’s Leisure Practices” (4 Feb. 2025, University of Düsseldorf)
• “Narrating Urban Change: Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction” (17 Dec. 2024, University of Heidelberg)
• “Political Animals: Pets, Politics, and Reality Television” (26 Oct. 2024, Keynote, Conference “Popular Culture and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward,” University of Freiburg)
• “No one’s more concerned about the G-word than us: Television, Seriality, and Gentrification” (2 July 2024, Conference “Rethinking the Media-Gentrification Nexus,” Boston University)
• “Urban Gardening and Green Gentrification in Feminist Memoirs” (4 July 2024, Environmental Humanities Colloquium, University of Freiburg)
• “Climate Change Literacy, Genre, and US TV Series” (19 June 2024, University of Wuppertal)
• “Puppies, Babies, and Gentrifiers: Canine-Human Consumerism, Care, and Cohabitation in Urban Storytelling” (14 June 2024, Conference “Gentrification Imaginaries,” University of Freiburg)
• “Trivial Pursuits: Navigating Gentrification through Leisure in Literature” (8 May 2024, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• “Leisurely Gentrification? Conflictual Places and Practices in Contemporary Fiction” (2 May 2024, Graduiertenkolleg “Practicing Place,” University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
• “Gender and Seriality” (22 Apr. 2024, Sex, Gender and Sexualities Research Center, University of Surrey)
• “Dog parks are for people: Canine-Gentrifier Cohabitation in Contemporary Literature” (12 Feb. 2024, FRIAS, Freiburg)
• “A Gentrifier and a Dog: Narratives of Urban Transformations and their Canine Representations” (24-27 Jan. 2024, Int. Conference “Narratives of Home and Dwelling: Cultures, Crises, Utopias,” University of Innsbruck)
• “Wie überwinden wir Eurozentrismus in der Forschung?” (with Manuela Boatcă and Michaela Haug) (5 Dec. 2023, Lecture Series “Forschungspraktiken Erforschen – Zur kritischen Reflexion akademischer Wissensproduktion,” University of Freiburg)
• “Of Waves and Wakes: The Work of Metaphor in Cultural Studies” (16 Nov. 2023, Lunch Lecture Series “Cells, Turns, and Footprints – Metaphors in Science,” FRIAS, Freiburg)
• “Stories of Dogs and Cities: Approaching Urban Transformations through Multispecies and Decolonial Frameworks” (10 Nov. 2023, Conference “Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies,” University of Basel)
• “Drawn to Light: Electricity, Television, and the ‘Banal Anthropocene’ of Yellowjackets” (27 Sept. 2023, Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft “Populäre Kulturen,“ Saarland University)
• “Stadt als Festival / Festival als Stadt” (13 July 2023, Conference “Zukunft leben oder überleben? Zukunftslaboratorien als Möglichkeitsräume für ein gutes Leben jenseits der Gegenwartsgesellschaft,“ University of Freiburg)
• With Eva von Contzen, “Televisionary Talk Club: Rings of Power” (6 July 2023, Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg)
• “Remember how deep we go – Stories of Oceanic Cities” (21 June 2023, Inaugural Lecture / Antrittsvorlesung, University of Freiburg)
• “Von Gärten und Windrädern. Klima, Raum und Gender“ (13 June 2023, lecture series “KLIMA: Kulturen, Künste, Medien,“ University of Freiburg)
• with Eva von Contzen, “‘In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom…’: Medieval Studies Meets Television Studies” (23 May 2023, Symposium “Medieval Identities: (Re)Constructing the Self and the Other,” University of Freiburg)
• “Gentrification, Leisure, and the Contemporary Novel” (21 April 2023, Urban Inequalities Workshop, Initiative on Cities, Boston University)
• “Sarah Schulman’s Maggie Terry and the Dilemma of the Gentrifier-Protagonist” (28 Mar. 2023, Penn State Abington)
•  “’The Shape of an Endless Longing’: Water and Urban Communities” (25 Mar. 2023, North Eastern Modern Language Association, Niagara Falls)
• “Mobility, Serial Television, and Climate Change” (21 Mar. 2023, University of Delaware)
• “Green Gentrification, Garden Politics, and Feminist Memoir.” (16 Mar. 2023, Symposium: “New Urban Imaginaries: Narrating the Post-Industrial City,” Penn State Abington)
• “Urban Transformations in Queer Crime Fiction” (13 Mar. 2023, University of Delaware)
• “Gentrification Imaginaries: Postindustrial Literature, Leisure, and Urban Transformations” (7 Mar. 2023, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Princeton University)
• “Die Zukunft der Stadt erzählen: Urbane Microscripts und Gentrifizierung“ (17 Feb. 2023, Global Futures Talk, University of Freiburg)
• With students from the seminar “African American Urbanism,” “Anticipating Black History Month: The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (19 Jan. 2023, event and screening at the Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg)
• with Sieglinde Lemke, “Kulturwissenschaften und Klimagerechtigkeit“ (18 Jan. 2023, Lecture Series “Nachhaltigkeit,“ University of Freiburg)
• “Climate Crisis on TV: Urban Tourism and Aviation in Killing Eve” (10 Jan. 2023, University of Hannover)
• “Microscripts of Gentrification:  Leisure and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Literature” (14 Dec. 2022, Keele University)
• “The (Lost) American Dream on TV: Television Homes and Millennial Home Ownership” (30 Nov. 2022, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
• “Leisure in the Postindustrial City: Gentrification and Literature” (24 Nov. 2022, University of Münster)
• “More than just remembering: Gender, Seriality, and Television” (23 Nov. 2022, University of Münster)
• “The Travel Writing of Louisa May Alcott” (27 Oct. 2022, EUCOR Lecture Series “Nineteenth-Century Women’s Literature”)
• “To live in a city is to consume its offerings: Speculative Fiction and Gentrification in Ling Ma’s Severance“ (28 June 2022, ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Chichester)
• “Television and Seriality” (13 Dec. 2021, University of Paderborn)
• “TV Thursday – Gentrifizierung und Fernsehen“ (9 Dec. 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
• with Hanna Henryson, “Nothing was solved, only accelerated: Gentrification as Apocalypse in Contemporary Dystopian Berlin Novels“ (28 Oct. 2021, University of Uppsala; 7 Dec. 2021 University of Duisburg-Essen)
• “Trivial Pursuits: Literature, Gentrification, and Postindustrial Cities“ (17 Nov. 2021, KWI/ Institute for the Advanced Study, Essen)
• “Hipsters and Gentrifiers in the Work of Sarah Schulman: A Literary Studies Approach to Gentrification“ (16 Nov. 2021, lecture series: “Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Culture,” Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen)
• “AOC plays Among Us: Politik und/als Populärkultur“ (11 Oct. 2021, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland)
• “This is what a Gentefier looks like: Gentrification and Seriality in Vida and Gentefied“ (23 Sept. 2021, Symposium  “To Be Continued: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations,” University of Delaware)
• “A Portal to a City that No Longer Exists: Drinking Coffee at the Bodega during Gentrification” (12 Sept. 2021, Symposium “Transatlantic Rust Belts – Scripting Urban Future(s),” Wayne State University)
• “Where is Everybody?: The Agoraphobic Imagination of Gentrification in Times of COVID-19” (2 Sept. 2021, conference “Ecologies of Fear: Spatial Politics and Imaginaries of Crisis and Danger,” KWI Essen)
• “TV Thursday: Good Wives, Witches & Girlbosses – wie Serien Frauen eine Stimme geben” (15 July 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
• “Needs to Be More Explicit about the Methodologies…: Reluctance, Collaboration, and Vulnerability in Research Processes” (18 June 2021, annual conference of the German American Studies Association, University of Heidelberg)  
• “Gentrification in Series:  Television Storytelling from Gentefied to Search Party” (29 May 2021, conference “The City, the Media & Gentrification: Actors, Discourses and Representations,” Sorbonne Université Paris)
• “Dilemma as Technique: Gentrifier-Protagonists in Sarah Schulman’s Maggie Terry and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation” (7 May 2021, Symposium “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification,” Keele University)
• “TV Thursday – Serial Politics” (15 April 2021, conversation with journalist Vanessa Schneider, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)
• “The White Postfeminist Trivial of Lena Dunham (… and Sylvia Plath … and Philip Roth)” (14 Dec 2020, Leibniz University Hannover)
• “Is that how Lovecraftian Horror Works Now?!: On Gentrification, Cultural Homogeneity, and Dichotomies of Consumerism in N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became” (21 Aug 2020, Symposium “Representing Urban Change: Gentrification and Displacement in Literature and other Media,” University of Uppsala; available online: https://media.medfarm.uu.se/play/kanal/697/video/12920)
• “Unmittelbare Stadt“ (7 July 2020, lecture series “Kernbegriffe für die Stadt der Zukunft“ TU Braunschweig; available online: https://www.uni-due.de/cityscripts/events)
• Lecture “Focus Feminist Heritage: Bandits (1997)” and interview with actor Jasmin Tabatabai (7 March 2020, Berlin Feminist Film Week)
• “Of Trivial Things, Leisure, and Cities” (3 Feb. 2020, Symposium “Spending Time With/In the Nineteenth Century,” Goethe University Frankfurt)
• “Killing Eve… and the Planet – One Flight at a Time: Popular Culture and Aviation” (11 Dec. 2019, lecture series “Popular Culture, Media, and Politics in the US,” John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
• “Barista, barista, (anti-)capitalista?: White Masculinity, Coffee Connoisseurship, and the Urban Café” (29 Nov. 2019, conference “Metropolitan Masculinities: Narratives of Gender and Urban Space,” Ruhr University Bochum)
• “Seriality and Gender: The Politics and Practices of American Television” (24 Oct. 2019, University of Heidelberg)
• “Play by Paratext: Television Narration, Seriality, and Interactivity” (1 June 2019, ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Pamplona)
• “Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise” (17 May 2019, conference “Playing the Field II: Video Games, American Studies, and Space,” University of Duisburg-Essen)
• “Simultaneity versus Seriality: The Conflicting Temporality and Locality of Television’s Urban Chase Scene” (15 Feb. 2019, Symposium of the Association for Literary Urban Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen)
• “I am. I am. I am. – HBOs Girls zwischen distanzierten Blicken, Qualitätslabels, und geschlechtlicher Universalität“ (31 Jan. 2019, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg)
• “ You’d be the first to die. – Death, Gender and Serialized Survivalism in The Walking Dead Franchise” (15 July 2018, “Console-ing Passions – International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism,” Bournemouth University)
• “Sir, she can hear you: The Mute Woman in Popular Culture” (26 May 2018, annual conference of the German American Studies Association, Freie Universität Berlin)
• “The Ur-Feminist Voice of a Generation?: Reading HBO’s Girls and its Critical Sphere” (5 Oct. 2017, conference “Reading American TV Series,” Saarland University)
• “Gender and Seriality in Contemporary US-American Television Narratives” (10 April 2017, TU Dresden)
• “No Place like Home?: The Apartment Shares of Contemporary Female TV Protagonists” (23 March 2017, annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago)
• “Dead yourself?: Serialized Survival and Fanagement in The Walking Dead-Franchise” (29 Nov. 2016, University of Siegen)
• “More Cringe than Comedy?  The complicated Humor of HBO’s Girls” (12 Nov. 2016, annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, University of Innsbruck)
• “Some of the Spoilers… will not be Spoilers: Crossmedia Franchises between Simultaneity, Adaptation, and Transmedia Storytelling” (15 June 2016, workshop “New Media Writing,” Freie Universität Berlin)
• “Will this Gender ever be Televised? On the Challenges of Seriality and Gender Studies” (22 June 2016, conference “Seriality Seriality Seriality: The Many Lives of the Field That Isn’t One,” Freie Universität Berlin)
• “2015: Simultaneous Seriality and The Walking Dead” (17 June 2016,  ISSN Narrative Conference, University of Amsterdam)
• “Beyond the Double Bind? Professional Femininities and ‚Uniform‘ Desires” (21 May 2016, annual conference of the German American Studies Association/DGfA, University of Osnabrück)
• “Not That Kind of Girl: Television’s Troubled Relationship with Academia and TV Criticism” (23 April 2016, biennial conference of the European American Studies Association, University of Constanta)
• “Investigating Gender and Seriality in HBO’s Girls: The Hauntings of Television’s Critical Sphere” (7 Dec. 2015, University of Michigan)
• “I don’t WANT to kill any of you – Gendered Discourses of Authority and Authorization” (23 Nov. 2015,  Project Narrative, the Ohio State University)
• “She is not your mother anymore: The Walking Dead and the Attraction of Serial Survival” (24 July 2015, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
• with Bettina Soller, “You Know, Government Isn’t Just a Boys Club Anymore: Female Protagonists in Contemporary US-American Political Drama and Comedy Series” (19 June 2015,  “Console-ing Passions – International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism,”  University College Dublin)
• with Felix Brinker and Frank Kelleter, “Quality TV? Die neuen amerikanischen Fernsehserien: The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad“ (13 June 2015, Freie Universität Berlin)
• “Negotiating Serial Flow: The Walking Dead as Transmedia Phenomenon” (26 Feb 2015, conference “Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation,” Hannover)
• “Everybody Makes it Until They Don’t – Serial Television and Zombies in The Walking Dead” (11 Dec. 2014, German-American Institute Tübingen)
• “Gender and Serial Television Narratives” (3 Oct. 2014,  University of Michigan)
• “It happened in Salem, not surprisingly – On (Not) Trying Witches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (18 Jan. 2014, University of Göttingen; 1 Feb. 2014, University of Konstanz)
• “Doing Gender in Crossmedia Serial Narratives” (1 July 2013, annual conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, University of Tartu)
• with Uta Scheer. “Once Upon a Time… Neue Geschlechterbilder in Polit-Medien und TV-Serien – Wahrheit oder Märchen?“ (16 Jan. 2013, University of Göttingen)
• “The (Lost) American Dream on TV: Television Homes and Millennial Home Ownership” (30 Nov. 2022, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz)