CV

Academic Positions

University of Essex, 09/2018 – 08/2020
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Philosophy

European University Institute Florence, 09/2017 – 08/2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

University of Chicago, 09/2016 – 08/2017
Lecturer, Core Curriculum

University of Chicago,  09/2012 – 08/2016
Harper-Schmidt Teaching Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

Education

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 10/2009 – 10/2012
PhD, Philosophy (summa cum laude)
Dissertation: “Encore. Action and Repetition in Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard”
Supervisors: Prof. Raymond Geuss, Prof. Christoph Menke. Advisor: Prof. Werner Hamacher

University of Chicago, 03/2011 – 06/2011
Visiting research student, Committee on Social Thought

Université Paris I – Sorbonne, 02/2010 – 10/2010
Fellow, Collège Doctoral Franco-Allemand

University of Cambridge, 10/2008 – 07/2009
MPhil, European Literature and Culture (distinction)
Supervisor: Prof. Raymond Geuss

Europa-Universität Viadrina, 04/2005 – 04/2008
B.A., Kulturwissenschaften (Cultural Theory)
Supervisor: Prof. H. D. Kittsteiner