My current research project focuses on the portrayal of Orientalist Masculinities in English and Irish Romanticism in the early 19^th century. In my PhD project I dealt with the writing of the Bloody Sunday massacre (1972) in Irish poetry. I focused on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian, Seamus Deane and Thomas Kinsella and was completed in 2022 at Freie University Berlin.

In 2015, I completed a master’s degree in English Studies at Freie University Berlin and a master’s degree in Irish Studies at University College Dublin. My bachelor’s degree in English Philology and Political Science was completed at Freie University Berlin in 2013.

publications

• The Poetry of Bloody Sunday: Reading Irish Poets. New York: Routledge, 2025.
• 'Between Humour and Violence: The Northern Irish Conflict in Michelle Gallen's Writing', Review of Irish Studies in Europe (02/25), 37-49.
• 'Hegemonic and Vulnerable Masculinities in Sally Rooney's Normal People', ed. Angelos Bollas, The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (New York: Routledge, 2025).
• 'Masculinities in Murals: Tension between Hypermasculinity and Victimisation in Republican Murals in Derry and Belfast', Journal for the Study of British Cultures 35.1 (2025), 65-86.

research and teaching interests

• Irish poetry and fiction
• The Northern Irish conflict in literature and culture
• British fiction
• Romanticism
• Orientalism
• cultural memory & identity
• Postcolonial theory
• Gender theory