- Recipient of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)’s Post-Doc-Track fellowship, September to November 2024
- Doctorate obtained in December 2022. Title of my doctoral thesis: “The Plague of Poisonous Literature Reappraised; or, Reading the penny dreadfuls’ patterns of circulation”
- Dissertation shortlisted for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)’s 2023 Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize
- Greta Depledge PGR Prize Winner (awarded at 2021 VPFA Annual Conference)
- Member of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA), the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), the Wilkie Collins Society, and the International Gothic Association (IGA)
- Former member of the executive council and public engagement officer of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (2021-2023)
- Peer-reviewer for the Studies in Gothic Fiction journal
- French (native), English (C2), German (C1), Spanish (A2)
- Link to my ORCID profile
Currently on parental leave
2022 – 2023: Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna.
2018 – 2022: University Assistant (Prae-Doc), doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna – specialising in Victorian literature and popular culture. Title of my doctoral thesis: “The Plague of Poisonous Literature Reappraised; or, Reading the penny dreadfuls’ patterns of circulation”; PhD passed with distinction in December 2022.
2017 – 2022: Official examiner for the DELF-DALF exam (Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française-Diplôme Approfondi en Langue Française) with the Institut Français in Vienna
2020: ‘Maîtrise’ (French four-year university qualification, passed with honours) in French as a Foreign Language at the University of Artois, France
December 2017: DAEFLE (Diplôme d’Aptitude à l’Enseignement du Français Langue Etrangère – French as a Foreign Language Teaching Diploma) passed with honours
September 2017 – January 2018: French language assistant in Mödling, Austria
2015 – 2017: English teacher at secondary school level in France (Agrégation passed in 2015)
2012 – 2014: MA (graduation with honours) in British, North-American and Post-Colonial Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris
MA theses: “A Study of the Penny Dreadful: From its Gothic origins to its influence on detective fiction. The example of The String of Pearls” (written in English), and “‘Quel homme était-ce donc – ou plutôt, quelle créature sous une apparence humaine ?’ L’évolution de la figure du vampire dans la littérature britannique du 19ème siècle: Lord Ruthven, Sir Francis Varney et le Comte Dracula” (written in French)
2013 – 2014: French language assistant in York, UK
2009 – 2012: BA (‘Licence’) in Anglophone Literatures, Language and Cultures at the University of Pau, France