I am a research fellow at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. During my PhD in postmodern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities at Durham University (UK), I had the opportunity to work with my supervisor Professor Patricia Waugh, a leading specialist in postmodern and contemporary literature. 

I also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and had a great time with my mentor Professor Christoph Reinfandt who is an expert in contemporary literature and culture and literary theory at the University of Tübingen.

My research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities.  I would like to explore how military and medical metaphors are politicised and can negatively shape our cognition. I would also like to examine how fiction can help control our health anxieties.

I am an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

I have published two books entitled The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022) as well as several articles including "The Literary Critic and Creative Writer as Antagonists: Golding's The Paper Men" and "The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma."

I am a reviewer for A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles , Notes and Reviews (Wiley), Literature Compass (Taylor & Francis) and Durham English Review.

I am the founder of the Literature and Science forum.

I like astronomy, dogs and cats, cooking and walking by the river/sea. 

Some of my favourite quotes:

"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence" (Hitchens).

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong . . . I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell" (Feynman).