I am a sociologist (Ph.D. University of Basel, 2011) and hold teaching assignments at the universities of Neuchâtel and Basel.

Until 2017, I was senior lecturer (maître-assistante) in gender studies at the University for Neuchâtel; teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in gender studies and on translocal sub- and popular cultures.

My general research interest is how people (un)do culture and gender  in a highly connected and digitalized world. I mainly work with ethnographic methods on- and offline and strive to enrich my work with an interdisciplinary perspective that I inherited from my undergraduate and graduate studies in English, Arts, Sociology and Pedagogics at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany.

In my first book Hardcore & Gender (transcript 2015, in German), I explore the gender arrangements in and of hardcore(-punk). More broadly, I discuss ways how to integrate gender within a general theoretical framework to address subcultures. I continue to regularly write on hardcore on my blog -- mainly discussing hardcore layout.

My second book project A Visitguide to K-Dramaland is based on an online reception study of South Korean television series (K-Dramas). I am especially interested in how representations of culture and gender travel and are received through K-Dramas translocally. Some of my findings can be found here and here.