Research Interests

• Victorian Literature
• Crime Fiction
• Children's Literature
• Popular Culture
• Urban Studies

Projects

• Dissertation: "Burglars, Bandits, Buccaneers: Criminal Characters in Victorian Penny Fiction" (working title)

Memberships

• German Association for the Study of English
• DACH Victorianists

• Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Edited Volumes

• with Norbert Lennartz and Jacqueline F. Kolditz. Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place. Palgrave, 2026.

Articles

• with Norbert Lennartz and Jacqueline F. Kolditz. "Introduction: The Darkest Decades – The Victorians and Their Darknesses." Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place, edited by Norbert Lennartz, Jacqueline F. Kolditz und Carolin Sternberg, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 1–14.

• "'The dark continent in our midst': Middle-Class Imaginations of the Victorian Slum." Victorian Darknesses: Body, Mind, and Place, edited by Norbert Lennartz, Jacqueline F. Kolditz und Carolin Sternberg, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 247–64.

• "Abominable Publications: Antipathies and the Penny Dreadful." Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, edited by Nina Engelhardt und Anja Hartl, Palgrave, 2026.

• "A Hop-Picking Holiday in Kent in Margaret Harkness’s In Darkest London." Kent Maps Online, 2024. https://www.kent-maps.online/19c/19c-harkness-darkest/.

• "Burkers of Bethnal Green." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 44.

• "A Child of the Jago." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 51-52.

• "Crime." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 60-61.

• "Hanbury Street." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 98-99.

• "Old Nichol Slum." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 165-66.

• "Siege of Sidney Street (1911)." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 208-09.

• "Solomon, Ikey." Encyclopedia of London’s East End, edited by Kevin A. Morrison, McFarland, 2023, pp. 211-12.

Talks

Forthcoming

• "Penny Fiction Between Popularity and Moral Panic: Negotiating Criminal Heroism in The Boy Pirate." Victorian Popular Fiction Association‘s 18th Annual Conference. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom. July 2026.

2025

• "From Foundling to Gentleman: Social and Moral Extremes in Charley Wag, the New Jack Sheppard." Victorian Popular Fiction Association‘s 17th Annual Conference. Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham, United Kingdom. July 2025.

2024

• "Green Spaces and Gloomy Slums: Nature and the City in Margaret Harkness’s Slum Novels." Victorian Popular Fiction Association‘s 16th Annual Conference. Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom. July 2024.

• "The Heart of Darkest England: London’s Slums in Late-Victorian Literature." Victorian Darknesses. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany. February 2024.

2023

• "The Wild Boys of London: Reprinted, Repressed, Reworked." Victorian Popular Fiction Association‘s 15th Annual Conference. Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, United Kingdom. July 2023.

2022

• "Pernicious Reading: Penny Dreadfuls Between Popularity and Moral Panic." Victorian Antipathies. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. November 2022.

2021

• Presentation of the dissertation project. BritCult, Postgraduate Forum. Online. November 2021.