Courses Taught

I teach courses across all levels, from undergraduate introductions to advanced MA and PhD seminars. I have also designed and organised several international summer and winter schools and student exchanges. 

University of Trier (since 2025)

• Mediating Black Futures: Afrofuturism across Literature, Music and Film (winter 2025—with a guest lecture by Nii Nai Adjei-Mensah)
• Postcolonial Ecologies: Environmental Concerns in Anglophone Literatures (winter 2025—with a guest lecture by Priyam Goswami Choudhury)
• Introduction to Literary Studies Lecture: A History of English Literature (summer 2025)

BCDSS · Bonn University (2021–2025)

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Sources–Perspectives–Approaches (winter 2024)
• Text-Based Scholarship: Methods (winter 2023)
• Ecological Dependencies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (summer 2023—with a guest lecture by Dita Auziņa)
• Doing Research I (summer 2023)
• Imagining Indian Ocean Worlds of Dependency (winter 2021—with a guest lecture by Arunima Bhattacharya; winter 2022—with a guest lecture by Najnin Islam)
• PhD Research Seminar: Postcolonial Studies–Then and Now? (summer 2022, co-taught with Pia Wiegmink—and with a guest lecture by Sruti Bala)
• Black Atlantic Ecologies (summer 2022)

University of Würzburg (2014–2020, Selection) 

Global Anglophone and Postcolonial Literatures

• Anglophone African Literatures (winter 2018; winter 2020)
• Crossing the Waters: Indian Ocean Trajectories (summer 2020)
• Afrofuturism (winter 2020)
• Contemporary Global Poetry (winter 2019)
• Black British Poetry (winter 2017)

Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism

• Ecological Entanglements of the 19th Century: Nature – Culture – Society (winter 2020)
• Imaginary Geographies (summer 2014)

The Nineteenth Century

• Literary Classics: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (winter 2020)
• Echoes of Empire: Exploring the 19th Century (winter 2020)
• Literary Classics: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (winter 2019)
• The Brontë Sisters (summer 2018)
• Rewriting the 19th Century: Neo-Victorian Literature (winter 2018)

Media, Art and Culture

• Transformative Texts: Fanfiction and Participatory Cultures (summer 2019, summer 2020)
• The British Black Arts Movement (summer 2020)
• Modernism in Literature and Art (summer 2018; winter 2019)

Life Writing

• Between Fact and Fiction: Genre-Bending Life Narratives (summer 2018; summer 2020—with a guest lecture by Lauren Fournier)
• Writing the Unspeakable: Holocaust Literature (winter 2017)

Gender Studies and Feminism

• Gender Studies: Intersections, Interventions and Perspectives (summer 2020)
• Gender Studies: Key Concepts and Methods (winter 2016)
• Black British Women Writers (summer 2015)
• Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Romance (winter 2014)
• Postcolonial Theory and Gender Studies (winter 2014)

Introductions

• Unruly Bodies: An Introduction to Disability Studies (winter 2015; summer 2020)
• Introduction to Poetry (summer 2019)
• Shakespeare's Comedies (winter 2016; winter 2018)
• Introduction to English Literature (winter 2015)

Winter and Summer Schools (Co-Organisation)

• Summer School: Africa in a Globalized World within the DAAD/IGP-funded project Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives. With keynotes and workshops by Isabel Hofmeyr, Frank Schulze-Engler, David Peimer and Ralf Schneider. (Würzburg, 05/2018)
• DRV-Summer School: The Self and the Other: Afro-Diasporic Literatures. With public readings by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Alain Mabanckou. (Würzburg, 09/2017)
• Winter School: Literature and Globalization within the DAAD/IGP-funded project Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives. (Delhi, 02/2016)