Selected Articles / Contributions

2019
Interview in: Braun, Jessica: Servicepersonal in Designer-Outfits. In: Der Feinschmecker

Interview in: Zobel, Hanna: Boho-Style, Culottes und Streifen Shirts. Diese Geschichten stecken hinter deinen Lieblingsklamotten. In: Spiegel.de

05/2016
Interview in: Pfannkuch, Katharina: Revolution und Biedermeier. Blumenkranz als Kopfschmuck. In: Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung. 31.05.2016.

 11/2013
“Kapitulation“. Wir sind Viele. In: This Book is Tocotronic. Gera.

09/2012
Der Feinschmecker. Junge Küche. Glosse „Hilfe, Mein Mann kocht“.

Presentations

6/2022
„Wildfänge außer Rand und Band. Pop-Mädchen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts“. Conference “Mädchen*Fantasien. Zur Politik und Poetik des Mädchenhaften”, University of Zürich

07/2021
„Propagierte Antimode. Nonkonformismen im Zeichen aktueller Medienlogiken.“ Forschungskolloquium at Department of Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, University Münster)

06/2021
„Style Confusions, Hipster and Masculinities. Alt-Rights in Nonconformist Uniforms.“ International Conference „Fashion Tales 2020 +1. Politics Through Wardrobes“. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano

03/2021
„Mode – Masken – Maskierungen“. Department of Fashion Design at (FHNW) in Basel

02/2021
„Narrative des Todes in Style und Sound Performances der Popkultur.“ Jour Fixe netzwerks mode textil e.V.

01/2021
„Der, die, das Hipster. Eine Spurensuche.“ Forschungskolloquium at Department of Cultural Anthropology, TU Dortmund

10/2019
„Youthquake in der Weimarer Republik“ Forschungskolloquium at Department of Cultural Anthropology, TU Dortmund

05/2019
„Wild Girls, Hipster and ‘White Negroes‘ in the Literature of the Weimar Republic: Cool Fashion Bodies Between Expressionism and New Objectivity.“ Zone Moda Conference 2019 „Be Cool. Aesthetic Imperatives And Social Practices“. Rimini Campus and the International Research Centre for Culture, Fashion and Communication, University of Bologna

01/2019
„Distorted Sound Waves from Mexico City to Berlin. The Continuity of Female Transcultural Noise Performances as Acts of Resilience.“ Research Network Day „Persistence“ CTM Festival in Berlin

10/2018
„Der Style der Dinge – zur ästhetischen Praxis zwischen Körpern, Kleidern und Musikinstrumenten.“ 4. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft „Ästhetische Praxis und Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung“ in Hildesheim

08/2018
„Coole Widerständigkeit unter dem Zeichen des Jazz – Lässige Demokratie-Bekenntnisse der Tänzerischen Generation.“ Konferenz „Demokratische Persönlichkeiten der Weimarer Republik“, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

05/2018
„Coolness.“ Department of  Aesthetic Education, Department of Textiles + Fashion at the European University Flensburg

05/2017
„Visualisierungsstrategien von Coolness in der Literatur der Weimarer Republik.“
netzwerk mode textil e.V. in Berlin

12/2016
„Unübertroffen an Formschönheit – Gespräche über Mode und Kunst“ at HFBK, Hamburg

11/2016
„Mode-Körper-Raum. Die kulturellen Bedeutungsdimensionen der schwarzen Lederjacke.“ Kunstverein in Hannover

09/2016
„Coole Posen mit Lederjacken und Zigaretten.“ Jahrestagung „Körperbilder – Körperpraktiken. Visuelle Repräsentationen, Regulationen und Aneignungen vergeschlechtlichter Körper und Identitäten in Medienkulturen“ der DGPuK- Specialist Groups Media, Public and Gender and Visual Communication in Hamburg

09/2016
„Klangkörper Frau. Sound das unbekannte Wesen.“ Pop Lectures at Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg

11/2015
„Coole Posen und Bekleidungstechniken.“ Seminar „Mode und Bewegung“, HAW Hamburg

11/2012
„Talkrunde Design“ with Rudolf Pütz (Vitra GmbH), Stefan Lamm (Ford Europe), Peter Zec (Red Dot) Blue Monday Lounge in Köln

03/2012
„Kreativtechniken im Modedesign.“ 3. Germn Design Congress „Der Wahnsinn hat Methode“ in Essen

Courses

WiSe 2022/23
Nocturnal Fashion Worlds (Bachelor Seminar, TU Dortmund)

Fashions and Media. Digital Fashion Practices (Master Seminar, TU Dortmund)

SoSe 2022
Fashion Victims, Nerds and Hipsters – Caricatures and Social Figures of Fashion (Bachelor Seminar, TU Dortmund)

Clothing as Message, Propaganda and Fashion (Bachelor Seminar, TU Dortmund)

WiSe 2021/22
Museum and Media. „Mode Blicke“. Production of digital video clips for science-communication in social networks and in museums in cooperation with the LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk Bocholt (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Project Seminar, TU Dortmund)

SoSe 2021
Textile Contexts. Searching, Collecting, Curating. Film Presentations of the Cultural Anthropology of Textiles on YouTube (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Project Seminar, Dortmund).

WiSe 2020/21
Textile Contexts. Searching, Collecting, Curating. Film Presentations of the Cultural Anthropology of Textiles on YouTube (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Project Seminar, TU Dortmund).

SoSe 2020
Theories and methods of vestimentary cultural analysis. Body – Clothing – Fashions. (Bachelor Textile Design Seminar, TU Dortmund)

Cultural Studies of Fashions. Fashionable masks in gaze regimes of industrialization 2.0 -4.0 (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Seminar, TU Dortmund

WiSe 2019/20
Lecture. Introduction Cultural Studies of Textiles (Bachelor and Master programs, TU Dortmund

Cultural History of Textiles. Fashion Stagings of Styles and Sounds (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Seminar, TU Dortmund).

Fashions and Media. Rebellions – Anti-Fashion – Fashion (Master Cultural Analysis and Cultural Mediation Seminar, TU Dortmund).

SoSe 2019
Fashion and beauty strategies of mobile identities in contemporary literature. (Bachelor Textile Design Seminar, University of Paderborn)

Dress- , Fashion-, and Design History
Scientific work (Bachelor Seminar, AMD Hamburg)

Fashion on the Move. Fashion and (Post-)Colonialism in a Global World. Excursion on the topic “Fashionable Exoticism and Colonialism” at the Übersee-Museum Bremen (Bachelor/ Master of Arts Seminar, HFK Bremen

Coolness. Rebellious games with fashion classics.

Excursion to the exhibition “68. Pop and Protest” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Bachelor/ Master of Arts Seminar HFK Bremen 

SoSe 2018
Cool styling practices from flapper era to rave culture. (Bachelor Seminar, University Paderborn)

Fashion – Body – Space (Bachelor/ Master of Arts Seminar, HFK Bremen)

SoSe 2017
Fashion History II
Cultural Studies, Fashion Theory

2009 – 2018
Workshops and seminars, dress & design history, concepts , development and research in fashion design, cultural studies seminars on topics such as “Animal – Man – Machine”, “Sustainability. Green Fashion”, “The Uncanny in Fashion”, “Modern Classics”, “Baroque / Wunderkammer”, “Fashion and Film”, “Loops and Textiles” (Academy for Fashion and Design, Hannover)

About me

Research Interests

  • Fashion Studies
  • Material Culture
  • Science-Communication
  • Popular Culture
  • Video Culture
  • Music
  • Literature and Film
  • Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sound Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Museology

CV

04/2020
Researcher (Postdoc, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Department Cultural Anthropology, Fashion and Material Culture, TU Dortmund

0/2019 – 03/2020
Substitute professor at Department Cultural Anthropology, Fashion and Material Culture, TU Dortmund

04/2018 – 09/2019
Assistant professor (Postdoc, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)  at Department Textile / Cultural Studies, University Paderborn

04/2019 – 09/2019
Lecturer Fashion Studies at the Academy for Fashion and Design in Hamburg (AMD)

04/2018 – 03/2019
Lecturer Fashion Studies at Department of Art and Design – Integrated Design at the University of the Arts in Bremen (HFK)

04/2017 – 09/2017
Substitute professor Cultural Studies (english) at the International Academy of Fine Arts Esmod in Berlin

01/2017 – 05/2018
Lecturer for Fashion Theory at the Academy of Fashion and Design in Hannover

12/2016
Doctor of Philosophy (PHD), Thesis: “Fashion and Coolness in the Literature of the Weimar Republic”

04/2009 – 12/2016
Head of press and public relations/ marketing, lecturer fashion theory at the Academy of Fashion and Design in Hannover

03/2008  
Magister Artium (M.A.), Department German Language and Literature, Empirical Cultural Studies (Volkskunde), Museumsmanagement, University Hamburg.

05/2005 – 05/2007
Research assistant at Altonaer Museum Hamburg

10/2005 – 03/2006
Research assistant at Department of Empirical Cultural Studies (Volkskunde), University Hamburg

05/2002 – 01/2003
Research assistant at Press and Public Relations at Altonaer Museums Hamburg

10/2001 – 03/2005
Research assistant at Department of German Language und Literature, University Hamburg