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I am a literary historian and translation theorist, and I work on medieval English literature and its place in the multilingual literary landscape around the North Sea. My research combines approaches from literary history, translation theory, and manuscript studies to explore how literary traditions were shaped by cross-language contacts and interactions. Accordingly, I work across Old and Middle English, Latin, Old French, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old and Middle Dutch and Middle High German. My doctoral research examined how translation processes within medieval English history-writing transformed the construction of identity. I am now working towards a new literary history of the medieval North Sea, focussing on the role of cultural exchange in shaping literary history.

I joined º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø as the Newby Trust Junior Research Fellow in 2025. Having grown up in Austria, I came to the UK for a BA at Oriel College, Oxford, and then stayed at Oxford for an MSt at St Hilda’s College and a DPhil in English at Corpus Christi College where I was also a lecturer.