War and Trauma in Past and Present: Conference Proceedings. edited by Chiara Manghi, Mareike Spychala, and Lina Strempel, Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, 2019.
"'Industrial Gothic' in Lucy Larcom's An Idyl of Work.” Poetry and the Gothic, edited by Samantha Landau, Li-Hsin Hsu, and Thomas Leonard D. Shaw, U of Wales P. (In Progress)
“Teaching Gothic Poetry.” Teaching Gothic Literature Now, edited by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. (In Progress)
“Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry.” America and Ownership: Territory, Bondage, Jubilee, edited by Gesa Mackenthun and Nikita Vasyltsov, Universit?tsverlag Winter, 2025, pp. 323-338. Amerikastudien/American Studies – A Monograph Series, vol. 326.
“What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction, edited by Caroline-Isabelle Caron and Kristin Noone, McFarland, 2024, 159-173.
"War and Conflict." The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek. Eds. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, and Stefan Rabitsch, Routledge, 2022, pp. 322-331.
“Not Your Daddy's Star Trek: Exploring Female Chara2cters in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 287-306.
with Sabrina Mittermeier “‘Never hide who you are’: Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Eds. Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Liverpool UP, 2020, pp. 331-350.
“’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” War and Trauma in Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Collection, edited by Lina Strempel, Chiara Manghi, and Mareike Spychala, Wissenschaftsverlag Trier, 2019, pp. 181-191.
"American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Kolloquium Forschende Frauen 2016 und 2017, edited byUte Franz und Iris Hermann, et al. U of Bamberg P, 2018, pp. 109-129.
“Military SF für das 21. Jahrhundert.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2020, edited by Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 143-149.
“‘It’s a work in progress, but so’s life.’ Frauen in Star Trek: Discovery und Doctor Who.” Das Science Fiction Jahr 2019, edited by Melanie Wylutzki and Hardy Kettlitz, Hirnkost, 2020, pp. 333-340.
01/2026: “Anthropocene Fears: Ecophobia and Bodily Vulnerability in 19th-Century American Gothic Poetry." Presentation during the Conference “Anthropocene Necropoetics: Empire, Violence, and Ecological Ruin in US Poetry," University of Cologne.
05/2025: “Life Writing and the War on Terror: Military Femininities in Love My Rifle More Than You and I'm Still Standing.” Guest lecture at the University of Zurich. (Prof. Dr. Katharina Gerund, American Literature and Culture).
09/2024: “Telepathic Aliens, Ship's Doctors, and Female Captains: Star Trek's Ambivalent Feminism.” Guest Lecture as part of the Mobile Feminisms Project, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
05/2024: "'You can't be what you can't see:' Vielfalt und Inklusion am Beispiel des Black History Months, Diversity Day Guest Lecture, HS Coburg.
07/2023: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations? Queere Repr?sentation in Star Trek." Queer Geforscht - Event organized by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the University of Bamberg.
06/2023: “Forever Wars – Wars Forever? Military Conflict in American Speculative Narratives.” Guest lecture at the University of Cologne (J.-Prof. Dr. Judith Rauscher, American Literature and Culture)
06/203: "Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt's Poetry." Presentation during the 69th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies at the University of Rostock.
11/2022: "Counterpedagogy in Sarah Piatt‘s 19th-Century Magazine Poetry." Presentation during the 32nd Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS) at the University of Regensburg.
10/2022: "Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes: Female Superheroines in The Old Guard (2020)." Presentation during the international conference "Ladies in Arms: Representations of Shooting Women in Contemporary Popular Culture" at the University of Vienna.
07/2022: "Bürgersoldat*in und trans Frau: Transgender Life Writing in Kristin Becks Warrior Princess." Queer Geforscht - Event organized by the Anti-Discrimination Office of the University of Bamberg.
04/2022: “What’s In a Life? Grappling With Genre, Gender, and Star Trek’s Liberal Humanism in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway.” Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), online.
06/2021: “Military Femininities in Kayla Williams’ Love My Rifle More Than You.” Presentation during the Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, USA. Online.
01/2021: “War Posters and Propaganda.” Guest lecture in the Proseminar “Experiencing, Remembering and Processing the Great War in British Literature” (Dr. Münderlein, Chair for English Literature Studies, University of Bamberg).
05/2020: “’visions of war:’ Resisting the Iraq War in Laila Halaby’s Post-9/11 Poetry” - Guest lecture in the Hauptseminar "Contemporary Arab American Literature" (Prof. Dr. Gerhardt and Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi).
06/2019: "Images of War: U.S. Popular Culture as Militainment." Workshop as part of the annual meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) with Dr. Katharina Gerund, Universit?t Hamburg.
04/2019: "Transgressing Gendered Boundaries: Kristin Beck’s Autobiography Warrior Princess." Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Washington, D.C., USA.
12/2018: "'The Witch of Wurna Minor:' Gender, Sexuality, and the Mirror Universe in the Star Trek Franchise." Worlding SF. University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
11/2018: "Honor Flights, Veterans, and Military Pilgrimages in American Popular Culture." 45th Austrian Association for American Studies Conference: American Im/Mobilities. Universit?t Wien, ?sterreich.
10/2018: "The Canon and its Discontents - Questions of Genre, Canon, and Narrative in Star Trek: Discovery." Screening and Discussion. University of Birmingham, GB.
09/2018: "Illustrating War: Gender, Violence, and War in Photographs in Female Veterans' Autobiographies." Writing Her/Self in Text and Image in Anglophone Women's Life Writing. Université Paris Nanterre, France.
09/2018: “Judging a Book by its Cover: Gender, Violence, and War on the Covers of Female Veterans' Autobiographies.” War, Literature, and the Arts Conference: Representing and Remembering War, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
03/2017: “’There is a definite minority of round-eyed women:’ Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women’s Vietnam War Autobiographies.” Century of Conflict: Dialogues on Women, Gender, Intersectionality and Militarism – 2017 Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
10/2016: "From Vietnam to Iraq - Female Veterans' Writing About War." Postgraduate Forum of the Association for American Studies, University of Hamburg.
06/2016: "American Wife and Hesitation Kills: Gender and War on the Home Front and in Iraq.“ Colloquium ?FORSCHEnde Frauen" organized by the Women's Representatives of the University of Bamberg.
03/2016: "Gender in the Auto/Biography of the Iraq War and Popular Culture.“ Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Seattle, Washington (USA).
01/2014: "We only think we're American": Being an American Jew in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. Student Conference "Connect the Dots: Structure-Networks-Systems", University of Bayreuth.