Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, where he received his doctoral degree in 2011. He has held various grants and positions at Freie Universität Berlin, among them a Dahlem Research School Honors Fellowship and a research grant funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG eigene Stelle). Since 2014 he has headed the Dahlem International Network Junior Research Group “Fictions of Management: American Naturalism and Managerial Culture, 1875-1925.” His current book project deals with the relationship between naturalism and management thought at the turn of the twentieth century. He is the author of Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy’s Westerns (Campus, 2016). Other publications include articles on 9/11 and American Studies, Edith Wharton, American literary naturalism, critical posthumanism, and David Foster Wallace.