Teaching

Office hours: Wednesday, 12:00-13:00, and by appointment

• Spring 2026 MA Seminar: Anti-/Postcolonial Avant-Garde 
• Spring 2026 MA: Field Trip to London: Anti-/Postcolonial Avant-Garde
• Fall 2025 BA Seminar: Das Gesamtkunstwerk in der Moderne 
• Fall 2025 BA-MA Field Trip:  Vom Original zur Ausstellung: Museumsbesuche in der Schweiz

Vita 

Since 03/2026: Coordinator of the specialised Master’s programme Art History in a Global Context, Chair for Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Since 02/2025: Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair for Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 01/2024-01/2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto de História da Arte (IHA), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

01/2019-07/2023: PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dissertation: Avant-Garde Cosmogonies: World Creation and the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde

09/2021-12/2021: Visiting Researcher, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Centre for Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

2015-2018: MA in Literary Studies (Aesthetics – Literature – Philosophy), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

2012-2015: BA in Franco-German Studies, Sorbonne University (Paris IV), France, and University of Bonn, Germany

Research Interests

• Theory and Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Art 
• Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
• Postcolonial Theory
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Dance and Theatre

Publications 

Monograph 

Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe, 1913–1923. London: Routledge, 2025.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Cosmogonies d’avant-garde: la création du monde et l’œuvre d’art total dans l’avant-garde du début du XXe siècle.” Constellation Cendrars 9: 235–238 (2025).

“La Création du monde by the Ballets Suédois: Myths of the Past for a New Future.” In: Günter Berghaus (ed.), The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 15: Futurism and Primitivism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 257–285 (2025).

“Die Kosmogonie der Gläsernen Kette.” In: Katharina Scheerer, Sophie-C. Hartisch, Christina Becher (eds.), Welträume: Entwürfe des (Extra-)Terrestrischen um 1900. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 43–68 (2024).

“Kosmogonie en literaire filmkunst in Blaise Cendrars’ en Fernand Légers La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.D.” Handelingen. Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 74: 135–146 (2022).

“The Glass Chain’s Spiritual Revolution.” In: David Ayers, Sascha Bru, Kate Kangaslahti, Iveta Slavkova (eds.), Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 459–480 (2022).

“Zwischen Anschein und Verborgenheit: Eine allegorische Lektüre von Charles Baudelaires Die Maske.” In: J. C. Heller, E. Martin, S. Schönbeck (eds.), Ding und Bild in der europäischen Romantik (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature). Berlin: De Gruyter, 205–220 (2021).

“Entre expérimentation poétique et savoir scientifique: Sur la vérité de la littérature, 1890–1950. Entretien avec Sascha Bru et Abigael van Alst (MDRN)” (with Jan Baetens and Sascha Bru). Fabula LHT 24: 1–7 (2020).

Book Reviews 

Iveta Slavkova, Réparer l’homme: La crise de l’humanité et l’homme nouveau des avant-gardes de la Grande Guerre (1909–1929), in: The European Legacy 27: 868–870 (2022).

Elsa Courant, Poésie et cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle: Nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à l’ère du positivisme, in: Histoires Littéraires: Revue trimestrielle consacrée à la littérature française des XIXe et XXe siècles89.

Conference Presentations

10/2025 “Transnational Artistic Networks and the Galleria Trastevere: Italian–Maghrebi Exchanges in Mid-Twentieth-Century Rome.” Conference: (Un)mapping Infrastructures of Modern Art IV: Infrastructures of Supporting Travels and Exhibiting Modernism Transnationally (1940s–1990s). Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań; University of Zurich

09/2024 “Anna Bella Geiger’s Anticolonial Art in 1970s Brazil.” Conference: Avant-Garde and War. European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), Jagiellonian University, Kraków

04/2024 “Le groupe Aouchem et sa posture géocritique.” Conference: Géocritique des espaces littéraires et artistiques francophones. McGill University; Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań; University of Zurich

09/2023 “A New World in n-Dimensions: Aleksei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, Kazimir Malevich, and Mikhail Matiushin’s Victory Over the Sun (1913).” Conference: Uses of Modernism. Ghent University

09/2022 “Recounting the Myth of World Creation: On La création du monde by Blaise Cendrars, Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Börlin.” Conference: Globalising the Avant-Garde. European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), Instituto de História da Arte (IHA), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

10/2022 “Poème électronique: Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, and Edgar Varèse’s Philips Pavilion (1958).” Conference: Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art. KU Leuven

10/2021 “The Architecture of the World: A Cosmogonic Reading of Bruno Taut’s Der Weltbaumeister.”Conference: Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts. European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL/SELC), University of Turin

10/2020 “Kosmogonie en literaire filmkunst in Cendrars’ La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.D.”Conference: Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis (KZM), Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL), Ghent University

09/2019 “From Physical to Human Relativity? Hausmann and Lawrence’s Provocative Responses to Einstein.” Conference: Transcultural Knowledge. European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Paris Observatory

06/2019 “Cosmological Time/Space Disruption in Cendrars’ La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.D.” Conference: Troublesome Modernisms. British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), St Bride Foundation and King’s College London

10/2018 “On the Tension between Symbol and Allegory in Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal. Conference: Ding und Bild in der europäischen Romantik. European University Viadrina

Projects, Workshops, Conferences

06/2026 Co-organisation with Prof. Dr. Sascha Bru, Dr. Laryssa Chomiak and Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche of the symposium: Celebrating the Postwar Avant-Garde in the Maghreb and Eastern Mediterranean, Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), Tunisia https://d-ag.weebly.com/tunis-2026.html

10/2022 Co-organisation with Prof. Dr. Sascha Bru of the workshop: Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art, KU Leuven, Belgium