Her research focuses on the intersections of German literature and film with environmental humanities, animal studies, cultural environmentalism and history of science. She has published a dozen articles in journals and edited volumes since 2012 on topics such as biopolitics, animal epistemology, critical plant studies and monstrosity. She is working on a book called Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: Being (Non)Human in German Modernist Grotesques, which examines a preoccupation with non-human forms of life in modernist literature. She recently edited a four-part special issue of Humanities on “Animal Narratology” and last year she founded the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network.