Her work focuses on science and economics in literature, and she currently has two main projects: one on the poetics and aesthetics of ‘disinterestedness’ and one on psychopharmacology and literature. In addition to teaching and researching at the University of Siegen, she is also part of the interdisciplinary research group Fiction Meets Science. Her first book is titled Representing Public Credit: Credible Commitment, Fiction, and the Rise of the Financial Subject (Routledge, 2016). She has published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Mosaic, and other academic journals. She is also an active participant in and sometimes organizer of the Critical Finance Studies and Money, Power and Print meetings.