Research & Teaching

I hold a BA in English and American studies from the University of Graz, an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and I recently completed a PhD researching gender equality in contemporary Scottish writing and publishing at the University of Stirling in partnership with University of Glasgow and Scottish Book Trust.

In 2024 I completed a Fellowship at the University of Münster, where I investigated existing research on gender equality in the German language publishing industry.

You can find my report on gender equality in the Scottish publishing sector here. It was published in early 2025.

Most recent publication:

With Mairi Oliver: ‘What’s on our shelves? Curation in a radical bookshop / Cosa c’è sui nostri scaffali? La curatela in una libreria radicale’. Sistema Editoria. Rivista internazionale di studi sulla contemporaneità 4, no. 1 (30 July 2026): 33–46. doi:10.14672/se.v4i1.3331.

‘Methods in Action: Descriptive Statistics’. In Research Methods in Publishing and Book Studies, by Rachel Noorda and Corinna Norrick-Rühl, 157–62, 1st edn. Routledge, 2025. https://www.routledge.com/Research-Methods-in-Publishing-and-Book-Studies/Noorda-Norrick-Ruhl/p/book/9781032830711.

‘Speculative Archiving of a Potential Future Literary Award: Embedded Publishing Studies Research’. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change 4, no. 2 (11 December 2019): 11. https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/6355.

Over the years, I have taught at University of Stirling in the English Department, Edinburgh Napier University’s Creative Writing and Publishing Studies department, and at University of Münster, Germany. I am a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University.

Last updated: 2/9/2026