Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017–2020 Bachelor’s degree in “German Philology” at the University of Vienna

10/2020 – 06/2024 Master’s degree in “German Philology” (graduated with distinction) Master’s thesis title: “The Narrative Staging of Chivalric Holiness with Reference to Female Agents” Field of study: Older German Literature
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Meyer, MA

Professional Experience (Excerpt)

07/2019 Internship at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH – Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus. A Scholarly Digital Edition, FWF Project No. P 31138-G30)

03/2021 & 05/2021 Internship at the “Austrian Society for Literature”

07/2021 Internship at the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg (Library and Music Archive)

Since 2022 Freelance employee at the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg (digitization of medieval manuscripts within various research projects)

01/2022–11/2024 Freelance scientific editor at a part-time university in Lower Austria (editing and proofreading of master’s and doctoral theses)

11/2022–01/2023 Student assistant in the IMAREAL project at the University of Salzburg, led by Dr. Heike Schlie: The Goldsmith’s Work of Nikolaus von Verdun at Klosterneuburg (The Verdun Altar)

2023–2024 Digitization of medieval and early modern manuscripts as part of the project Digitization and Open-Access Presentation of the Early Modern Manuscripts According to the Wichner Catalog of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont

Since 2025 Research associate and PhD candidate in the ERC Starting Grant project ARITHMETIC – German Arithmetical Treatises in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400–1522). A Study on Philology, History, and Culture Based on a Digital Edition of the Treatises

Further Education

11/2024–12/2024 Winter School: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of Medieval Documents (Group: Medieval German) Organized by: Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); Manuscript, Rare Books and Archival Studies Initiative (MARBAS), Princeton University (USA); Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)

Research Interests

• Biblical and Legendary Poetry
• Historical Narratology
• Codicology
• Digital Editions of German Medieval and Early Modern Texts

Lectures

October 2022: Journey to Jerusalem: Medieval travel accounts of pilgrimages to the Holy Land provide insight into the economic and social conditions of their time. They serve as witnesses to cultural perceptions of foreign cultures and religions and contain legends and miracles. A glimpse into the imaginative worlds of the medieval European population. (October 2022; Book Evening at the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg)

June 2025: Myths and Legends – A Tightrope Walk Between Fact and Fiction: An excursion into the narrative techniques used to create reality/truth in medieval (hagiographic) legends and ancient myths over the centuries. (June 2025; Book Evening at the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg)

May 2025: The „Heavenly Jerusalem“ and Its Literary and Cartographic Representation in the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg: (March 2025; Keynote lecture for a delegation of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem at the Monastic Library of Klosterneuburg)