Research Interests

Gender(s) and sexuality(ies) in Judaism; Christian-Jewish relations in the High and Late Middle Ages; Conceptualisation of the Jewish body; Medieval gender and queer history; Medieval antisemitism; Old Testament Pseudepigrapha; Old (church) Slavonic literature; medieval and early modern Hebrew palaeography and codicology

PhD Thesis

The Motif of Jewish ‘Male Menstruation’ and its Function in High and Late Medieval (1100–1500) and Early Modern (1500–1700) Christian Sources

Teaching

2025W

• "Mikvah Writing Workshop: Immersions in Research and Writing." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies
• "Jewish Cultural History in Antiquity." Lecture, Department of Jewish Studies

2025S

• "In the Garden of Stories: Adam, Eve, and the Cultural Legacy of Creation." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies
• "Racial Antisemitism: Origins, Evolution, and Contemporary Relevance." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies

2024W

• "Again at Sinai: History of the Jewish Women’s Movement from its Beginnings to the Present Day." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies
• "Covenant, Sacrifice, (Im-) Purity: Blood in Judaism from Halakhic, Cultural Historical, and Gender Perspectives." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies

2024S

• "Women and their Environments in the Hebrew Bible and Qumran." Lecture, Department of Jewish Studies
• "Gender(s) and Sexuality(ies) in Judaism." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies

2021S

• "Gender(s) and Sexuality(ies) in Judaism." Seminar, Department of Jewish Studies

Academic Appointments

since October 2023
Postdoctoral Assistant | Department of Jewish Studies, University of Vienna

2022–2023
Visiting PhD Researcher | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2022
Visiting PhD Training Student | University of St Andrews

2021 – 2023
IFK junior_fellow | Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) Wien

since 2021
Executive Secretary | Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Awards for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience

Publication projects (ongoing)

• Queer Blood: Imagining the Menstuating Jew in Medieval Christian Thought. Monograph.
• Baron Lectures: Studies on the Jewish Experience. Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh, since 2022. Edited with Armin Lange.

Publications (selected)

• "Historical Approaches to Menstruation Research," and "History of Medicine and Menstrual Health." In The Sage Encyclopedia of Menstruation and Society. London: Sage, forthcoming.
• Experiencing the Hebrew Bible: Spotlights on History and Tradition. Band 2 of Baron Lectures: Studies on the Jewish Experience. Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh, 2025. Edited with Amy Fedeski and Alina L. Schittenhelm.
• Quellen zur jüdischen Geschichte im Heiligen Römischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten: Judendeutsch, Jiddisch, Hebräisch, Judenspanisch, 16.–20. Jahrhundert. Vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage. Wien: Böhlau, 2023. Edited with Dieter J. Hecht, Louise Hecht, Avraham Siluk and Stephan Wendehorst.
• "Von menstruierenden Männern und zügellosen Frauen. Sexualität und Geschlecht im mittelalterlichen Antisemitismus." In Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 31 (2022): 91–110.
• "Inferiority Embodied: The 'Men-struating' Jew and Pre-Modern Notions of Identity and Difference." In Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), 135–59. DOI: 10.1515/9783110671995-008

Public Outreach

• Public Lecture »Und sie bluten wie die Frauen«. Geschichte eines antisemitischen Motivs. 22.03.2025, IFK Vienna. Listen to the recording (in German only)
• "Menstruation als antisemitisches Motiv." science.orf.at, 09.01.2022.