is an art historian and research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bonn. She was the organizer of the conference “The Real Within Reach: Contemporary Realisms and the Arts” (2020) and is currently working on a volume on art’s realism in collaboration with Amanda Boetzkes. Her writings on the sublime, realism, and melancholia in contemporary art have been published in Konsthistorisk tidskrift; Racar, Canadian Art Review; Etc. Montreal; and the volume The Imaginary: Word and Image/L’imaginaire: texte et image (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2015).