• japanische Schriftgeschichte
• vorwiegend morphographische Verschriftungsstile (hentai kanbun 変体漢文)
• Briefe und ōraimono 往来物
• Übersetzungsmethoden im vormodernen Japan (kundoku 訓読)
• Typologie von Schriftsystemen

2010 BA-Abschluss in Japanologie (Schwerpunkt Sprachwissenschaft) und Allgemeiner Linguistik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2012 MA-Abschluss in Japanischer Linguistik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2012– Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2017–2018 Forschungsaufenthalt als tokubetsu kenkyū gakusei an der Universität Tsukuba
2019 Promotion in Japanischer Linguistik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Monographie

• (2022): Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun. (Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis; 4). Leiden: Brill. [doi.org/10.1163/9789004504936]

Aufsätze & Rezensionen

2024–

• (2024) (with Sven Osterkamp): »A proposal for a formalized, expandable approach to the taxonomy of writing systems«. In: Written Language and Literacy [ISSN 1387-6732] 26.1: 5–30. [doi.org/10.1075/wll.00071.ost]
• (submitted): »Structure of Pre-Modern Japanese Morphography: Re-Analysis of Hentai Kanbun 變體漢文«. In: Scripta [ISSN 2092-7215] 12.
• (submitted): »Visual Politeness: Remarks on Cursivization as Found in Pre-Modern Japanese Handbooks on Letter Writing«.

2023

• »Diversity of Pre-Modern Japanese Writing Styles: Focusing on the Heike Monogatari«. In: Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung [ISSN 0170-0006] 45: 123–149.

2022

• ([2021, recte:] 2022) (with Sven Osterkamp): »<Th>e Ubi<qu>ity of Polygra<ph>y and its Significan<ce> for <th>e Typology of <Wr>iti<ng> Systems«. In: Written Language and Literacy [ISSN 1387-6732] 24.2: 171–197. [doi.org/10.1075/wll.00052.ost]

2021

• (2021) (with Sven Osterkamp): »Challenging the Dichotomy Between Phonography and Morphography: Transitions and Gray Areas«. In: Yannis Haralambous (ed.): Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, /gʁafematik/, June 15–17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I. Fluxus Editions [ISBN 978-2-9570549-6-1], pp. 47–82. [doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-oste]

2019

• [review article] »Vovin, Alexander (2018): Man'yōshū: Book 19. A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary«. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [ISSN 0041-977X] 82.2: 388–390. [doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X19000594]

2023

• »(Un-)covering the Traces: Aspects of Orality from the Perspective of Grapholinguistics«, invited talk, conference Mediality of Premodern Japanese Narratives: A Diachronic Perspective (13.–15.VIII.2023), University of Zurich, 13.VIII.2023.

2022

• »Structure of Pre-Modern Japanese Morphography: Re-Analysis of Hentai Kanbun 變體漢文«, invited talk, SCRIPTA 2022 — »Script, Language, and Transcription« (15.–16.X.2022), Hunmin jeongeum Society / Seoul National University, Seoul, 15.X.2022.
• »Schriftstilistische Klassifikation sogenannter manabon 真名本«, 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag (24.–26.VIII.2022), online (HHU Düsseldorf), 26.VIII.2022.
• »Morphographic writing in pre modern Japan: The peculiar case of Hentai kanbun 變體漢文«, JLAO 35 workshop — »East Asian Writing Systems in Contact«, online (CRLAO, Paris), 09.VII.2022. [handout]

2021

• (with Sven Osterkamp) »A proposal for a formalized, expandable approach to the taxonomy of writing systems«, 13th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy — »On the systematic nature of writing systems« (21–23.X.2021), online (University of North Carolina), 21.X.2021. [website, incl. recording]
• »Diversität der Verschriftungsstile mittelalterlicher Kriegerepen«, 21. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Vormoderne japanische Literatur — »Historisches Erzählen im vormodernen Japan« (03.–05.IX.2021), Ruhr University Bochum, 04.IX.2021.

2020

• (with Sven Osterkamp) »Challenging the Dichotomy between Phonography and Morphography: Transitions and Grey Areas«, Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century — »From graphemes to knowledge« (17.–19.VI.2020), online, 17.VI.2020. [conference website]

2019

• »Beyond Kanbun: Kundoku as a Method of Translation for Languages Other than Literary Chinese«, EATS 3 — »From the Local to the Global and Back. Translation as a Construction of Plural and Dialogic Identities of East Asia« (28.–30.VI.2019), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 28.VI.2019.
• (with Sven Osterkamp) »⟨Th⟩e Ubi⟨qu⟩ity of Polygra⟨ph⟩y and its Significance for ⟨th⟩e Typology of ⟨Wr⟩iti⟨ng⟩ Systems«, 12th International Workshop of the Association for Written Language and Literacy — »Diversity of Writing Systems: Embracing Multiple Perspectives« (26.–28.III.2019), University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics, 26.III.2019.

2018

• »Hentai kanbun 変体漢文 and its connection to Middle Chinese«, Doctoral School Chinese Writing and Lexicography in Medieval China (08.–12.X.2018), Ghent University, 11.X.2018.
• »Zur Problematik des Begriffs hentai kanbun 変体漢文«, Japanologentag 2018 (29.–31.08.2018), Freie Universität Berlin, 30.VIII.2018.
• »What's in a Name? Or: The Difficulty of Translating the Term hentai kanbun 変体漢文«, RUB Japan Science Days 2018, Ruhr University Bochum, 06.VII.2018.

2017

• »変体漢文とは何か：言語と表記との間に«, 筑波大学一般言語学研究室の月例会, Tsukuba University, 27.VII.2017.

2016

• »A Mixed Bag? Phonography and Morphography in Japanese«, The Idea of Writing 2016 — »Writing as a System: Emergence, Variation, Performance« (22.–23.VII.2016), Basel, 23.VII.2016.
• »Japanische Klassiker einmal anders. Zur Typologie und stilistischen Einordnung sogenannter manabon 真名本«, Mittagsforum, Ruhr University Bochum, 13.I.2016.

2015

• »Is this Chinese? Is this Japanese? Language lost in the shadows of logography«, Confucius Institute Moscow, 18.XII.2015.
• »(De-)Honorification through cursivization? The case of Japanese letter writing during the early modern period«, The Idea of Writing 2015 — »Long hand and short hand« (29.–30.X.2015), Mainz, 29.X.2015.

2014

• »Less is More, More or Less – A Closer Look on Implicit Writing in the Man’yōshū«, 14th International Conference of EAJS (27.–30.VIII.2014), Ljubljana, 28.VIII.2014.

2012

• »Zur Verschriftung des altjapanischen Kasussystems im Kojiki«, Mittagsforum, Ruhr University Bochum, 19.XII.2012.

• (co-organized with Morgaine Setzer-Mori) 21. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Vormoderne japanische Literatur — »Historisches Erzählen im vormodernen Japan«, Ruhr University Bochum, 03.–05.IX.2021. [poster]
• (co-organized with Anna Pushakova) »Ukiyo-e 浮世絵 verstehen«, Ruhr University Bochum, 09.VII.2016.