My teaching focus is centered on the materiality, sociality and spatiality of communication flows, and this focus is reflected in the seminar topics and lectures I offered during the last 12 years at History departments at four universities in Germany: in Erfurt, in Erlangen, in Mainz, and in Munich. I am interested in intersecting my communication focus on early modern Europe with book history, media history, paper history, digital history, environmental history, the history of magic, the history of knowledge, and global history. The early modern city is one of my particular interests.
In addition to regular lectures series on “Communication and Media History of Early Modern Europe”, “Book (Trade) History of the Early Modern Period”, “Communication and Communication Regulation”, and “Institutions of Media Communication”, I regularly teach on BA and MA levels with seminars on Censorship issues, the News Systems of Early Modern Europe, Digital Public History for Early Modern History, Economic History (esp. the Paper and Book Trade), the History of Magic, and the History of Premodern Clandestine Knowledge, and some more. I consider myself a cultural historian of the entangled European Worlds between roughly 1400 and 1800.
Recently, I enjoyed most organizing a lecture series on Trading Zones of Early Modern History and Digital History: Currents, Synergies, Challenges (at Munich’s LMU), and working with students on building digital App trails through early modern cities (at Erlangen’s FAU, and Munich’s LMU).