She has been involved in the administration of the Dr. R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian and Indigenous Studies from 2012-2014 and has co-organised several workshops and guest lectures about Indigenous languages of Australia. After studying English and Biology at the University of Cologne and the University of Manchester, she conducted a dissertation project (funded by DAAD) in which she investigated multimodal reference marking in Kreol Seselwa. Currently she is working on joint publications on Indigenous languages of Australia and on several projects focusing on language contact in PNG and Indigenous Australia. Her most recent contribution to Australian Studies is her presentation with Prof. Dany Adone and Dr. E. L. Maypilama on Anchoredness in nature and environment – linguistic evidence from Aboriginal Australia given at the GASt Conference on Nature and Environment.

In summer 2016, David was part of the organising team of the German Association for Australian Studies’ conference on “Nature and Environment in Australia” at Cologne and has co-authored the pertaining conference report. In the course of his studies, David has focused on Indigenous Australian writing and theatre, as well as on Indigenous Canadian writing.

His paper – presented at the 2016 Cologne conference – on an ecocritical reading of Colin Johnson’s (Mudrooroo) novel Dr. Wooreddy’s Prescriptions for Enduring the End of the World, examining the role of the environment as an independent nonhuman agent has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in 2018. His research interests include Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Australian and Indigenous Canadian Literature, Ecocriticism, Post-colonial Theory, Discouse Analysis and Cultural Studies.