Davina Höll

Davina Höll holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in European and German Literary Studies from the University of Marburg and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Mainz. She was a junior member of the Gutenberg Academy at the University of Mainz. She is now a post-doctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence 2124 »Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections« (CMFI) at the University of Tübingen, where she works on a project that investigates the historical, epistemological, and ethical implications of an anticipated paradigm shift concerning human microbes in the wake of the antibiotic resistance crisis. Her research interests include the Medical Humanities, (literary and visual) history of epidemics, history, theory, ethics, and aesthetics of microbes, Medical Gothic, and One Health issues.