After studying German and Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Uppsala, Annja came to London for her PhD, which she completed at Queen Mary in 2012. Her thesis explores the notion of historicity in the late poetry of Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan. In 2013 she lectured in German language and literature at Queen Mary, before she started working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works by Arthur Schnitzler’ in Cambridge in 2014. Inspired by the performative dimension of time in a poem and how its form creates multi-layered temporalities Annja now works on medical places and spaces at the intersection of theatrical performance and medicine. Alongside her main role as Project Research Associate of the Schnitzler Digital Edition Project she also holds the position of an Affiliated Lecturer in German. This enables her to offer research-based teaching in literary studies, medical humanities and digital humanities. Recent teaching includes the ‘Critical Theory and Practice’ seminar for students in Magdalene and Jesus College and the supervision of research projects on ‘The Spectacle of Dissection’ for medical students.