After studying Cultural and Sustainability Studies in Lüneburg, Paula is now enrolled in the final year of the Master’s programme in Comparative Literature at the University of Cologne and works as a research assistant at MESH and the associated project Climate Change Literacy. During her Bachelor's degree, she spent a semester at Aarhus University, Denmark and went to Oviedo, Spain as an Erasmus student during her Master’s degree. In her studies she focuses on Environmental Humanities, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Studies, with a particular interest in narratives about climate change and species extinction in fiction, ecofeminism and environmental justice. Paula is currently writing her thesis on the intricacies of the scales of climate change in contemporary environmental novels.