Daniela's research interests are tourism and travel literature, intercultural aspects of literature and gender studies.
In her PhD research at Ghent University and Luxembourg University, she examines the intricate interconnections between literary discourses and concepts of tourism.She is particularly interested in tourist ways of perceiving and writing about the world that manifest themselves as particular narrative strategies in the literary medium. Daniela focuses on 21st century German-speaking authors depicting travels to India such as Josef Winkler, Martin Mosebach, Ilija Trojanow, Hans Christoph Buch, and Felicitas Hoppe. Situated at the intersections of literary and socio-scientific discourses, her work follows a multi-perspectival theoretical approach, focusing on aspects of identity as well as social, cultural, ethnical and gender-specific differences.
