Christiane focuses much of her research on the intersections of literature, film, space, and identity, specifically with regard to migration. Her areas of specialization are 20th- and 21st-century German literature and film, with an emphasis on Turkish-German and other minority cultural productions, cultural geography, and feminist and media studies. Her manuscript, “Putting Place Back into Displacement: Reevaluating Diaspora in the Contemporary Literature of Migration,” is an interdisciplinary project that marries cultural geography and literary criticism to examine the multiple ways in which migrants attach meanings and symbolism to their everyday lived space.