Lukas Schepp completed his PhD in English Literature at LMU Munich: "Performing Against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wagner and George R.R. Martin." Lukas Schepp specializes in film and media studies, interdisciplinary studies, and philosophical approaches to literature and film. Among others, he has published the essays "Kubrick's Ambiguous Intermedial Translation of Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon" and "Identity and Consciousness in Black Mirror - Be Right Back" in "East-West Dialogues on the Humanities: Literature, Language, and Culture." He also coedited this volume together with Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode, Prof. Dr. Michael O'Sullivan, and Prof. Dr. Eli Park. Moreover, he published the chapter "Toward Sphere Theory: Redefining the Narrative Genres of the Novel and the TV Drama Series" in "Television Series as Literature: From the Ordinary to the Unthinkable" (Palgrave Macmillan, eds. Dr. Reto Winckler and Dr. Víctor Huertas). Lukas Schepp is also a working filmmaker. He has written the episode Horrorclown for the German primetime procedural series The Criminologist (ZDF, 4.58 million viewers), and the episode Mayday for Wismar Homicide (ZDF, 4.53 million viewers). His sci-fi podcast series Lifepoints is currently in production at Random House. Furthermore, Lukas Schepp has composed numerous film scores for short films as well as symphonic poems for various Munich orchestras.