Placements

Susann Köhler, M.A.

• Susann Köhler is currently working as an assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Göttingen. For further information click here.
• Her completed dissertation in 2019 was titled “Picturing the Rustbelt: Deindustrialization, American Ruin, and Urban Change in Postindustrial Photography”.

Dr. Katrin Horn

• Katrin Horn is currently an assistant professor in American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth, where she is also directing the DFG-funded research project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century US-American Literature and Culture”. For a CV and contact details, click here. For up-to-date information about her current research, please visit archivalgossip.com or follow @archivalgossip.
• Katrin Horn has received her PhD in American Studies from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016. The revised version of her thesis was published by Palgrave in 2017, titled “Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess”.

Dr. Carmen Dexl

• Carmen Dexl is currently working as an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of Regensburg. For further information click here.

Lena Gotteswinter, M.A.

• Lena Gotteswinter is currently working at American Studies at the University of Regensburg. For further information click here.
• She is currently working on her dissertation with the working title ‘The Diversification of the Hipster.’

Selina Foltinek, B.A.

• Selina Foltinek is currently working at American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bayreuth. For further information click here.
• Her dissertation is titled  “Knowledge Production and Negotiations of Agency in Semi-Autobiographical Fiction about Female Same-Sex Relationships”.

Dr. Sebastian Honert

• Sebastian Honert is currently working as an research assistant at Institut für Lern-Innovation at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. For further information click here.

Loredana Filip, M.A.

• Loredana is currently working at an SFB research project “Cultures of Vigilance” at the LMU München.
• She is currently working on her dissertation with the working title “From Self-Help to Human Entrancement: Contemporary North American Science and Fiction”. For further information click here.

Thalia Prokopiou

• Thalia Prokopiou was offered one of the doctoral scholarships at Leibniz Science Campus, Regensburg to begin on 1 March 2020. For further Information click here.

Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez

• Gustavo Gutierrez will be working at the GRK 2589 “Practicing Place. Soziokulturelle Praktiken und epistemische Konfigurationen”  in Eichstätt/Ingolstadt starting in April 2021. For further information click here.
• His dissertation is titled “Caribbean Literature: A Place for Pluralities”