Academic Education
2000 Magister in English, American, and German Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Prädikat: sehr gut)
2005 Dissertation (Dr. phil) in English Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Prädikat: summa cum laude)
Doctoral thesis: Die Brontë-Methode: Elizabeth Stoddards transatlantische Genealogie und das viktorianische Imaginäre
2015 Habilitation, University of Paderborn: Double venia legendi in English Literary and Cultural Studies/ Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Habilitation thesis: Arbeit: Eine Literatur- und Mediengeschichte Großbritanniens
Academic Positions, National/International Scholar- and Fellowships
2000-2005 Research Assistant, English Department, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2005-2015 Assistant Professor, Comparative and English Literature Studies, University of Paderborn
During this time: Research scholarship at the John-F. Kennedy-Institute (Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck), FU Berlin (2006); Visiting fellowships at: Durham University, GB (2013), the University of Sheffield, GB (2007, 2013), the Università degli studi di Salerno, I (2008), the National Museum of Iceland and the Reykjavík Museum of Photography, IS (2013, 2014)
2011-2012 Visiting Professor, Comparative Literature Studies, University of Paderborn (2011-2012; Chair Prof. Dr. Gisela Ecker)
2015-2016 Visiting Professor, German and Comparative Literature Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (Chair Prof. Dr. Roland Borgards)
2016-2017 Assistant Professor, German and Comparative Literature Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
2017-2018 Visiting Professor, German and Comparative Literature Studies (Chair Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen)
2018-2019 Visiting Professor, English and Comparative Literature Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Chair Prof. Dr. Susanne Scholz)
During this time: Two research stays in Hong Kong (2018, 2019)
2019-2020 Visiting Professor, English and Comparative Literature Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Chair Prof. Dr. Julika Griem)
During this time: Research stays at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (2019, 2020) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, IND (2020)
2020-2021 Visiting Professor, Peter Szondi-Institute for General and Comparative Literature Studies (with a focus on Anglophone Literatures), FU Berlin (Chair Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk)
Fall 2021 Visiting Professor, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2021-2022 Visiting Professor, English Literature and Cultural Studies, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (Chair Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann)
Since 2023 Full Professor (Chair), English Cultural and Literary Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Speaker of the Institute for English and American Studies
Speaker of the Department of English, American, and Romance Studies
Prizes and Awards
2009 Research Award, University of Paderborn (Initiator of the research group: “Kulturphänomen Arbeit”)
2017 BritCult Award of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Habilitation Award)
Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum: Gender, Differenz, Diversität (IZGDD, FAU)
ARIADNE (Mentoring Programm für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen, FAU)
German Association for the Studies of British Cultures (BritCult)
Deutscher Anglistikverband
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL)
Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW