Personal Profile and CV

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)

2011-2012Visiting 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 Jawahral 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)

2023 – present Full Professor (Chair), English Literary and Cultural Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

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

ARIADNE – Mentoring Programm für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen (FAU)