Academic CV

Academic Activities

since 2021University Professorship for English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Graz
2016-2021Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Mannheim
2020- 2021Birth of a child and parental leave
2019-2020Interim Chair at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (Chair Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ansgar Nünning; leave of absence at the University of Mannheim)
2016-2018Birth of a child and parental leave
2015-2015Academic Visitor at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
2012-2015

Research Assistant at the Justus Liebig University Giessen

Research Coordinator at the International Doctoral Program in Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP) at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Cultural Studies (GGK) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)

2009-2011Research Assistant, English Department, University of Heidelberg
2007-2009Certified Research Assistant, English Department, University of Heidelberg

2004-2007

 

Research Assistant (uncertified), English Department, University of Heidelberg

Academic Background

2019Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) and teaching license in English Literature and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2012Doctorate in English Philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg ('summa cum laude')
10/2001-11/2007

Studied German, English and History at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and Queen Mary University of London (Erasmus scholarship)

Degree: First state examination ('with distinction': 1.2)

Awards

2014Admission to the ProProfessorship mentoring programme for highly qualified female scientists on their way to a professorship 
2013Ruprecht Karls Prize of the 'Heidelberg University Foundation', dissertation prize for young academics at Heidelberg University who have made an outstanding research achievement 
2009Receipt of a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation