Vita

Professional activity

• since August 2024 research assistant at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the European University Viadrina
• since 2014 Freelance writer and photographer

• Jan. 2012 to May 2014 Own position, DFG, Goethe University Frankfurt Project 'Literature at Work: The Framing of Work as Action in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures'

• Oct. 2011 to Dec. 2011 Research Associate, Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin Cooperation project with the Charité 'Rhetoric and Cultural Semantics of Cranial Knowledge in Medicine' (Volkswagen Foundation)

• Sept. 2010 to Aug. 2011 Honorary contract, Chair of English Literature, TU Dresden

• Oct. 2006 to Aug. 2010 Research Assistant, Chair of English Literature, TU Dresden, teaching Elizabethan, Victorian, Romantic, Australian and postcolonial literature, literary theory, intermediality research on literature and photography

• Sept. 2006 to March 2007 Lecturer, English Literature, Bielefeld University, co-organiser of the colloquium Cultures in Process (scientific preparation of the conference Cultures in Process, development of the research topic of the Master's degree programme British and American Studies), organiser of the Practical Forum (training of Master's students in scientific organisation)

• April 2003 to Sept. 2006 Representation of the university assistant position in English Literature, Bielefeld University, teaching, among others, in indigenous Australian literature, empirical literary studies and literary theory, introductory courses

• April 2002 to March 2003, half-time university assistant, Chair of English Studies II, University of Mannheim Teaching undergraduate courses in poetry, historical theory, postcolonial literature and introductions to narrative literature and theory

• Nov. 2001 to March 2003 Coordinator of the Faculty Project 'Evaluation of Practical Language Courses', Dean's Office of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Mannheim

• Oct. 1999 to Feb. 2001 Lecturer, Chair of English Linguistics, University of Mannheim Tutorials Study Techniques

• Oct. 1998 to Feb. 2002 Lecturer, Chair of English Linguistics II, University of Mannheim Teaching undergraduate courses on postcolonial and British literature, literary theory

• July to Aug. 1998 exchange programme of the University of Florida, Gainesville Courses on German language and culture in Mannheim

• Sept. 1997 to Aug. 1998 University of Mannheim, Chair of English Linguistics Organisation and secretariat of the newly founded teaching unit

• Feb. 1997 to Aug. 1997 Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, Mannheim, Editorial Office for History, Law and Business / Business and Law Representation of the editorial secretariat, from April editorial work as a member of the editorial group (text and picture editing)

• March and April 1992 Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG, Mannheim Work in the language index of the Duden editorial team

Academic education

• Jan. 1997 to Sept. 2002 PhD, Chair of English Studies II, University of Mannheim, scholarship, Baden-Württemberg State Graduate Fund
• 1998-2000 PhD summa cum laude, Witnessing the Past: History and Post-Colonialism in Australian Historical Novels (Narr, 2004) Review: University of Mannheim and Deakin University, Australia

• April 1999 to Oct. 1999 Research stay, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service

• Oct. 1990 to Oct. 1996 University of Mannheim Graduate in English with a qualification in economics Grade: 1.3

• Oct. 1993 to Aug. 1994 University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service Master of Arts in Modern Literature (since 1850)

• June 1990 A-levels, Friedrich-Abel-Gymnasium, Vaihingen an der Enz (grade: 1.5)