CV

Currently

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Studies
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Erik Redling)

• Research and Teaching
• Supervision of BA program Intercultural European and American Studies
• Supervision and evaluation of final theses
• Coordinator for the lateral entry teaching programme

WS 2024/25

Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Substitute Professor for American Literary Studies

WS 2022/23

University de Montaigne, Bordeaux, FR

Guest Professor for American Literary Studies

• Research and Teaching

SS 2022

University Salzburg

Guest Professor in the Department of English and American Studies

2019

Habilitation
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg       
Venia Legendi Amerikanistik und Transatlantikstudien
(American Literary and Cultural Studies and Transatlantic Studies)

Habilitation Thesis:
Southern Belles and English Poets: Intertextual Self-Fashioning in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women

since 2014

Muhlenberg Center for American Studies (MCAS) Halle

Executive Assistant
Event management, acquisition of external funding, teacher training, international cooperations

since 2013

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg       

Assistant Professor of Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Studies
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Erik Redling)  

• Research and Teaching
• Supervision of BA program Intercultural European and American Studies
• Supervision and evaluation of final theses

2013

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Visiting Scholar
Archive and research stay, guest lecture and regional studies seminar

2011–2012

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Research Assistant in British and American Studies
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe)

2009–2013

Center for United States Studies
at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenbarg

Managing Director
Cooperation with the American Embassy in Berlin and the Consulate General in Leipzig as well as with the State Institutes for Teacher Education of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia; organization of conferences, seminars, and further education programs; acquisition of third-party funds; management of budget and third-party accounts; financial administration

2010

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Adjunct Lecturer
Didactics of English Language Teaching and American Cultural Studies

2009

Doctorate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
in Anglistik (Anglistics/English Studies)

English Literary Studies
(summa cum laude)
Thesis: Georg III.—Rezeption und Konstruktion in den britischen Medien. Ein kognitives Lesemodell historio(bio)graphischer Texte

(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2010)

2006

German Historical Institute London, GB

Visiting Scholar
Archive and research stay, guest lecture and research interviews

2006–2010

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Adjunct Lecturer
English Literary Studies
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Sabine Volk-Birke)

2019

Award for the learning labs of the Centre for Multimedia Teaching and Learning

2017

@ward for multimedia-supported courses

2012

Helene Richter Prize of the German English Language and Literature Association

2011

Luther-Urkunde from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in recognition of the completion of the doctorate with the result summa cum laude