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
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 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
since 2014
Muhlenberg Center for American Studies (MCAS) Halle
Executive Assistant
Event management, acquisition of external funding, teacher training, international cooperations
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
2013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Visiting Scholar
Archive and research stay, guest lecture and regional studies seminar
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)