since 04/2011: Lecturer (50%), American Studies, University of Bamberg (Literary and Cultural Studies)
11/2009 - 03/2011: Research Assistant (varying positions), American Studies, University of Bamberg (Literary Studies)
10/2009 - 07/2010: Research Assistant (50%), American Studies, University of Rostock (Cultural Studies)
04/2009 - 09/2009: Research Assistant (50%), American Studies, University of Jena (Literary Studies)
03/2006 – 09/2006: Director of the Caspar-David-Friedrich Center, Greifswald
Studies
05/2011: Ph.D. American Literature and Culture (magna cum laude), Dissertation: "Epistolary Shapeshifters: The Use of Narrative Strategies in Private Correspondence between the Mecklenburg Duchies and the Unites States of America in the 19th Century"
10/2006 – 03/2010: Doctoral candidate at the Graduate School "Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship", Rostock University
11/2005: Master's degree in Art History, Museum Education and Fine Arts, Greifswald University
11/2004: Master's degree in British and American Studies, Greifswald University
09/2001 – 07/2002: ERASMUS exchange, Universidad Oviedo (Spain)
1999/2000 – 2004/05: Study of British and American Studies, Art History, Museum Education and Fine Arts at Greifswald University
DFG-Funded Research in the United States
03/2009: Texas A&M University, College Station/TX, USA, and University of Dallas in Arlington/TX, USA
07/2008 – 08/2008: Deutsches Haus at the New York University, USA; German-Americana Collection at the University of Cincinnati/OH, USA; German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., USA; Library of Congress in Washington D.C., USA
07/2007 – 09/2007: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies in Madison/WI, USA; University of Iowa in Cedar Rapids/IA, USA; University of Chicago/IL, USA
07/2017 – 02/2018: Development of an e-learning course for Bavarian universities, with a focus on US-American Literary History, in cooperation with the University Bayreuth (Prof. Dr. Heike Paul) and funded by the Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (VHB funding: 44.982€)
04/2017: FNK funding for conference participation in Varna (Bulgaria)
05/2015: FNK funding for conference participation in Moscow (Russian Federation)
05/2013: FNK funding for conference participation in Moscow (Russian Federation)
11/2010: DAAD conference scholarship for the 35fth Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association "Power and Politics", Chicago/IL, USA
10/2006 – 03/2010: Phd-scholarship for dissertation project in the DFG-Graduate School "Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship"