Dr. Mareike Spychala

Academic Service

University Administration

  • Since 05/2025: Member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Gender-Sensitive Research (Zentrums für Geschlechtersensible Forschung, ZGF) (since 11/2025 as Deputy Chair)
  • Since 04/2025: Deputy Representative of the Non-Professorial Academic Staff in the Standing Committe for Teaching and Students (LuST)
  • Since 2021: Member of the Steering Committe of the Forschungsnetzwerks : Research Network for the AK Research of the Non-Professorial Academic Staff Council
  • Since 2020: Deputy Academic Equal Opportunity Offiver of the Faculty of Humanities 

Current Positions in Professional Associations

  • Seit 04/2025: Co-Sprecherin des Diversity Roundtables der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)

Past Positions in University Administration and Professional Associations

  • 2018 - 2020: Speaker for PhD Students of the BaGraLCM
  • 05/2015 - 11/2016: Member of the Organizational Team for the Postgraduate-Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

Editorial Commitments

  • Since 09/2024: Member of the  Editorial Boards of the Open Access Journal Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS)
  • Experts Opinion for the Journals : Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung (ZFF), Crime Fiction Studies, AmLit – American Literature, gender forum, Journal for the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS)

Memberships in Professional Associations

  • International Gothic Association (since 2024)
  • Bavarian American Academy (since 2023)
  • Association for Research in the Fantastic (since 2020)
  • Popular Culture/American Culture Association (since 2018)
  • Universitätsbund Bamberg e.V. (since 2018)
  • German Association of American Studies (since 2015)