Academic Career

Academic Positions

2019/10 – Present: Research Assistant and Program Manager (40%) at the Women's Office of the University of Bamberg
2019/10 – Present: Research Assistant and Lecturer in French Literature (10%), Institute of Romance Studies, University of Bamberg
2018/11 – Present: Research Assistant and Lecturer in American Studies (50%), Institute of English and American Studies, University of Bamberg
2016/05 – 2018/10: Research Assistant in the DFG-Project "The Environmental Imagination of Mobility: Nature and Migration in Contemporary American Poetry," Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt, American Studies, University of Bamberg
2013/10 – 2016/04: Research Assistant and Lecturer in American Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Bamberg
2012/04 – 2013/03: Research Assistant and Lecturer in American Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Bamberg
2010/10 – 2012/03: Contract Lecturer for English as a Foreign Language, Language Center of the University of Bamberg

2018/10 – Today: Postdoctoral Research in American Studies, University of Bamberg
2012/10 – 2018/09: PhD Program in American Studies, University of Bamberg
2012/04: Master's Degree in English and American Studies, University of Bamberg
2010/06: Master's Degree in Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College (USA)
2009/09 – 2010/06: Study of Comparative Literature (Focus: Postcolonial French/English Literature and Literary Theory), Dartmouth College (USA)
2008/09 – 2009/06: Study of English, French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College (USA)
2006/10 – 2008/08: Study of English/French/Spanish Language, Literature & Linguistics, University of Bamberg

2019/07: Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American Academy
2019/03: DAAD Travel Grant for the 2019 ASLE Conference, UC Davis (USA)
2018/11: Dissertation Award of the University of Bamberg in the field of language and literature; donated by the Rotary Club Bamberg-Schloss Geyerswörth
2018/06: Stipend of the Bavarian American Academy for the summer institute "Futures of American Studies"; Dartmouth College (USA)
2015/05 – 2017/03: Participation in the feRNet Mentoring-Program of the University of Bamberg; Mentor Prof. Dr. Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College)
2013/09 – 2013/10: 2013 Duke University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship of the Bavarian American Academy
2013/07 – 2013/09: 'Step by Step' Scholarship by the Office of Women's Affairs and Equal Opportunity at the University of Bamberg
2013/04 – 2013/06: DAAD Stipend for a 3-month Research visit at Dartmouth College (USA)
2009/09 – 2010/06: Fellow, Dartmouth College, Graduate Studies Comparative Literature (Full fellowship)
2008/09 – 2009/06: Fulbright Scholarship (Travel Grant)
2008/09 – 2009/06: VDAC Scholarship, Federation of German-American Clubs/ Dartmouth College, Undergraduate Studies at Dartmouth College (Full Scholarship)
2005/06: Award for Academic Excellence and Social Involvement of the Coburger Convent

2016/09 – 2016/10: Research Stay at Dartmouth College (USA)
2016/06: Participation in the international BAA summer academy Material Cultures, Florida International University, Miami (USA)
2014/06: Participation in the international BAA summer academy American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective: Critical Regionalism in Politics & Culture, Texas State University, San Marcos (USA)
2013/09 – 2013/10: Research Stay at Duke University (USA)
2013/06: Participation in the 6th International Walt Whitman Week, Northwestern University, Chicago (USA)
2013/04 – 2013/06: Research Stay at Dartmouth College (USA)
2009/09 – 2010/06: Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College (USA)
2008/09 – 2009/06: Exchange Year and Undergraduate Studies at Dartmouth College (USA)
2005/09 – 2006/08: Work Stay in Tours (France)

SLSA (US & EU): Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (since 2020)
GFF: Gesellschaft für Fantastiskforschung (since 2020)
EASLCE: European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (since 2017)
ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (since 2012)
EAAS: European Association for American Studies (since 2012)
DGfA: German Association of American Studies (since 2012)
FGAC/VDAC: Federation of German-American Clubs/ VDAC-Alumni e.V. (since 2008)