CV
- Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Bayreuth, since April 2018
- Assistant Professor of American Studies and Assistant to the Managing Director of the Institute for English and American Studies, Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg, 2017/18
- Assistant Professor of American Studies and Coordinator for the MA program “North American Studies: Literature and Culture,” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2016/17
- Assistant Professor of American Studies and Assistant to the Managing Director of the Institute for English and American Studies, Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg, 2015/16
- Research Assistant at the government-funded research project Stimme und Gesang in der populären Musik der USA (1900-1960), Liszt School of Music, Weimar, 2014
- Lecturer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Bayreuth, 2010–2015
- Visiting Researcher at Harvard University, 2010
- Participant in the BAA Summer Institute “Race and Ethnicity,“ the Summer School “Queer Temporalities” (Manchester), the Summer School at the Clinton Institute for American Studies “New Media, Power, and Foreign Policy” (Dublin), the Fulbright Summer School “Contested Visions: The United States in 2012 ” (San Francisco), and the Summer School “Inside/Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective” (Hannover), 2010 – 2016
- Member of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program “Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Transdifference,” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2009
- M.A. in Theater and Media Studies, English Literature and American Cultural Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003–2008
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- DFG-Research Grant (Module "Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators," 36 months) for “The Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in late 19th and early 20th-Century US American Literature and Culture”, 2019 – 2021
- GAAS Fulbright Award, 2018
- Bavarian Library of Congress Fellowship, 2018
- Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American Academy, 2016
- PostDoc-Fellowship of the “Program for the Advancement of Gifted Female Scholars” awarded by FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (interrupted in 2016), 2015/2017
- Doctoral Grant for “Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching” awarded by FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013
- Travel Grant from the Dr. Alfred Vinzl Foundation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011
- Harvard University Post-Graduate Research Fellowship from the Bavarian American Academy, 2010
- Grant for Conference Presentations from the German American Exchange Service (Minneapolis/Boston), 2010/2012
- Graduate Scholarship (Elite Network of Bavaria), distributed by Universität Bayern e.V., 2009 – 2012