Curriculum Vitae

Current and Previous Positions
Education
Additional Study
Conference Presentations & Invited Talks
Grants, Honors and Awards
Related Professional Activities
Professional Memberships
- Executive Assistant to the President, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, since August 2016
- Research Associate/Postdoc (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), German Department, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- Teaching Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), German Department, The Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Education
- Ph.D. - The Pennsylvania State University (USA), German Literature, 2014
- M.A. - The Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany), German Literature, Philosophy, and Art History, 2007
Additional Study
- Fellow-In-Residence at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar (Germany), October - January 2013/14
- Visiting Scholar at the Literary Archive of the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Austria), January - May 2011
- Socrates/Erasmus Student at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Enrollment at the Dept. of English, Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, January – July 2005
Conference Presentations & Invited Talks
- "Made in the USA: Deutsche Nachkriegsdichtung", Denken in der Polis (Weimar denkt V), Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, June 2016
- (As moderator:) "Poesie und Übersetzen – Über Umwege", Literaturmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien, June 2016
- "Black Mountain in Wien: Österreichische Übersetzungen eines US-amerikanischen Experiments," Austria - USA: Artistic and Intercultural Dialoge, Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association, University of Vienna, March 2016
- "'Auch Hitler war ein Österreicher / nicht nur Christus' - Dichtung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", Denken in der Polis (Weimar denkt IV), Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, July 2015
- "Der neue Mensch – Menschenbilder der Moderne", Workshop im Rahmen eines Bildungsprojekts der Klassik Stiftung Weimar, des Hygiene Museums Dresden und des Zeche Zollvereins Essen, Weimar, June 2015
- "Onomatopoeic Homelessness: Yōko Tawada’s Poems for the Austrian Ernst Jandl", Transnationalism and its Discontents: Exploring Critical Approaches to Border-space, Department of Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder, March 2015
- "'Meine Gefangenschaft, die meine Befreiung war' Ernst Jandl kehrt heim", Bilderbuch-Heimkehr? Remigration im Kontext, Symposion des Instituts für Germanistik, Universität Wien, February 2015
- „Zeitgeister: 9/11 und deutsche Vergangenheitsbewältigung bei Christa Wolf, Ursula Krechel und Katharina Hacker", Jubiläumstagung, 15 Jahre Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, October 2014
- Poster Presentation: "Money and Memory: Zu einer globalen Erinnerungstopographie in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur", Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute, University of Göttingen, September 2014
- Poster Presentation: "Transatlantic Antiquary: Foreign Places of Memory in German-language Literature after 9/11", Europäisches Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaften, University of Heidelberg, July 2014
- "A Tear in the Fabric of Time: Christa Wolf's City of Angels and 9/11", Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York City, March 2014
- ”Portrait of the Artist as a Young POW: Ernst Jandl in Captivity“, 36th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 2012
- “Von der anderen Seite der Sprache: Mehrsprachigkeit und Ausdrucksdefizit als Quelle lyrischer Expressivität”, Languagetalks 2011 – Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa und der Welt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, February 2011
- “The Wheezing of the Mona Lisa: On Ernst Jandl’s Experimental Poetry”, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures Speaker Series, The Pennsylvania State University, January 2010
- “Linguistic Skepticism or Faith in Language? - Ernst Jandl’s Poetics of Affirmation”, 33rd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 2009
Grants, Honors and Awards
- Suhrkamp-Postdoc-Stipendium, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany), August-October 2015
- Volkswagen-Stiftung Short Time Fellowship, Europäisches Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaften, University of Heidelberg (Germany), July 2014
- Walter Edwin Thompson & Dr. Regina Bloch Fellowship, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Pennsylvania State University (USA), June-September 2014
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Reisestipendium, Förderprogramm "Rückgewinnung deutscher Wissenschaftler aus dem Ausland" (Germany), April 2014
- Max Kade Summer Award of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State (USA), April 2014
- Winner, first place, at the Annual Graduate Exhibition (Arts and Humanities Division), for "A Contribution to Modern World Poetry: Ernst Jandl and the International Avant-Garde", Pennsylvania State University (USA), March 2014
- American Comparative Literature Association conference travel grant (USA), February 2014
- Fellowship of the Fellows-In-Residence Program at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar (Germany), October-January 2013/14
- Max Kade Research and Travel Award of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute (USA), June 2013
- Suhrkamp-Forschungskolleg and State Government of Baden-Württemberg Travel Grant to participate in the seminar “New East German Literature” at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany), March 2013
- Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research and Austrian Cultural Forum New York Travel Grant (Austria/USA), August 2012
- Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Travel Grant, The College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University (USA), January 2011
- Dissertation Grant of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation (USA), August 2010 – December 2011
- Ernst-Mach-Worldwide Fellowship, Austrian Exchange Service, Center for International Cooperation and Mobility (Austria), June 2010 (declined)
Related Professional Activities
- Assistant, European Summer Seminar of the Weimar-Jena-Akademie, July – August 2015
- Assistant, Faces of Remembrance, a project funded by the European Union and organized by the “Department for Research and Education” of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, November 2014
- Referee, Journal of Austrian Studies, 2013
- Internship at the “Department for Research and Education” of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, July – August 2012
- Co-organizer of a graduate student reading group, The Pennsylvania State University, January – December 2010
- Organizer of the German Film Series, Department of German, The Pennsylvania State University, August – December 2008/2009
- Co-respondent in the process of renewing the examination structure of 1st and 3rd semester German language courses, The Pennsylvania State University, January – December 2008
Professional Memberships
- Weimar-Jena-Akademie - since 2016
- American Comparative Literature Association - since 2013
- American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach - since 2013
- Modern Language Association - since 2012
- Austrian Studies Association - since 2009
- German Studies Association - since 2008