Curriculum Vitae

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Current and Previous Positions
  • 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
  • „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