CV
Education
- 1999, Habilitation (postdoctoral degree), Freie Universität Berlin, Venia legendi "Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft"
- 1992, Dr. phil., American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1985, Erstes Staatsexamen in English and Biology
- 1978-1985, Studies of English and Biology, Freie Universität Berlin and Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
Professional experience, teaching positions, fellowships (selection)
- 10/2021-1/2022, Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg | Hanse Institute for Advanced Study
- since 11/2013, Associate, DFG graduate school "Life Sciences, Life Writing: Boundary Experiences of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience," University of Mainz
- since 1/2011, Professor (Chair, W 3), American Literature and Culture and Director, North American Studies Program & German-Canadian Centre, Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn
- 2005-9/2013, Board Member, 10/2013-3/2018, Spokesperson, Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Studies, University of Bonn
- 3-4/2019, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Brisbane
- 8-10/2016, DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus, New York University
- 2005-2016, Associate member of the DFG research group "Popular Seriality – Aesthetics and Practice" (FU Berlin|University of Göttingen)
- 6/2009-5/2015, member of the Advisory Board, Center for Modernist Studies (CMS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- 6/2010-6/2013, Associate, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
- 7/2008-6/2013, Associate, FWF research project "Framing Media: The Periphery of Fiction and Film," University of Innsbruck
- 2008-2012, Deputy Spokesperson, Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Studies, University of Bonn
- 2004-2012, Director, Forum Women and Gender Studies, University of Bonn
- winter term 2010-2011, sabbatical, financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), for work on the book project "Memory, Mediation, Seriality"
- 9/2001-12/2010, Professor (Chair, W 3), American Literature and Culture and Director, North American Studies Program & German-Canadian Centre, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn
- January 2010, Offer (Ruf) of the Chair for American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
- 2005–4/2009 Non-Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University
- summer term 2001, Professor (C 3), Englisches Seminar, University of Freiburg
- 9/1999–9/2001, Associate Professor, Seminar für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2–8/1999, Senior Lecturer, American Institute, University of Lódz, Poland
- 10/1997–3/1998, Associate, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
- 10–12/1998 and 10/1996–3/1998, Habilitandenstipendium, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 1992–1998, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
- winter term 1995-1996, Visiting Professor (C 2), Seminar für Englische Sprache und Kultur, University of Hamburg
- 1994–1995, Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
- 1987–1988 Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Brandeis University, post-graduate studies and dissertation research
- 1986–1987, Lecturer, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1982–2002, Editing and Technical Assistant, Sender Freies Berlin
- 1982–1992, Employee, International Office, Freie Universität Berlin
Miscellaneous
- Mentor, Foundation of German Business|Vertrauensdozentin, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (SDW): "Regionalgruppe Bonn-Koblenz"
- Referee for German Research Foundation (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Schweizer Nationalfond, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Erwin Schrödinger Stiftung, and other institutions
- since 8/2004 Series Editor "Transcription: Cultures – Concepts – Controversies" (Frankfurt: Lang)
- since 1/2003 Member of the Editorial Board of Amerikastudien/American Studies