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Curriculum Vitae

Appointments

Since 1 April 2024 Professor of Modern German Literature (W3) at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University
01.10.2023 - 30.03.2024 Representation of a W3 professorship for Modern German Literature with a focus on literature from the 19th to the 21st century at the Institute for German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
01.10.2022 - 30.09.2023 Substitute for a W3 professorship for German Literature at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University
01.04.2022 - 30.09.2022 Substitute for a W3 professorship for Modern German Literature with a focus on literature from the 19th to the 21st century at the Institute for German Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
01.10.2021 - 31.03.2022 Substitute for a W3 professorship for German Literature at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University
03/06/2019 - 03/01/2021 Parental leave
01.04. - 30.09.2018 Substitute for a W3 professorship for Modern German Literature with a focus on the 19th century and media history at the Seminar for German Philology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
01.04.2016 - 01.10.2022 Research assistant at the Institute of German Literature at Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Head of the DFG project "Das Gedicht im Ohr. On the acoustic dimension of poetry and on some stages of an acoustically orientated history of German-language poetry" (own position)
01.10.2011 - 31.03.2016 Research assistant at the Institute for German Literary Studies at the FSU Jena
01.10.2010 - 30.09.2011 Research assistant (50%) at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
01.04.2010 - 30.06.2010 Research stay at the Oxford Kafka Research Centre of the University of Oxford
01.06.2008 - 30.09.2010 PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation e.V. at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

University education

12.01.2021 Habilitation lecture, degree of the habilitation procedure and appointment as Privatdozentin
28.05.2019 Habilitation colloquium, award of the teaching authorisation for the subject "Modern German Literature"
14/12/2011 Doctorate/Phd studies Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (summa cum laude)
01.10.2007 - 14.12.2011 Doctoral studies in Modern German Literature at the Georg-August-University Göttingen
02.07.2007 Magistra Artium German Studies, Comparative Literature, Media and Communication Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, grade: 1.0 ("with honours")
WS 2001 - SoSe 2007 Studies of German, Comparative Literature, Media and Communication Studies, English and Law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Current research topics

Television comedy and social transformation in the long 1960s (together with Georg Löwen)
Literature and creativity
Poetry as social practice

Memberships and Functions

Functions
- Together with Mareike Gronich, organiser of the series "One University, One Book" at Bielefeld University (from WS 2024/2025)
- Together with Sonja Klimek, Fabian Lampart and Ralph Müller Editor Poema. Jahrbuch für Lyrikforschung/ Annual for the Study of Lyrical Poetry/ La recherche annuelle en poésie lyrique (comparative open access yearbook on poetry research published by Kiel University Press; double-blind peer review process)

Memberships
- Head of the DFG network Lyrikologie. Contours of a field of research (2016-2019)
- Member of the DFG Network Feeling and Understanding (2018-2021)
- Founding member of the International Network for the Study of Lyric, www.lyricology.org (since 2016)
- Member of the Network Basic Concepts of Narrative Theory (since 2010)
- German Association of Germanists
- Selection committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V. (since 2012)
- Jury of the Käte Hamburger Prize for the best pre-doctoral thesis publications in the subject of Modern German Literature, awarded by the Seminar for German Philology at the Georg August University of Göttingen (2011-2014)
- External members of the doctoral programme Wertung und Kanon of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2009-2011)

Reviewer activity
- Book series Narratologia of the de Gruyter publishing house
- German Research Foundation
- Diegesis
- International Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies
- Journal of Literary Theory
- Austrian Academic Exchange Service (OeAD)
- Study Foundation of the German People