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for Papers - "The 'Ordinary Magic' of Resilience in Anglophone Literatures: Past, Present,
Futures" - Deadline: 30 October 2023
Academic Career
| Since April 2019 | Research assistant, University of Stuttgart, Department of English Literatures and Cultures |
Education
| Since 2019 | PhD Project on “Spaces of Empathy Transmission in Prose Fiction from 1800 to the Present” |
| Since April 2019 |
PhD project: “Empathic Spaces in Modernist Fiction by Virginia Woolf and Henry James” |
| October 2014 – November 2018 |
Master of Arts (English Literature/Anglistik), University of Stuttgart |
| October 2011 – September 2014 |
Bachelor of Arts (English Studies and Political Science), University of Stuttgart |
| 2009 – 2014 | Studies, English / American Literature and Political Sciences, University of Stuttgart |
| Cognitive literary studies |
| Emotions and empathy in prose fiction |
| Modernist literature (esp. Virginia Woolf and Henry James) |
| Literature and architecture |
“Diminishing the Distance: Imagining Empathic Bodies in Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle.” Erfinden, Schöpfen, Machen: Körpertechniken und Imaginationstechniken. Ed. Nina Engelhardt and Johannes Schick. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021.
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July 2022 – July 2024 |
Mentor, StartScience: Mentoring Programme for Female Students, University of Stuttgart |
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October 2021 – September 2024 |
PhD – Representative Faculty Council,
University of
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Since January 2021 |
PhD-scholarship University of Stuttgart, Landesgraduiertenförderung |
| “'So much depends upon distance’ – Virginia Woolf and Empathy Beyond the Physical Gap”. Mind, Body, Culture – Cognitive Poetics Today, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. 31 March – 1 April 2023. |
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“Henry James’s Empathic Spaces”.
American Literature Association, Boston/MA. 25 May – 28 May 2023.
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“Empathic Spaces in Modernist Narratives by Virginia Woolf and Henry James”. Doctoral Symposium, European Society for the Study of English, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. 29 August – 2 September 2022. |
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“’Standing there at the open windows’: On the Threshold of Empathy in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway ”. Moved by Movement in Novels: Phenomenological Approaches, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. 9-10 September 2021. |
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“Empathic Spaces ‘In the Cage’”. Young Researchers Conference, Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies, RWTH Aachen University. 8-9 April 2021. |
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“’Through the Bars of the Cage’ – The Spatial Foundation of Narrative Empathy”. Cognitive Literary Studies- Theories, Methodologies, and Challenges, Luxembourg School of Religion and Society, Luxembourg. May 2020. (abstract accepted, conference cancelled) |