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Journal of Literary Theory
Antike und Abendland
Academic Appointments
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Since 2018 |
Full Professor of English Literature
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2018-2021
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Affiliated Professor of English Literature
Department of English,
University of Innsbruck
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2015–2018 |
Full Professor of English Literature
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2014–2015 |
Visiting Professor (English and American Literature and Cultural Studies)
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2011–2015 |
W1-Professor of English Literature and Culture
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2009–2011 |
Feodor Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
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04/2009 |
Visiting Professor
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2007–2009 |
Research Coordinator
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2006–2007 |
Teaching Fellow and DAAD Lektor
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2001–2002 |
Teaching Assistant
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Education
| 2013 | Habilitation, English Literature and Culture
University of Gießen |
| 2006 | PhD, English Literature and Culture
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
| 2002 | Master of Arts, English, German, and Comparative Literature
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2000–2001 | BA-Studies, English Literature
University of Cambridge |
| 1998–2000 | Undergraduate Studies, English and German Literature and Culture
University of Heidelberg |
Fellowships and Honours
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Since 2013 |
Member of AcademiaNet
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2011–2016 |
Elected member of
Die
Junge Akademie (Young Academy)
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2010–2012 |
Fellow in the Fast-Track Programme
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2009–2011 |
Feodor Lynen Fellowship
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2003–2006 |
PhD-scholarship
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2001–2002 |
Stuart Atkins Fellowship
Scholarship
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2000–2001 |
Scholarship
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Early Modern literature and culture, esp. Shakespeare
Cognitive literary studies
Aesthetics of fascination
Literary attention
Digital narratives
Research Networks
Member of the DFG-funded research network Form in Dialogue
Member of the Stuttgart Research Focus "Re2 - Reproducing Realities"
Member of the Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science (SC SimTech), University of Stuttgart (since 2021)
Member of the research centre Conceptions of Europe (director: Stefan Ehrenpreis), University of Innsbruck. 2017-2020
Member of the research centre Dimensions of Literary Transfer: Reception, Translation, Remediation (director: Thomas Wegmann), University of Innsbruck. 2015-2020
Member of the research area Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts (director: Timo Heimerdinger), University of Innsbruck. 2015-2020
Founder and member of the working group Fascination, Young Academy. 2011-2016
Member of the working groups Academic Teaching (2011-14), Worlds of Sound (2011-13), Doctoral Cap (2014-16), Popular Culture (2014-16) and Science Policy (2011-16) of the Young Academy
Member of the DFG-research network Gelehrte Polemik (convenors: Kai Bremer, University of Gießen, and Carlos Spoerhase, Humboldt-University of Berlin). 2011-2014
Member of the research unit Media Convergence, its focus group Adaptation and Appropriation, and the research unit Historical Cultural Sciences, University of Mainz. 2011-2015
Member of the European Research Network Europe, in Comparison: EU, Identity and the Idea of European Literature (EUROCOM) (convenor: César Domínguez, University of Santiago de Compostela). 2011-2013
Member of the DFG-research network Aisthetik der Geister: Die Rezeption der Spirituslehren in Künsten und Populärkultur der Frühen Neuzeit (convenor: Steffen Schneider, University of Tübingen). 2009-2012
Literary Attention in Short Fiction, or: What Literature Knows About Attention and Attention Politics (LitAttention) (ERC AdvGrant, 2024-2029)
Born Digital: Towards a Living Encyclopedia of Electronic Literatures (BWS Plus Project, 2023-2026)
Monographs
Literature and Fascination . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015.
An Introduction to the Study of Plays and Drama (with Ansgar Nünning). Stuttgart: Klett 2009. ISBN:978-3-12939-545-5.
Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy. Penrith: Humanities Ebooks / Leicester: Troubador Publishing 2008.
'Let me behold thy face': Physiognomik und Gesichtslektüren in Shakespeares Tragödien. Heidelberg: Winter 2007.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
(with Karin Kukkonen). Narratives between Attention and Mind-Wandering. Special issue of DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research (2022).
(with Lena Henningsen and Klaus Oschema). The Fascination with Unknown Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017.
(with Ralf Haekel and Felix Sprang). “ Cognitive Literary Studies”. Special issue of the Journal of Literary Theory 11/2 (2017).
(with Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning). A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments – Interpretations . Trier: WVT 2014. ISBN 978-3-86821-578-6
(with Beatrice Michaelis and Ansgar Nünning).
Travelling Concepts, Metaphors, and Narratives: Literary and Cultural Studies in an Age of
Interdisciplinary Research
. Trier: WVT 2012.
ISBN 978-3-86821-376-8
(with Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning). A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Interpretations . Trier: WVT 2011. ISBN 978-3-86821-333-1
Regions of Culture-Regions of Identity / Kulturregionen-Identitätsregionen
. Trier: WVT 2010.
ISBN 978-3-86821-260-0
(with Herbert Grabes and Ansgar Nünning).
Literature and Values: Literature as a Medium for Representing, Disseminating and Constructing
Norms and Values
. Trier: WVT 2009.
ISBN 978-3-86821-143-6
(with Herbert Grabes and Ansgar Nünning). Metaphors Shaping Culture and Theory (REAL – The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature). Tübingen: Narr 2009.
Articles and Book Chapters
(with Francesca Zermiani, et al.). “Individual differences in visuo-spatial working memory capacity and prior knowledge during interrupted reading”. Frontiers of Cognition 3 (2024), https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2024.1434642
(with Karin Kukkonen). “ Mind-Wandering and Literary Attention.” Diegesis: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research (2022). 1-17.
“Aesthetic Emotions.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit Hogan, and Bradley Irish. London: Routledge 2022. 123-133. Link
(with Ulla Ratheiser). “The Poetics and Politics of Victorian Surfaces.” In: Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture – Skin, Silk, and Show. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach and Ulla Ratheiser. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021. 1-23. Link
“Only Connect”: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation and Mindful Literary Studies.” In: Literature and Literary Studies in the 21 st Century. Ed. Ansgar Nünning, Vera Nünning, and Alexander Scherr. Trier: WVT 2021. 73-92
“Stories of Dis-Ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives.” In: The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed Rudolf Freiburg and Gerd Bayer. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021. 187-202
(with Andreas Maurer). “Brexit and Academia – A Satyr Play where Exit Prevails Voice.” Brexit and Academia. Special Issue of the European Journal for English Studies (EJES) 25 (2021): 1-10. Link
"Marketing Anglophone World Literatures.“ In: Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures. Ed. Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann and Gabrielle Rippl. New York/Berlin: de Gruyter 2020. 229-243.
" The Fascination with Crisis and the Crisis of Perception in Contemporary British Drama." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 8 (2020). 47-64.
"Mind the Narratives: Towards a Cultural Narratology of Attention.” In: Narrative in Culture. Ed. Astrid Erll and Roy Sommer. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019. 37-57.
(with Birgit Neumann). “The Novel – An Undead Genre.” In: New Approaches to the 21 st-Century Anglophone Novel. Ed. ibid. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2019. 1-17.
“The Economy of Attention and the Novel.” In: New Approaches to the 21 st-Century Anglophone Novel. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2019. 39-58.
(with Pascal Nicklas). “ Adaptation and Perception.” Adaptation 11/2 (2018): 103-110.
“To be or not to be? Crisis and the Humanities in Germany.” In: The Changing Face of Higher Education: Is There an International Crisis in the Humanities?. Ed. Dennis A. Ahlburg. London: Routledge 2018. 103-120.
“The Booker Prize as a Harbinger of Literary Trends and an Object of Satire: Debates about Literary Prizes in Journalism and Edward St Aubyn’s Lost for Words (2014)” In: The British Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Cultural Concepts – Literary Developments – Model Interpretations. Ed. Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2018. 53-70.
(with Lena Henningsen and Klaus Oschema). “Why all the Fuss about Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination.” In: The Fascination with Unknown Time. Ed. ibid. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017. 1-20.
“The Worst Returns to Laughter: Tragikomisches Lachen in Shakespeares Theater.” In: Zum Brüllen. Ed. Gordon Kampe. Essen: Folkwang Studien 2016. 41-55.
“William Shakespeares The Tempest.” In: Das englische Drama und Theater von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Trier: WVT 2016. 86-91.
“Rooting New European Literature: A Reconsideration of the European Myth of the Postnational and Cynical Cosmopolitanism.” In: Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational: Literature and the New Europe. Ed. César Domínguez and Theo D’haen. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi 2015. 55-74.
“Die Faszination fremder Dinge in der englischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts.“ In: Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Birgit Neumann. Göttingen: Wallstein 2015. 395-411.
“‘Thy face is mine’: Faces and Fascination in Shakespeare’s Plays.” In: Shakespeare and the Power of the Face. Ed. James Knapp. Farnham: Ashgate 2015. 15-29.
“Shakespeares Theater der Geister: Spiritus-Konzepte in The Tempest.“ In: Aisthetics of the Spirits: Spirits in Early Modern Science, Religion, Literature, and Music. Ed. Steffen Schneider. Göttingen: V&R unipress 2015. 191-212.
“Faszination der Wiederholung – Wiederholung der Faszination.” In: Prinzip ‘Wiederholung’: Zur Ästhetik von System- und Sinnbildung in Literatur, Kunst und Kultur aus interdisziplinärer Sicht. Ed. Károly Csúri and Joachim Jacob. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2015. 47-60.
“Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” In: A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. ibid., Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2015. 79-90.
(with Birgit Neumann). “New Departures and Developments: Contemporary British Poetry.” In: A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments –Interpretations. Ed. ibid. and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2015. 409-422.
(with Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning). “A History of British Poetry: An Outline of Major Genres and Main Developments.” In: A History of British Poetry: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. ibid. Trier: WVT 2015. 1-16.
“‘Such sweet thunder’: Harmonische Verstimmungen in Shakespeares dramatischen Klangwelten.“ In: Faszinosum Klang: Anthropologie – Medialität – kulturelle Praxis. Ed. Wolf Gerhard Schmidt. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2014. 157-182.
“Phantastik in der Frühen Neuzeit: England.” In: Phantastik. Ein Interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Ed. Hans Richard Brittnacher and Markus May. Stuttgart: Metzler 2013. 23-27.
(with Anja Müller-Wood). “Apocalypse and Literature: Introduction.” In: Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings. Ed. Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer. Trier: WVT 2013. 183-188.
“Voice, Face, and Fascination: The Art of Physiognomy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Survey 65 (2012): 77-91.
(with Ansgar Nünning and Beatrice Michaelis). “Introducing Travelling Concepts and the Metaphor of Travelling: Risks and Promises of Conceptual Transfers in Literary and Cultural Studies.” In: Travelling Concepts, Metaphors, and Narratives: Literary and Cultural Studies in an Age of Interdisciplinary Research. Ed. ibid. Trier: WVT 2012. 1-24.
“Scrutinizing Interfaces: Physiognomy as a Travelling Concept.” In: Travelling Concepts, Metaphors, and Narratives: Literary and Cultural Studies in an Age of Interdisciplinary Research. Ed. ibid., Beatrice Michaelis, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2012. 95-114.
“Assist me [...] for I am sure I shall turn sonnet: Shakespeares Bühnensonette und ihre dramatische Funktion.” In: Sonett-Künste: Transformationen eines klassischen Genres. Ed. Erika Greber and Evi Zemanek. Dozwil: SIGNAT(h)UR 2012. 315-344.
“Totgesagte streiten länger: Das Elysium als Austragungsort gelehrter Polemik in George Lytteltons Dialogues of the Dead.” Zeitsprünge – Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 15 (2011): 404-426.
“Early English Theatre.” In: A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. Ibid., Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2011. 19-30.
“Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Hamlet.” In: A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. Ibid., Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2011. 77-94.
(with Ansgar Nünning). “Biography, History, and Memory Plays: Brian Friel’s Making History and Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus.” In: A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2011. 319-336.
(with Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning). “An Outline of the Features, Objectives and Premises of A History of British Drama.” In: A History of British Drama: Genres – Developments – Interpretations. Ed. ibid. Trier: WVT 2011. 1-18.
“ Medusa’s Gaze and the Aesthetics of Fascination.” Anglia 128/2 (2010): 225-245.
“Physiognomy.” In: A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Vol. 1. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2010. 582-597.
“Reading Medusa.” In: Refocusing the Vision, the Viewer & Viewing Through an Interdisciplinary Lens. Ed. Phil Fitzsimmons and Barbra McKenzie. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press 2010. 89-98.
“Conceptualizing ‘Region’, ‘Identity’, and ‘Culture’, and Mapping Approaches to Regions of Culture and Regions of Identity.” In: Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity / Kulturregionen – Identitätsregionen. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach. Trier: WVT 2010. 1-15.
“Wissensräume im Theater der Frühen Neuzeit.” In: Raum und Bewegung in der Literatur: Die Literaturwissenschaften und der Spatial Turn. Ed. Wolfgang Hallet and Birgit Neumann. Bielefeld: transcript 2009. 195-212.
“Travelling the Worlds of Myth and Metaphor: The Metaphorical Dimension of Mythical Figures.” In: Metaphor: Shaping Culture and Theory (REAL – The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature). Ed. Herbert Grabes, Ansgar Nünning, Sibylle Baumbach. Tübingen: Narr 2009. 111-126.
(with Ansgar Nünning and Herbert Grabes). “Metaphors as a Way of Worldmaking, or: Where Metaphors and Culture Meet.” In: Metaphor: Shaping Culture and Theory (REAL – The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Vol. 25). Ed. ibid. Tübingen: Narr 2009. xi-xxviii.
“Speak, dead, speak: Values, Virtues, and Vices from Hades.” In: Values in Literature and the Value of Literature: Literature as a Medium for Representing, Disseminating and Constructing Norms and Values. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach, Herbert Grabes, and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT 2009. 107-121.
(with Ansgar Nünning and Herbert Grabes). “Values in Literature and the Value of Literature: Literature as a Medium for Representing, Disseminating and Constructing Norms and Values.” In: Values in Literature and the Value of Literature: Literature as a Medium for Representing, Disseminating and Constructing Norms and Values. Ed. ibid. Trier: WVT 2009. 1-18.
(with Mirjam Bitter). “Auf der Suche nach Kultur- und Identitätsregionen: Ein- und Ausblicke der International Summer School ‘Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity’.“ Geschichte und Region / Storia e Regione 18/1 (2009): 172-179.
“The Knowledge of Myth in Literature: The Fascination of Mythopoetic Space and William Drummond’s ‘The Statue of Medusa’.” In: La Conoscenza della Letteratura / The Knowledge of Literature. Ed. Angela Locatelli. Bergamo: Bergamo University Press 2009. 121-140.
“Der ‘vermessene’ Mensch - Physiognomische Lektüren in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim und Chance.” In: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) . Ed. Cordula Lemke and Claus Zittel. Berlin: Weidler 2007. 35-53.
“ John Keats and Mythopoetics – A Reading of La Belle Dame Sans Merci. ” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) / A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 54/4 (2006): 337-348.
“Facing Shakespeare's Narratives and Ovid's Ars Amatoria.” Wissenschaftliches Seminar Online (2005). Ed. Tobias Döring, Susanne Rupp, and Jens Mittelbach (German Shakespeare Association): 2-15.
Reviews
“Schneeblind?” Review of Jon Törklánnson, Enginn Snjór. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2018. Forschung und Lehre 2 (2019): 166.
“Gary A. Schmidt, Renaissance Hybrids: Culture and Genre in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate 2013.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 150 (2014). 248-249.
“Andrew Hiscock, Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature. Cambridge 2011.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 149 (2013). 277-278.
“Hans Ulrich Seeber, Literarische Faszination in England um 1900. Heidelberg: Winter 2012.” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 62/4 (2012): 497-500.
“Alan Stuart, Shakespeare’s Letters, Oxford 2008.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 147 (2011). 28-29.
“Tanya Pollard, Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England, Oxford 2005 and Claire Carlin, Imagining Drugs in Early Modern Europe, Basingstoke 2005.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 143 (2007). 261-263.
Further Publications
“Nachwüchsigkeit – Die Rolle von early-career researchers auf dem Weg zu mehr Nachhaltigkeit.” In: Nachhaltige Zeitenwende. Die Agenda 2030 als Herausforderung für Wissenschaft und Politik. Ed. Jörg Hacker. Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina 2017. 110-114.
“Unterwegs zum Tenure Track: Laufbahnstellen an Österreichs Universitäten.” Dossier ‘Akademische Karrierewege nach dem Doktorat’. Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Bulletin 3 (2017): 70-71.
Neuland in der Wissenschaft. Ed. with Angelika Riemer, Florian Meinel, and Evelyn Runge. Die Junge Akademie. Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2016.
“Wie und warum fasziniert Literatur?“ In: Neuland in der Wissenschaft. Die Junge Akademie. Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2016. 34-35.
Faszination Wissenschaft 2016: Visions and Images of Fascination. Ed. for the Young Academy. Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2015.
(with Moritz Schularick, Jule Specht et al.). Berufungspraxis bei Juniorprofessuren 2005-2014. Berlin: Die Junge Akademie 2015.
(with Cornelis Menke, Moritz Schularick, Robert Wolf, et al.). Nach der Exzellenzinitiative: Personalstruktur als Schlüssel zu leistungsfähigeren Universitäten. Berlin: Die Junge Akademie 2013.
(with Cornelis Menke). “Kommentar zu den Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrats.” In: Perspektiven des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems – Welche Schritte sind notwendig? Stellungnahmen und Empfehlungen für die Politik. Sankt Augustin/Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 2013. 9-14.
“Verzaubert – Gebannt – Verhext? Faszination der Wissenschaft.“ Junge Akademie Magazin 16 (2013): 28-33.
(with Klaus Oschema and Stefanie Walter). “Exzellente Perspektiven? Auswirkungen der Exzellenzinitiative.” Forschung und Lehre 1 (2009): 20-21.
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Since 2024 |
Since 2024 Member of the University Council, University of Stuttgart |
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President of the German Shakespeare Association |
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Co-Editor of Journal of Literary Theory. Link Member of the Editorial Board of “ Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Agenda: Advancing Anglophone Studies (AAA)" |
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Since 2021 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Antike and Abendland (De Gruyter) Member of the Board of Directors, Stuttgart Research Forum:
Interchange Forum for the Reflection of Intelligent Systems (IRIS)
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University of Stuttgart
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Since 2019 |
Member of the Executive Board German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
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Since 2018 |
Member of the Advisory Board
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2017-2021 |
Founder and director of the
Academic Network Britain-Innsbruck (BritInn)
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Since 2017 |
Mentor (‘Vertrauensdozentin’) in the Mentoring Programme of the
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2017-2019 |
Member of the Selection Committee in the German Federal-State Programme for the Promotion of
Early-Career Researchers (Tenure-Track Programme)
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2017–2018 |
Head of Department
Head of the Faculty Board
Mentor in the Mentoring Programme for Early-Career Researchers
Member of the Jury in the 350
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Anniversary Project Competition
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2016-2019 |
Member of the Early Career Researcher Development Committee
Member of the Johannes Zilkens Prize Committee
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2016–2018 |
Alternate member of the University Senate
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2016–2017 |
Co-chair of the Steering Committee for the evaluation of the Framework Programme for the
Humanities, Cultural Sciences, and Social Sciences
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2014–2015 |
Member of the Executive Committee, College for Young Researchers
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2013–2014 |
Chair of the
German Young Academy (
Die Junge Akademie
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2012–2015 |
Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee
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2012–2014 |
Member of the Executive Board
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Since 2011 |
Member of the Research Committee
Member of the Advisory Board of the
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2008–2012 |
Principal Investigator of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
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2008–2009 |
Associated member of the Executive Board and member of the Selection Committee and the Gender
Equality Committee of the GCSC
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Reviewer (ongoing)
Institutions: Swiss National Science Foundation, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Research Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Journals/Publishers: International Journal of Literary Linguistics, Early Modern Literary Studies, Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Variations, Oxford University Press, Poetics Today