Curriculum Vitae
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Academic professional experience
since 1.4.2011: W2-Professorship "Modern German Literature" at the University of Kassel
Winter semester 2009/10: Substitute W3 professorship "German Literature" at the TU Darmstadt
Summer semester 2008: Substitute W3 professorship "German Literature of the 17th-19th Centuries" at Leibniz University Hannover
Jan. 2002 - March 2011: Research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics and Literary Studies at TU Darmstadt
Oct. 2001 - Feb. 2002: Lecturer at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne
May 1998 - April 2001: Research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Kassel
Oct. 1998 - Dec. 2001: Teaching 'German as a foreign language' at the RAA (Regional Office for the Promotion of the Integration of Foreign Children) in Aachen
Jan. 1997 - April 1998: Research assistant at the German Department II of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Gellert-Edition)
1990 - 1998: Publishing experience: Internships (dtv, Erich Schmidt-Verlag), proofreading (dtv, Bergmoser & Höller Verlag)
Major third-party funded project management
1.10.2011 - 30.9.2016: Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group 1599 of the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel "Dynamics of Space and Gender"
2009 - 2012: Head of the DFG project World and Research on Stage. The Theatrum literature of the early modern period (partner: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
University administrative and committee work
Since April 2016: Spokesperson of the Italy Network of the University of Kassel (with Prof. Dr. Angela Schrott)
April 2016 - March 2018: Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer of Faculty 2 'Humanities and Cultural Studies' at the University of Kassel
since July 2014: Founding member of the newly constituted Italy Network of the University of Kassel
since 2014: Ombudsperson of the University of Kassel
1.4.2013 - 30.09.2014: Managing Director of the Institute of German Studies at the University of Kassel
since 2013: Member of the DFG Network of the University of Kassel (Department for Strategic Research Funding and Promotion of Early Career Researchers)
2009 - 2010: Member of the Faculty Council 02 of the TU Darmstadt
Expert, advisory board and mentoring activities
since 2013: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Otto Braun Fund of Braun-Melsungen AG (scholarship funding for doctoral candidates)
since 2013: Reviewer for the STIBET program (scholarship and mentoring program for foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students) of the DAAD at the University of Kassel
since 2012: Member of the editorial board of the Peter Lang book series "Lingue e culture - Languages and Cultures - Langues et Cultures" (Marisa Verna/Giovanni Gobber)
2012-2016: Mentor in the program "Mentoring for female doctoral candidates" at the University of Paderborn
since 2011: Reviewer for the DFG
since 2010: Reviewer for the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
2007 - 2014: Member of the selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation
University education
13.7.2005: Habilitation; awarded the Venia Legendi for Modern German Literature at the TU Darmstadt
1995 - 1997: Doctorate in Modern German Literature at RWTH Aachen University
Sept. 1993 - May 1994: Foreign language assistant at two grammar schools in Amiens (with a scholarship from the Educational Exchange Service for France)
1989 - 1995: Studied German and French (teaching degree for secondary levels I and II) at the RWTH Aachen and the LMU Munich (with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation)