Vita

Professor of "Modern German Literature/Media Studies" (University of Kassel)

since 03/2017
Professorship (W3) for "Modern German Literature/MediaStudies" at the University of Kassel; Head of the Kassel Film and Media Archive and organizer of the Grimm Poetics Professorship (since 2018)

03/2017-09/2019
Associate member of the DFG Research Training Group "Europäische Traumkulturen (European Dream-Cultures)" (GRK 2021)

DFG networks

2015-2018
Member of the DFG network "The Nocturnal Self. Dream knowledge and dream art in the century of psychology (1850-1950)"; research contribution: "Filmic dream representations in the change of cinematographic possibilities (1895-1950)" - Duration: April 2015 to March 2018

2015-2018
Associate member of the DFG network "Eigenzeit im Film"; research contributions: "Filmische Achronie und/oderals Echtzeit" and "Filmische Authentizitätsfiktionen und Echtzeit" - Duration: 2015 to 2018

'Entry-level professorship' with tenure track (Saarland University)

09/2016
W3 (tenure-track) appointment/retention offer from Saarland University

10/2013 to 02/2017
Junior professor ('Einstiegsprofessur') for "Modern German Literature / Media Studies" (successor Anke-Marie Lohmeier) with W3 tenure track at Saarland University (UdS)

04/2015-02/2017
Vice-speaker of the DFG Research Training Group "Europäische Traumkulturen (European Dream-Cultures)" (GRK 2021) - cf. DFG
- 1st funding phase: April 2015 to Sept. 2019

2014-2016
Member of the Saarland Film Funding Committee

2014-2017
Deputy head of the "Arbeitsstelle für Österreichische Literatur & Kultur / Robert-Musil-Forschung" (AfÖLK) at the Department of German Studies at Saarland University (UdS)

Summer semester 2013 to winter semester 2016/2017
Head of the Film Archive in the Department of German Studies (UdS)

Summer semester 2013
Substitute for the professorship for "Modern German Literature / Media Studies" at UdS; leave of absence at Leibniz Universität Hannover

Habilitation phase

November 2012
Completion of the habilitation procedure at Leibniz Universität Hannover with the Venia Legendi "Modern German Literature"

October 2011
Submission of the habilitation thesis "Traumhaftes Erzählen in Literatur, Film und bildender Kunst" to the Faculty of Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover

03/2006-03/2013
Temporary Academic Councillor (Oct. 2010 to March 2013) and Research Assistant (Feb. 2006 to Sept. 2010) in Literary Studies at the German Department of the Leibniz University of Hanover with Prof. Dr. Birgit Nübel

04/2005-02/2006
Research assistant in Modern German Literary History at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal with Prof. Dr. Matías Martínez

Doctorate

July 2005
Completion of the doctoral procedure in the Department of Modern Philologies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the thesis - referees: Prof. Dres. Burkhardt Lindner, Brigitte Scheer (Frankfurt) and Helmut Scheuer (University of Kassel)

October 2004
Submission of the doctoral thesis Klaus Hoffer's Methods of Confusion: Literarische Phantastik in der Postmoderne at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

2003-2006
Spokesperson for Section 10 "Fantastic Worlds" of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Cultural Studies (GGK) initiated by Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning; cooperation with the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar

2003-2005
Teaching assignments at the University of Kassel in the Department of German Studies

2003
one-month DAAD short doctoral scholarship for Austria

2001-2013
conceptual collaboration and reviewer for the distance learning course German as a Foreign Language (DaF) at the University of Kassel

10/2001-09/2004
Doctoral scholarship in the DFG Research Training Group "Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main

Studies

Winter semester 1995/96 to summer semester 2002
Double degree in German Studies/German and Art/Visual Communication for the teaching profession at grammar schools (1st state examination 2001) and Fine Arts (graduated 2002) in Mainz, Paderborn and Kassel