EXPERIENCE EDUCATION GRANTS AND AWARDS

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1 EXPERIENCE Since 2010 assistant professor for American Studies at the department of English and American Studies, University of Jena (chair Prof. Caroline Rosenthal) research assistant at the English Department, University of Heidelberg (chair Prof. Vera Nünning) Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education (Baden-Württemberg Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik HDZ) teacher of English and French at Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg EDUCATION 2009 doctorate exam, University of Heidelberg, doctorate thesis: Just the Two of Us: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel 2009/2010 Shakespeare Study Courses in Stratford upon Avon, GB 2005 double degree (M.A. degree and first state teacher s degree), University of Trier, M.A. thesis: Functions of the body in Jack Kerouac s Vanity of Duluoz international visiting student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis student of English and French philologies and pedagogy, University of Trier GRANTS AND AWARDS Postdoctoral research grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Sept 2012 to February 2013 German Research Fellowship from the Library of Congress, Kluge Center, for postdoctoral research, September 2012 to February 2013 Publication grant (500,-) for the proceedings of Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes, Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien (Canadian Studies Association), June 2012 Fellow, BAA Summer Academy 2012, Washington, DC, May 2012 Conference funding for the symposium Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes, Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien (Canadian Studies Association), April 2012 Library Support Program for Canadiana at the Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, April 2012 (with Caroline Rosenthal) Research Grant for postdoctoral research at Harvard University from the University of Jena, August 2011 Publication grant for dissertation, Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften Conference and publication funding for project Learning 9/11: Key competencies in higher education, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden-Württemberg, 2008/2009 Best practice award, university teacher training course, Zentrum Hochschuldidaktik Baden- Württemberg, 2009 Conference and publication funding for project Hello, I say, It s Me: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, 2008/2009 Fellow, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2007

2 International Study Exchange Program (ISEP) scholarship for undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, RESEARCH INTERESTS 18th and 19th century American drama, current book project: "From Stage to Page and Beyond: the Yankee in 19 th Century American Literature and Culture" (WT, habilitation) Life-writing and autobiography theory Contemporary American fiction Narratology Teaching literature and culture in the university classroom PUBLICATIONS 1. Just the Two of Us: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel. Trier: WVT, Learning 9/11: Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Irina Bauder-Begerow, Heidelberg: Winter, Hello, I say, It s Me: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. co-edited with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter, Trier: WVT, ARTICLES 1. This land is full of materials: Der stage yankee als Reflexionsfigur für das junge Amerika. Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten. Ed. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Caroline Lusin. Berlin: De Gruyter. (accepted for publication) 2. Recognition Is a Form of Agreement: The workings of self-narration in The Catcher in the Rye and Invisible Man. American Studies/Amerikastudien Special Issue on Recognition, ed. Winfried Fluck, (forthcoming) 3. Paul Haggis: Crash. Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture 3. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke et al. Trier: WVT (forthcoming). 4. Personal Epics? A Reflection on Genre and the Making of Heroes Elle s étend, l épopée. Relecture et ouverture du corpus épique / The Epic Expands.Rereading and widening the epic corpus. Ed. Vincent Dussol. Brussels, Peter Lang (forthcoming) 5. Towards a national drama: James K. Paulding s The Lion of the West. Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, Das Leben im Kopf: Überlegungen zu einer rezeptionsorientierten Narratologie der Biographik. Literatur als Lebensgeschichte. Biographisches Erzählen von der Moderne bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Peter Braun and Bernd Stiegler. Bielefeld: transcript, I Was a Loose End: Narrative Self-fashioning and Ethical Encounters in Contemporary American Fiction. Ethik Anerkennung Gerechtigkeit. Philosophische, literarische und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven. Ed. Alexandra Böhm, Antje Kley and Mark Schönleben. München: Fink, Introduction. Learning 9/11. Teaching for Key Competences in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Irina Bauder-Begerow and Stefanie Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter (with Irina Bauder-Begerow). 9. Birth By Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Autobiographical Fiction. The Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Worldmaking. Ed. Ansgar Nünning, Vera Nünning and Birgit Neumann. Trier: WVT,

3 10. Introduction: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Hello, I say, It s Me: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, (with Jan Kucharzewski and Lutz Schowalter). 11. Looking Back, You Do Not Find What You Left Behind: Postcolonial Subjectivity and the Role of Memory in White Teeth and The Inheritance of Loss. Hello, I say, It s Me: (Re)Constructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Jan Kucharzewski, Stefanie Schäfer and Lutz Schowalter. Trier: WVT, Geraldine Brooks: March. Hot Off the Press: Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane aus dem neuen Jahrhundert: Ein Lesebuch zur zeitgenössischen US-Kultur. Ed. Dietmar Schloss and Heiko Jakubzik. Trier: WVT, Lern- und Memorierungstechniken. Schlüsselkompetenzen. Qualifikationen für Studium in Beruf. Ed.Vera Nünning. Stuttgart: Metzler, From Gender Trouble to the Ethics of Recognition: Judith Butler and Her Critics. LWU 4/2006, REVIEWS 1. Hornung, Alfred (Ed). Auto/Biography and Mediation. Heidelberg: Winter, In: Amerikastudien/American Studies (accepted for publication). 2. Waldow, Stefanie (Ed.). Ethik im Gespräch. Autorinnen und Autoren über das Verhältnis von Literatur und Ethik heute. Bielefeld, transcript, In: Anglistik (accepted for publication). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECUTRES 1. Indigenous Drama Workshop at Imagine Canada Day- Introducing Canadian Studies at FSU Jena, Jena, Jun Theories of American Autobiography / Theorizing American Autobiography Workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2012, American Lives, University of Mainz, May Yankee democracy? Canon Formation and the Struggle for Cultural Independence ; BAA Summer Academy 2012, German Historical Institute Washington DC, May From Rags to Riches Revisited: The Yankee and the American Success Myth American Dream? Ideale, Ideologien, künstlerische Inszenierung aus transnationaler Sicht, Workshop, University of Berne/Switzerland, September Who wants flowers when you re dead? The iconic voice of Holden Caulfield Guest lecture, University of Trier, July Across the Wire: Literary Configurations of the Borderland Community Conceptions of Collectivity in Contemporary American Literature, University of Mainz, July James Kirke Paulding s The Lion of the West and the making of an American dramatic tradition Annual conference of the German Association for American Studies 2011, workshop Traveling Stages, Performing Mobility: The Performing Arts in Transnational Perspective, University of Regensburg, June All fresh in youth, strength, and beauty : Sympathie für das junge Amerika in William Dunlaps A Trip To Niagara und James K. Pauldings The Bucktails Sympathielenkung in literarischen Texten, University of Heidelberg, April

4 9. Personal Epic(s): Metageneric Reflections on the Epic in the Contemporary American Novel The Epic s Extension Today: Between Expansion and Extinction, Université Paul Valéry III, Montpellier/France, October Visions of India: Aravind Adiga s The White Tiger and Danny Boyle s Slumdog Millionaire in the Cultural Studies Classroom Teaching Literature and Culture in Higher Education - Hochschuldidaktik in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, University of Giessen, June My Own True Story: Why Reading and Teaching Autobiographical Narration Matters guest lecture, Humboldt University of Berlin, June Narrative Identity and the Ethics of Recognition Rethinking Narrative Identity: A Question of Perspective, Humboldt University of Berlin, November Ethical Turn, Narrative Turn: Towards a New Ethical Theory of the Novel 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November Workshop Popular Culture 10. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, panel chair, November The Eighteenth Century as Golden Age of Satire: Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels (1726) lecture at the English Seminar University of Heidelberg, November Talking in Class: Ein Selbststeuerungsmodell zum Bewerten von mündlichen Beiträgen und Diskussionskompetenzen im universitären Literaturunterricht guest lecture, Pädagogische Hochschule Thurgau, Kreuzlingen/Switzerland, October Critique for What? Teaching American Studies in a Changing Academic Landscape Workshop at GAAS Annual Conference 2009, Education and the USA, with Dr. Alexandra Ganser (Erlangen-Nuremberg), University of Jena, June T. S. Eliot Day A Student Symposium Workshop with Dr. Lutz Schowalter (Trier) and Irina Bauder-Begerow (Heidelberg), University of Trier, January The Beat Generation: Literature and Myth guest lecture, University of Constance, January Response to Martin Genovese: Presidential Power in an Age of Terrorism: Full Circle? workshop about The American Presidency and Political Leadership, University of Heidelberg, 17 May The Return of the (Autobiographical) Subject in Contemporary American Fiction Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April Looking back you do not find what you left behind: Memory and Ethnicity in Zadie Smith s White Teeth and Kiran Desai s The Inheritance of Loss Hello, I say, It s Me: Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, University of Düsseldorf, April 5 April. 23. Opening remarks (with Lutz Schowalter and Jan Kucharzewski) Hello, I say, It s me: Reconstructions of Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, University of Düsseldorf, April I Was a Loose End: Narrative Self-fashioning and the Ethics of Recognition Ethik und/oder Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne: Revisionen der Medien, Politik und Künste im 21. Jahrhundert, 8. Erlanger Graduiertenkonferenz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November

5 25. Narrating Selves: the Ethics of Autobiography in the Contemporary American Novel PGF 2007, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, November Birth by Narrative: Narrative Self-making in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Ways of Worldmaking. Narratives, Archives and Media, European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) 2007, University of Giessen, July Literary Self-Performance in the American Novel HCA Spring Academy 2007, University of Heidelberg, April PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ASA (American Studies Association) DGfA (German Associations for American Studies) GKS (German Association for Canadian Studies) ADMINISTRATIVE WORK Coordinator of M.A. program North American Studies (NAS), American Studies branch (since 2010) Elected member of administrative council (Fakultätsrat) of FSU (since 2010) COURSES TAUGHT Jena Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (BA level, every summer term) The Knickerbocker School (MA, Module Fiction/NonFiction) How the West was won: The American Western (advanced level, Module Intermediality) American Cultural Icons (BA, Module Media) Wissenschaftliche Texte lesen (Reading Secondary Literature, BA level) Across a Wire? Theorizing the Mexican-American Border (advanced, Module Text and Context) Robber Barons at the Barbecue? American Literature and Culture of the Gilded Age (BA, Module Literature in Context) Early to Mid-20th Century American Drama (BA, Module Genres) American Literature and Culture of the 1950s (BA, Module Periods) Heidelberg Visions of India (BA level 1) Literature and Terrorism (BA level 2) Introduction to Modernism (BA level 1) Of Rape, Travellers, and Virtuous Heroes: Three Satires of the Golden Age (BA level 2) Crossing the Line: Fictions of Passing in the African-American Novel of the Early 20th Century (BA level 2) Literature of the New Woman (BA level 1)