Personal Profile and CV

Academic Education

since 2023 Habilitation in English Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

2023 Dissertation in English Studies at Paderborn University (summa cum laude)

Doctoral Thesis: ‘Taking Back Control’ of the Nations and Its History? Contemporary Fiction’s Engagement with the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Brexit Britain

2018 – 2023 PhD Student in English Studies at Paderborn University

2016 – 2018 Master of Education (Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen) with the subjects English and German at Paderborn University

2014 – 2015 Visiting Student at the University of Bristol (UK)

2012 – 2016 Bachelor of Education (Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen) with the subjects English and German at Paderborn University

 

Academic Positions and Scholarships

since 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Representative for non-professorial academic staff (Mittelbauvertretung) at the Institute for English and American Studies at FAU

2022 – 2023 Research Assistant and Lecturer in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Module “Ireland Europe and Brexit: Cultural Discourses on European Community (EU-IRL-CULT)” at Paderborn University (project coordinator Dr. Sara Strauß)

2020 – 2021 External Lecturer in English Literature and British Cultural Studies at Ruhr University Bochum

2019 – 2022 Graduate Scholarship awarded by Paderborn University

2018 – 2019 Research Assistant at the Chair of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Prof. Dr. Dominik Rumlich) at Paderborn University

2017 – 2018 Teaching Assistant (WHB) at the Chair of English Literature and British Cultural Studies (Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies) at Paderborn University

2016 – 2018 Deutschlandstipendium (awarded by the German state and Studienfonds OWL

 

 Prizes / Awards and Grants

2021 – 2024 EU-funded Jean Monnet Module “Ireland, Europe and Brexit: Cultural Discourses on European Community (EU-IRL-CULT)” at Paderborn University (in cooperation with project coordinator Dr. Sara Strauß)

2018 Award for master’s thesis (Preis der Bremer AG für herausragende Abschlussarbeiten) awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Paderborn University

Thesis title: Postmodern Elements in Doctor Who – Self-Awareness, Problematisation of Reality, and Incredulity toward Metanarratives

 

Memberships

  • German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult); also member of the association’s Advisory Committee
  • German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistikverband)
  • Historical Fictions Research Network (HFRN)
  • British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS)
  • International Media and Nostalgia Network (IMNN)
  • DACH Victorianists
  • Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Gender – Differenz – Diversität (IZGDD) at FAU
  • The Global Sentimentality Project + DFG Research Training Group “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics” at FAU (Associate Member)