functions
- Chair of English Literature
- Prüfungsausschussvorsitzende / Head of Examination Board MA English and American Studies
academic biography
- 2024-04 to present: Chair of English Literature, Department of English and American Studies, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
- 2022-10 to 2024-04: Professor of English Literature and Culture (with a focus on Gender and Queer Studies), Englisches Seminar I, University of Cologne
- 2022-04 to 2022-09: Visiting Professor (English Literature), Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie (IAAK), University of Bonn
- 2021-10 to 2022-03: Visiting Professor (English Literature and Culture), Passau University
- 2020-10 to 2021-09: Visiting Professor (English Literature), Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (IEAS), Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
- 2020-06: Habilitation (The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre in Early Modern Drama)
- 2007-09 to 2022-09 senior lecturer / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (akadem. Rätin a.Z.), Department of English/American and Romance Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2015-10 to 2017-05: maternal leave / parental leave
- 2010-01 to 2011-03: maternal leave / parental leave
- 2007-05: PhD (The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: The (De)Construction of Gender in the Works of Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter, summa cum laude)
- fall 2002: 1. Staatsexamen / state examination (LA-Gym German / English)
- 2001-09 to 2007-08: lecturer / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Department of English/American and Romance Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2001-07: M.A. English literature, German literature, Contemporary History (Anglistische und Germanistische Literaturwissenschaft, Neuere und neueste Geschichte)
grants, scholarships & awards
- (2020) teaching award
FAU-Lehrpreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler - (2019) travel grant FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology)
(for (Neo-)Victorian Orientations in the Twenty-First Century, Málaga University, Spain) - (2017) DAAD travel grant
(for Reading Michèle Roberts, Lodz University, Poland) - (1997-98) DAAD schlolarship
(academic year at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - (1995-2001) Stipendium nach dem Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz (BayBFG)
academic service
- 2024-09 to present: advisory board Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA)
- 2024-09 to present: mentoring programme Deutscher Anglistikverband / German Association for the Study of English
- 2022 to present: editorial committee Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC)
- 2021 to present: advisory committee Fachinformationsdienst Anglo-American Culture (FID AAC)
- 2017 to 2023: advisory committee Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen / German Association for the Study of British Cultures
- 2018-04 to 2019-10: mentoring programe ARIADNEphil, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2009 to 2013: editorial committee Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC)
- peer reviewing: Anglo Saxonica (Universität Lissabon) – Anthem Press – Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (Australasian Victorian Studies Association, online) – College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press) – Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, online) – Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press) – English (Oxford University Press) – International Journal of English Studies (IJES) (Universität Murcia) – Journal of Popular Romance Studies (International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, online) – LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (Routledge) – Neo-Victorian Studies (Swansea University, online) – Palgrave Macmillan – Twentieth-Century Literature (Hofstra University)
memberships
- Deutscher Anglistikverband / German Association for the Study of English
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Studium britischer Kulturen / German Association for the Study of British Cultures
- Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft / German Shakespeare Association
- European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
- International Shakespeare Conference (ISC)