Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

since 02/2021: Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), American Studies, University of Würzburg

11/2023–09/2025: Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), REKLINEU (Regionale Wege zu klimaneutralen Hochschulen; funded by the BMFTR)

04/2019–01/2021: Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), American Studies, Heidelberg University

04/2019-02/2020: English Teacher, International Study Centre (ISZ), Heidelberg University

07/2013–03/2019: various positions as student assistant (University of Siegen, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University of Education [PH])

Education

since 02/2020: PhD Project “Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and Representations of the Human in Anthropocene Narratives” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, and Prof. Dr. Hannes Bergthaller)

05–06/2022: research stay at OSEH (Oslo School of Environmental Humanities), Oslo, Norway

03/2019: MA English Studies (with a minor in philosophy), Heidelberg University

08/2017: research stay at King’s College, Cambridge (UK)

03/2016: BA Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies, Siegen University

09–12/2014: semester abroad at University College Cork (Ireland)

Scholarships

02/2020–08/2023: doctoral fellowship of the Cusanuswerk (PhD)

2015–2019: scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (BA and MA)

2014–2019: scholarship, Cusanuswerk (BA and MA)

08/2017: scholarship awarded by Heidelberg University for a research stay at King’s College, Cambridge (UK)

2013–2014: scholarship, Deutschland-/NRW-Grant

Membership in Professional Organizations

DGfA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German Association for American Studies)

EASLCE – European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment

Efacis – European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies