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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of English II

  • 2022: Full Professor Teaching Literatures and Cultures of the Anglophone World
     
  • 2022: Co-Director of the MESH-Research Hub
     
  • 2021: Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education in the Humanities (Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrums für Didaktiken der Geisteswissenschaften, IFDG)
     
  • 2020-2023: Speaker of the University's Competence Area IV: Cultures and Societies in Transition
     
  • July 2020: positive interim evaluation as Associate Professor (w/ tenure)
     
  • 2017/18: Juniorprofessor/Assistant Professor "Didaktik: Literaturen und Kulturen der Anglophonen Welt"
     
  • Summer 2016: Research Stay at the University of Bath (UK) with Prof. Dr. Axel Goodbody
     
  • 2014/15-SoSe 2017: pro tempore Professorship Didaktik: Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen
     
  • 2009-2017: Junior Lecturer at the Department of English II at the University of Cologne
     
  • 2009-2011: PhD at the University of duisburg-Essen (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens-Martin Gurr)
     
  • 2004-2009: English Studies, German Studies, Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Cologne (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt Sonderpädagogik (Master-equivalent), Thesis title: Mythos und Motiv. Tierdarstellungen bei E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka und Jack London)
     
  • 2002-2004: Political Sciences at the University of Duisburg
     
  • 2001-2002: Compulsory community service (Zivildienst) at a special needs school in Duisburg
     
  • 2001: Abitur, Freiherr-vom-Stein Gymnasium, Oberhausen