Research Fields & CV
Current Projects:
- Critical Race Literacy in EFL Textbook Analysis
- Critical Race Literacy and autoethnography in university teacher education
- Professional identities of university teacher educators
- Inclusive English Language Education: Implications of heterogeneous groups of learners on concepts of ELE
Research Interests include:
- Critical English Language Teaching and EFL Teacher Education
- Teaching literature and cultural studies within TEFL
- Gender and Queer Studies (and English Language Education)
- Critical Race Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies and Postcolonial Studies
- Anti-racist English Language Education (Rassismuskritische Lehrkräftebildung und Rassismuskritischer Englischunterricht)
- Collective Autoethnography as a research method in teacher education & English Language Education
Memberships:
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF)
- German Association of American Studies (DGfA)
- Zentrum für Inklusionsforschung Berlin (ZfIB)
- Fremdsprachendidaktisches Kolloquium Berlin-Brandenburg (FKBB)
Prizes:
- Preisträgerin, mit Ghulam Reza Mirdadi, Preis für gute Lehre der Humboldt-Universität 2019
CV:
Since September 2008: Postdoc teacher and researcher of English Language Education, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
June 2010: Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in North American Literary and Cultural Studies, HU Berlin
Ph.D. Thesis: Undoing Difference? Race and Gender in Selected Works by Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Günter H. Lenz, Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg
August 2008 to January 2009: English teacher at Sophie-Scholl-Schule, Berlin
August 2006 to August 2008: 2nd phase teacher training (Referendariat), teaching English and German at Sophie-Scholl-Schule, Berlin; 2nd State Exam (Studienassessorin English and German)
October 2004 to March 2006: Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) for North American Literary and Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
May 2000 to January 2003: Teacher of German as a Foreign Language, Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, e.V., Berlin
April 2000 to June 2010: Doctoral Student of North American Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
January 2000: First State Exam English and German (Studienrätin)
Thesis: "African American and Black British Literature: Romane von Toni Morrison und Caryl Phillips"
September 1998 to June 1999: Graduate Student of American and German Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Fall Term 1998 to Summer Term 1999: Graduate Teaching Assistant for German as a Foreign Language at the Department for German, Scandinavian & Dutch, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
October 1993 to June 1994: Foreign Language Assistant, German, at Harrogate Grammar School, Harrogate, UK
October 1991 to January 2000: Studied English and German (Studienrätin) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin