Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

CV, Grants & Affiliations

 

Academic Qualifications

 

2015 Higher Doctorate in English Literature (Habilitation)
University of Potsdam
Topic: English Romanticism and Decreation
2008 PhD in English Literature
University of Melbourne
Topic: The Postmodern Sublime
2000 Bachelor of Letters with Honours
English Literature and Creative Writing
University of Melbourne
Thesis Topic: Women, Culture, Excess
1989 Bachelor of Arts with Honours
Theatre Studies
Victoria University (formerly RMIT)
Thesis Topic: Futurist Theatre

Academic Appointments

 

2021-2022 FONTE Guest Professor
Institute for English & American Studies
Humboldt University Berlin
2020-Present Adjunct Faculty
Institute for English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
2019-Present Research Fellow
Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture Research Centre
University of Melbourne
2019-Present External Research Fellow
NELK Centre for New English Literature and Culture
Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2018-2019 Acting Chair of Literary & Postcolonial Studies
Institute for English & American Studies
University of Potsdam
2011-2017 Assistant Professor in British Literature (Fixed-term)
Institute for English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
2015 ARC History of Emotions Visiting Research Fellow
Centre for the History of Emotions
University of Melbourne
2010 British Academy Research Fellow
Birkbeck College
University of London
2009 – 2010 Senior Lecturer
Institute for English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
2009 Sessional Lecturer
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School
2007 - 2008 Sessional Lecturer
Institute for English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
2006 – 2009 DFG Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for English Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
2004 – 2005 Sessional Lecturer
Department of Media & Communications
Swinburne University, Melbourne
2001 – 2004 Tutor
Department of English
University of Melbourne

 

Grants, Affiliations, Awards

 

Scholarships & Awards

 

2013 ABS (Association of Borderland Studies) Past Presidents’ Bronze Book Award for Negotiating Afropolitanism (Rodopi 2011)
2005 Felix Meyer Award for Work in Progress
Mary Fisher Meyer Foundation
Melbourne, Australia
2003 Varuna New Writer’s Fellowship
Eleanor Dark Foundation
Katoomba, Australia
2002 Postgraduate Overseas Research Scholarship
University of Melbourne
2002 Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship
University of Melbourne
2000 Melbourne PhD Research Scholarship
Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne

Externally Funded Projects

 

2016 “The Colonial Reinvention of Anglo-European Literature Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century”
A two-day international symposium
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
2015 “Reading the Face to Face: Romantic Encounters with the Posthuman”
Funded by the Australia Research Council & the History of Emotions Research Centre
2011 – 2013 “Ludwig Hirschfield Mack Visiting Chair in Australian Studies”
Funded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
2011 – 2012 “Beyond the Wall: Australian Literature in the GDR”
A bi-lateral DAAD-G08 collaborative project with Nicole Moore, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra
Funded by the DAAD ((Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) & the Australia Research Council
2010 “Identity and Decreation in the Works of P.B. Shelley”
Funded by the British Academy