CV, Grants & Affiliations
Academic Appointments
Since 2017: Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2014 to 2017: Junior Professor of English Literature at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Flensburg
2012 to 2014: Assistant Professor [Universitätsassistentin (Postdoc)] for English Literature and Culture at the Department of English, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2012: Substitute for the Junior Professorship British Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam
2011: Guest Professor of Modern English Literature at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2007 to 2012: Lecturer [wiss. Mitarbeiterin] for English Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Education
2009: PhD (with highest distinction - summa cum laude): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thesis: The Privilege of Crisis. Narrative Patterns of Masculinities in English Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography and Film
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eveline Kilian and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Stefanie von Schnurbein
2004: Magister (MA): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1998 to 2004: studied English and American Studies as well as Theatre Studies/Cultural Communication at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and at the University of Westminster, London
Grants, Affiliations and Awards
October 2022 to September 2027: ERC Consolidator Grant: "Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives" (TODO).
September 2019 to August 2023: "Re-Imagining the Archive: Sexual Politics and Postcolonial Entanglements". Joint research project with Prof. Silvy Chakkalakal (HU, European Ethnology) and Prof. Wallace D. Best (Princeton University, Religion and African American Studies) funded by a Princeton-HU Strategic Partnership Grant
January 2019 to June 2022: "Revis(ualis)ing Intersectionality". Joint research project with Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nowicka (German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
October 2013 to March 2014: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz
March 2011: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) at New York University (NYU) (USA)
2011 to 2012: Mentee in the ProFiL Programme (Professionalisation of Women in Research and Teaching: Mentoring - Training - Networking)
2009: Britcult Award for the best new monograph (dissertation) in the field of British cultural studies awarded by the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
2006 to 2011: Member of the Scientific Network "The Body in Cultural Studies" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
January 2005 to April 2007: PhD-Scholarship of the Research Training Group: "Gender as a Category of Knowledge" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2003: Prize for Excellent Teaching of the Faculty of Arts and Humanity III of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for the seminar Lesbian (Pulp) Fiction [together with Beatrice Michaelis]
Service to the Profession
Since 2026: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Berlin Universities Publishing (BerlinUP)
Since 2024: Board Member: SAVVY Friends e.V.
2023 to 2025: Board Member: European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage grant project: PERCOL – Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives
Since 2020: Liaison Professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Since 2020: Member of the Board of the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Oct 2021-March 2022 & Oct 2023-March 2025: Executive Director
Since 2019: Advisory Board Member for the book series Imagining Black Europe (Peter Lang Press, London)
2019 to 2023: Member in the Commission for the Advancement of Women at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Member of
- Anglistikverband
- German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
- Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien/Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
- German Association for the Study of British Cultures (Britcult)
- Associate Member of the Postcolonial Studies Centre (PSC) at Nottingham Trent University (UK)
- Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien/Gender Studies Association (Gender e.V.)
- 2012 to 2014: elected Member of the Board
- Center for transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZtG)