CV
Education
07/2018 | Dissertation defense Dissertation title: Beyond the Bildungsroman: Feminist Negotiations of the African Diaspora Advisors: Prof. Dr. Susan Winnett and Prof. Dr. Soelve I. Curdts |
10/2009 – 7/2018 | Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf |
2000 – 2009 | Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf M.A. (Magister) in English and American Literature Minor fields: Medieval English Studies and Media and Communication Studies Title of M.A.-thesis: “Poetry and Politics in the Works of Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde” (Grade: 1,0) |
Work Experience
since 2018 | Research assistant (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) Department of American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf |
2013 – 2017 | Research assistant (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Department of American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf |
2011 – 2013 | Graduate assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Department of American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
|
Teaching
Chicago’s Renaissances and the Making of Modern America (Advanced 2019)
Framing Blackness: The Representation of the African American Experience on the Big Screen (Intermediate 2019; Advanced 2016/17; Intermediate 2014))
Abductees, Escapees, and Returnees - Pan-African Migration Narratives (Advanced 2018/19; Advanced 2016; Advanced 2013)
Crossing Lines - Narratives of Passing in American Literature and Film (Intermediate 2018/19; Intermediate 2015/16; Intermediate 2013)
Americans in Chains - How Slavery is Remembered and Reconstructed in American Literature and Film (Intermediate 2018; Intermediate 2013/14; Intermediate 2011/12)
Protest, Rebellion, and Liberation – Where African American and Feminist Poetry Intersect (Advanced 2018; Advanced 2015; Advanced 2012/13)
Writing the Diaspora – Captivity, Exile and Immigration in American Literature (Advanced 2017; Intermediate 2011)
American Childhoods – Representations of Children and Adolescents in American Literature and Culture (Intermediate 2015; Intermediate 2012)
Motherhood, Madness and Murder in American Literature and Film (Intermediate 2014)
‘Cultivating’ their own voices – Short Stories by American Women (Advanced 2012/13)
Fellowships / Summer SchoolsThe School of Criticism and Theory 2011 at Cornell University - Participation in Kathryn Bond Stockton’s seminar, “Sexuality and Childhood in a Global Frame: Queer Theory and Beyond”
Academic & Professional Service:
Program Committee MLA International Symposium, “Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations” in Düsseldorf (23-25 June 2016)
|