Since April 2024: Akademische Oberrätin, American Studies, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Bielefeld University
Summer term 2024: Akademische Oberrätin, American Literature and Culture
06.12.2023 Habilitation at the Philosophische Fakultät, Potsdam University, American Literature and Culture
Winter term 2023/24: Visiting Professor (W3), “North American Literary and Cultural Studies” at Bielefeld University
October 2018-September 2023: Professor, American Studies with a Focus on Gender Studies (W2 auf Zeit/5 years), Bielefeld University
2022: Visiting Lecturer, ISAP program, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina
2023: Visiting Lecturer, MA program: “English Literatures and Cultures” at Universidad Guadalajara, Mexico
July-Sept. 2023: CALAS Research Fellow in Guadalajara, Mexico und Havana, Cuba, Tandem Transatlántico (mit Yulexis Almeida Junco)
Since June 2021: Director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS)
Since May 2021: PI in the DFG-funded Research Training Group (RTG), “Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being in the World,” IZG, Bielefeld University
October 2020-July 2021: PI of the International ZiF Research Group “Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
October 2017 – September 2018: Visiting Professor, “North American Literary and Cultural Studies” at Bielefeld University
2017 and 2018: Visiting Lecturer, MA program: “English Literatures and Cultures” at Universidad in Guadalajara, Mexico
March 2013 – September 2018: Postdoc, BMBF-funded project, “The Americas as Space of Entanglements,” Bielefeld University; Coordinator of the Research Group, “Transnational Flows
September 2011 – February 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, BMBF-funded project, “desiguAL-dades.net: Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America,” Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin; Research line: “Theories and Methodologies”
2011 – 2018: Conference and Research Stays at the German Historical Institute, University of California at Berkley; in New York City, USA (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library); Hutchins Center for African American Studies, Harvard University, USA; Cuba (Universidad de la Habana, Casa de las Américas, Biblioteca Nacional); San Juan, Puerto Rico (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe); Chicago, Illinois and Austin, Texas, USA; Mexico City, (Universidad Nacional Autònoma de México and Universidad Autonóma de México)
August 2011: PhD (summa cum laude) in American Studies, University of Potsdam
January – June 2011: Scholarship, Program for Equal Opportunities, University of Potsdam
2008 – 2010: Doctoral researcher, DFG-funded Interdisciplinary Research Group, “Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie,” Humboldt University Berlin
October 2007 – October 2010: PhD Scholarship, “Zur Dynamik mobilisierter Kulturen,“ Potsdam Graduate School
2008 – 2010: Research Stays, Graduate Center University New York and New York University, USA; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
2007 – 2013: Lecturer, American Studies, Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin; for American Studies at University of Potsdam; for Gender Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin
June – December 2006: Internship, Goethe-Institute Buenos Aires (Cultural Program work)
2005: Internship, literarische Agentur Simon, Berlin (literary agency)
December 2004: MA, American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
October 2002 – March 2003: Scholarship from Humboldt University, Berlin for a semester abroad, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
From 2000 – December 2004: Continued studies at Humboldt University, Berlin
1999-2000: Studies at University of East London, England (ERASMUS scholarship)
1996 – 1999: Studies in British/American Studies, Spanish and Political Science at the University of Kassel
Academic Positions/Achievements
Co-editor of the series American Friction (deGruyter) with Carsten Junker and Darieck B. Scott
Author and staffer of the journal polar –Politik, Theorie, Alltag
Spokesperson of Anglistik, Bielefeld University
Board member of Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG), Bielefeld University
Executive Board member (since 2017) of Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS, member since 2013), Bielefeld University
Member of the Council for Migration" (Rat für Migration, RfM) (since 2021)
Board Member Literary Studies Department, Bielefeld University
Spokesperson of the Förderverein Interamerikanische Studien, edtiting organ of kipu publishing
Member of Equal Opportunities Commission;
Member of International Association for InterAmerican Studies (since 2010), Bielefeld University
Member of the Toni Morrison Society (since 2005)
Member of the Society for Caribbean Research (SoCaRe)
Member of the Fachgesellschaft Gender Studies
Member of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA)
